About me

A creative mischief-maker with a global mindset and a genuine passion for disrupting the expected. I've led teams, inspired bold thinking, and built standout campaigns across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the US, guiding world-class brands from big ideas to beautiful execution.

From luxury and lifestyle to sport, travel, and tech, I've helped brands earn the right to be in people's lives. Work that connects across every platform and format, with emotion and meaning at its core.

I believe in fearless creativity, strategic clarity, and leading with both vision and heart. Whether redefining brand tone, mentoring rising talent, or turning 'what if

Much of my career has been spent setting and defending creative standards, and finding the right words for brands that needed to mean something. I created one of the most successful and controversial drink-drive campaigns in recent memory. Wrote a global manifesto that reignited a dormant British sports car icon for a new breed of driver. Repositioned Etihad Airways around a promise, not just a tagline. Led a counter-extremism campaign for the Home Office that reached three million people without a penny of paid media. Generated £42 million from a B2B campaign built on a single human truth. And told the story of the world's tallest building, making it stand for something far greater than a footnote in the Guinness World Records.

I've built frameworks that outlasted the campaigns and led teams of up to 30 creatives under a single philosophy: the restless pursuit of better. Not perfection for its own sake, but a refusal to settle for good enough when something far greater is within reach.

I lead with honesty, invest in the people around me, and work to create environments where the right mix of talent, experience, and inspired thinking produces work that genuinely matters.

Skills

Art Direction, B2B, Brand Building & Campaign Craft, Branding, Copywriting, Creative Direction, Creative leadership, creative strategy, Digital Marketing, Mentoring & Talent Growth

Sector Experience

Airline, Automotive, Banking, Branding, Charity / Not for profit, Defense, Finance, FMCG, Government, Healthcare, luxury goods, ngo, Pharmaceutical, Real Estate / Property, Social Change, tourism, Transport, Travel & Leisure

Awards

Art Directors Club, British Arrows, Campaign Big Award, cannes lion, Creative Review, Design Week, dubai lynx, graphis, LIA, Serbian Festival of Creativity and Communication

Clients

ADCB, Airbus, Al Hilal Bank, Alberta Culver, Arla, Austar Television, Bachelor, bayer, BBC, British American Tobacco, British Midland, Burger King, Burj Khalifer, Cadbury, Citroen, COI, Continental Airlines, Coop, Cosmos Holidays, Daily/Sunday Telegraph, Danone, Department for Education, Department for Employment, Department of Transport, Elida Faberge, EPA, Etihad Aitlines, Flybe, FlyDubai, Greater London Authority, Grove Fresh, Hasbro Toys, Home Office, Hovis, HSBC, IKEA, Jersey Tourist Board, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, Lotus Cars, Mars, Mcdonalds, Meat & Livestock Commission, Microsoft, Monitor Audio, Mont Blanc, Natwest, Nestlé, Nike, NSPCC, Ondigital, P&G, Peugeot, Philips, Rover Cars, Santander, Sharp Electronics, St. George Bank, Sunseeker, Tesco, Tetley, Thorntons, TSB, UK Gov - Home Office, Unilever, Vauxhall cars

Ranking
#2 Ranked Copywriter
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Availability
Looking for work
Achievements
Annual 2025 GoldHear it the way they didThe Cutting Room Floor Annual 2023 Shortlist‘Error’ & 'Wheel'The Cutting Room Floor
Top 25 Copywriter Project featured:Educate Against Hate
on 28th February 2017
Project featured:Hello Beautiful
on 10th March 2017
Project featured:Finding tomorrow's storytellers
on 24th April 2017
Project featured:Who's in your head?
on 26th April 2017
Project featured:Run before
on 2nd May 2017
Project featured:Football for Peace
on 5th May 2017
Project featured:A Living Wonder
on 31st May 2017
Project featured:Evija
on 23rd April 2021
Project featured:OPUS
on 5th May 2021
Project featured:Run 5am
on 4th June 2021
Project featured:How the world makes payments
on 12th June 2021
Project featured:Emira
on 9th August 2021
Project featured:‘Error’ & 'Wheel'
on 22nd August 2023
Project featured:DARE
on 12th February 2024
Project featured:More
on 16th April 2024
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Neil Williams has been a Contributor since 3rd July 2023.

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Perm, Freelance, Remote
Location
London, United Kingdom
Skill Level
Senior, Director
Languages
English
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