Move the World with Words, Smartling’s book profiling a dozen of its translators around the world

Move the World with Words. The Smartling campaign that put its translators’ stories first.

Marketing, brand and communications leader

Story is strategy.

Find the story that moves people. Build the engine that grows the audience.

Still from Quill to QWERTY

Brand film · Smartling

Quill to QWERTY.

How translation evolved, and where Smartling takes it next.

The results.

$230M+Combined exit value across two exits
$36M+Annual pipeline sourced and influenced at Eptura
216%Year-over-year product-line growth from one campaign
3xMarketing pipeline at half the acquisition cost

On stage.

  • SaaStock
  • Reuters
  • Drift Hypergrowth
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloudcast
The New Orleans Official City Store

Spears Group

Follow Your NOLA.

The award-winning tourism campaign that drove a record $7.05B in visitor spending.

Volunteers in front of a home rebuilt with SBP

SBP

10,000 volunteers a year.

Rebuilding New Orleans after Katrina.

In their words

“Adrian reminds me that business is still about people, and software is about the customers it serves.”

Frederick Kraus, VP of Product at Eptura

Adrian with the Rollins students who made This Is My Rollins College T-Shirt

Documentary · Rollins College

Sweatshop labor

A student-led documentary screened at Cannes that created lasting change.

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