I love to share my stories and insights from my creative journey so that others can navigate their own.
In my 19 years of working as a creative professional in advertising, design, branding, and content creation, I’ve seen and learned so much. The knowledge and experience I’ve gained are gifts– gifts I’d like to share with the many others out there like me. Who have a creative voice, and are just trying to find their place in this world.
Creative Career: Finding your creative voice and navigating your career
Communication: Connect and align with your team and clients to have smoother relationships
Working With Clients: Pitching ideas, project management, and seeing eye-to-eye in the creative process
Creating Content: Expressing yourself in a noisy world
Productivity: Get more work done
Design: Tips to improve your design work, come up with better ideas, and speed up your process
Highlight reel from Graphika Manila 2023.
2023 – Graphika Manila
Manila, Philippines
2022 – Creative South
Columbus, Georgia
2021 – Creator Conf
Virtual event
Speaker, panel moderator, show host
2021 – Camp Mograph
Portland, Oregon
"Building Brilliant Ideas: Creative Direction Workshop"
2020 – Mercad Expo
Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic
Virtual event
“Stand Out in a Noisy World”
2020 – The Art Of Communication Workshop
Presented by Zendesk
Melbourne, Australia.
Virtual Event
2020 – Behind The Pixel
Presented by 3DSense Media School
Singapore
Virtual Event
2020 – Share What You Know Summit by Teachable.
Virtual event
“Effective Messaging Strategies: How to Turn Your Idea Into Structured Content”
2020 – Collaborative Design. Presented by Adobe XD.
Chicago, IL
Virtual event
2020 – NO/BS Conference
Melbourne, Australia.
“Stand Out in a Noisy World”
2019 – R&D Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
“Choose Your Own Adventure. Designing a Non-Linear Career Path.”
2019 – Youtube Creator Workshop
Los Angeles, CA
“Longevity. Developing Your Brand”
2018 - CTNx Animation Expo
Burbank, California
“Designing Cinematic Scenes”
2018 - Siggraph 2018.
Vancouver, British Columbia
“Designing Cinematic Scenes”
2017 - Creative Anarchy
Iloilo City, Philippines
2016 – 3x3 Tales From The Wild
ArtCenter. Pasadena, CA
2018 - NAB 2018. Post Production World.
Las Vegas, Nevada
“Stop Pitching. Start Winning”
2018 - AAF Fox River Ad Club.
Green Bay, Wisconsin
“Find Your Creative Compass”
2016 – Motion Graphics Design Conference
3DSense Media School, Singapore
2016 – TEDxCSULB
Long Beach, CA
“Start Before You're Ready”
2016 – Graphika Manila
Manila, Philippines
2015 – DMLA
Los Angeles, CA
My view from the stage, speaking to an audience of 4,000+ creatives at Graphika Manila, 2016.