For Working Creatives,
Studios, And Organizations
Not every opportunity is worth chasing, and the wrong one can cost you time, money, and the integrity of your work. I help you see what each one really involves before you commit.
Independent Creatives
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Artists, photographers, authors, designers, illustrators, filmmakers, writers, musicians and other independent creative professionals.
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Established creatives looking to attract higher-value clients, pursue more rewarding opportunities, increase the value of their work and create more freedom in deciding what to work on.
Established Creative Businesses
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Studios, galleries, production companies, agencies, and other founder-led creative organizations.
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Established creative businesses looking to attract higher-value clients, strengthen their market position, create new sources of revenue, be more profitable, develop their team and build a business with greater potential.
Creative Institutions
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Universities, arts organizations, incubators, non-profits, associations and publicly funded creative programs.
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Advisory, workshops and speaking engagements that bring practical business perspective and real-world creative leadership experience to the entrepreneurs and creative professionals they support.
One-On-One Support.
Decades of Experience.
This is private, one-on-one advisory built around you, your business and what you want it to become.
There are no cohorts, classes or predetermined formulas to follow. We focus on the opportunities, decisions and challenges that matter specifically to you and your business.
Sometimes that means positioning yourself for higher-value clients. Sometimes it means exploring new revenue opportunities, changing how the business operates or creating more space for the work you want to do.
You bring the ambition and knowledge of your business. I bring an experienced outside perspective, creative and commercial judgement, and the ability to see possibilities you might be missing. I'll help you understand what they really involve, and decide which ones are worth pursuing.
Three Ways
To work Together
Private Advisory
For established independent creative entrepreneurs
One-on-one advisory focused on the opportunities, decisions and changes that can move your creative business forward. We work directly on what matters most to you, from attracting higher-value clients and exploring new opportunities to evolving your positioning, revenue model or the way you work.
Creative Business Advisory
For studios, galleries, agencies, production companies and other founder-led creative firms
Strategic advisory for founders and leadership teams looking to strengthen the business, unlock new opportunities and determine where to take it next. Engagements can focus on positioning, clients, offerings, revenue opportunities, team structure, leadership or the business model itself.
Creative Community Advisory
For universities, arts organizations, incubators, associations and creative programs
Advisory, workshops and speaking engagements that bring practical business perspective and real-world creative leadership experience to the entrepreneurs and creative professionals you support.
Advisory Shaped
By Experience
I’ve spent more than 25 years building a career and businesses inside the creative industry. I’ve led creative teams, mentored talent across disciplines, built commercial success for global brands and helped grow a creative organization from roughly 300 to 1,600 people and $500 million in revenue.
I’m also an author and an artist. I write, paint, design and photograph. I understand both the ambition to produce work you’re proud of and the commercial realities of building a successful business around it.
That combination shapes how I advise.
I look at your business through both a creative and commercial lens, identifying possibilities that can be difficult to see from inside it. That might mean attracting more valuable clients, strengthening your positioning, developing new revenue opportunities, changing how the business operates or finding entirely new ways to create value from what you already do well.
My role is to help you see more potential in what you’ve built, make better decisions about where to take it, and turn those possibilities into greater commercial value.
A Guide For When Success Stops Feeling Like Success
In Whose Ladder Is This?, former global executive and creative director Kevin Simcock shares a raw, honest account of what happens when achievement no longer aligns with identity.
Part memoir, part guidebook, this is not a story of burnout or breakdown. It’s a story of rediscovery. Through vulnerable storytelling, insight-rich reflection, and hard-won clarity, Kevin walks you through the messy but necessary process of letting go of who you thought you had to be, so you can step into the version of yourself that was waiting all along.
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