CULTURAL ALCHEMIST | BRAND STRATEGIST | EXPERIENTIAL INNOVATOR

STRATEGIC MISCHIEF:

A CULTURE-FIRST APPROACH FOR BRAND TRANSFORMATION

Strategy fuelled by real culture—shaping ideas and experiences people remember.

I blend big-brand strategy, cultural intelligence, and experiential world-building to give brands the confidence to make bold moves that matter.

Powered by Strategic Mischief™: built from the joy of entertainment, where culture ignites & experience carries.

WORK WITH ME

THREE WAYS I PARTNER WITH BRAND LEADERS

1. Culture Strategy for Established Brands

Helping iconic brands stay culturally sharp, emotionally resonant, and future-fit.


2. Brand Strategy for New Ventures

Shaping new brands from zero to launch with distinctive positioning, cultural insight
& strategic clarity.


3. Experiential Storytelling & Immersive Design

Designing story-first worlds and experiences that spark emotion, participation and cultural conversation.


Working with brands to shape ideas and moments that matter.

WORK WITH ME

WATCH THE REEL:

CULTURE. BRANDS. EXPERIENCE.

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STRATEGY WITH A BIT OF MISCHIEF.

A bald man with glasses, a beard, and mustache is resting his chin on his hand, wearing a dark blazer and a graphic T-shirt, against a dark background.

Because strategy without play is predictable. And play without strategy is chaos.

The brands that lead culture know how to combine both —and use that tension to make people feel.

THE BRANDS & AGENCIES I’VE WORKED WITH.

TESTIMONIALS

  • "RAJ WAS A GAME-CHANGER AT AMV, RESHAPING OUR AGENCY CULTURE AND HELPING US WIN BIG WITH BT AND THEN BEYOND."

    IAN PEARMAN, FORMER CEO, AMV/BBDO

  • "RAJ’S RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF ORIGINALITY AND FRESH PERSPECTIVES IS TRULY INSPIRING. HE’S A RARE CREATIVE-STRATEGIC TALENT."

    GARY GRANT, MD, YOU AGENCY

  • "RAJ IS THE MOST CREATIVE, WORLDLY, PROBLEM-SOLVER I KNOW. I’D WORK WITH HIM ON MULTIPLE BRANDS & WOULD AGAIN IN A HEARTBEAT."

    MAGNUS WOOD, DIRECTOR, TETRA CONSULTING

UPCOMING BOOK

WE ARE THE STORY:

WHY REWRITING REALITY THROUGH EXPERIENCE IS THE ULTIMATE STRATEGY

EXPERIENCE IS THE CURRENCY OF CONNECTION—AND WE'VE FORGOTTEN HOW TO CASH IN.

Experience is the currency of connection — and we’ve forgotten how to cash in.

We live in an age of stolen agency.
Education, media, marketing — everything’s trying to script our reality.

But people aren’t buying it anymore.
They want memory, meaning, transformation.

After a decade of underground reality-rewriting, here’s what I know:
Experience doesn’t just tell stories — it authors who we become.

It turns audiences into participants, customers into collaborators, brands into culture.

The stakes?
A $15B experience economy growing 21% a year.

And a generation that’s done being passive.

For brands, agencies and creators — all you alchemists:

Join the rebellion.
Build what people feel.
Return agency through experience.

EXPERIENCE IS THE BUSINESS.