Stéphan Willemse Email & Phone Number

Wellington, NZ

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Digital Arts Network NZ is the Experience Design Centre of Excellence for TBWA's 200+ offices. We use a design mindset to accelerate innovation for progressive brands in Aotearoa and globally. This includes product design, research, service design, digital making, futures design and innovation projects.Clients: The Fono Pasifika Health, Southern Cross.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

NEXT is the global innovation practice of TBWA\Worldwide, designed to disrupt the future of brand experiences. Through NEXT we create the conditions for innovation to thrive so that we can imagine better experiences for customers that delivers impact for brands.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Design, facilitation and education for progressive futures, using a Futures Design and Strategic Foresight approach. This ran as part of the ECHOS Design Leadership programme, created to fast track emerging design leaders into positions of impact.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

I worked with an interdisciplinary team of solution architects, data scienctists, experience designers, engineers and digital thinkers & builders.My role was to grow and manage an experience design team and integrate design more broadly into how we work as a technology services vendor.Clients: Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Association, Fire & Emergency.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

I started off in a more traditional brand & strategic planning approach, then bridged into the 'make what's next' vision of Mirum to evolve our experience design & strategy services.Clients: Capitec Bank (6.2 million customers, $7.17 billion market cap, voted Best Bank in the World in global Lafferty Bank Quality Ratings), Unilever, Lobster Ink, the Start.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

When I moved to the Kalahari desert, I started a remote digital strategy consultancy: brand, creative, data, content and web design. Clients include Capitec Bank, Primi Piatti, Distell Group, the DAL Group, L'Afrique Verte Eco Estate and Burn Stewart Distillers.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Brand, campaign, social media, content strategy and strategic communications, including data & measurement.Clients: a range of brands under Distell Global ($1.01 billion revenue), Unilever, Capitec Bank and VANS.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

I joined Quirk, later to become Mirum, in April 2013 as an Agile PM working on the Capitec Bank and Pam Golding Properties corporate website builds. Founded by Rob Stokes and Craig Raw, Quirk was an upstart, progressive digital agency ahead of its time. We had a culture of 'Brave, Curious Minds' and bunch of creative and digital awards to our name.We got.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

A side gig for things that interested me: copywriting, books and design tools.

Durbanville, Cape Town

Shapeshift is a digital agency situated close to Cape Town. As well as big custom website builds for financial services such as Old Mutual ($69.3 billion in assets), we created a user friendly website builder for small businesses named Webshift.I joined as a copywriter but took on other roles, during which we moved to a farm outside Cape Town and proceeded.

Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain

I taught English as a foreign language to Spanish and Basque business professionals at the Chamber of Commerce in Bilbao, preparing my students for the Cambridge Intermediate and Advanced level exams. The Basque Country's pintxos and cañas are still the best foods in the world.

Luodong Township, Taiwan, Taiwan

I taught kindergarten, high school and university students while living on the eastern coast of Taiwan. I moved there after reading an article in a surfing magazine about warm water and typhoon swell. It was a blast.

265 Old Brompton Road, Earls Court, London

The Troubadour is an iconic coffee house in Earl's Court that was a favourite of the young Bob Dylan, hosted Led Zeppelin after parties and had Charlie Watts as the house drummer before he joined the Rolling Stones. I washed dishes while learning to cook, surrounded by Bohemian characters, jazz, poetry, folk tunes and rock bands. The kitchen is still one.

Executive Mba, Distinction 🥳

Top 1.5% of universities globally. #1 for research in New Zealand. Studied while working full time during a pandemic. Interesting times.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English Literature, Political Science, Philosophy, Economics

Activities and Societies: ✍️ Wrote for Die Matie (student media), founded The Fruit Jar (music and culture).#3 ranked university in.

Bachelor Of Arts Honours, Development Studies

Oldest distance uni in the world, 300 000+ students. I almost made it to the finish line but then became a twin dad instead of a graduate.

Pgce (Higher Education), English & History

Activities and Societies: 🏄🏽‍♂️#1 ranked university in Africa. Probably spent more time chasing surf & playing in bands than I should have.