Brendan Heath – Creative Director, Donor Strategy

Brendan Heath is a Creative Director who specializes in transforming bold ideas into experiences that inspire action and unlock philanthropic investment. With more than two decades of international experience across 40 countries, Brendan has led diverse teams in developing strategic campaigns that connect deeply with audiences, donors, and stakeholders.

At the heart of Brendan’s process is strategic concepting — crafting evidence-based cases for support that blend donor insights with high-impact creative storytelling. His presentations are not just pitches; they are narratives that invite high-value donors to see themselves as agents of change.

Brendan’s work spans both leading global brands and mission-driven nonprofits. For Conservation International and the African Wildlife Foundation, Brendan created Wildlife in Winter — an immersive interactive experience that placed giraffes and rhinos into stark winter landscapes, a haunting metaphor for climate displacement. What began as a cinematic campaign evolved into a 360° interactive exhibition where donor actions directly restored habitats in real time. By blending VR, projection mapping, and interactive storytelling, Brendan turned empathy into agency — inspiring awe, urgency, and giving.

For the American Bird Conservancy, he created an emotive campaign combining live-action and CG animation to follow a bird’s perilous journey home — a narrative that stirred empathy and inspired support for conservation efforts. With the National Council for Problem Gambling, he took a different approach, using humor and celebrity talent to break stigma, engage hard-to-reach audiences, and generate measurable results. For the Mayo Clinic, Brendan built a patient-centered platform that showcased real stories of resilience and healing, fostering community and deeper donor engagement.

Equally at home with cutting-edge technologies, Brendan has pioneered immersive VR, holographic displays, projection mapping, and interactive 3D storytelling. At Meta, he built interactive environments where visitors could explore and even influence narratives in real time. To ensure long-term donor value, he established best practices that made these immersive experiences sustainable, scalable, and future-proof.

From beauty icons like L’Oréal and Pantene to nonprofits advancing conservation, healthcare, and social change, Brendan’s strength lies in translating vision into impact. His gift is helping donors not just see the story, but feel their role within it — empowering them to act, invest, and leave a legacy.

Brendan Heath: Photographer – A Visionary Behind the Lens

Brendan Heath’s photography exists at the intersection of elegance, emotion, and untamed imagination. Known for his striking versatility, Brendan moves seamlessly between the refined worlds of fashion and beauty and the raw, conceptual landscapes of environmental storytelling. His lens doesn’t just capture moments — it captures narratives that linger, confront, and inspire.

In the realms of fashion and beauty, Brendan’s work is defined by a timeless yet modern aesthetic. His portraits possess an effortless sophistication, where every frame reveals the unique strength and vulnerability of his subjects. Whether capturing the fluid grace of hair in motion or the intimate allure of a model’s gaze, his images are meticulously crafted, balancing composition, lighting, and mood with a mastery that recalls the classic elegance of Patrick Demarchelier and the cinematic flair of Mario Testino. His collaborations with major beauty and fashion brands exude authenticity and precision, creating imagery that feels both aspirational and achingly human.

Yet Brendan’s artistry stretches beyond the polished studio floors and into the heart of the wild — or rather, into wildness reimagined. In his conceptual photography, Brendan tackles themes of environmental conservation with a provocative edge. Channeling the storytelling depth of Peter Lindbergh, he places wild animals into surreal, unfamiliar environments, confronting viewers with powerful juxtapositions: giraffes on icebergs, lions traversing snow covered landscapes in search of new hunting grounds. These haunting images speak to the urgency of habitat loss, challenging us to reconsider the fragile boundaries between nature and civilization. They are more than visual statements; they are calls to action, layered with symbolism and subtle irony.

Brendan's ability to effortlessly pivot between these worlds — the refined and the raw, the beautiful and the brutal — sets him apart. His work is unified by a commitment to authenticity, a deep respect for the stories his subjects tell, and an uncanny knack for amplifying emotion through visual composition. Whether he’s capturing the perfect elegance of a couture gown or the jarring poignancy of displaced wildlife, Brendan’s photography remains arresting, evocative, and impossible to ignore. 

In a world awash with imagery, Brendan Heath’s photographs cut through the noise — reminding us of the beauty we celebrate, the wildness we stand to lose, and the stories that connect us all.