Mike Stevenson

Managing Director

Mike brings a virtually unique skills set to market – inspirational speaking, persuasive writing, people engagement, strategic thinking and abundant creativity. His strength, engaging and inspiring people of all ages and from all sectors and disciplines to create and drive a shared vision – there are fewer better at this in the UK.

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Paula Allan

Head of Creative and Production

One of Scotland's most experienced creative talents with an intuitive sense of design, and an infinite capacity for sheer hard work. Paula has worked with almost every one of our clients – winning in the process six prizes at the Scottish Communications in Business awards for her work with Standard Life, BskyB, the Scottish Prison Service and East Lothian Council. For 17 years Paula was a key member of the Design Links team and a major part of the agency's success. There are few better at bringing ideas to life and using design as a powerfully persuasive tool.

Paula is never satisfied with anything less than the best and won't put her coat on until the client says "I love it." She will take our clients through from initial concept to final delivery.

Laura Laidlaw

Financial Control

Experienced and ferociously talented Laura keeps our finances in balance and our cash flow healthy – so important for our security and for our client's peace of mind. Her approach is to get to know our clients, ensure our invoices accurately reflect and clarify our work and charges. She also ensures that we retain Thinktastic's ethos of invoicing only what we estimate – unless there are agreed material changes made to the brief.

Like every member of the Thinktastic team Laura is committed to building a relationship with our clients based on trust, integrity, professionalism and good humour.

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Chris Glen

PR Specialist

One of Scotland's best-connected PR specialists, Chris has a welter of experience - from the electricity supply industry to the third sector. A shrewd operator, Chris is also a strategist whose work is informed by the big issues facing an organisation. A great communicator in all media, Chris believes in the power of great PR to drive performance by lifting an organisation, both internally and externally. He focuses on building reputation and brand, not on those superficial issues that so often distract businesses from their real objectives.

Having held senior management posts at board level, Chris offers our clients a real depth of experience as well as formidable communication skills. Passionate about involving people, his approach always takes account of the views of others. He combines a steely determination to see things through with tact and diplomacy. He is a much accomplished writer who gets to the heart of an organisation's key messages and gets them across to all audiences.