Brisbane, Australia

Lydia
Moreland

Helping great businesses become visible, trusted, and relevant in the modern world.

I work at the intersection of strategy, psychology, and brand, partnering with established businesses to turn strong foundations into clear, modern market presence.

My expertise lies in helping good businesses become easier to see, understand, trust, and choose. I take what is already valuable inside a business and shape it into language, positioning, and communications that resonate and belong in today's world.

How I work

Your business is strong. Its presence should reflect that.

The businesses I work with have the hard part in place. They have substance, experience, credibility, relationships, and a service or offer that genuinely matters.

What needs attention is the way that strength is being expressed. Over time, a business can outgrow its messaging, its website, its brand presence, or the way it explains itself to the market. The inside work is strong, but the outside no longer captures and expresses this strength.

My role is to close this gap. I sit alongside leadership as a thinking partner, taking what is already good about the business and reshaping it into something that truly resonates and belongs in the modern world.

I bring a seasoned and refined eye for consumer psychology, brand, design, language, communication, and conversion, and offer this to businesses ready for a more considered, more commercially rewarding chapter.

Areas of practice

A refined independent practice combining strategy, creative direction, and practical marketing support. Engagements are considered, collaborative, and tailored to each business.

01 / Brand

Brand & Positioning Strategy

Positioning, brand architecture, and messaging systems that give an established business a clearer, more confident voice in the market.

02 / Growth

Growth & Modern Market Presence

Helping established businesses translate strong foundations into a clearer, more contemporary presence — across audience, offer, and channel.

03 / Digital

Digital & Performance Strategy

Modernising the digital expression of an established business — across web, content, paid, CRM, and search, with direction the in-house team or trusted partners can carry forward.

04 / Audience

Audience & Behavioural Insight

Sharpening who a business is really for and how to speak to them — bringing audience clarity to businesses ready to engage a more contemporary customer.

05 / Experience

Web & Digital Experience Strategy

Site direction and digital experience strategy for businesses whose online presence no longer reflects the quality of the work. Defining what a digital experience needs to do before designers and developers build it.

06 / Communications

Communications & Campaign Strategy

Narrative direction, campaign architecture, and content strategy that bring a business's external communications into line with its internal substance.

Strategy in practice.

Twelve years of shaping brands, campaigns, and communications that move people and deliver results.

267%
eCommerce revenue uplift Felons Brewing Co. Digital transformation and channel restructure.
3.3x
Membership growth Function Well. From 300 to 1,000+ active members in 18 months.
80.8%
ROAS improvement Consumer goods brand. Repositioning and audience segmentation.
−55%
Cost per acquisition reduction Independent consulting. Paid media restructure and creative direction.
+140%
Click-through rate Multi-channel client work. Message and audience refinement.
+33%
Weekly revenue growth Strategic restructure of paid advertising and data-led optimisation.

Selected experience

Agency, in-house, and independent experience across a wide range of industries. This breadth keeps my thinking fresh, allowing me to borrow intelligently between categories, avoid default industry thinking, and bring sharper strategic perspective to each business.

2023 — Present
Strategic Consultant
Independent · Multi-sector

Brand and growth strategist for established businesses and leadership teams across health, wellness, hospitality, media, publishing, eCommerce, technology, consumer goods, childcare, professional services, and construction. Transforming brand and communications, leading strategy and execution to bring established businesses into a more modern, more commercially considered chapter.

Reporting directly to founders, owners, company directors, and senior leadership. CTR +140%, CPA −55%, CPC −40%, engagement +120% across client portfolio.

2022 — 2023
Strategist
VML (formerly VMLY&R)

Set strategic direction for national campaigns across healthcare, lifestyle, food and beverage, technology, construction and trade, leisure and recreation, and sport within a specialist digital transformation and behavioural science team — transforming the way legacy businesses show up and communicate in the digital world.

Presented strategy to senior stakeholders, securing buy-in across C-suite and agency leadership.

2021 — 2022
Senior Marketing & Growth Strategist
News Corp Australia

Directed digital growth, content, and brand strategy across multiple national titles and verticals. Led cross-functional creative, data, and editorial teams to reposition brands and improve commercial impact.

2021 — 2022
Social Strategy Consultant
Publicis Groupe

Advised national clients on social, content, and production strategy, bridging creative and media teams to ensure unified storytelling and culturally relevant campaigns.

2019 — 2021
Marketing & Brand Manager
Felons Brewing Co.

Led digital transformation and eCommerce expansion, achieving a 267% increase in online revenue. Oversaw brand marketing, creative production, and campaign delivery across digital, social, and retail.

2012 — 2018
Marketing & Brand Manager
Function Well

Oversaw brand and marketing through a period of major expansion, growing membership from 300 to 1,000+ members. Launched the Function Well Restoration Zone and developed its go-to-market strategy. Worked directly with ownership on direction, reporting, and budget.

Selected brands & organisations

Felons Brewing Co. News Corp VML Publicis Sealy Clipsal Perfection Fresh Function Well Swimming Australia TerryWhite Chemmart St. Vincent de Paul Society Howard Smith Wharves Queensland Department of Transport & Main Roads World SuperCross

A grounding in behaviour, business, and the science of design.

Bachelor of Business (Advertising)
Queensland University of Technology
Bachelor of Biomedical Science
Bond University
Graduate Diploma of Psychology (Advanced)
Monash University
Bachelor of Design (Creative Direction)
Whitehouse Institute of Design

Currently partnering with a small number of established businesses on brand, communications, and marketing direction.

Contact Lydia Moreland
Brisbane, Australia
lydia@lydiamoreland.com
0400 551 660
Practice Brand & communications
Strategy & creative direction
Marketing & messaging