Nice to meet you, I'm Gal. The studio is named after me.
(I know. Very original.)
I finished design school about five years ago and did what most new designers do: everything. Websites, branding, marketing, complex systems. Good projects, good clients, and a quiet feeling that I was still looking for my thing.
Almost two years ago I noticed what it was. The projects I couldn't stop thinking about were always presentations. Not because of the slides, because of what stood behind them: a person about to walk into a room where something real was at stake. A funding round. A deal. A decision. And before any design could help, someone had to sit with them and ask: what are you actually trying to say here?
So I stopped doing everything else and became that someone.
These days, most of my work happens before PowerPoint opens. I ask questions - what's the goal of this meeting? what does "yes" look like? who's actually in the room? and then I listen. Really listen. Most people discover their strongest story while answering. It was theirs all along. My job is to hear it, put it in the right order, and only then design the deck that carries it.
If you have a meeting coming up that matters, tell me about it. Fair warning: I'll answer with a question.
Say Hi (I know. Very original.)
I finished design school about five years ago and did what most new designers do: everything. Websites, branding, marketing, complex systems. Good projects, good clients, and a quiet feeling that I was still looking for my thing.
Almost two years ago I noticed what it was. The projects I couldn't stop thinking about were always presentations. Not because of the slides, because of what stood behind them: a person about to walk into a room where something real was at stake. A funding round. A deal. A decision. And before any design could help, someone had to sit with them and ask: what are you actually trying to say here?
So I stopped doing everything else and became that someone.
These days, most of my work happens before PowerPoint opens. I ask questions - what's the goal of this meeting? what does "yes" look like? who's actually in the room? and then I listen. Really listen. Most people discover their strongest story while answering. It was theirs all along. My job is to hear it, put it in the right order, and only then design the deck that carries it.
If you have a meeting coming up that matters, tell me about it. Fair warning: I'll answer with a question.
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