"Kalle is one of the leading global talents in creative communications. He's a unicorn in the Irish market."
Comms get buckled in transit. Buried slowly in slides. Watered down for endless stakeholders until there's basically nothing left worth reading.
I find the creative signal. Then I help you say the thing you actually want to say.
It’s not all about simplifying. It’s about storytelling.
Innovation isn't a magic trick. It’s what happens when you actually invest in creative thinking.
That means nudging knowledge and interrupting well-worn patterns. From live stages to workshop tables,I stretch the imagination until the answers become obvious.
The ideas are already in the room. I'm there as the catalyst.
"There are few I've worked with who are so skilled at bringing ideas to life and making the complex simple. He can comfortably hit that sweet spot between what leaders need to say and what employees want to hear."
"One of the most creative people I know. His creative journey and innovative spirit have deeply influenced my own path. Kalle’s unique blend of creativity and craft make him an essential modern storyteller."
It connects people. Not in a vague, poster-on-the-wall kind of way. But in a proper human way. I've watched it rippling into rooms. You can almost see the little sparks start to crackle.
That's because creativity is an active thing. It's a shapeshifter. And (luckily for us) it's highly renewable. Just ask the mighty poet Maya Angelou.
But somewhere along the way, we stopped treating creativity as something human (and essential) and replaced it with "process".
And we built our communications around all of these sterile, impersonal rules. Then we handed those same rules to machines to produce bucketloads of templated texts.
And your employees read them the way they read terms and conditions.
that's the gap.For more than 15 years, I worked inside places like Google and Meta. I left my fingerprints on their culture and helped leaders say tricky things that had to land in thousands of inboxes at once. (And when it worked, it wasn't because the message was perfect. It was because it connected with people).
In parallel, I’ve written award-winning anthems, toured my plays, founded a festival, and stood in front of rooms that let you know, pretty quickly, if you’ve lost them.
Two lives, some people say. Same life, I say. It's the same creative lens.
In fairness, both worlds taught me the exact same thing about communication. The idea was never really the problem. It was how it was said, and how it made people feel.
That's where I come in. A storyteller with a human eye. A creative one.
And then we connect the dots together.
that's the work.
FOUNDER of Meta’s first-ever global video comms team. PRODUCER & SHOWRUNNER for four concurrent series productions. HEAD WRITER & HOST of the flagship internal news show 'The Blast', which was actually incredibly fun.
SPOKEN-WORD piece commissioned by Jameson for their 'Sine Metu' campaign, filmed at the old Bow St. Distillery. A follow-up to an earlier POETRY collaboration with Irish musician (and legend) Jape to mark the launch of Jameson Caskmates.
SCRIPTWRITER and SCRIPT EDITOR for this short film about Google's regeneration of the iconic Bolands Mills in Dublin. A gorgeous slice of history. The local stories were practically queueing up to be told!
SCRIPTWRITER & CREATIVE DIRECTOR for this nifty cinematic reveal of the new 'Platform 37' building in King's Cross, London. From an ancient board game to the future of AI in less than 2 minutes.
"A consummate comms person with expertise as well as innate creativity and an ability to influence others and problem solve big issues fast. An absolute pleasure to work with."
"One of the best clients we've ever had. He's kind, fun to work with and knows how to inspire a team to create something fresh and new."
