Katharine Lane Park Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Canada Area

Ensuring creative excellence and empowered to lead with vision, ownership, and passion, my role as Design Director leads the creative team to ensure the best possible design and communication solutions for our clients. I constantly look to advance the design excellence and creative integrity of The Hatchery and motivate and mentor fellow team members to share, grow and thrive in their talents and skillsets, thus creating outstanding quality of design that we are proud of.

Toronto, Canada Area

A continuation of HunterStraker's Shopper focused success but with a wider influence to more of North America's most innovative brands:- Consistently demonstrates creative excellence and the ability to manage projects and people.- Supports the Creative Director, the design team, and client service teams, and is responsible for multiple brands and/or projects at one time.- Capabilities to support projects within our agencies core disciplines - Promotional, Shopper Marketing… Show more A continuation of HunterStraker's Shopper focused success but with a wider influence to more of North America's most innovative brands:- Consistently demonstrates creative excellence and the ability to manage projects and people.- Supports the Creative Director, the design team, and client service teams, and is responsible for multiple brands and/or projects at one time.- Capabilities to support projects within our agencies core disciplines - Promotional, Shopper Marketing, Branding, Packaging design, Retail & Wayfinding Design, Corporate Identity and Graphic Design.- Contributes to projects by providing design solutions and rationale that align with client and project objectives. Consistently presents this rationale within client meetings.- Responsible for conceptualization and design of solutions from concept (brief) to completion (out the door), and oversees the selected design into design refinement, design adaptation, and design implementation phases. Show less

Toronto Ontario

- Consistently demonstrates creative excellence and the ability to manage projects and people.- Supports the Creative Director, the design team, and client service teams, and is responsible for multiple brands and/or projects at one time.- Capabilities to support projects within our agencies core disciplines - Promotional, Shopper Marketing, Branding, Packaging design, Corporate Identity and Graphic Design.- Contributes to projects by providing design solutions and rationale that… Show more - Consistently demonstrates creative excellence and the ability to manage projects and people.- Supports the Creative Director, the design team, and client service teams, and is responsible for multiple brands and/or projects at one time.- Capabilities to support projects within our agencies core disciplines - Promotional, Shopper Marketing, Branding, Packaging design, Corporate Identity and Graphic Design.- Contributes to projects by providing design solutions and rationale that align with client and project objectives. Consistently presents this rationale within client meetings.- Responsible for conceptualization and design of solutions from concept (brief) to completion (out the door), and oversees the selected design into design refinement, design adaptation, and design implementation phases. Show less

Markham Ontario

- Unify and align communications with 7 unique "sub-brand" ministries of the organization.- Partner with ministries, meet with leadership teams and collaboratively create communications plans to mobilize their specific audiences to respond (community, parents, children, teens, young adults, seniors, care workers, etc).- Ensure high-quality and highest impact communications are created for both an 800+ person internal audience (ministries) and an external target audience (community at… Show more - Unify and align communications with 7 unique "sub-brand" ministries of the organization.- Partner with ministries, meet with leadership teams and collaboratively create communications plans to mobilize their specific audiences to respond (community, parents, children, teens, young adults, seniors, care workers, etc).- Ensure high-quality and highest impact communications are created for both an 800+ person internal audience (ministries) and an external target audience (community at large), the city of Markham and the GTA.Details:- Have a seat at the table with the Service Design Team, the Teaching/Preaching Team and the Board to be informed of leadership priorities and decisions, with permission to speak into communications/marketing issues.- Proactively plan and work with ministries to support their communications needs.- Lead and manage coordinators, assistants and volunteers to help implement communications strategies and tactics. This team partners to:- Keep social media and website fresh and engaging.- Network with other church communications teams.- Collect and tell stories of impact within the community.- Photograph services, events, overseas missions trips, fundraisers, seasonal kids camps, etc.- Own and manage the church’s brand/identity.- Carry out the day-to-day tasks of facilitating communications/marketing.- Be proficient in writing/editing, graphic design, communication, strategy, and multi-tasking. Show less

Toronto Ontario

Hit the ground running as a Junior Graphic Designer, consistently building and demonstrating adaptability and growing skills in Design, learning process in Production, and understanding the power of Branding. Accelerated into a trusted senior role to further support and implement the company's vision and influence within its client set and prospective client set. Consistently contributed to internal team and clients' success by providing design solutions that were on brand, strategic, and… Show more Hit the ground running as a Junior Graphic Designer, consistently building and demonstrating adaptability and growing skills in Design, learning process in Production, and understanding the power of Branding. Accelerated into a trusted senior role to further support and implement the company's vision and influence within its client set and prospective client set. Consistently contributed to internal team and clients' success by providing design solutions that were on brand, strategic, and creative.The development of transferable skills within this strategic branding and creative design role enabled a non-profit sector to utilize the 9+ years experience in the marketplace and apply it to their organization that needed help in their communications. I parted ways with Hunter Straker for a few seasons, and later happily rejoined the team. Show less