WE HELP YOU TELL YOUR MOST PASSIONATE STORIES

A GLOVEBOX IS WHERE ONLY THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS GO.

Surgically, a clean room for scientific exploration. In automotive, a protected holder of essential documents.

At GLOVEBOX, we offer YOU similar services: a trusted place WHERE WE HELP YOU MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR UNIQUE STORY.

GLOVEBOX is a boutique strategic consulting firm—a creative skunkworks—with one job: achieve unusual results without the bulk and expense of larger agencies. In other words, we don’t do business as usual.

Ben Draper

GLOVEBOX is a consortium of best-in-class strategic partners—seasoned journalists, content producers, marketing experts, and communicators—who believe in nimbleness, integrity, and results.

We integrate with your internal experts and augment your teams’ ongoing efforts. We define your needs, execute, amplify, and repeat. Surgical, precise, clean. It’s what we’ve done for the likes of Time Inc., Cabin Creek Films, Jaguar, TrueCar, Onda Wellness, Intelligent Handshake, SellersEaston Media, and INFINITI, among many others.

OUR X FACTOR

Our unique view of the consumer landscape—based on a deep understanding of your narrative, your data, agile practices, and high EQ insights—enables us to deliver the ultimate quality every brand longs for: DESIRE.

We are of the opinion that very few people understand the power of desire from a brand perspective, and fewer still have the courage to embrace it. This is the magic that separates legends from everyone else—the ability to understand the necessary tradeoffs to be unique and resonate with people on intimate, visceral levels that they themselves cannot explain.

Authentic Storytelling + Amplification= Desire and Loyalty

OUR SERVICES

Original Storytelling

Individuals and Families
Brands
Companies
Organizations
Causes

With the founders’ extensive roots in high-level journalism, media company leadership, and executive management roles, Glovebox offers clients of all types—from individuals to corporations—the opportunity to have their most powerful and passionate stories told the right way. We research, interview, and produce every story with integrity, honesty, and celebration in mind. Glovebox captures those stories in short- or long-form written, audio, and/or video; full-length films; and book-length memoirs.

COACHING + CRISIS PreVENTION

Media Coaching and Simulations
Crisis Prevention Analysis
Crisis Management
Cultural Audits
Strategic Industry Trend Analysis

Glovebox’s consortium of training, coaching, and strategy experts can help you quickly clarify, prioritize, and confidence-build for alignment across teams, brands, and workflows internally, and to all the audiences you need to communicate to externally.

When you need us:

1) Early: for corporate audits and wellness checks.

2) During: When something is awry, we can help you control your story, pivot the conversation, and own your key messages.

3) After: In clean-up mode, after the damage is done, we can help you mitigate and redirect.

4) Inflection points: When an announcement, product release, or industry shift is imminent (new financing rounds, major hires, product releases, good news, bad news).

Is there ever such a thing as “too late?” Never. Glovebox is here.

creative direction

Branding, Corporate ID, Logo, and Website Design
Marketing, PR, and Social Media Strategy and Development
Magazines, Newsletters, Videos (short and long form), Thought Leadership Campaigns, and Speech-Writing

The Glovebox team has unparalleled strategic experience and expertise, based on combined decades’ worth of high-level work in and with global media companies, brands, and agencies. We work with you to develop audience- and ROI-capturing campaigns—from one-offs to long-term engagements. All created with the authenticity only real journalists and longtime marketers and designers can provide.

production + execution

Writing, Visuals, Videos, Podcasts, Events
Investor and Brand Presentations
Amplification, ROI Measurement

Glovebox is known for its execution excellence. From articles and thought leadership content to full-length memoirs, our writing and design credentials are well-known and award-winning. It’s equally true of our ability to bring important presentations to life, produce videos and podcasts, and execute complex live events.

MOVING THE NEEDLE:

OUR WORK

PRODUCTION COMPANY: LOGO AND BRANDING

DATA ANALYTICS COMPANY: BRANDING, RANKING PLATFORM

INTERACTIVE COACHING PLATFORM: CORPORATE ID

The Team

Sue Callaway / Founder

Entrepreneur, award-winning journalist and author, media marketing pioneer, and automotive insider, Sue has built and transformed global brands for Time Inc., Wenner Media and Hearst, co-founded Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit and created marketing and content platforms for brands from Esquire and Jaguar to TrueCar and THE AUTO 100.

