Getting beneath the surface

 

What I can help with

Telling your deep story

 

Improving creative work

 

Aligning your brand

 

Creative training & development

 

Brand expertise

Brand leadership

Founder, Studio Jelly. Strategic & creative direction for B Corps, non-profits, arts & culture, and purpose-driven organizations.

 

Creative direction

Nike, Starbucks, Google, Timberland, Coca-Cola, Fully, Portland Timbers, Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, Wikipedia, more.

 

Executive leadership

ECD, Wieden+Kennedy. GCD, The Martin Agency. ECD, Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam.

 

Brand education

Founding faculty, VCU Brandcenter. Founder & Director, Wieden+Kennedy 12. Training creative leaders for Apple, Google, W+K Portland, New York, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Shanghai.

 

What clients say

Hiring Jelly is one of the best decisions we have made as an organization. Not marketing decision — best decision, period.

Merritt Paulson

Portland Timbers

 
Jelly helped us explicate and manifest our soul in such an awesome way. Uniquely able to listen and translate who we are. Our success has been in no small part because of his work.

David Bronner

Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps

 
Invaluable. Jelly helped us know ourselves better and more confidently tell our story. A transformative brand journey.

David Kahl

Fully furniture

 
Bigger than a brand identity, working with Jelly gave us clarity of purpose. The work reflects our greatest aspirations and reminds us of who we are. It is a compass.

Sarah Hacker

Hacker Architects

 
The process of learning, exploration, distillation, and revealing meaning in the work we do together – I love each new opportunity to work with Jelly.

Nolan Lienhart

ZGF Architects

 
Jelly brings lots of knowledge, experience and insight to a conversation, and also can’t wait to hear what you have to say because he knows you know a lot too. He makes conversations big and deep, not small and shallow.

Dave Olsen

Starbucks

 
The kind of person everyone on the team looks forward to working with. Thinks above and beyond products and platforms, focusing on emotional communication and meaningful impressions.

Jay Walsh

Wikipedia

 
Jelly brings his full self to every engagement. Insightful questions, careful listening, more questions, more listening, going deep. Paying attention to the essence and feel of what the org is about. Highly unusual way of working, and such an incredible gift.

Eric Easom
AN2 Therapeutics

 

Your deep story

What story wants to be told through you?

 

Contact me

Jelly Helm in a light demin button up shirt in from of greenery making eye contact with the camera

What story wants to be told through you?

hello@jellyhelm.com