Jon Harrison
Global Creative Leader | Brand Strategist | Creative & Video Visionary
My Expertise
15+ years as a creative leader has given me the opportunity to work for some amazing companies while sharpening my skillset.
Here’s a quick break down of what I’ll bring to your company.
Brand Strategy, Development & Design
It’s more than just logos and colors, a brand needs a purpose, vision and focus. I have extensive experience in creating brand strategies and architectures for new and current brands.
Marketing, Advertising & Media Strategy
My deep understanding of marketing and media strategy will give that award-winning creative a plan of action that helps reach its target audience, improve conversions, experience and hit those KPIs.
Team Leadership & Development
One of the skills I’m most proud of is my style of leadership. I lead from a position of work-life balance, understanding and communication. I hold my teams accountable for their work, advocate for them and help them grow professionally.
Adobe Creative Suite
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premier, etc – these are my tools, and I’ve mastered them, but it’s really about telling the story and evoking emotion to drive inspiration and action.
Video Strategy
From building studios to increasing YouTube subscribers by 350%, my expertise with video will increase your company’s footprint in the market.
Web | Email | Social
From creating emails, marketing automation plans, a social media calendar, to optimizing the website for SEO/SEM. I know the social ecosystem and its tools very well.
UI / UX
Customer journey, A/B testing, interface design… ensuring an experience that brings the brand and marketing plan together with ease and accessibility.
Skill Set
From Adobe Creative Suite, Marketing Automation tool, CMS platforms, Salesforce, Digital Asset Management, SaaS applications, Project Management and Microsoft Office – I’m an expert user in these tools and not afraid to dive in. Here’s a quick list of those skills.
LinkedIn Recommendations
Jon is someone you want leading your teams and is a natural leader. He is someone that encourages others and people want to get behind. He’s someone that can strategically work with the C-suite to turn their vision into reality. I have seen him turn unhappy staff into star performers. He works with his team, knows their strengths and truly cares about their career development.
Strategic, tactical, and realistic, Jon embraces challenges head-on and I haven't seen him fail. From managing the creative team, acting as promoter for the company toastmaster's group to designing and managing our video studio, he is enthusiastic, proactive, and takes feedback well. He takes time to gather all the details and never loses sight of the small touches. He has been a key contributor in the organization's Culture Club and assisted hands-on with many employee engagement improvements.
Jon brought tremendous business and creative talents to a job that required dexterous thinking as well as excellent design. He would quickly grasp the business goals and develop compelling content across a wide variety of media including print, web, and video. In addition to being great to work with, Jon is a very dedicated and hard-working individual and doesn't stop until the job is done. I highly recommend Jon for any creative position.
His creativity and experience across different facets of the design process translated into compelling landing pages, ads, email, and marketing materials that elicited direct response from our different consumer and enterprise audiences. His approach to ensure our corporate and product branding identities, marketing strategy, and required campaign goals were integrated into the creative process was spot-on.
Jon has the creative ability and design focus to oversee a large workflow of web and design projects. His work stands out and makes an impact whether you're looking for sales materials, trade show design, specialized web strategies, or similar materials. His ability to work in a fast paced high workflow environment makes him an asset to any endeavor. Jon's positive attitude and energy also make him an enjoyable person to work with.