Prior to launching Glovebox, she was EVP, Editorial Director at Edelman, where she oversaw content strategy and execution as well as media training and crisis management for global clients including Nissan, INFINITI, HP, and others.

She was director of marketing for Ford’s (former) luxury brands—Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover, Lincoln and Volvo—and later became the VP, General Manager of Jaguar North America.

She also has had decades of experience in media: she was Senior Editor, Automotive, for Time Inc.’s 90-plus brands. Her original storytelling—written, digital, and video—has also appeared in Fortune, Esquire, Men’s Journal, Los Angeles Times, and on CNN and CBS, among others. And she’s the co-author the international best-seller, What Would Jackie Do? An Inspired Guide to Distinctive Living (Viking/Penguin).

David Gray / Founder

David is an award-winning creative director, photographer and journalist. He’s held many roles, from news editor on a weekly newspaper to business editor on a daily, to design director on a national, and creative director on countless magazines and digital brands. For the last decade, he has led high-level relaunches and new global products, including for LGBTQ brand Out.

As creative director of Formula 1 art magazine Lollipop, his combination of writing, design, photo commissioning, and editing has helped propel the magazine into every team owner’s and driver’s hands. He has also overseen strategic design and direction for The AUTO 100 and an all-new automotive vertical for Time Inc.

Jule Capehart/ Project Manager

Jule is a longtime producer and project manager in the advertising and creative worlds and has worked with agencies and companies of all sizes. Her expertise is in overseeing big-budget and/or complex projects including building social media channels; producing augmented reality programs; managing OOH campaigns, website rebuilds, and photo, written, and video content. She has decades of experience working with outside venders, scheduling tools, cost control companies, and creative teams and freelancers to help clients execute their vision in a creative, cost-efficient, and timely manner.

Some of her past clients include Nestle, Pure life, Transformers, Samsung, AMD and Honda Toyota, Sony, Adidas, Autodesk, Mitsubishi, Coors, Red Bull, Expedia, Kaiser Permanente, Pre-core Fitness Equipment, Boeing, Denny’s, DirecTV, Oracle, and Burger King.

STRATEGIC PARTNERS

Erin Dawkins

The founder of EJD Consulting, Erin is an experienced business leader with a passion for creating and enabling cultures that succeed and grow in ways that are inclusive, collaborative, empowering, and impactful. She has a proven background for visionary strategic thinking, execution and achieving ROI, and team building. She started her career in corporate management consulting and has used her business acumen to create long-lasting solutions for both for-profit and non-profit brands. Before launching EJD Consulting, she was Senior Vice President, Brand and Operations at House of Taylor — The Elizabeth Taylor Companies, where she served as the primary and lead executive related to Elizabeth Taylor's lifestyle brands. Prior to that, Erin was a Senior Division Director of the Office of the Senior Vice President (OSVP) at NYU Langone Medical Center, one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers. She is passionate about issues related to women & girls and underrepresented communities and continues to serve as a volunteer in this capacity.
Elke Goversten

Elke Govertsen is a consultant sitting at the intersection of content, culture, conflict, connection, and community. Her deep understanding of human behavior and perception allow her to identify what moves people—good and bad—to achieve alignment. She has a background in platform building and can navigate a multi-platform approach to impact. She has been a CEO, Chief Community Officer, consultant, writer, and the heart of every team she has been on. She is a gifted facilitator (groups, design labs, conflict, DEIB, and co-creation) and is a certified Integral Facilitation Leader. Elke is the moment, movement, and trust builder. “There are influencers, there are influencers of influencers, and then there is Elke Govertsen.” – George Brandt, Forbes
Angus Robertson

Angus Robertson has been providing comprehensive managerial and operational advice and support to businesses and organizations large and small for more than 20 years. Expertise includes organizational development, compliance and reputational management, business and media strategy.
Current and recent board and advisory positions include One Golden Thread, Pop Domo, Jumpwire Media, Lactation Lab, and Chicagoland Media Innovation/Weigel Broadcasting.
Former clients include Thomson Reuters, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Alacra, The Washington Times, United Press International, and Science News.
Angus has two decades of experience in senior leadership positions in the media and information industry, including Knight Ridder and Bridge Information Systems.