As the Founder and CEO, Kate Manfull has been bringing fresh storytelling techniques and creative solutions through visual content for her clients for nearly 10 years at Fierce Creative Agency. Her ability to solve complex problems in a visual way that delivers on customer experience and client goals sets her work apart. She has built a team that thrives on the creative energy of each other. At Fierce, collaborative creative is simply better.
She built her career in corporate advertising, at a video production house and a public relations agency prior to founding Fierce - a creative house serving up brand design, web design and development, content marketing (including social media and email marketing) and paid digital marketing.
Fierce is known for exceeding expectations and delivering killer creative on time, on brand and on budget. They drive leads, sales and expand the brands of their clients.
She feeds off the energy of her talented team of creators and is inspired by clients’ vision for an improved, more inclusive future. Fierce Creative serves clients across a number of spaces including energy efficiency, healthcare, and electric vehicles, to consumer brands from greenhouses to catering, resorts to outdoor living.
Kate is a mentor for students entering the creative marketing or journalism professions and works with a variety of entrepreneurs and start-ups on brand development. She has been the director of Media Now, a summer high school journalism camp at Drake University since 2011. She built the foundation of the agency in a play-all-day, work-all-night approach to entrepreneurship while raising two little ones at home before starting Fierce in 2015.
She holds a master’s degree from Webster University in Advertising and Marketing and a journalism degree from Truman State University. She is a designer at heart and full of risk-taking entrepreneurial spirit. Two words? fearless energy.