Brand Strategist & Creative

Crafting
brands
with purpose

Where strategy meets electric creativity

Brand Strategy
Social Campaigns
Brand Identity
Audience Research
Creative Direction
Visual Storytelling
Content Strategy
Market Positioning
Brand Strategy
Social Campaigns
Brand Identity
Audience Research
Creative Direction
Visual Storytelling
Content Strategy
Market Positioning
About Me

Strategy with
soul.

I'm a Creative Industries student originally from Bermuda — and that identity shapes everything about how I approach my work. Growing up on the island gave me an instinct for cultural nuance, authenticity, and the power of a story rooted in a real place.

Throughout my degree I've had the opportunity to work with real brands and talented teams, and those experiences have helped me grow into the creative I'm becoming. They've also shown me clearly where I belong: brand strategy.

I love understanding what a business truly stands for, what its customers actually need, and finding the most compelling way to connect the two. I believe the best strategies don't just sell — they mean something to the people they reach.

3+
Years of creative work
Expertise

What I bring
to the table.

Brand Strategy Market Research Social Media Content Creation Competitive Analysis Campaign Planning Consumer Insight Copywriting Visual Direction Brand Positioning Audience Repositioning Cultural Storytelling
Selected Work

The work
speaks loud.

Fine Bone Care Box
Project 01 / March 2025

Fine Bone
Care Box

Brand Strategy Audience Repositioning

Rather than a campaign, we reframed Fine Bone's entire audience — identifying older women navigating menopause as the brand's most commercially valuable and underserved market, then built a year-round Care Box concept to reach them.

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Good Housekeeping app prototype
Project 02 / March 2025

Good Housekeeping
Podcast Strategy

Digital Strategy Account Management

A 6-month digital expansion strategy for Good Housekeeping — built around a weekly podcast to migrate print readers to the GH app, leveraging the full Hearst media ecosystem.

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Lili Activewear editorial
Project 03 / February 2026

Lili
Activewear

Brand Strategy Visual Identity Self-initiated

A self-initiated activewear brand rooted in Bermudian cultural heritage — built from my own lived experience on the island, with original research, a full visual identity, and a go-to-market strategy.

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My Approach

How I think,
and work.

01

Dig into the data

Every bold creative decision starts with evidence. I anchor strategy in real insight — market research, audience behaviour, and cultural trends — before a single visual idea takes shape.

02

Build the story

Strategy without narrative falls flat. I shape findings into a compelling brand story — one that connects emotionally with target audiences and clearly differentiates from the competition.

03

Make it electric

The best strategies are ones people remember. I bring creative energy to execution — whether that's a campaign that stops thumbs mid-scroll or a deck that makes a room sit up straight.

Let's Connect

Let's build
something bold.

Open to internships, collaborations and creative opportunities. If you need strategic thinking with bold execution — let's talk.

K2130377@kingston.ac.uk
Case Study — Project 01

Fine
Bone
Care Box

Role: Brand Strategist
Client
Fine Bone
Product
The Prudence Massager
Date
March 2025
Deliverable
Brand narrative & gift box concept
Format
Group client brief
The Brief

Consistent sales.
Year round.

Fine Bone is a ceramic sexual wellness brand whose hero product — the Prudence massager — was experiencing inconsistent sales throughout the year. The brief was straightforward on the surface: find a way to drive consistent revenue year round.

Most teams would have reached for a campaign. We didn't. Instead, we asked a more fundamental question: was Fine Bone speaking to the right audience in the first place?

Our answer was no. And that insight changed everything about our approach — rather than pushing harder to the existing audience, we identified a larger, more commercially viable market that the brand was almost completely ignoring.

The problem wasn't the campaign.
It was the audience.
Fine Bone — brand identity
Fine Bone logo
Ceramic sexual wellness products — beautifully designed, thoughtfully made. A brand with the right product for an audience it hadn't yet found.
The Strategic Insight

The audience was
right there.

Fine Bone had been positioning itself towards younger wellness consumers. But the product — ceramic, considered, designed to last — pointed to a different and more natural fit: older women navigating menopause. Almost no one in the sexual wellness space was speaking to them properly.

