Campaign Activation

System Extension

Celebrating a Brighter Tomorrow

Role: Experience Design, System Extension & Toolkit Enablement

Timeline: 2-Week Production Window

Team: Global Internal Communications (content & planning), Agency (hero visual & animation)

Key Impact: Deployed to a global workforce of 10,000+ employees across 30 countries

In April 2026, Olam Agri reached a major milestone – becoming a separate entity from Olam Group following SALIC’s majority acquisition. The milestone created a need for clarity, reassurance, and shared momentum across the workforce.

  • 23,673 Campaign Impressions
  • 5,121 Highest Video Reach
  • 30 Participating Countries
  • 6 Interactive Challenges
  • 10,000+ Employees Reached

The Context & Challenge

When SALIC's majority shareholding in Olam Agri was completed, leadership faced a critical internal milestone. A corporate transition of this scale naturally brings a wave of unprompted questions from the workforce. During town halls and hallway conversations, employees were eager for clarity: What changes for us? Is this an opportunity or a risk?

An external agency provided the initial spark: a standalone hero graphic and a baseline animation. The real experience challenge was operational: How do you scale a single asset into a holistic, human-centric design system that builds confidence across a massive global workforce, regardless of their location, language, or digital connectivity?

The Employee Journey Matrix

To move beyond a static announcement, the deliverables were mapped across a deliberate four-stage employee experience — ensuring every touchpoint served a specific moment in the employee journey:

The Design Strategy

My execution focused entirely on touchpoint orchestration and structural scaling

Local HR and internal communications teams did not always have design support. So the toolkit had to be easy to use, quick to adapt, and reliable under time pressure.

The system balanced two needs:

  • Consistency, through locked core assets that protected the campaign identity.

  • Flexibility, through editable templates that local teams could adapt for their own events and communications.

Locking the core assets protected the campaign's identity in offices with no design support, while editable templates ensured the campaign felt locally owned rather than centrally imposed.

The Solution

1. Digital Deployment

Screensaver

Adapted the agency video outro into a seamlessly looping animation — the end frame dissolved back into the opening so the loop is invisible on-screen.

Lock screen

Pushed globally to all company laptops — so every employee saw the campaign the moment they opened their device, before the working day began.

I created simple, editable PowerPoint templates for welcome messages and birthday greetings, with room to extend the same style to future internal announcements.

The locks creen deployed to all global laptops, turning this campaign into something employees saw every time they opened their device.

Polished Leadership Layouts

Polished Leadership Layouts

Ready-to-use Outlook .oft templates ensuring crisp typography and brand consistency for corporate announcements.

Ready-to-use Outlook .oft templates ensuring crisp typography and brand consistency for corporate announcements.

Gamified Interaction Assets for Enterprise Social Media

Main banner for the landing/activity feed page

Main banner for the landing/activity feed page

A clean campaign header that introduced the campaign, set the tone for the week, and carried the same visual language across the internal feed

A clean campaign header that introduced the campaign, set the tone for the week, and carried the same visual language across the internal feed

Avatar frame

Employees could apply it to their own profile photo, turning participation into visible advocacy across the social feed.

Badge

Gave employees a simple, branded way to signal participation in the online challenges without a formal communication.

Banner for playlist post

Banner for playlist post

We tied music and celebration directly into the design system – encouraging employees to vote for their top choices from a curated playlist under the theme "Celebrating a brighter tomorrow". The playlist's theme connected the brand's primary colour to the campaign narrative in a way that felt organic, not forced.

We tied music and celebration directly into the design system – encouraging employees to vote for their top choices from a curated playlist under the theme "Celebrating a brighter tomorrow". The playlist's theme connected the brand's primary colour to the campaign narrative in a way that felt organic, not forced.

2. On-Site & Local Activation

TV Screen Visual

Designed for common areas and office screens globally. Simple and impactful, anchoring employees in the significance of the moment.

Tactile Event Props

Print-ready for local celebration events, with an editable template layer so local teams could insert photos and republish to their own regional feeds in enterprise social media.

I created simple, editable PowerPoint templates for welcome messages and birthday greetings, with room to extend the same style to future internal announcements.

Print format for local events and editable templates for internal social media.

Environmental Branding

Large-scale, scalable backdrop photo walls and roller banners adapted to accommodate varying office dimensions globally, serving as a photo opportunity for attending teams.

Interactive wall

A QR-enabled digital screen for local events — employees scanned to share what a brighter tomorrow meant to them personally.

These weren't static designs. They were tools for participation. Employees didn't just consume the campaign – they created content within it.

Why This Matters for Employee Experience

This campaign highlighted the difference between simply informing a workforce and genuinely involving them.

By balancing locked-down core brand assets with highly flexible layout containers, the toolkit achieved rapid global adoption across three distinct dimensions:

Translation & Extension

Taking a singular, static creative concept and orchestrating its delivery across a highly coordinated multi-channel ecosystem. Every asset was engineered to adapt seamlessly across disparate languages, cultural contexts, and varying production timelines.

Organic Scaling

Because the vector assets were accessible and highly intuitive, regional offices organically scaled the identity beyond our central plans – freely printing it onto custom notebooks, drink cans, pens, and event bags to suit their unique local celebrations.

Local Autonomy & Co-Design

Empowering on-the-ground HR and communications leads who didn't have dedicated creative support. By distributing modular, foolproof templates, local teams were transformed from passive executors into active co-creators of the workplace experience.

Left as a single announcement email, a major corporate transition can easily feel distant or clinical. By building an accessible, open-ended design infrastructure rather than a rigid asset list, local teams were empowered to take true ownership of the narrative — and the result was a campaign that didn't just reach 10,000+ employees, but moved with them.