The Community
More than an agency. A place to belong.
Two kinds of people. Those who need serious creative work done, and those who do it seriously. Clients and collaborators. Both walk through the same door. Both get a stool.
INSIDE THE COMMUNITY
The thinking happens upstairs. The door is always open downstairs.
Members get access to the conversations that do not make it onto the website. Strategy sessions, work in progress, honest takes on the industry. Quarterly, direct, no algorithm between us.
The letter
Quarterly. Written properly. No roundups, no links. Just thinking.
The Sessions
Strategy conversations. Clients and collaborators in the same room.
The Network
Introductions that mean something. Vetted, trusted, mutual.
Two doors.
Same pub.
Upstairs - Members
Thinking & Making
Strategy sessions, real conversations, work in progress. Clients + collaborators in the same room.
Downstairs - Open Bar
LinkedIn + Public Content
Anyone welcome. Come as you are.
The people who take it personally
R&H was built by two people who could not work any other way. Fourteen years later, nothing has changed.
Rob Ryan
Co-Founder, Experience, Design & Creative
Rob has been making things properly since 2011. He is a designer by trade, which means he is equally comfortable with a brand system, a product experience, or a brief that nobody has quite figured out yet.
He works close to the work. Always has. He will question the brief before he opens a file, bring you an alternative you did not ask for, and stay long after the handover to make sure it is actually working.
Two decades across agencies and in-house teams. Retail, financial services, travel, media, entertainment. His value is not the sector. It is what he does when the problem gets complicated.
Nik Stoker
Co-Founder, Operations, Commercial & Media
Niki is the reason R&H runs the way it does. Twenty-five years at the point where commercial ambition meets operational reality, scaling B2B technology and SaaS businesses across the UK, EMEA, and international markets.
She has been COO, MD, SVP. She knows how organisations actually work, where the gaps are, and how to close them. At R&H that means every project is properly resourced, properly managed, and properly delivered.
She studied English Literature and Business at Oxford Brookes. Which explains both the precision and the way she reads a room.
Regulars
Not a directory. A shortlist of people we would put our name next to, every time.
Samuel Adams
Stephen Walker
Design & Technology Teacher
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Madeline Embleton
Chief Client Officer ay Harvest
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Sarah Whitfield
Chief Marketing Officer
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Jonathan Wilcock
Brand voice copywriter
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Jon Pearce
Head of Marketing at Mobility Group
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Elle Ferguson
Senior Account Director at Manchester at Mobsta
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Adam Meli
Managing Director at Manchester at Mobsta
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Emma (Wilson) Robbins
CEO, Harvest Digital, Non-Executive Director, Board Advisor & Investor
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Rob Heasley
Head of Design at Orenda Finance
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Casandra Strauss
Senior Director, Strategic Technology at Universal Music Group
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Paul Cornwall
Series Producer, Producer, Feature Development & TV Development
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Emma Jackson
Freelance Exec Producer, Prompt Engineer The5Gs
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John Rahim
Founder & Editor at The Media Stack
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Kate Wyn Jones
Audience & Digital Strategy Director at Universal Music UK
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John Randle
Design Lead at Publicis Sapient
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Mike Teasdale
Founder & Planning Director, Harvest Digital - Digital Media Strategy
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Roxanne Houshmand-Howell
Founder, Strategic Director, Responsible Fashion, Happiness Facilitator
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Valerie Blair
Director at Gagosian
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Juliet Purcell
Marketing Leader, Strategy, Brand, GTM, Proposition & Messaging, CMO
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Emily Webber
Organisational consultant, trainer, author and speaker.
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Charles Cadbury
Branded conversations on Alexa+ and Gemini
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Maria Cadbury
CRO, GTM Revenue Modelling, Product Marketing & Partnerships Advisor
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John Scorah
Co-Founder at Mobsta Ltd - Certified B-Corp
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Darren Kietz
Co-Founder at Mobsta Ltd - Certified B-Corp
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Two doors.
One place.
