Helping creative professionals level up their careers

I’m a designer, writer, speaker & content creator here to be your cheerleader, teacher & virtual mentor as you improve your craft and navigate your design career.

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Hi, I'm Charli
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Your go-to guide for brand & marketing design

I’m currently writing a book about increasing the impact of your in-house brand & marketing design work. In the meantime, you can dive in to episodes of the Inside Marketing Design podcast for juicy insights into the principles, processes and projects of some of your favourite tech companies.

Episodes featuring these companies & many more
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Craft a personal brand that helps you reach your career goals

The Crafting a Personal Brand workshop is designed to help creative professionals like you to establish a clear and powerful personal brand. It'll help you to fearlessly embrace self-promotion, and take action on building a reputation that will open doors and elevate your career.

My personal brand has been a key factor in landing opportunities throughout my design career, and now I've created a framework to help you craft yours too.

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Videos about life & work as a web designer in tech

I’ve been making YouTube videos since 2013; documenting my design career and posting educational videos about the design process.

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Thoughts on design, business and side projects

While most of my writing goes directly to my newsletter subscribers, on my blog I share posts about my design career, as well as income reports and a behind-the-scenes look at my business.

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The financial cost of burnout - 2023/24 income report

Business

An in-depth look at the way my income streams changed during my year of burnout.

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But I don’t just talk about design…

I’m the Creative Director at ConvertKit and as the manager of our Brand Studio team I work on creating systems and consistency for our overall brand as well as designing and iterating on our marketing site, campaigns and events.

Sometimes you’ll even find me live-streaming these projects on my YouTube channel, so subscribe if you want to see the work happen in real-time.

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Level-up your design career by crafting a unique personal brand

An on-demand workshop and digital workbook to help you reach your career goals