01
More expendable income
Women over 45 have significantly more disposable income — far more likely to invest in a premium ceramic product at Fine Bone's price point.
02
The aesthetic fit
The refined, tactile, ceramic quality of the Prudence massager resonates more naturally with a consumer who values craft and permanence over trend.
03
An underserved need
Sexual wellness during and after menopause is a genuine, clinical need — and a market almost entirely ignored by mainstream brands.

This is the kind of strategic move I find most exciting — not optimising what's already there, but identifying the audience a brand should be talking to. Repositioning doesn't always mean changing the product. Sometimes it just means changing who you're looking at.

The Solution

Not a campaign.
A new narrative.

Rather than a one-off campaign, we proposed something that would live on the Fine Bone website year round — a curated gift box designed specifically for women navigating menopause and later-life sexual wellness.

The box brings together the Prudence massager alongside carefully selected partner products from smaller sexual wellness brands — each chosen for their relevance to the menopause experience.

Permanent on the website rather than seasonal, the box creates a consistent revenue stream that doesn't depend on a calendar moment to perform.

Partner products — menopause sexual wellness
Fine Bone partner products
The Deliverable

The Fine Bone
Care Box.

The Fine Bone Care Box
Year-round website offering

The Care Box

A curated gift box featuring the Prudence massager alongside partner products specifically chosen for the menopause and later-life sexual wellness experience. Designed to live permanently on the Fine Bone website — giving the brand a consistent revenue driver that speaks directly to its most commercially valuable and underserved audience.

Year-round offering Brand partnerships Menopause audience
Outcome

The best solutions
reframe the question.

We weren't asked to find a new audience.
We just looked closely enough to see one.
Brand repositioning strategy and gift box concept developed as part of a group client brief for Fine Bone, March 2025

Fine Bone taught me that the brief is the starting point, not the ceiling. As a brand strategist, I want to be the person in the room who asks the question before the brief does.

Brand strategy Audience repositioning Partnership strategy Market insight Brand narrative
Case Study — Project 02

Good
Housekeeping
Podcast

Role: Account Manager & Finance Lead
Client
Good Housekeeping
Parent company
Hearst UK
Date
March 2025
Project type
Digital Expansion Strategy
Format
Group client brief
The Brief

A century of trust.
A brand at a crossroads.

Good Housekeeping has been part of women's lives for over 100 years — trusted, iconic, and at risk of becoming irrelevant to the very people it was built for.

Our brief was to bring GH's loyal readers onto their app and grow a new digital audience — without stripping the brand of the radical, progressive identity that made it matter in the first place.

I joined as Account Manager and Finance Lead, and treated it less like a uni assignment and more like a real client relationship — because it was one.

Good Housekeeping didn't need reinventing.
It needed reintroducing.
Good Housekeeping · Hearst UK · Est. 1922
GH
Over 100 years of trusted journalism, consumer testing, and progressive women's publishing — under the Hearst UK umbrella.
100+
Years in print
Top 5
UK women's mag
SMART Objectives

What we were
actually trying to do.

01
Shift how people see GH
Drive genuine brand reappraisal — not a rebrand, but a reintroduction to lapsed and new audiences.
02
Grow where it counts
Reach new audiences on digital platforms without abandoning GH's bold feminist identity rooted in the 1920s.
03
Make the numbers move
App downloads. Subscriptions. Social engagement. Every creative decision had to connect back to a commercial outcome.
04
Use everything Hearst has
Think across the full Hearst portfolio — Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar UK, Prima — to build reach and relevance.
The Big Idea

Give people something
worth listening to.

We landed on a weekly podcast — and the insight behind it was simple: GH's readers aren't passive consumers. They're women who want to talk about real things. The mental load. Money. Relationships at 50. The stuff that actually happens in life but somehow doesn't make it onto the cover of most magazines.

The podcast gave GH a format to be genuinely conversational — and it gave the app a reason to exist. Listen anywhere for free, but to unlock exclusive episodes and community content, you need the app. The podcast doesn't just grow the audience. It converts it.

