Your Vision. Our Spark.
Lighting the way, helping small businesses shine with affordable, results-driven marketing strategies and creative solutions. Your vision, our spark—let’s light the way forward.
Our work.
Our Impact
Essence Creative Consulting led the brand identity development for BoyIvy, a touring playback engineer and DJ, crafting a visually striking and strategically positioned brand.
We oversaw the logo design, creative direction, and initial brand launch, ensuring a cohesive identity that resonated across digital platforms.
While executing a strategic rollout for new music singles, aligning branding with content to drive engagement and visibility, we directed and photographed the brand’s viral social media campaign, resulting in increased brand recognition and significant traction across platforms.
Through bold visuals, strategic planning, and a cohesive brand narrative, we helped establish BoyIvy as a standout presence in the music industry.
Our Impact
Essence Creative Consulting designed the Dad Doula website, a wellness coaching platform dedicated to supporting dads and non-birthing parents. Focused on creating an intuitive, user-friendly experience that balances brand awareness and lead generation for workshops.
We led website design, UX strategy, copywriting, and technical development, ensuring seamless navigation and accessibility. Integrated event pages and contact forms to streamline user engagement and conversions.
Delivered a polished, high-performing site that met the client’s vision, with strong branding, clear messaging, and a smooth user experience. The project was a success, with the client praising my technical problem-solving skills and thoughtful design approach.
Our Impact
Essence Creative Consulting developed the brand identity, website, and email marketing automation for KinnectMKE, a community-driven initiative dedicated to fostering connections and engagement for womxn in Milwaukee. Our goal was to establish a strong, cohesive brand presence while streamlining digital communication to enhance outreach and audience interaction.
We led the brand design, crafting a distinct visual identity with a logo, color palette, and typography that reflected KinnectMKE’s mission. Our website development focused on a seamless, user-friendly experience that balanced storytelling, accessibility, and engagement. Additionally, we implemented an automated email marketing strategy using MailChimp, designing targeted campaigns to nurture relationships and drive participation.
The final deliverables resulted in a polished, high-performing brand and digital platform that aligned with the client’s vision. The project successfully enhanced KinnectMKE’s outreach, with the client praising our strategic approach, design expertise, and ability to integrate branding with marketing automation.
Our Impact
Essence Creative Consulting partnered with 10K Golf, a growing brand, for a focused marketing engagement aimed at increasing visibility, engagement, and traffic.
The scope of work included content strategy, messaging refinement, and implementation designed to support top-of-funnel growth and audience interaction. Efforts were centered on simplifying messaging, improving content performance, and driving intentional user actions.
During the April–May engagement, the brand experienced significant performance gains, including nearly 1,000 website visits (+989%), 66 link clicks (+500%), and over 1,200 content interactions (+1,800%). Traffic and engagement spikes aligned directly with the active campaign period.
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Our Impact
Lauraine’s Berry First Birthday
The Project
For Lauraine’s first birthday, the vision was sweet, playful, and completely custom. Our client came to us with a general mood board inspired by berries, soft colors, and whimsical first-birthday details — and trusted us to take it from there.
Using that inspiration as our starting point, we developed a cohesive graphic design suite that brought the theme to life across the celebration. Every element was designed to feel intentional, connected, and unique to Lauraine’s special day, creating a visual experience that carried seamlessly from concept to the final event.
Your vision, our spark. This project is exactly what we mean by that.
A mood board can communicate a feeling, but bringing that feeling to life requires thoughtful design, creative direction, and attention to the details that make an event feel complete.
We transformed the client’s initial inspiration into a polished visual identity for Lauraine’s Berry First Birthday — giving her family a custom design suite that felt personal rather than pulled from a template. The final event showed how strong design can tie an entire celebration together. From the colors and typography to the custom graphics and coordinating pieces, each detail worked together to create a memorable environment while allowing our client’s original vision to remain at the heart of the project.
About Me
My name is Imani Stingley
I’m a creative strategist, marketing professional, and project manager with 8+ years of experience turning ideas into thoughtful, engaging experiences that connect people to brands, organizations, and communities.
My work sits at the intersection of strategy, creativity, and execution. From brand development and graphic design to digital marketing, social media strategy, website design, campaign management, and event promotion, I help bring big-picture visions to life through intentional creative direction and organized project execution.
I’m currently pursuing my Master's in Project Management, further strengthening my expertise in project planning, stakeholder engagement, process improvement, risk management, and cross-functional leadership. I pair that foundation with a data-informed approach to marketing, using performance insights to continuously refine strategy and maximize impact.
Outside of my creative and professional work, mentorship and leadership are a major part of who I am. As a collegiate volleyball coach and former collegiate golf coach, I’ve had the opportunity to help student-athletes build confidence, develop discipline, navigate challenges, and grow both in competition and in life.
Whether I’m building a campaign, managing a project, developing a brand, coaching an athlete, or supporting a community initiative, the goal is the same: create meaningful work, build strong relationships, and help people and ideas reach their full potential.
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