Design Declares Australia

Chairperson

RENY®

We are in the business of creative exploration, pioneering transformation for organisations & brands focused on designing better outcomes for humanity.

Co-Founder / Managing Partner

Co-Founder / Design Director

Surfrider Foundation Australia

Advisory Board Member

Chumpy Pullin Foundation

Member Board of Directors

Skin Check Champions

Advisory Board

ELECTRIC ⚡️

Partner

Eon Labs

Mr Simple - Sidelife

mwah. making work absolutely human

Luxottica Group

General Manager Wholesale

Oakley Asia Pacific

General Manager - Arnette Sunglasses ANZ

Sales Director

CEO / Partner @ RENY®Studio | B Corp

As a co-founder and managing partner at Reny ®, I have the amazing opportunity to help transform companies through Orbital Design (picking up where Human-Centred Design left off, giving Mother Nature a seat at the design table, leading to social and climate impact). 

I am an award-winning writer for my publication Uncluttered White Spaces (2009-16), and my new book, Lessons in Creativity, will be available in all good bookstores from May 2025 through Wiley Publishing.

As a certified B Corp, we design creative solutions, products, and brands that impact the community, climate, and humanities.

I have experience working with driven leaders, obsessive designers, genius engineers, demanding CEOs, ambitious CMOs, hard-driving founders, eager investors, observant writers, precise technologists, insightful artists, visionary directors, gifted misfits, hopeful students and passionate up-and-comers.

Client/Project experience: Patagonia, Google, K-Mart, Canon, Nike, Adidas, American Apparel, Dolce & Gabbana, Ray-Ban, Chanel, Prada, City of Sydney, City of Melbourne, Tourism Australia, Cancer Council, Heart Foundation, Mr Simple, Herschel, ProBuild, Stone Island, CP Company, Boxfresh, Giro, Oakley, Electric, Luxottica, Bank of SA, Westpac Bank, St George Bank, Australia Post, Land Rover, Boody, Re-Design, Vandal, Warner, Carryology, IMG.

I have advised senior executives and boards and worked with some of the world's most important brands. I currently serve as Chair for Design Declares, the advisory board for the Surfrider Foundation, and I was the founding board member for The Chumpy Pullin Foundation. 

My insights and writing have been featured in Fast Company, ABC, Inc. Magazine, and other prominent publications, earning me recognition as an awarded writer. My new book, Lessons in Creativity, will be available in May 2025.

I frequently speak on the value of Orbital Design (For Impact), creativity, and technology through platforms like TEDx and Vivid Sydney. I was also invited to speak at Parliament House with the Prime Minister and government officials on the role of creativity and design in shifting our future.

Ben Rennie

Michele’s clarity and interpretations of our thinking has certainly helped me reform my own clarity on our talk. I love how Michele broke this down in the best possible way. I will be printing this off and putting it on my wall as a reference.

I always try to remind people when I am presenting on a stage to an audience, I am not there as a success story (quite the opposite actually), I am there to remind them how hard it is, that it’s always hard and that getting comfortable with the idea of hard is where we find our creativity, in the space where fear and curiosity exist together.

Thanks Michele. Love this.

Founder at Reny® | Chair at Design Declares AUS | Author of Lessons in Creativity |

Creative Technologist • Entrepreneur • Science Communicator • Host and producer of STEAM Powered and NepoPod

My notes from How to Kick the Shit Out of Plan B with Ben Rennie and Miff Rennie at SXSW Sydney. Great perspectives on their personal journeys when Plan A goes out the window.

Some similarities here with Maggie Jackson's session on uncertainty, my notes here: https://lnkd.in/dZD3nSJ4

It also reminded me of Tim Minchin's "Play It Safe" created for the Sydney Opera House 50th Anniversary, check it out: https://lnkd.in/dpjTyBRc which he spoke about in his panel with Suzie Miller, Josh Niland, and Jonathan Kneebone at SXSW Sydney last year (brilliant session).

#sxswsydney2025

How to Kick the Shit Out of Plan B

Sponge

I'm passionate about helping truly good businesses do more good. I'm a brand storyteller and strategist for businesses with a desire for positive social and/or environmental impact, as well as creating a healthy profit.

My team of awesomely talented people and I can help you realign your brand to connect with your market. And help you discover your compelling impact brand story to create raving fans for your business. Because raving fans mean increased and easier sales, higher profits and healthier bottom line. And of course, greater positive impact.

As a rebranding specialist I help seasoned businesses that have grown misaligned with their market. I also help fresh new businesses with funding and a good idea. All businesses need an authentic brand story that resonates with their best buyers. Ultimately a person always makes the purchase decision. And stories are what connect us.

Defining a brand story is near impossible to do from the inside for most businesses. Often it’s because of what we know about our business and industry, we presume others do. 

This is where an expert consultant can create clarity. I work with you to realign your brand so it is relevant for your market, today.

If you feel your brand is being misconceived or misunderstood you are not alone. It could be misaligned for many reasons, and as a result not telling a story that resonates. And losing you sales!

That’s why we’re here. 

Interested in a free consultation? Connect with me here on LinkedIn right now and lets start a conversation.

Brand Storyteller & Chief Do-Gooder

GoodNorth

There are thousands of conscious people living and working in the region broadly spanning Byron Bay to Bundaberg and Beyond. People who run or work for organisations that make decisions considering more than just profits. People who are dreaming up ways they can put their own spin on solving the challenges around us.

