Nick Heller

About Nick Heller

I\'m a designer, strategist, and freelance advocate. I focus on helping entrepreneurs, businesses, and other freelancers level up their work. I leverage more than fifteen years of experience across specialist roles and diverse industries to develop interdisciplinary solutions tailor-made to my client\'s needs, challenges, and problems. A generalist\'s breadth of knowledge matched by a specialist\'s depth of focus. A \"Creative Fixer,\" able to speak across teams and disciplines, if you will. Today, I focus my energy and efforts on strategy in the two areas I\'m most passionate about: • Team operational systems (process, project, and people): I help business owners and creative team leaders find process and project improvements, freeing up more time to focus on the work that matters most to them.• Brand alignment and storytelling strategies (messaging, voice, and identity): I guide newer companies and individuals in finding and aligning their brand voice and product/service solutions with the market.I\'m also developing \"The School of Able™,\" a community-driven platform and resource house for those venturing into freelancing or building their own creative studios. I have seen the need to assist agencies, small businesses, and fast-moving teams in streamlining their work and projects for maximum clarity, efficiency, and profitability. Please say hello. I look forward to getting to know you.

Experience

1. Managing Director

   Able Concepts

   Jun 2024 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   Building a pipe dream: bringing together artists and creatives from all walks of life.Developing a multidisciplinary powerhouse of ideas, inventions, and implementations.Producing creative projects, teaching the next generation, and openly discussing the challenges of creative life.a boy learning everything™ – an artist turned designer returning to true form

Education

• Arizona State University

  Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Small Business Administration/Management

  2007 — 2012

• Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences

  Technical, Audio Engineering and Sound Recording

  2004 — 2005

• Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences

  Certification, Audio Engineering, Live Sound & Studio Recording

  2005 — 2007

Skills

• Modern Standard Arabic
• Research
• Foreign Policy
• Egyptian Colloquial Arabic
• Translation
• Government
• Political Science
• Foreign Affairs
• Middle Eastern Studies
• International Development
• Arabic
• Teaching
• Foreign Languages
• Editing
• Politics
• Intercultural Communication
• Public Speaking
• International Education
• International Relations
• Qualitative Research