Andrea P.

Cool Eye Creative

☀️ Clients: Untapped Investing (M&A Ventures Group), Juice Picture Studios, New Money Social Club, Resume By Nico, CARV Projects Interior Design

Cool Eye does branding design for community-first brands in:

☀️ Fintech
☀️ Femtech
☀️ Fashion
☀️ Arts & Culture
☀️ Real Estate
☀️ Lifestyle

Tools:
📱 Illustrator
📱 InDesign
📱 Photoshop
📱 Framer
📱 Figma
📱 ConvertKit
📱 Notion
📱 Procreate
📱 Squarespace
📱 Instagram
📱 TikTok
📱 LinkedIn

Say “Cool Eye” out loud and it sounds like “Kulay” — the Filipino word for “colour.”  Our studio is named Cool Eye because we dream and design in colour.

Brand Designer • Creative Lead • Founder

ANDREA PASCUAL

ANDREA PASCUAL is a unisex fashion brand headquartered in Toronto, Canada. We tell stories from a multicultural lens that values diversity, disruption, and collaboration. Welcome to our world.

Press:
☀️ InStyle for The Independent Handbag Designer Awards
☀️ FASHION Magazine
☀️ Flare Magazine

Tools:
📱 Illustrator
📱 Photoshop
📱 InDesign
📱 Lightroom
📱 Klaviyo
📱 Notion
📱 Procreate
📱 Shopify
📱 Instagram
📱 TikTok

Creative Director • Founder

Sushi Fridays The Podcast

Sushi Fridays features real-talk convos from a creative entrepreneur's POV about biz, life, fashion, art, design, and culture. Through weekly solo episodes and interviews, we share the stories, struggles, lessons, inspiration, and experiences of underrepresented creatives and entrepreneurs.

I produce, write, record, edit, and market Sushi Fridays. 

Tools:
📱 Riverside
📱 Descript
📱 CapCut
📱 Audacity
📱 Instagram
📱 Illustrator
📱 Procreate

Creator • Producer • Writer • Host

Twill

Helping my friends, network, and community get fast-tracked to their next role.

Twill Member

The Forum

Sharing my creative entrepreneurial knowledge on:

☀️ Strategic brand design and process
☀️ Personal branding and solopreneurship
☀️ Leather goods design and production
☀️ How to start and operate a creative service business

Mentor

Betty

Pushing the brand forward with creative concept and  strategic design.

Brand Designer

Brand Baby (fka Women in Brand Strategy & Brand Design)

I grew a community of women service providers in brand strategy & brand design to 8,200 members.

I empowered members by creating a rate transparency sheet, encouraged members to connect by creating a group directory, and inspired members to learn by sharing knowledge and encouraging mentorships.

📱 Skool Communities
📱 Illustrator
📱 InDesign
📱 Photoshop

Community Manager • Owner

Strategic Brand Designer | Fashion Brand Owner + Creative Director | Podcaster

I spend my days as the brand designer at a startup where I conceptualize ideas and create designs that push the brand forward.

After hours:

🍏 I'm building Andrea Pascual (my fashion brand), where I focus on limited-quantity, superb quality accessories and leather goods

🍏 I'm creator and host of my podcast, Sushi Fridays, where I share stories about style, culture, biz, and design from the POV of creative entrepreneurs

🍏 I work with community-first brands to design their strategic visual identities

Send me a message to get in touch.

Founder & Strategic Brand Designer

Say “Cool Eye” out loud and it sounds like “Kulay” — the Filipino word for “colour.”  Our studio is named Cool Eye because we dream in colour, we design in colour, and we work with diverse entrepreneurs.

Notable clients:
☀️ Bank of Montreal for Elevate Festival
☀️ M&A Ventures Group
☀️ Untapped Investing
☀️ New Money Social Club
☀️ Resume By Nico

Tools:
📱 Illustrator
📱 Photoshop
📱 InDesign
📱 Lightroom
📱 Figma
📱 ConvertKit
📱 Notion
📱 Procreate
📱 Squarespace
📱 Instagram
📱 TikTok
📱 LinkedIn

I’m a designer who spent countless hours using MidJourney to generate imagery in 2025.

It was the way things were done where I was. I’m not proud of the process, but I did learn a lot.

My thoughts:

🚫 You’ll never be 100% happy with the outcome. That’s because you can’t fully control it. The results are always a compromise of what you really want.
 
🚫 MidJourney doesn’t necessarily make the creative process faster. You’ll keep prompting for the changes you want (i.e. darker hair, warmer sunlight, make the object on a 45-degree angle, etc.), and the constant prompting takes time. Not sure if all the time it takes to prompt to get a meh outcome is worth it. 

🚫 Don’t get me started on people imagery.

