Leadership
Build and lead high-performing teams, foster collaboration, and drive innovation, positioning design as a business driver
Strategy
Translate customer needs and business objectives into client-focused solutions that elevate brands and drive results
Storytelling
Craft compelling visual narratives that simplify complexity, engage audiences, and inspire action
Work
Leadership Case Studies & Project Spotlight
From startups to global enterprises, I’ve worked alongside exceptional teams across industries, leading strategic, client-focused initiatives that elevate brands, win business, and challenge the status quo.
Due to client confidentiality, direct examples of client work are not displayed in most cases. Instead, I've redesigned images and text to showcase the underlying processes and concepts. If you're interested in exploring my 'Work,' contact me for a password. Please note, the views presented are my own and may not reflect those of past employers or clients.
Brands I’ve Worked With:
Featured Case Studies
Transforming the Team into a Global Creative Force
How a holistic, people-first strategy transformed the design team into a high-impact global operation—empowering talent, elevating design standards, increasing efficiencies, reducing costs, and driving revenue.
Innovating at Scale: Empowering Employees with the "Creative Hub"
Discover how the Creative Hub revolutionized creative support for 50,000+ employees worldwide—boosting operational efficiency by 65%, fostering strategic partnerships, and ensuring consistent, high-quality work at scale.
From Complexity to Clarity: Igniting Engagement Through Design
How refined messaging and strategic visual communication simplified complex aspects of a global firm’s operations—increasing engagement, strengthening positioning, and driving business growth.
About me
With over fifteen years of experience, I am well-versed in the art of storytelling. I believe it is my team's responsibility to be the experts in understanding and interpreting our customers' needs and desires, and to transform them into functional, inspirational, behavior-changing work product.
At my core, I am a designer. My background in design has equipped me with traits built for strategic, inventive work. I am innately curious, always asking questions and challenging the room's prevailing thought. I value open and safe brainstorming and believe it delivers the best, most novel results. I seek to challenge the status quo by bringing the most innovative and creative ideas to the forefront for our customers. And I do this with a brimming well of vigor and enthusiasm.
I enjoy taking risks, trying new things and have always had an appetite for learning. I love training and empowering others and am inherently drawn to continually scanning the creative landscape for new tools, techniques and industry best practices that enhance my team's ability to craft memorable, impactful stories that build brand awareness and support our customers.
If I sound like someone you'd like to collaborate with, don't hesitate to reach out!
Testimonials
Chelsea and I were colleagues for many years and few creative professionals l've encountered demonstrate a professionalism and curiosity like her.
She’s a dynamic and thoughtful leader. Someone who works tirelessly to bring out the best in her team, not only creatively, but holistically. As a result, her business acumen is one that looks for opportunities to solve challenges that are notably difficult and bring her team together to overcome them.
As a creative person, her passion is rooted in understanding her audience; both client and user and harnesses her abilities to find a unique balance between thoughtful and insightful.
She welcomes anyone and everyone into her circle and has become an exceptional leader and trailblazer as a result.
Nik McEachrane-Johnson | Vice President Marketing
Bōde (Previously CBRE)
Chelsea is one of those people you always get excited to work with. She brings energy, passion, smarts, and a bit of fun to her work. She is the rare breed of creative who can bridge the gap between brand, strategy, design, and customer. She is an expert at navigating the complex inner workings (and politics) of global organizations in order to push work forward and deliver exceptional creative. She has brought a true sense of partnership and trust to our work together, provides excellent feedback and support, and is always pursuing new ways of looking at creative challenges.
Chelsea has the capacity to make an incredible amount of impact at any organization, and I cannot wait for my next opportunity to partner with her on developing thoughtful, strategic, high-impact creative work.
Josh Miles | Creative Director
Material+
I've worked closely with Chelsea for several years, spanning multiple teams and firms. She is an excellent designer and exceptional leader, and she adds value to every project she touches. Chelsea truly understands the importance of design-centered thinking and communication. She always finds a way to conceptualize dry or complex content and transform it into a compelling and impactful story.
Amy Dittoe | Vice President, Strategic Marketing & Solutions Development
Colliers (Previously Cushman & Wakefield)