Hi, I'm Olga.
An Arctic-born, London-trained, New York-based Creative Director.
For the last 12 years I've been building brands of all shapes and sizes, from Fortune 500 to startups. Along the way my work has picked up awards like the Cannes Grand Prix — but I prefer to measure success in dopamine. If it's fun, fulfilling or both, I'm in.
I’ve been called an idea machine, a 'prodigiously talented copywriter', an information sponge, a weirdo — and many other things. Being many things is where it’s at for me.
I’m known for asking the right questions, solving problems, turning chaos into clarity, mentoring anything that moves, and never running out of ideas (or random animal facts).
I live in New York, and my weirdly wired brain is available for hire.
If you're feeling HR-ish, you can read my résumé or stalk me on LinkedIn.
Or just say hey.
Obligatory name-drop
Beautiful copy.
— Steve Vranakis
ECD of Google Creative Lab
At last... a writer who can really, truly write.
— Creative Director of Writing,
Apple
I wish all voiceover scripts I get
were more like this.
— Sally Hawkins
Golden Globe-winning actress
Hoisin sauce. Am I stressing the H too much?
— Jarvis Cocker
Leader of Pulp and overall legend
[that recording session was a highlight of my career — I had to include it.]
Olga is an extraordinary thinker and listener.
I've simply never come across someone so adept at hearing your story then converting it into spot-on, effortless copy.
— Marisol Grandon
Founder and CEO of Unfold Stories
Olga’s impact was immediate, tangible, and deeply felt. Any team would be lucky to have her.
— Louis Lunts,
Managing Director, cummins&partners nyc
Olga is a prodigiously talented copywriter.
— Peter Souter
Writer, former chairman + CCO at TBWA\London, former ECD at AMV BBDO
Always brilliant, always well thought through, always right first time. It's incredible, we're so lucky to have found you.
— Craig Mawdsley and Bridget Angear
Founding partners of craig+bridget,
former Chief Strategy Officers at AMV BBDO
I am convinced I'm working with the best writer in town. The way you talk sweeps people off their feet like a capoeira move.
— Marco Ammannati
Art and Creative Director
You're a genius.
— Zac Goodman,
Founder and CEO, TSP
You are my Xena warrior princess.
Thank you for absolutely slaying this.
— Christopher Keatinge,
Writer, Creative Director, former ECD at Uncommon
Incredible job on copy.
— Sarah Andrews,
Head of Organisational Design,
Moore Barlow
Olga is a total asset to any project and a pleasure to work with. She brings a rare combination of speed, smarts, and style. Her writing always lands with just the right balance of warmth, wit, and clarity.
— Anna Tompkins,
Global Head of Marketing,
Rhodes Pet Science & ZURU Group Projects
Olga is an amazing writer but most importantly a listener. Clear communication, transparent process, and down to earth attitude. Her attitude and experience is priceless.
— Founders,
No sha-me
Thank you for everything. You inspire us all and the whole organisation.
— Diana Caplinska,
Head of Marketing (Nordics/Europe),
Nets
You understood exactly what we needed. You were really flexible and understanding to our commercial needs and adapted both copy and creative to support our business whilst retaining the creative quality.
— Sophie Manning,
Campaign Manager, Virgin Atlantic
We are so very proud of the work you did for our WomanMade program. You created an amazing identity that brought our idea to life in a distinctive yet empathetic manner.
— Ciara Dilley,
Vice President of Marketing, PepsiCo
Thank you for bloody everything. We have decided we want to work with you forever.
— Katie Leask and Paul O'Sullivan,
Founders, Studio Think
WTF
If this was 2010, we could start with why.
Today it feels more fitting to start with WTF.
Like, WTF is going on and WTF do we do with it?
The world’s gone weird and wonky.
Earth in general, and brandland/adland too.
The old tools and models aren’t working.
The new ones are still loading.
We’ve reached peak content, and the view is rubbish.
Even the people making ads use adblockers.
It’s never been so easy to make stuff,
And so hard to make it stand out.
Not with infinite Large Language Monkeys bashing away at prompts.
Some of us get cynical, give up, or rage against the machines.
But not you, I hope. And not me.
I’ve never been more excited.
I keep some monkeys, too. I feed them tasty prompts. They perform tricks. We have fun.
Tools change. That’s a good thing. They’re here to stay, like it or not.
So let them do their thing. The repeatable, rational bits.
Freeing us up to be ridiculous, original, and brave.
Machines are methodical. Humans are messy. That mess is the mother of magic.
And unlike machines, we can tell one from the other.
That’s why they still can’t crack a creative brief.
Robots react. Humans create.
With our brilliantly bonkers brains.
The one that wrote this takes bookings.