These amazing individuals are doing good in isolation, unconnected, and continuously reinventing the wheel. Struggling alone, unnecessarily, in the good fight. We want to change all that.

To foster this tribe we put on events. Our goal is at least one gathering in each city up and down the coast. Byron Bay, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Bundaberg.

But now with COVID our online events have become borderless! 

When we come together we can share ideas, be inspired and help each other grow. Leverage the power of the collective consciousness. And be energised by each other. Your tribe.

Join us on the journey. Join your tribe.

Co-Founder

SureSlim

I joined the SureSlim team as an equity owner, and in the role of CEO in early 2010. My goal was to shift the company from a brick and mortar consulting model to complete online delivery to service all of Australia. Over the years my team helped transform the lives of thousands of Australians by teaching them about nutrition. The company changed hands in 2015.

Thrive Happiness Movement

Still current however LinkedIn requires it not to be for Inmail purposes.

We believe you get more of what you give out and that everyone can be happier. 

We are aiming high, 100,000,000 happier people across the world, and we can only do it with your help. Help us spread smiles and happiness by becoming a Thrive ambassador. All you need to do is like and share our Facebook page and invite everyone you know to do the same.
It's easy - Like and Share. :)
https://www.facebook.com/ThriveBeHappy

The Thrive Happiness Movement was formed out of a belief that inside every human being is the potential to create happiness in our own lives. As a natural side effect the happiness we choose for ourselves will inspire others to choose the same and on and on it will go, ultimately changing our world.

Thrive exists because of all the cool companies who contribute their time to making it happen.
They are (in no particular order):
ThinkSocial for the social media help
The Sponge for the awesome branding and continuing design work
AlphaCode for the programming and soon to be released "happiness challenge app"
Tribe Social Fitness one of our founding contributors who helped guide the initial direction

Of course, a happiness movement is not a happiness movement without you. So we would love you to contribute and make it infectious!

Our goal is 100,000,000 happier peeps across the globe so we need your help!
Like our Facebook page and share, share, share!
https://www.facebook.com/ThriveBeHappy

http://Www.ThriveHappinessMovement.org

Co-founder and Chief Happiness Instigator

ThinkSocial

www.ThinkSocial.com.au

Still current however LinkedIn Inmail requires this to be marked as not current.

Q. Why do you need ThinkSocial as your expert Social Media Marketing team.

A. Simple. We create a whole lot of awesomeness for your existing clients, and we generate a continuous stream of new business leads!

Our products are designed to take care of everything for you with as minimal work from you and your team as possible, freeing you up to focus on what you do best, while we do what we do best, which is make you look good and generate leads through your hot social media presence. 

You get all the rewards from an expert team, without the HR headache!

Go on, it's time to ThinkSocial!

Chief ThinkSocialiser - Creating Effective Business Social Media Strategies

VitaManGlobal

Exquisite, Premium Men's Grooming Products. For men with confidence and taste. 

VitaMan has, over the past few years, been chosen as the ‘exclusive supplier of male grooming products’ inside the guest VIP & Celebrity Gift Bags for the US TV Emmy Awards, US Film Academy Awards, The Grammy’s and the 2011 Oscar Awards. Below are some of our proud achievements:

Voted ‘Best Men’s Shaving Products' and ‘Best New Deodorants’ by GQ Men’s Magazine Feb 2011

Winner of ‘Best Male Spa Brand’ & ‘Best Male Spa Treatment’- AsiaSpa Magazine Spa Awards Nov 2011

Best Selling Men’s Brand in the famous Barneys New York Department Store in New York City.

Voted the “Best of the Best” product sold in TSUM, Russia’s top Department store in Moscow.

Best Selling ‘International’ Men’s Brand” for the 6th year in a row in the famous Galleries Lafayette Department Store, Paris.

Chosen as the exclusive “Male Spa Partner” for Hilton Hotels worldwide whereby VitaMan created 7 new innovative spa treatments for their new global spa concept – eforea: the spa at Hilton’s Men’s Journey.

Order online now at http://www.VitaManGlobal.com

Marketing Director

I'm Luke. I run an untypical branding agency called Sponge. We help purpose ready business owners with teams of 5-50, turn their brands into magnets for A-Player talent and Dream Clients. They come for a rebrand or refresh, but what they get is much more impactful!

You'll come to know I am passionate about purpose. And we’re proudly a B Corp. 

Purpose to me means focusing on positive social and environmental impact, as well as healthy profit. I am all about purpose and helping good people (all over the world - virtually) live their purpose through their brand. Authentically marketing with meaning is more important now than ever!

Sponge became a Certified B Corp in 2017. We're a purpose centred branding agency with a digital tilt. Our purpose is to help all brands be good for the world.

Many good businesses today are struggling to attract good people. It doesn't have to be this way. 

Our method will help you become an ElectroMagnetic Brand - one that effortlessly attracts good people who stick for good.

We have a range ways you can work with us - ask me how.

I'm always looking for aligned, talented and inspiring people to collaborate with, partner with, or join our team.

I'm also Co-Founder of GoodNorth, created to connect awesome people who are united by an interest in using business for good. https://GoodNorth.co

If what I do resonates for you and you want to chat, I invite you to connect with me and start a conversation. We can have a quick zoom and explore the range of online options we have to help. 
Easiest way is here via message, or https://thesponge.com.au 

Now, I look forward to getting to know a bit about you, so say hello :)
Warmly, Luke

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