Feeling Stuck?
The best ideas are already in the room.
Playful, guided thinking to help businesses tackle challenges, get beyond the obvious, and uncover fresh possibilities for their brand, products and audience.
Built on 20+ years experience leading creative teams and strategy at:
POWERED BY PROVEN TOOLS & FRAMEWORKS:
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De Bono's Six Thinking Hats
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SCAMPER
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30 Circles
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The Impossible
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Build on it
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Forced Connections
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Related Worlds
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Pass it on
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Survey
〰️ De Bono's Six Thinking Hats 〰️ SCAMPER 〰️ 30 Circles 〰️ The Impossible 〰️ Build on it 〰️ Forced Connections 〰️ Related Worlds 〰️ Pass it on 〰️ Survey
Why Whirr?
20 years watching how great ideas form
After 20 years leading creative teams at The Guardian, Bloomberg and VICE, I've seen that the best ideas rarely come from the loudest voices or a blank canvas. They come from fresh perspectives, unexpected connections and people building on each other's thinking.
I created Whirr to bring that kind of thinking to small businesses - helping them get unstuck, challenge the status quo and discover what else might be possible. All with practical tools, permission to experiment and a bit of fun along the way.
Whirr goal isn’t to turn up to give you all the answers - it’s to give your business the tools, confidence and motivation to find them as a team.
Ways to whirr
From confidential 1:1 sounding boards and inspiring team workshops to hands-on marketing support, find the right fit for where your business is today.
How we can work together
CREATIVE THINKING
WORKSHOPS
Overview: Tailored, friendly, playful team sessions rooted in tested tools and frameworks to ease common business frictions, challenge safe thinking, and get everyone’s ideas whirring.
Ideal for: Teams feeling stuck in a rut, facing a tricky business challenge, or looking to unlock fresh, unexpected ideas together without relying on the loudest voice in the room.
WHIRR FOR
MARKETING
Overview: Strategic guidance and practical hands-on marketing support when you need fresh energy and expertise without full-time hires.
Ideal for: Growing small businesses that need senior marketing leadership and ongoing strategic momentum, without the commitment or cost of a full-time Director.
1:1
THINKING PARTNER
Overview: Building a business on your own can feel isolating. Get regular, flexible access to friendly creative sounding board and someone who will prompt you with the ‘what ifs’.
Ideal for: Solo founders, and early-stage business owners who need a confidential sounding board to test raw ideas, work through blockers, and make confident strategic moves as they scale.
Not sure where to start?
Try whirr’s ‘get unstuck’ tool
A LITTLE HELP GETTING UNSTUCK
What's getting in your way?
Big ambitions, small teams, the same old thinking. Tell us what's going on and we'll help you find a good place to start.
First, who's looking for a way forward?
Choose the option that best describes you.
Please choose an option to continue.
What sounds familiar?
Choose as many as you like. There's no wrong answer.
Choose at least one thing you'd like help with.
YOUR WHIRR STARTING POINT
Let's get things moving.
These are suggestions, not a prescription. If you're unsure which is right for you, we can work it out together.
Why Whirr?
Three reasons why your thinking might need a whirr.
In business, it's easy to get stuck doing things the same way. Repeating the same ideas, following familiar paths and relying on the same voices can leave your business going round in circles.
Whirr is here to help you discover what else might be possible if you had the right tools, permission and conditions to think differently.
Perspectives
1: More voices = Better thinking
Great ideas aren't limited to specific job titles or to the loudest people in the room. Whirr gives teams the tools and confidence to ensure everyone can contribute, bringing more perspectives into the conversation and unlocking the full wealth of thinking that's already within your business.
Potential2: Challenge Assumptions
It's easy to keep doing what you've always done this can lead you to the same dead end. Whirr uses practical creative thinking tools and frameworks to challenge assumptions, explore ambitious ideas and find fresh approaches — helping teams to feel like they can shape the future of the business, not just keep it ticking over
Play3: Be bold, with the right ideas
Not every idea will work but we get stuck, plateau or get overtaken if we stop trying. Whirr coaches teams to be braver to explore more possibilities, but also gives frameworks to pressure-test ideas from different angles - building the confidence to try things out and work out which ideas to put energy into moving forward,
Featured Workshops
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SMALL TO MIGHTY:
From tiny seeds to big results: scale what matters most.
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ONE DAY
Map out your business ‘what ifs…’
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FLIP THE BRIEF
Give your sales and marketing team the creative toolkit they were never given.
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THE POWER OF RANDOM **LUNCH AND LEARN **
Book a 40-minute lunch & learn on the power of lateral thinking.
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NO MARKETER IS AN ISLAND
Stop treating marketing like a department. Make it a company-wide habit.
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ALL INVITED
ALL INVITEDGive every mind the tools, permission and space to shine.
