Welcome.
I am an extremely experienced creative leader.
I've won global pitches, handled the creative output of companies of over two hundred people, mentored, grown and inspired creative departments, produced work on five continents, and loved (almost) every second of it.
I specialize in efficiency, working closely with my producers and creatives to make work that always hits budgets and timing plans to maximum effect. No one is faster, or more business-aware. Every dollar/pound/euro/rand/bitcoin goes on the screen in the most exciting way possible. Nothing matters if it doesn't get made. I get work made, seen and felt by audiences all over the world, wherever they are looking.
ATL, social, experiential - everything.
I love galvanizing teams and bringing them together in dynamic, positive ways - empowering them to believe in their talent and enabling them to realise their full ambitions.
I have been lucky enough to work for some of the very best agencies in the world at the time they were at the peak of their power.
2022 to present: Prodigious London
2017 to 2022: Flare Productions/AMV BBDO
2015-2017: BBH London
2014-2015: VCCP Berlin
2011-2014: VCCP London
2010: Dentsu London
2009: SapientNitro
2008: 4Creative
2007: JWT
2005-2006: University College Falmouth, Creative Advertising PgDip, with Distinction
2000-2004: University of Glasgow, Film & Television Studies and English Literature MA, 2:1
Contact:
nshanlin@aol.com
Thank you very much for taking a look at the work.