The team

The team at Elephant Creative Solutions starts with Helen Hammond… that’s me. I could go on about how I have over 10 years experience of professional services marketing and business development but I hope the rest of the website has demonstrated what I can do already.

So, who am I and why am I qualified to be Managing Consultant at Elephant Creative Solutions? I started out with my father on his exhibition stands at the big defence shows. By the age of 12 I think I could identify the military rank of pretty much any visitor to the stand (irrespective of which country they were from) and had certainly learnt from a master about how to pace oneself through four business lunches each day.

But eventually it was time to get a proper job… By the time I finished getting a degree in rowing (officially, marketing and business) it was the height of the ‘dot com’ boom and I was in the best place there could be for it… with Oxford University spin-offs popping up all around it was like a terribly middle-class Silicon Valley. I jumped straight in, juggling work for a number of charities (fundraising, strategy and events) with spells in IT start-ups (including as Head of Events at one of the most successful professional online communities still in existence).

Since then I’ve worked with a wide range of clients – from law firms and major blue-chip organisations through to start-ups, SMEs, charities and public bodies.

In 2004 I set up Elephant Creative Solutions because I wanted to focus exclusively on delivering an imaginative, professional and totally unique service. I had worked in-house at some large law firms and I thought things could be done differently… and dare I say it better… where their marketing was concerned. Gone are the days of boring, theoretical marketing plans that sit on a shelf. For me, it’s about common-sense, plain English and injecting bags of enthusiasm into each and every project.

But it’s not all about me! What makes Elephant Creative Solutions really special is the wide network of consultant partners and suppliers that I call on. I’ve worked with all of them personally (like One Ltd, who made this wonderful website) and only recommend people I actually trust to provide exactly what my client is looking for. It’s all about knowing the right person for the job, isn’t it?