LAURA MCHARD

A selection of projects to demonstrate my strategic and creative leadership skills across proposition, brand and experience design challenges.

How do you speak to women about cancer insurance?

Plan V

How do you place the power of good advice in more hands?

Evelyn Partners

How can we convince laywers to return to work?

Freshfields

How can local citizens engage in climate action?

After The Pandemic

How do you launch the vision of an entire Kingdom?
Vision2030

How do we disrupt edtech and learn without limits?

Edify

 
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How do you speak to women about cancer insurance?

Idea

What needle did we want to shift

Impact

In 3 short months RGA were able to launch Plan V in market; with a refined propositon that brings value to young women and a visual and verbal brand that delivers impact.

Responsibility

Project Lead. Creative Direction.

 

Challenge

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Insight

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'The strategy and execution is just perfect.'
John Dick - Global Digital Delivery Manager EMEA, RGAx

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How do we make work, work?

 
 

Challenge

COVID-19 has shifted employee attitudes, behaviours and desired experiences when it comes to where and how people want work. To encourage over 3000 staff to adopt Freshield's mandatory 'Return to Office' agile working policy, reduce the reliance on hybrid or fully remote work and repopulate HQ, the Chief Operating Officer needed a communication strategy, execution and message that spoke to all mindsets and working preferences.

Impact

Giving the COO confidence to launch the company wide 'Return to Work' policy. We delivered a messaging framework, designed artefacts and a communication roadmap. Digital signage with 'Empowering Tomorrow' content is now a permenant feature across Freshfields HQ.

Responsibility

Project Lead | Creative Direction | Communication Design

Idea

To change behaviours and move staff from the WFH default, we took a human-centered approach. Through desk research and employee interviews, we uncovered insights and mapped employee motivations to create a communication strategy around support, safety, control, respect and responsibility. The Return to Work manifesto was anchored in the firm's purpose of 'Empowering Tomorrow' and joy, culture and empathy brought meaning to the creative execution.

 

'Collaborative, insightful and fast-paced work that's brought so much value to our firm.'
Mark Higgs - Chief Operating Officer, Freshfields

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How do we engage local citizens in climate action?

 

Insight

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Idea

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Impact

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Role

Co-Founder. Director of Brand, Creative and Digital.

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Mark Higgs - Chief Operating Officer, Freshfields

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