App & platform prototype
Good Housekeeping app prototype
GH app — exclusive content hub
Spotify — free discovery
Apple Podcasts — broad reach
Hearst Ecosystem Strategy

Think bigger
than one brand.

Instead of treating GH as a standalone campaign, we designed a strategy that used the whole Hearst network. Placing the podcast inside Cosmo's editorial pages wasn't just about awareness — it was about meeting a younger audience exactly where they already are.

GH subscribers discover Hearst's wider titles. Cosmo readers discover a podcast tailor-made for the next chapter of their lives. A flywheel built into the Hearst ecosystem itself.

Editorial cross-promotion — Cosmopolitan UK
Cosmopolitan UK editorial placement
Cosmopolitan.com — editorial & display
Mobile & desktop
Conversion Model

The numbers
have to tell a story too.

As Finance Lead, building this funnel was where the storytelling met the spreadsheet. Starting with over 500,000 reachable through Hearst's combined reach, the model projects 150,000 listeners, 15,000 active engagers, and a target of 1,500 paid subscribers by month six.

The funnel isn't just a projection. It's the story of how attention becomes a business.

Audience conversion funnel — 6-month targets
Conversion funnel
500K+
Aware
150K
Consume
15K
Engage
1,500
Subscribe
6-Month Plan

Every month
had a job to do.

February 2025
Make some noise
Podcast launches with a press push across Hearst titles. Free episodes on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Social teasers on Instagram and TikTok.
March 2025
Build the community
App-exclusive bonus content goes live. Listener Q&As launch. Cross-promotion kicks off across Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar UK and Prima.
April 2025
Bring in the voices
Guest episodes with cultural figures and campaigners, timed to relevant awareness moments. Short-form clips pushed to social.
May–June 2025
Convert the believers
Listeners with 3+ months of engagement get targeted subscription offers. App trial promotions lower the barrier to commit.
July 2025
Take stock. Go again.
Performance review against every SMART objective. Full data report to Hearst leadership. Season 2 commissioned if KPIs met.
What I actually did
£
Built the financial model
Production budgets, talent costs, platform licensing and paid media — mapped every pound to a campaign phase.
R
Went deep on research
Dug into GH's audience data, the competitive podcast landscape, and the Hearst ecosystem. Liaised with the client directly.
S
Kept the strategy honest
Every creative idea was stress-tested against the objectives. If it couldn't move the needle, it didn't make the deck.
P
Stood up and presented it
Co-presented to the Good Housekeeping team. Presenting to a real client — not a lecturer — is a different feeling. I loved it.
Outcome

Strategy. Delivered.

The best brand strategy doesn't shout.
It tells a story people want to be part of.
Presented to and positively received by the Good Housekeeping editorial and marketing team, Hearst UK

This project confirmed what I already suspected: I think in narratives. The most valuable moments were where data and creativity were in conversation — where a number in a spreadsheet became the beginning of a story worth telling.

Account management Financial modelling Brand strategy Client liaison Market research Hearst media strategy
Case Study — Project 03

Lili
Activewear

Self-initiated · Sole Strategist & Creative Director
Brand
Lili Activewear
Founded by
Arin Rance
Origin
Bermuda
Date
February 2026
Deliverables
Strategy · Identity · Campaign
The Problem

An industry worth $300bn
that forgot who it was for.

The activewear market is one of the fastest-growing in the world — but for all its scale, it has a representation problem. Research I conducted during Lili's development found that 67% of women felt fitness advertising made them more self-conscious rather than more confident.

I created Lili to fill that gap — not with generic empowerment messaging, but with something far more specific: a brand with a real place, a real story, and a founder willing to put her name to it.

The activewear industry didn't need another brand.
It needed one with a soul.
67%
felt fitness ads made them more self-conscious
78%
felt no brand fully represented their values
81%
cited authenticity as most important brand quality
The Cultural Foundation

A brand built from
a real place.

Why Lili — the origin of the name
Why Lili — Easter lily fields in Bermuda

What makes Lili genuinely different is the specificity of its origin — and the fact that origin is personal. I am from Bermuda. I grew up on that island, with those colours, that light, that culture. Lili isn't inspired by Bermuda from a distance. It comes from the inside.

