Everything Led Here.
Who we are and why we built TMGS.
About
The Studio
The Story So Far
We've spent decades doing serious work in serious places. TMGS pulls that experience under one roof so we can help small teams figure out what’s really wrong, what to do about it, and then help carry the work through.
We've worked with household-name brands, non-profits, small-businesses, and solopreneurs.
We've worked inside powerful companies with deep pockets, and we've built and grown our own businesses.
We've felt the frustration of having meetings about meetings, of seeing action stymied by endless (and expensive) hypotheses and bureaucracy.
We’ve worked with consultants and vendors who left behind more problems than they solved.
TMGS is the resource we always sought: speak plain and true, find the root source of the problem, fix what needs fixing, and make sure the clients always keep the keys to their kingdoms.
We're passionate about old fashioned human-first business principles in a cutting-edge modern world.
Jamie Watson
Founder
Jamie spent nearly two decades in advertising, leading tech, innovation, and operations. From collaborating on first-to-market products and applications at Condé Nast's internal creative agency, to co-founding a successful digital production company, his work has consistently crossed operations, creative, technology, strategy, and execution.
He has a passion for hearing through the noise, for breaking complex goals into manageable, actionable steps, for listening for the things that are not being said, and for finding creative solutions to challenging problems.
Jamie's an avid traveler, photographer, and fan of art in nearly any form (every photo on this site is his). He believes the best work comes from using all of yourself: the analytical and the creative, the strategist and the philosopher, the operator and the artist.
Tiffany Halliday
TJ brings something to creative work that can’t be manufactured: a deep, trained understanding of how people think, feel, and respond to what’s in front of them.
Her academic background is in clinical psychology, with a Master’s degree from Columbia University, and she spent more than two decades working with people through complex challenges before bringing that expertise to creative communication and organizational change. The approach is the same: understand what the person on the other side actually needs, and build from there.
Her work is precise, considered, and quietly distinctive. She helps ideas land, communication connect, and change feel more human and workable.
TJ is also a certified yoga and mindfulness teacher and a practitioner in embodied resilience, work that informs her creative sensibility and her understanding of how people move through change.
Thoughtful emails from time to time...
Ideas, experiments, useful links, and things we're learning as we build TMGS.