🚫 Make the creative process make sense! If the AI-generated creative is pushed through million-dollar performance and out-of-home budgets, but the work can be 100000% better/richer/deeper with a stacked and skilled creative team instead…what is the point of using AI???!!!

🚫 The ethical implications and environmental impact still exist. I'll save that for another convo.

Designers, does AI exist in your visual/creative process? Hit me up with your thoughts below. 👇

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Postscript, hours after I wrote this post:
I thought about it a lot more, and I understand and can get behind AI as a tool for concept and ideation. I can't, however, be happy and content with its direct outputs as final creative, especially when I know the generated imagery is just "good enough" and not what I intended the finished creative to be. I guess it also depends on what the creative is for, how "big" the project is, what the budget and team looks like, and how the creative will be used...still a lot for me to think about...

Andrea Pascual

Brand Designer, Cool Eye ⭐️ Owner & Creative Director, Andrea Pascual Fashion Brand ⭐️ Creator & Host, Sushi Fridays The Podcast

It's 2026 and I'm re-aligning my network and community.

This year, I want to especially connect with:

🌟 Women creative entrepreneurs ages 35+ who are specifically transitioning out of their 9-5s to build their own empires

🌟 Canadian fashion designers and business owners who can speak to community, marketing, money, and supply chain

🌟 Creative entrepreneurs/storytellers building their own communities and indie media brands

🌟 Women investors working towards their FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) goals

🌟 Luxury hospitality brands whose focus is sustainability, community, and guest experience

🙂 Connect with me if this is you.

By the end of 2026, I will have:

✅  Re-launched Sushi Fridays The Podcast
✅  Secured a retail partner for ANDREA PASCUAL
✅  Hosted a creative salon (or better yet, a retreat) led by Cool Eye Creative
✅ Launched the projects I cannot yet talk about 

😜 Just leaving this here so I can screenshot it now and share it in 365 days. 

Happy new year, LinkedIn friends. Let's get it!

I joined a panel convo with Shivani Persad 👩🏽‍💻 and Dominic Ayre RGD (he/him) a couple months back in Daniel Francavilla’s Future Brand Perspectives class at GBC.

Daniel does a great job of introducing various industry friends (and their perspectives) to his students. It makes me happy to know I've shared knowledge with those students who were me many years ago. 😊

I learned a lot from both Shivani and Dominic, and it furthers my stance that there's a need for industry discussions with creative friends of all niches (fashion, design, art, etc.) in Toronto. It would help fill gaps and strengthen our community.

I appreciate being a part of these group discussions, wherever they're held. (Thanks for the invite, Daniel!)

I can't wait to be more present for myself and my creative community in this way in the new year.

My biggest achievement in 2025 was dodging burnout.

YAY, me.

It was hard for me to recognize it at first, because corporate job or not, I've forever been building in alpha overdrive.

But not like this. 

My own projects, brands, and lifestyle slipped away in place of corp work that took over my outside time, mind, and health.

Not worth it. Especially when I've already poured years into my after-work goals, and health and clarity are my non-negotiables.

The burnout cord has been cut, and I'm already more present and aligned as I dance into 2026. 🌟😁

mariellelegair.com

My mission is to empower and develop women and diverse talent at all stages in their career through personal branding keynotes, training workshops and webinars. 

Recent clients including: bp, Diageo, Ernst and Young, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Red Bull and Yale University hire me to deliver transformative talks and workshops. 

I’ve developed The Professional Presence Framework, a five-stage methodology to help women and diverse talent of all backgrounds excel in the workplace. It's a combination of building an intrapreneurial mindset, executive presence and sponsor relationships. These are learned skills that can be developed and improved with practice and support.

Services Include:

➡️ 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀: Interactive reflection-based talk for employees to boost engagement, productivity and visibility.  
➡️ 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝘀:  In-depth interactive training session to apply The Framework. Audience engagement and participation throughout. 

➡️ 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘁𝗵𝗲-𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿: Scale the training program throughout your company as you improve career development and capabilities. 

𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲: www.mariellelegair.com

Personal Branding Keynote Speaker and Trainer | Corporate and 1:1 Trainer

LinkedIn

During my personal branding courses, you'll discover how to identify and communicate your strengths so that you can leverage them to have a lasting impact at work.

LinkedIn Learning Instructor: Use Your Strengths for Impact & Influence + Refresh Your Social Skills

Red Bull

I mentored four women over 18 months by providing professional and personal development support on key areas including mindset, networking, LinkedIn strategy and publicity.

Personal Branding Mentor 

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL)

Developed and implemented global communication plans and media messaging for the CEO, senior global leadership team and key business areas (Diversity and Inclusion, Financial Services, Consulting, Consumer Business and Technology); advised executives and Deloitte local offices around the world on brand messaging to ensure consistency. 

