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  • Explore Fearlessly
  • Work Diligently
  • Execute Brilliantly

We believe people come before business, budgets and egos

Our approach is collaborative – we find the best solution to help grow your business, together. The best answer to a problem isn’t usually the first place you look. We are driven to rethink, reimagine and reinvent. We took the same approach when we decided our agency didn’t have to be the same as others we had worked at. We staff differently to provide you with the best talent for your business challenges. In the end it looks a lot less like an ad agency, and more like a better way to do business.

leadership

Aaron Stottlemyer

Founder
Creative Lead

Aaron Stottlemyer

Founder
Creative Lead

Aaron Stottlemyer

Founder
Creative Lead

Aaron takes a hands-on approach with his clients and believes that the more work you can do up-front the better the finished creative product will be. He combines his wealth of experience in a diverse range of industries with a design process that includes always putting pencil to paper before a single pixel is manipulated. He’s won local and national awards for his work while keeping a humble and approachable attitude. His past-life experience includes Best Buy, Nestle-Purina, Buffalo Wild Wings, National Rent-a-Car and Carnival Cruiseline.

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Michelle Thyen

Director of Business
& Brand Strategy

Michelle Thyen

Director of Business
& Brand Strategy

Michelle Thyen

Director of Business
& Brand Strategy

With over a decade building brands for a variety of companies, Michelle is a marketing professional with deep roots in communication planning. Developing brand strategy and crafting unique stories, she’s been able to successfully launch new B2B and B2C products both locally and internationally with multi-dimensional and award-winning campaigns. Before North Creative, her past experience included: Comcast Spotlight, Syngenta, Lenovo, Marshfield Children’s Hospital, DTN, Minnesota State Lottery, Red Wing Shoes and Rinehart Racing.

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the north talent pool

Our business model is all about efficiency and honing the best possible resources to cater specifically to your industry and scope of work. We select the best talent from our extensive network of artists and thinkers to work on your projects based on their skill set and relevant experience. Simply put, you only pay for what you need and get the expertise you deserve.