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POL KLEIN Creative director. Brand marketing that works. Business name: SHINE Studio. WHAT I DO - Brand strategy, positioning and storytelling. - Visual identity, design systems, templates, and brand rules AI tools can follow. - Brand marketing campaigns and launches. - Fractional creative leadership. WHO I WORK WITH - Organizations whose work matters: global health, humanitarian, philanthropy, education and purpose-driven companies, across the U.S. and worldwide. EXPERIENCE - SHINE Studio. Founder and creative director. 2025 to present. - HIAS. Senior Director, Creative. $200M refugee agency serving refugees in 25 countries. Brand audit, refreshed visual identity, global collateral and templates, website refresh, creative operations. - International Rescue Committee. Associate Director, Design and UX. $1B+ humanitarian organization in 40 countries. Campaign templates and branded resources, brand guidelines, website, UX and accessibility. Hired designers and led a team of up to twelve with agencies and freelancers. - Population Services International (PSI). Head of Design. $650M health organization, 1,500 staff, 55 countries. Led the 50th-anniversary rebrand with Design Army: a new visual and verbal identity, keeping the logo with brighter colors. - Palladium. Creative Director, 2009 to 2015. Advocacy creative for international policy programs in more than 25 countries: research and policy data in human terms, with infographics, motion and digital tools for ministers of health and finance. - Earlier: software engineering, then international technology business and diplomacy. SELECTED WORK - PSI: 50th-anniversary rebrand and anniversary identity (2020), with Design Army (rebrand) and Fifty & Fifty (website). Individual giving nearly doubled after the rebrand, with new multimillion-dollar donors. - International Rescue Committee: brand expression and campaign system (2022). Over $30M raised online and at the Global Rescue Dinner. - HIAS: brand refresh and creative operations (2025). Engagement and fundraising up 15% in Latin America and Europe. - Maverick Collective: brand architecture and brand system for PSI's experiential philanthropy initiative (2021 to 2022), with Teal Media. One seed program attracted over $110M in follow-on grants and donations. - Adolescents 360: program brand and print (2022). Several million dollars in new funding. - Palladium: advocacy creative and data tools for policy programs in more than 25 countries (2009 to 2015), including an interactive tool that compared population age structures from UN data. The flagship $250M Health Policy Project was re-won and continued as Health Policy Plus. - Orb Media: plastics data campaign, with Graphicacy (2018). The awareness campaigns exceeded their advocacy targets. - PSI website: art direction (2019), with Fifty & Fifty. Supported PSI’s growth to $650M in annual revenue. WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER - A project (typically 6 to 12 weeks). - Fractional creative leadership (one or two days a week). - A campaign or launch (typically 4 to 10 weeks). EDUCATION - Master in Public Administration, Harvard University. - Master's degree, Rutgers University. Bachelor's degree, University of Vermont. - Master of Spiritual Psychology, University of Santa Monica. - Certificate in Graphic and Web Design, Boston University. - Great Managers Program, Population Services International. CONTACT - Email: pol@polklein.com - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/polklein - Web: polklein.com