ABOUT...ME    



Raised in New Zealand. Have some tenuous french connections and grandparents who made tiny pastries for a living. Did the arts thing, perfected how to bluff my way through university, then fell in to strategy.

I worked at Colenso for four years; what some would call a rigorous strategic bootcamp. Or baptisim by fire. But it’s had huge pay-off – because Colenso tends to make great work, that works. [And it’s extremely fun.]

During my time there, I helped win pitches for Medibank, Fortescue and Delivereasy, and shaped strategies and campaigns for a whole host of epic clients, including Spark [New Zealand’s biggest telco] and Skinny [Spark’s little cousin].

“Augustine is proper-good and she will take any research/strategy/creative opportunity to a much bigger, much more interesting place. Really, you would be better off just hiring her. Because otherwise, I may just move country so I can hire her again.”
– Rob Campbell, Colenso BBDO, CSO


Work History

Freelance Senior Strategist
Current, based out of Paris

DEPT London
Freelance Senior Strategist (based out of Paris) | Initial 12 day contract that became 1 year...

Colenso BBDO
Strategist | 2.5 years
Strategic Researcher  | 1.5 years                                                           

ArtNow.co.nz
Website and Social Coordinator | 2.5 years                          

University of Auckland
Research Assistant – Summer Scholarship | 1 year               

Colenso BBDO
Account Management Internship | 3 months                                       

Education
University of Auckland Full Undergraduate Scholarship
Bachelor of Arts / First-Class Honours, Art History
Stockholm University Exchange