Meet Angie…

Angie first started working with Brighter Directions on a freelance/ contracted role back in 2013 where she provided creative expertise to a range of our clients, and our love for her has grown from there – we simply will not let her away from our little claws now!

Angie is a true creative Queen, she is not only graphic and creatively design experienced and trained, but she’s also a fabulous qualified and experience illustration, fine art and is also a painter and photographer too – a very rare quality in design she bridges the gap between modern creatives and traditional standards!

Her role;

Angie runs the creative division for Brighter Directions, she not only manages hundreds of our client creative and visual brand campaigns, but also supervises and mentors our newest designer Diana, who loves working with Angie under her creative leadership and skill.

About Angie;

Angie is a very sweet, nurturing and genuine person with a ‘wicked’ sense of humor and a laugh that makes the office stop dead. She is always the first to offer out hugs when needed and often makes us laugh with her little giggles from the creative corner of the office!

Outside of work, she now resides between our offices in Chesterfield and Scotland… (you read right, she moved for love!), in her beautiful country home with Stephen and her kitties who often plaque her life with fun (ruined carpets) and laughter.

Some things you may not know…

Angie is a genuine and incredibly creative person who often surprises us all with how she takes our scraps of drawings and notes and turns them into branded perfection!

As well as keeping busy with work, Angie is also incredibly passionate about charity, Cancer Research who she works with all over the country with her partner to create fundraising inclusive events such as Halloween walks, fun-runs and more. (She’s also amazing at baking cakes!)

In her spare time she is often found out enjoying the countryside or with a hot cup of chocolate (or coffee, crikey this girl loves her coffee!) in front of a warm fire…. bliss!

You can read more about Angie on our MEET THE TEAM PAGE – as well as learning about our other incredible team.

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Meet Sahara…

Sahara is one of our most established employees, having joined the company back in 2008 on a Marketing Apprenticeship program – little did we know then that this would be the start of her amazing career with Brighter Directions, she has blossomed into an integral part of our team, leading by example on some of the largest marketing campaigns globally, she now holds a ‘Marketing Manager’ position and manages the digital and social teams directly, as well as providing overall support to the PR & Marketing teams.

Her role;

Sahara directly manages our digital and social media manager teams, consisting of six highly trained and experienced ladies (Natasha, Danielle, Lisa, Melanie, Alicia and Mel), which includes all the strategic management and leadership of all client accounts across our organisation, managing the team directly through motivational management and inspirational team meetings – this is in addition to her day-to-day activities running of her own larger social media accounts across a range of sectors from B2C care through to professional sales alignment and B2B technical campaigns.

Sahara has definitely ‘paid her dues’ in terms of her role, she started with the company and has worked from the ground up, developing and honing her skills, experience and outside of personal social networks has an exceptional understanding of commercial social media she now uses to pass onto client accounts and developing her own teams skills through CPD.

About Sahara;

Sahara is one of the most sociable and hard-working people anyone could ever meet! She is an incredible asset to our company and that of our growing client base, she treats every single one of her clients strategies like it was her own money – and that makes her pretty special.

In the office she is always one of the loudest and honest of our little family, she is the first to encourage people to do their best and expects nothing less in all situations because ‘if she can, why cant you’ is her ethic.

Outside of work, she is a very proud mummy to three loving doggies, Poppy, Bear and Lady as well as an array of other ‘animals’ she loves and cherishes, including a tortoise (who was a boy and now lives as a girl… long story!) and various house spiders and rescued pets like birds and hedgehogs – she welcomes them all in. A ongoing joke in the office is that she actually loves animals more than people and would happily live on a farm in the middle of nowhere with her herd of animals following her around all day!

Some things you may not know…

Sahara is passionate about charity, one particular one that holds her heart dear, #IBDSuperheroes which she founded in 2015 with a group of other volunteers across the country and has been awarded the ‘Pride of Britain’ award in 2016 for raising over £1m pound for Crohns and Colitis charity. She suffers from IBD (Colitis) which has seen her undergo several life-threatening surgeries over the years and loves giving back – but you still won’t see her have a day off work sick!

She is also a massive fan of camping and festivals… the old fashioned ‘tent’ way…

You can read more about Sahara on our MEET THE TEAM PAGE – as well as learning about our other incredible team people.

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Thank you to a superb Brighter Directions team

It’s not often enough that we see companies putting out heart-felt praises and messages to staff, (and that includes us)! For the most part, internal management is just that – practises and organisation motivational tactics are in place to boost morale and drive productivity – but sometimes it’s just not enough and the world needs to hear about it!

With that in mind, I would like to take this open opportunity to SHOUT ABOUT and recognise the dedication, hard-work and enthusiasm of my outstanding team – each and every one of them has supported Brighter Directions over a tremendously busy few weeks (and every day before and after)!

As an agency, we are often extremely busy (it’s how we like it), but the past month has seen a significant flow in capacity – with international visits and conferences coinciding with UK annual events, many client deadlines, staff holidays, new contracts starting, Christmas campaigns launching  (yes I know!) not mentioning our ‘usual’ operations.

Throughout, my team have consistently and effortlessly focused forward with a big smile and bright attitudes and for that, I want to shout from the roof how proud I am!

On many occasion, my team are approached by recruiters and companies with job offers (some very impressive) – yet I still have an incredibly loyal, dedicated and close-knit team who operate like a family – with the traditional values, ethics and passion for our company and those of our clients.

I often use the word ‘lucky’ when I am out, describing my team – and that’s because it’s truly how I feel. I am blessed. Not only to have a successful and growing company, but I also have an extended family – the team behind our company make the success every single minute of every day and that money will never buy – and for those that try, I will continue to take it as a compliment!

So, from the bottom of my heart – Thank you to my amazing team, without you, we would not have the superb smooth operations and client satisfaction we do – and I am (we are) very lucky!

Love, Claire xx

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