Born in one of the bleakest cities in the UK (Crewe LOL), Olivia then spent most of her early life in a much more posh one – Cambridge. Exchanging TV dinners and pork pies for lashings of Earl grey and a spot of punting. She left the UK after 6 years earning her calluses and scalpel wounds with clients like – Ford of Europe, Hitashi and Thomas Cook – the top banana being the launch of the Benetton formula 1 racing car – vroom vroom.

Amid the heady days of Doctor Martens and bike shorts, she packed up her trunk and her daughter and moved to the other side of the world to windy Wellington as a senior designer for what was then, New Zealand’s largest brand and communication company. Armed with a typewriter and an omnicrom machine, she was involved in building many of New Zealand’s most recognised and loved brands, including the official design of the New Zealand fern. Once again on a plane to Sydney, she entered chapter 3 of her career growing the business in the land of Oz with clients like Vodaphone, Diageo, KFC, Cancer Council and Westpac before moving client side to a full time role as group Creative Director of Westpac reporting to the Head of Brand and CEO.

The fourth chapter began in 2014 with a desire to find a new model that could work more incisively and effectively for clients than the traditional agency business model. Dick&Jane was conceived to cut through all the bullshit of companies pretending they have more people than they do and more capability than they actually have – to create a tiny, agile, high impact SWAT team to work directly with the heart of the businesses who want to truly find the gap in their category.