Co-Creation
Storytelling
Inclusive Creativity
The Facilitators
Truth & Spectacle was founded by Alex Mecklenburg and Ivan Pols. Together, they bring years of hands-on experience in storytelling, creative leadership, organisational coaching, and branding.
Alex Mecklenburg / Creative Coach
Alex is a Strategic Change and Culture Advisor who helps organisations turn strategy into action.
She works with leadership teams to ensure their strategy lands in the real world. Alex helps team to align people, culture, and day-to-day ways of working to create meaningful, lasting change. Her approach draws out what is already within teams, using storytelling and creative practices to build momentum and ownership.
She believes that in today’s environment, organisations can’t simply iterate on the past; They need to take bold leaps to find new answers to new problems, and to build the kinds of organisations the future demands.
Alex works as an advisor, certified coach, and speaker, helping leaders see culture and creativity not as “soft” ideas, but as business-critical capabilities for driving performance and change.
Alongside her organisational work, she partners one-to-one with founders, leaders, and changemakers to help them lead through moments of change with clarity and confidence.
Alex holds a Masters in Social Science and Organisational Psychology and brings 25 years of experience in the Creative Industries, including 15 years in executive and board-level roles.
She reconnects teams to the power of story and creativity to solve complex business challenges and to turn ambition into action collectively.
Ivan Pols / Creative Coach
Ivan is a creative director, designer and coach, who works with a team’s experience, expertise, ideas and ambitions, to create a story that is energising and motivating.
He is also the Chief Creative Officer of what3words where he leads on Brand Experience and has helped build a wonderful multinational, full service, in-house studio and marketing team.
He is a creative systems thinker; building the tools, tests, and workflows that help the team get the most out of AI — not just using it, but designing how to use it.
He was Global Creative Director at both Ogilvy and adam&eveDDB, for Dove, Unilever & Philips. His work in Canada for Diamond Shreddies ended up in advertising textbooks, business books, TED Talks, and spoof videos.
Ivan champions inclusive and in-house creativity. He writes, does talks, appears on podcasts, makes comments, and volunteers his time to this growing community.
His awards include Grand Prix, Golds & Silvers at D&AD, Cannes Lions, One Show, Clios, London International, and in almost every category including Integrated Campaign, Innovation, Product Design, Effectiveness, and Digital.
You can see his portfolio of works here.
The founders have been awarded for effectiveness & creativity across the world
Associates
Our Associates are experienced and passionate creative thinkers and makers. They work with us in a variety of ways to help our clients create remarkable ideas and deliver brilliant projects. They’re lovely people.
We’re always looking for creative thinkers and makers to help our clients speak more truth and create more spectacle. If that’s you, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Company Information
Truth & Spectacle Ltd is registered in England under company number 10403803.
Registered office: Sterling House, Fulbourne Rd, London, E17 4EE, United Kingdom
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”Truth & Spectacle”, “Embedded Creativity” and “Creative Truth” are registered trademarks.