WHO IS THIS GUY?

Dan Viens
THE CURIOSITY OF A JOURNALIST THE CREATIVITY OF A W+K CD THE CALM OF A RINGLEADER

I make impossible things feel possible.

I've spent my career in rooms with people trying to do something that's never been done. In those rooms plans change. Opportunities reveal themselves. What you do next is everything. I bring endless optimism and belief.

I stay calm in the tornado. I've been in a lot of tornadoes.

I STARTED IN A NEWSROOM. YOUNGEST PERSON IN THE BUILDING, HELPING VETERAN JOURNALISTS FIGURE OUT THE INTERNET. LEFT WITH AN EMMY.
Dan at 9News

THEN I SPENT 15 YEARS AT WIEDEN+KENNEDY IN A CAREER PATH NO ONE HAD EVER TAKEN.

Digital Strategist › Creative › Interactive Creative Director › CD of Creative Tech group The Lodge › Creative Director › Bodega Head of Creative

Dan Viens at W+K
15 YEARS OF THE MOST FUN YOU CAN HAVE AT WORK.
I organized the Portland Harlem Shake (10 million views, Today Show the next morning).
Harlem Shake Portland Edition
Got Kobe Bryant tweeting. The live event became the highest-rated archival broadcast in NBA TV history.
Kobe Bryant tweet
Made Dan Wieden stop and ask “How the hell are you doing this?”
Dan Wieden
Helped take DoorDash from food delivery app to whole life assistant at the Super Bowl.
DoorDash Super Bowl
Won W+K’s first Dan Wieden Titanium Grand Prix at Cannes.
Cannes Lions Titanium Grand Prix
Challenged Jimmy Fallon to a race at a Nike SXSW panel. Trounced him.
Racing Jimmy Fallon at SXSW
Directed a nature documentary about Portland’s Chapman Swifts. It has an IMDB page.
On The Wing documentary
Hired a prolific next generation of creatives who see the world entirely different from me.

RIGHT NOW

Now I'm independent. Same curiosity, way more flexibility. I work with brands and founders trying to do something they haven't done before. If you're working on something ambitious. A little terrified, very optimistic. That's exactly the room I want to be in.

THE HARDWARE

CANNES LIONS Including W+K's 1st Dan Wieden Titanium Grand Prix (DoorDash)
ONE SHOW PENCILS
CLIOS
WEBBYS
EMMY
MR. HUSTLE AWARD UMass Baseball Camp, 1993 ;)

THAT'S THE SHORT VERSION. THE LONG VERSION INVOLVES A WHITEBOARD AND PROBABLY COFFEE.

LET'S TALK.