About Us
Chris Kelly
Co-Founder, TidySpeak
Strategist. Media Planner. Internet obsessive. Chris is a global communications strategist with over 15 years of experience helping some of the world’s most recognizable brands think more clearly and connect more meaningfully. Before founding TidySpeak, he led media and comms strategy for Apple, Xbox, Guinness, LEGO, adidas, and more — shaping how these brands showed up in the world, across channels, cultures and continents.
With a career that’s spanned London, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Chris has built a reputation for creating media and creative strategies that feel fresh, culturally relevant and impactful in driving marketing and business objectives — not just impressive in a deck. His sweet spot is the communications planning: where media meets messaging, where brand meets performance, and where people are making real decisions about what to buy, believe, or ignore.
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Chris founded TidySpeak to help ambitious teams cut through noise, sharpen their thinking, and build marketing that respects the people it’s speaking to. He believes the best marketing starts with cultural relevance, thrives on clarity, and only works when it’s shaped around how people actually live and communicate — not just how funnels look on slides.
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Phil Walden
Co-Founder, TidySpeak
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Phil Walden has spent the last 15 years elbows-deep in the chaos and craft of digital marketing — from running paid social for studios like A24 and Paramount, to building branded content campaigns for brands including Bose, Amazon, and General Motors. For Phil, every smart campaign starts with understanding your audience — how people think, scroll, skip, and engage, long before you say a single word.
He cut his teeth in the pressure-cooker world of movie marketing, where missing the moment wasn’t an option and bland creative got buried fast. That’s where he learned the power of precision: delivering the right message, to the right people, in the right place, at the right time. He’s carried that philosophy into every brief since — from influencer strategy to livestreams, branded content to IRL activations.
Phil helps teams bridge the gap between media and messaging in ways that not only drive performance, but earn attention — grounded in how audiences actually behave, not how you wish they did. The best campaigns, he believes, are part art, part science. Built with precision. Delivered with impact.
Now based in LA by way of the UK and Berlin, when he’s not obsessing over performance metrics or reworking pitch decks, he’s running, watching football, or quietly questioning Chris’s playlist choices.
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