EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR

I build brand systems, creative teams, and executive stories that help complex companies move with clarity.

Executive Creative Director with 15 years inside a $5B global enterprise, leading brand identity, creative operations, executive communications, digital storytelling, and global design systems across industrial, technology, and consumer-facing work.

$533M

Revenue supported through strategic go-to-market branding

$10M+

Cost avoidance through in-house creative operations

1.2M+

Creators reached through educational content

15+

Years building global brands at scale

SELECTED WORK

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN · GLOBAL · ONGOING

Brand does not just live on screens. I work with architects to bring Flowserve’s identity into physical spaces — showrooms, facility walls, purpose installations, and environmental graphics across facilities in multiple countries.

75+ facilities across 4 continents. A brand system built to travel anywhere without confusing who it is. 

Creative Direction & Vision
Facility Design Handbook
Architect & Vendor Partnership
Interior Brand Direction
Global Brand Standards

PRODUCT BRAND & REVENUE IMPACT

End-to-end brand creation for Flowserve’s flagship connected technology platform, from naming and identity to launch narrative, sales enablement, and global rollout.

Supported $533M in attributed revenue through clearer positioning, stronger go-to-market storytelling, and enterprise sales tools.

Naming & Brand Strategy
Visual Identity
Go-to-Market Creative
Sales Enablement
Global Launch

DTC CONSUMER BRAND · FOUNDER

Built a premium Jiu-Jitsu lifestyle brand from scratch, combining product design, ecommerce, community, performance marketing, and purpose-driven storytelling.

Grew the brand 307% while donating 3% of every sale to help kids train Jiu-Jitsu.

Brand Identity
Product Design
DTC Ecommerce
Community Building
Performance Marketing

EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN

Annual executive leadership experience for 120 to 130 global leaders, built from CEO strategy through theme, stage design, presentation systems, environmental graphics, motion, and live experience.

Helped align global leadership around strategy through a fully integrated executive experience.

Creative Direction
Executive Communications
Stage Design
Event Brand System
Team Leadership

MOBILE UX · PRODUCT DESIGN · CUSTOMER-FACING

A customer-facing mobile app redesigned for field engineers and plant managers configuring mission-critical Limitorque actuators at industrial facilities worldwide. Shipped and live.

Most creative directors in my sector have never shipped a product.

Mobile UX Strategy
Product Design Vision
Interface System Design
Cross-Functional Implementation
Customer Product Delivery

PRODUCT BRAND IDENTITY

Named and branded an internal AI platform built to turn institutional knowledge into searchable, conversational intelligence for 15,000+ employees.

Created a scalable identity system for enterprise AI adoption, internal trust, and digital product clarity.

Naming
AI Brand Strategy
Visual Identity
Executive Presentation
Brand System Design

WHAT I BUILD

Creative systems that connect brand, business strategy, and execution.

My work sits where brand, business strategy, creative operations, and leadership meet. I do not just make creative work look better. I build the systems that make it stronger, faster, clearer, and more trusted across the organization.

01

Brand systems that scale

Identity, messaging, visual standards, templates, and governance that help global teams move with consistency.

02

Creative teams that earn trust

In-house teams, partner models, and creative workflows that improve quality while reducing dependency on outside agencies.

03

Executive stories that align people

CEO narratives, leadership events, board-level presentations, and strategic communications that turn business direction into belief.

04

Product stories people understand

Naming, launch narratives, sales tools, and digital brand systems that make complex technologies easier to understand and sell.

05

Creative operations that create value

Processes, standards, and operating models that reduce waste, improve speed, and connect creative work to business outcomes.

“I have spent 15 years inside one of the world’s largest industrial companies, not as a vendor or an agency, but as the person responsible for what the brand looks like, what it says, and how it shows up at scale. That kind of ownership changes the way you lead creative work.”
– Kaivan Askari

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2022 Platinum Marcom AwardW3 Gold AwardW3 Silver AwardW3 Silver AwardAmerican Graphic Design AwardMarcom Creative Award

If you need a creative leader who can connect brand, business strategy, executive storytelling, and execution at scale, that is the work I do.

Kaivan Askari
Frisco, TX