I created this brand because I wanted to showcase the beauty and importance of the place I'm from — and because I believe the most powerful creative work always comes from personal passion and lived experience.

The brand's name references the Easter lily, Bermuda's national flower — chosen for what it represents: resilience, natural elegance, and strength beneath softness.

In an industry saturated with manufactured aesthetics, a brand rooted in a real place, a real founder, and a real story becomes inherently, almost defensibly, differentiated. That is the strategic asset.

Brand Identity

Every detail
earns its place.

The visual identity was built around the same principles as the strategy: nothing arbitrary, everything rooted. The script wordmark references the handwritten, personal quality of the brand — a founder's name, not a corporate logo.

The colour palette draws directly from the island — pink sand, turquoise water, warm cream, soft coral — creating a visual world immediately distinctive in a category dominated by black, grey and neon.

The editorial photography direction centres on movement, light and landscape — women in Lili, at ease in the world, rather than performing fitness for a camera.

Logo & visual identity
Lili Activewear logo
Editorial direction — Bermuda
Editorial — Bermuda pink sand beach
The Initial Collection

Pieces rooted in
the island itself.

Each piece in Lili's debut collection was designed as a direct translation of Bermuda's landscape into wearable form. Every colourway, silhouette and texture has a specific cultural reference — nothing is arbitrary, everything is earned.

The Pink Sand Set
Collection 01

The Pink Sand Set

Inspired directly by Bermuda's most iconic natural landmark — the blush-pink shores of Horseshoe Bay. The colourway is not a trend choice. It is a postcard from the island, translated into activewear.

Pink sand colourwayHorseshoe Bay inspired
The Seafoam Skort
Collection 02

The Seafoam Skort

Drawn from the turquoise shallows that surround the island. The Seafoam Skort translates that colour into a silhouette that moves between studio and coastline without missing a beat.

Ocean colourwayStudio to coastline
The Rhythm Cover Up
Collection 03

The Rhythm Cover Up

Inspired by the Gombeys — Bermuda's most iconic cultural tradition. Masked, costumed performers whose vibrant dress and rhythmic movement have defined Bermudian celebration for centuries. Sky blue at the body, bursting into rainbow at the sleeves — movement you can wear.

Gombey inspiredCultural heritageTie-dye gradient
Go-To-Market Strategy

The story lands
before the product sells.

Rather than competing on paid media spend, Lili's launch strategy centres on three earned channels — designed to build a community before a single product ships.

01
Tease
Micro-influencer seeding with women-led accounts in wellness, travel and cultural spaces. Content that tells the Bermuda story before revealing the product. Target: 2,000-person waitlist before launch.
02
Launch
Community-first pop-up event in Kensington Park — an experience designed to feel like Bermuda in London. Product drop to waitlist 48 hours before public availability.
03
Sustain
The Lili Letter — a monthly email newsletter blending product updates with brand storytelling and community impact reporting. The newsletter is the brand's ongoing heartbeat.

The sequencing here was deliberate. By the time someone could buy the product, they already understood why it existed. That's the difference between a customer and a community member.

Brand Purpose

Every purchase
goes back to the island.

A portion of every Lili sale goes back to Bermuda — a promise that transforms every purchase into a small act of cultural participation.

This is not cause-marketing bolted on after the fact. It is built into the brand's identity from day one. Specificity is credibility — and Lili names a specific island, a specific founder, and a specific cause.

% of every sale
Reinvested directly into Bermuda
Not a pledge. A structural part of the brand's financial model — so that as Lili grows, Bermuda grows with it.
What This Project Taught Me

Culture is the
most defensible moat.

Brand differentiation doesn't require a large budget.
It requires a point of view that is genuinely held.
Self-initiated brand strategy, visual identity and go-to-market concept — researched, written and designed independently

Lili is the project that showed me what brand strategy looks like when it's entirely yours. The insight that drives everything here — that cultural specificity is a strategic asset, not just an aesthetic choice — is one I carry into every brief I work on now.

Brand strategy Primary research Visual identity Go-to-market planning Cultural positioning Campaign concept