Creative Leadership: Provided visionary leadership to the creative team, inspiring and guiding them to produce innovative, compelling, and effective campaigns for CPG, Agriculture and Healthcare brands.Strategy Partnership: Collaborated with cross-functional teams to understand clients' brand strategies, target audiences, and marketing objectives. Translated these insights into creative strategies that produced results.Creative Direction: Set the creative direction for campaigns, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines, industry regulations, and market trends. Reviewed and provided feedback on concepts, designs, and copy to ensure excellence in all execution.Client Collaboration: Acted as a key point of contact for clients, building strong relationships and understanding their needs. Collaborated closely with account management teams to ensure alignment between client expectations and creative deliverables.Team Management: Managed and mentored a team of creative professionals, including art directors, copywriters, designers, and other creatives. Quality Control: Maintained high standards of creative excellence, accountable for assembling teams capable of navigating the production process to ensure accurate and error-free execution of creative materials within agreed timelines.Budget and Resource Management: Collaborated with the executive team to manage creative budgets, allocate resources efficiently, and optimize productivity for assigned teams.Business Development: Experience leading pitches with demonstrated ability to contribute to the pitch story, concept ideas with impact, and deliver polished work on pitch timelines.Brands: Syngenta, AMVAC, Eukanuba, Royal Canin, IAMS, Pampers, Pictsweet Farms, Centene, Bayer, MilliporeSigma, AMGUARD, Phibro Animal Health, Branding Iron.

As Practice Lead, Oversaw a fully integrated creative operation comprising a team of over 90+ staff members, managing a business portfolio of accounts valued at $14 million.Member of the Global Creative Leadership team at FleishmanHillard defining the path forward for creativity at the agency.Provided comprehensive guidance and innovative ideas to clients and internal teams, while also actively engaging in hands-on creative campaign development.Offered expert advice to C-suite executives on corporate marketing projects and events.Directed, scripted, and produced engaging digital video campaigns and print advertisements targeting both B2C and B2B markets.Client experience: Bayer, VF Corporation, Farm Credit, Emerson, Enterprise, U.S. Soccer, Iowa Tourism, Elanco, AT&T, Biogen, Boy Scouts, Krispy Kreme, General Motors.

Brands: Monsanto, VF Corporation, Farm Credit, Emerson, Enterprise, U.S. Soccer, Ascension Health, ADM, Buffalo Wild WIngs, AT&T, Biogen, Boy Scouts, Krispy Kreme, General Motors.

Managing partner and creative lead on all agency work for MillerCoors, Enterprise Holdings, Diageo Spirits, Equifax, Cardinal Health, Ascension Health, Sprint, Beech-Nut Nutrition, SLU Care, NHL, St. Louis Blues, American Optometric Association, American Association of Orthodontists, TLC Laser Vision and Metro St. Louis.