Nick Hardie-Grant: I joined Hardie Grant in 2017, one 12 months after Kate had been employed from Clemenger to go up Hardie Grant Media’s technique crew. We have been each introduced into newly created roles with the goal of reworking the enterprise and rapidly bonded over current company expertise and a shared perspective on the place we would have liked to go.Six years later and I believe we’ve achieved a whole lot of what we got down to do. What began as a 40-odd particular person content material and publishing company is now a various advertising community of 120 folks in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and London in content material, PR, digital advertising, and video manufacturing.Kate’s been my right-hand particular person alongside the way in which, evolving to tackle every little thing from shopper technique work to company positioning, serving to launch businesses and e-comm start-ups, hack days, acquisitions, and a key position in our group’s course – she wears a whole lot of hats!ADVERTISEMENT
In phrases of our relationship, I believe it’s fairly complementary. Kate’s acquired probably the most superb strategic thoughts, extraordinarily course of pushed, can suppose at a degree past anybody I’ve ever labored with. And to not say I’m the other, however I believe I will help stability that with a shopper focus, enterprise considering, and some directness. Six years of sitting subsequent to one another I believe we’ve acquired a superb deal with on one another’s strengths and mix properly.Kate Thompson:Nick and I first met when he joined Hardie Grant as chief digital officer in 2017. He got here in able to implement some fast wins and swiftly digitised a whole lot of processes, launched new applied sciences and influenced optimistic change throughout the group. I’d not lengthy joined the enterprise, however with my company expertise I keep in mind that I used to be nonetheless studying to undertake extra agile options – suffice to say I requested a whole lot of questions and didn’t all the time make his job simple!Before too lengthy, Nick was heading up the Hardie Grant Media division of the Hardie Grant group and I used to be reporting into him. Admittedly, I did count on him to make me bounce by means of a couple of hoops simply to get even however he did something however. And, after 5 years – perhaps nearer to 6 – he’s ended up as my longest serving supervisor.I believe we work properly collectively as a result of we’ve all the time had an analogous imaginative and prescient of the place Hardie Grant Media may go, we’re each eager to drive sustainable progress and innovation, and I believe our abilities complement one another extremely properly. But the actual breakthrough (at the very least for me) occurred once I learnt to talk fluent Nick. I now have this form of superpower the place I can stroll away from a dialog and conjure up one thing in a couple of slides that neatly captures what was in Nick’s head and is commonly virtually able to put in entrance of a shopper or stakeholder. Trust me once I say that only a few folks can do this!Overall, we’ve got all of the tenets of what makes an ideal management partnership. I believe like several skilled relationship, the way in which we work is finally constructed on mutual respect and belief. Having labored collectively for fairly a while we all know what makes one another tick – what we carry to the desk, learn how to get the very best out from one another, and recognize one another’s working type (I’m a deep overthinker and he’s very fast and decisive – ha!).Nick on Kate:Most memorable second with Kate: Heading to Cleveland for Content Marketing World in 2018. Sharing a whole lot of American coffees with a Melbourne espresso snob was a spotlight.Best phrase to explain Kate: Thorough – which can also be most likely triggering for her as she’s learnt that’s my manner of claiming “we should always attempt and simplify this a bit…”.Kate’s most annoying behavior or endearing behaviour: This one borders endearing and annoying, however advertising jargon. I believe we’ve lastly toned her down considerably however that’s what years in large advertising groups will do to you.Kate on Nick: Most memorable second with Nick: We travelled to Cleveland for the Content Marketing World convention in 2018 and whereas we learnt loads – my greatest reminiscence attending my first ever baseball sport collectively!Best phrase to explain Nick: Ambitious. Nick has a lot vitality for brand spanking new enterprise concepts (and new enterprise).Nick’s most annoying behavior or endearing behaviour the colleague has: He can typically suppose he’s a designer 😊
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