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Novartis Eurovision 2025
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Jack Morton Global Brand Experiences
New Balance Integrated Marketing
myGlu Digital Health Platform
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Bain & Company Global Employer Brand

Executive storytelling for future talent

Executive storytelling for future talent

Three generations of Bain digital recruitment platforms

Three generations of Bain digital recruitment platforms

A fully responsive UX on the Episerver platform

A fully responsive UX on the Episerver platform

Campus recruiting, reimagined

Campus recruiting, reimagined

Communicating the creative strategy

Communicating the creative strategy

Bain recruiting brand experience, circa 2017

Bain recruiting brand experience, circa 2017

Bain recruiting brand experience, NYC

Bain recruiting brand experience, NYC

Bain recruiting brand experience, Boston

Bain recruiting brand experience, Boston

Introduction of interactive technology into events mid-2010s

Introduction of interactive technology into events mid-2010s

One global Bain experience

One global Bain experience

Filming across 15+ US and EMEA offices. Paris here.

Filming across 15+ US and EMEA offices. Paris here.

Evergreen recruitment storytelling for Bain Associate Consultants

Evergreen recruitment storytelling for Bain Associate Consultants

Evergreen recruitment storytelling for Bain Consultants

Evergreen recruitment storytelling for Bain Consultants

Summary

Led Bain’s global recruitment marketing infrastructure and brand experience, bridging the gap between corporate strategy and elite talent acquisition.

Tasked with modernising the recruitment marketing experience for MBA and Ivy League audiences across US and European markets, spanning digital platforms, content strategy and live experiences; migrating legacy assets into the core bain.com architecture while consolidating a fragmented global social media footprint.

The Sharp End

Hands-on Production & Migration: Personally produced and delivered high-fidelity graphic design and multimedia assets while leading the transition to Episerver, shaping creative direction, information architecture and page hierarchy directly within the CMS.

Conducted a comprehensive audit and consolidation of fragmented social media channels to create a more unified global brand presence.

Experiential Overhaul: Challenged the traditional “hotel ballroom lecture” model of MBA recruitment, replacing static presentation formats with more immersive, high-energy experiences at venues including Fenway Park for Harvard Business School and the Philadelphia Museum of Art for Wharton, alongside similarly reimagined programmes across leading universities in the US and Europe.

Reduced audience friction by cutting slide decks from 45 pages to 10, shifting emphasis towards dialogue, technology, location experience and human connection.

The Impact

Performance & Engagement: Delivered a 700% increase in digital engagement through UI/UX transformation and platform consolidation. Elevated recruitment marketing within the bain.com ecosystem, with MBA and Ivy League recruiting content accounting for 40% of overall site traffic.

Content & Leadership Visibility: Produced a library of authentic video content and a Q&A series with the Recruiting EVP, with the latter surpassing 1 million views; demonstrating that clarity and directness resonated more strongly with high-calibre candidates than traditional corporate messaging.

Global Scalability: Developed a modular framework of templates and storytelling components that enabled local markets to maintain global brand consistency while adapting to regional hiring needs. Helped shift recruitment marketing from a functional process into a more distinctive and premium candidate experience across the firm.

The Journal

Building a GenAI+ comms team

Building a GenAI+ comms team

As output explodes, judgement becomes the scarce resource.

What is Integrated Creative?

What is Integrated Creative?

What “integrated creative” really means through a fictional fashion brand.

AI will take your comms job if…

AI will take your comms job if…

The future of comms belongs to people with taste, curiosity and creative instinct.
From DNA to Do-Re-Mi

From DNA to Do-Re-Mi

How a musical conversation led to writing the Novartis' Eurovision tagline.

Becoming a Creative Director

Becoming a Creative Director

Not all creative directors come from design school.

The story behind this site

The story behind this site

How curiosity, side projects and a love of building things shaped my career.

Why sponsor the World Cup?

Why sponsor the World Cup?

Why do brands like Visa and Coca-Cola spend millions sponsoring the World Cup?

Creativity by committee

Creativity by committee

Why companies struggle with creativity and reward predictability over originality.

The collapse of the creative gap

The collapse of the creative gap

GenAI is collapsing the creative process from strategy to visualisation.

On running ten marathons

On running ten marathons

From my first for charity in NYC to an accidental Boston qualifier.

Gen X has been waiting for GenAI

Gen X has been waiting for GenAI

Gen X is better prepared than most for the age of GenAI in the workplace.

Agency or client side?

Agency or client side?

What agency and client-side roles each get right, get wrong, and rarely admit.
At Women’s EUROs in Basel

At Women’s EUROs in Basel

From the opening to England’s win, living the 2025 Women's EUROs in Basel.
You can't fake culture

You can't fake culture

The strongest cultures are built through leadership, not comms campaigns.

Relocating to Switzerland

Relocating to Switzerland

Moving to Basel in 2019 and finding belonging and community in Switzerland.

No brief. No RFP. Just an email.

No brief. No RFP. Just an email.

In 2007, BlackBerry was flying high. How one email turned into a flagship account.

The exhibit that burned

The exhibit that burned

A fire threatened to derail a major launch, the entire booth was rebuilt in 48 hours.

Relocating to the USA

Relocating to the USA

What happens when the dream of the US meets a more jaded reality.
Good ideas like company

Good ideas like company

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Martin Potter is a Basel-based Integrated Creative Leader bridging Strategic Communications, Brand Experience, Digital, UX, GenAI & Experiential Marketing with global experience spanning Bain & Company, Jack Morton Worldwide and Novartis. Copyright 2026