Brand Strategist · Partnerships · Creative Director · Coach

Lozzi.

25 years building for the world's biggest brands. Now we build yours.

Laura 'Lozzi' Richardson

The Blueprint

From ideas to
execution — across
every channel
that exists.

Branding. Campaigns. Film. Interactive media. Blockchain. Live events at scale. Twenty-five years building brand and partnership engines from zero. For some of the most recognised names in culture and commerce, and from a cold start more times than most people change jobs.

Founder · The Sterling Society

Brand strategist, creative director, internationally accredited coach

Co-Author · Rebel Ma: Stories of Reclamation

Amazon bestseller · co-authored with 25 women on business, birth and everything in between

Co-Founder · wiip.co

A creative ideas and collaboration platform

Creative & Brand Partnerships Director · WONDERDOME

360° travelling cinematic dome · Soho House & Universal Music partnerships secured in 8 weeks

Director, Curation, Community, Marketing & Partnerships · Dropspot.io

Built creator community & brand partnerships for an NFT marketplace

Head of Marketing, Partnerships & Community · The Dots

Founding executive team · 13,000+ brand partners · masterclasses, events & keynote speaking

Fair Director · The Other Art Fair x Saatchi Art

130 artists · 10,000 visitors · $500K in sales — the fair's biggest edition to date

Earlier

  • D&AD, the world's most respected design and creative awards body, London
  • The Loop UK, London: a network helping creative professionals and brands promote their work, connect to commercial opportunities and monetise. This became The Dots, where I joined the founding executive team as second-in-command
  • Collider, design & interactive media for Ksubi, Mecca Cosmetica, Vivid Sydney, Biennale of Sydney
  • Frost*, certified B Corp studio, campaigns for Alice McCall, Sass & Bide, Seafolly, Sydney Dance Company
  • Started at fifteen, on reception, after dropping out of school, working my way up through agency accounts for brands like Adidas, Nike and Mont Blanc (and thousands more)

Receipts

I worked my way up —
breaking every ceiling
along the way.

I was fifteen. I'd just dropped out of school, and I started at reception. Every ceiling after that, I broke through, working all over the world with some of the most enviable brands there are, starting with agency accounts for names like Adidas, Nike and Mont Blanc. The work itself was never the hard part. Getting in the room was. That part, I'm good at.

Frost*, a certified B Corp design studio in Sydney, building campaigns for Alice McCall, Sass & Bide, Seafolly and Sydney Dance Company. Then Collider, directing design and interactive media across film, design and live events for Ksubi, Mecca Cosmetica, Vivid Sydney and the Biennale of Sydney, at a scale most people don't touch until much later in their careers.

London came next: The Loop, then D&AD, the world's most respected creative and design awards body (the Cannes equivalent for art direction), running the awards and curating the judging panels. The Loop itself was a network built to help creative professionals and brands promote their work, connect to commercial opportunities and monetise, and it became the foundation for what would later launch as The Dots. I was hired for exactly one thing: my black book, and my ability to build partnerships, curate, and grow a community from nothing.

Those relationships became the foundation for the next five years, as second-in-command on the founding executive team at The Dots, turning a cold list into signed partnerships with Net-a-Porter, Condé Nast, Universal Music, Spotify, Burberry, the BBC, Vice, Dazed, Tate and the Royal Academy, with equity on the table because the level of ownership was real.

I directed The Other Art Fair x Saatchi Art, launching its first Sydney edition from scratch and turning it into the fair's biggest yet. Later I built community and brand partnerships for an NFT marketplace from zero, bridging web2 creatives into web3 before most people in fashion knew what a wearable was. Then WONDERDOME, shaping brand strategy for a 360° travelling cinematic dome and opening doors with Soho House and Universal Music almost overnight.

Strategy won't break through the ceiling. Rewriting the belief that put it there will.

Every one of those rooms taught me the same thing from a different angle. The strategy was rarely what held people back. What I spent twenty-five years building for other people, I now build for the people ready to start their own thing, or take what they've already built global, through coaching and consulting. That's The Sterling Society.

The Sterling Society, today

Four ways
we work together.

01 · Coaching

1:1 & The Sterling Method™

My full attention. Industry experience, internationally accredited coaching, and a lifetime of hard-won wisdom and intuitive guidance. One-to-one, where the real shifts happen.

02 · Brand Strategy & Partnerships

Positioning & Curation

Brand and partnership relationships, applied directly to your business. Positioning, curation, and the introductions to back it, from cold list to signed deal.

03 · Live Events

The Dance Floor Starter's Club

Curated days hosted at some of the most exciting venues around, for founders, marketers and creatives ready to find the belief that's creating their ceiling. Inaugural cohort: 17 July, Blackbird Byron, with founders, marketers and creatives from Something Very Special, Mlak, Spell and Mukti, by invitation only.

04 · Community

The Sterling Society

A growing digital home for ambitious humans: Skool community and digital courses, with more being built out as we grow. (And more to be revealed.)

Rooms I've already been in

Net-a-Porter
Condé Nast
Google
WeTransfer
Soho House
Saatchi Art
Burberry
Spotify
Universal Music
Squarespace
BBC
Vice
Dazed
Sony Pictures
Warner Music
Pentagram
Wieden+Kennedy
AKQA
BBH
Tate
Royal Academy
UAL
Sydney Theatre Co.
Biennale of Sydney
Vivid Sydney
Scanlan Theodore
Alice McCall
Sass & Bide
Mecca Cosmetica
Ksubi
D&AD
The Dots
WONDERDOME
Nike
Adidas
Mont Blanc
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Ready to start
the dance floor?

Dance floor starters go first. Two ways to work with me right now.