▶︎ KEY RESULTS: Led the creation and roll out of global research campaigns to promote awareness among clients and key stakeholders such as the annual Millennial Survey and Corporate Governance Women on Boards report;
- Provided executive visibility counsel to Deloitte Global CEO and senior leadership for strategic partnerships such as the World Economic Forum program, which generated 20 media interviews  leading to relationships and coverage in top-tier international press including: Forbes, Reuters, Fortune, Quartz and Bloomberg;
- Proactive and reactive media relations, including devising outreach strategies for Deloitte firms globally, media pitching, handling press inquiries, hosting interviews, prepping senior spokespeople, social media content development and campaign result reporting; 
- Managed all vendor relationships including agency and media distribution services.

Global CEO Communications | Global Public Relations Manager | Diversity PR Lead 

Managed the PR activity for the corporate finance team in Deloitte’s London office; teams included: M&A Advisory, Restructuring Services, Transaction Services (M&A) and Forensic and Dispute Services. 

▶︎ KEY RESULTS: Developed and implemented PR plans in line with the firm’s objectives;
- Drafted and issued proactive and reactive press commentary on matters affecting the corporate finance teams’ clients; 
- Managed and developed crisis communications as the firm’s media spokesperson on all bankruptcy appointments; worked with senior partners to develop key messages and brief the media on sensitive issues such as job losses and company closures;
- Sourced new opportunities for the corporate finance team to engage the national, broadcast and trade media.

Corporate Finance and Private Equity PR Manager | Media Spokesperson | Crisis Communications 

ColorComm, LLC

In three years, ColorComm has become the leading network for mid to senior level women in communications. Each year we host the popular C2 Miami conference, where the industry’s top practitioners and thought leaders convene to address key issues and predict future trends. Arianna Huffington is the 2016 C2 Miami keynote speaker and the highly acclaimed author, feminist and activist, Gloria Steinem gave the 2015 key note.

- Led the media and digital outreach to members and a network of over 30,000 followers and influencers. A key part of the role included developing relationships with national media and proactively pitching earned media stories to top tier outlets. 
- More about ColorComm: ColorCommNetwork.com and ColorCommConference.com.

Communications Director | Media Expert | Publicist and Personal Brand Strategist 

Experian Marketing Services

PR Manager | Media Expert | Publicist and Personal Brand Strategist | PR Consultant 

Grant Thornton LLP

PR Executive | Media Expert | Publicist and Personal Brand Strategist | PR Consultant 

GolinHarris

Account Executive

🌍 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗘: As a global Keynote Speaker, LinkedIn Top Voice, and certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Coach, I specialise in personal branding and leadership development, partnering with organisations like Amazon, bp, BNP Paribas, Diageo, LinkedIn, and Novartis Japan to enhance talent engagement and retention. 

My workshops utilise powerful NLP techniques to fundamentally transform thought and behavioural patterns, ensuring strategies for raising visibility and overcoming workplace challenges. I'm dedicated to addressing the high attrition rates, especially for women and diverse talent by equipping them with the strategies to thrive.

🎟 𝗬𝗢𝗨: I work 1:1 with entrepreneurs and thought leaders to create a bespoke LinkedIn personal branding strategy to attract clients, speaking gigs, or publicity. Download my free checklist here: https://www.mariellelegair.com/checklist

𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗘𝗦:
1. Use Your Strengths for Impact and Influence at Work: https://bit.ly/49qaUGe 
2. Refresh Your Workplace Social Skills Online: https://bit.ly/3SOwoHF

𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗: I led brand reputation and publicity campaigns for CEOs and senior leaders for over a decade at global companies, including Deloitte Global in New York, Deloitte UK, Grant Thornton, and Experian. My work was regularly featured in media such as Forbes, FT, Reuters, BBC, and Bloomberg. 

𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗣 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗗𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞:
⭐️ “Marielle you are a unicorn. I learned so much and was mesmerised by the way you delivered your workshop. I’m most definitely  going to use your tips!” LinkedIn, Workshop Attendee.

⭐️ "Amazing personal branding workshop. Thank you once again for sharing your time and knowledge with us; your insightful remarks and engaging presentation style truly captivated the entire audience. The practical tips you shared will undoubtedly prove useful in my own professional and personal life!" Macquarie, Workshop Attendee.

⭐️ “Marielle brings wisdom and empathy to her work, connecting deeply with the challenges facing women. Her guidance is both inspirational and practical, helping her mentees build their self-belief whilst equipping them with actionable tools to build their brands,” - Ian C, Red Bull, Global Leader.

🏆 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦: Workshop Facilitator | Keynote Speaker | Storytelling | NLP and Hypnotherapy Coach | Executive Presence | LinkedIn Strategy. 

📩 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗖𝗧: Send me a DM here on LinkedIn for info on my corporate workshops or 1:1 work.

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