Who:

Leadership, Collaborators, & Clients

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Amanda Happé leads the creative practice.

Amanda is a multidisciplinary Brand expert with a passion for the translation of insight into implementation. With work that spans strategy, design, identity, messaging, and roll-out, she keeps a consistent focus on the seamless connection of creative insight from day one of discovery through to external touch-point manifestation.

She leads clients and collaborators through complex projects with empathy and a strategic toolkit. In the make-or-break moment when research learnings must evolve into tangible outcomes, Amanda helps build bridges between what's been learned and what it can mean for visual, verbal, and experiential outcomes.

With empathy for the client mindset, the design-team mindset, and (above all) the audience mindset, she is uniquely adept at guiding each point-of-view towards inventive and responsive output.

With over 20 years of Brand expertise, Amanda’s experience crosses industries and audience demographics with an emphasis on cultural, education, financial, and development (real estate) sectors.

Before founding Working Session in 2016, Amanda was the Director of Strategic Design at Bruce Mau Design.



Clients & Collaborators

Agency Partners
  • Publicis Brand Design
  • FCB
  • DesignAgency
  • Frontier Design
  • Puncture
  • Cossette
  • Whitman Emorson

Select Direct Clients
  • Anywhere
  • TED
  • TJX
  • Pride Toronto
  • Facing History & Ourselves
  • YMCA
  • Workshop Architecture
  • Queen’s University

Select Via-Agency Clients...
  •           In her role as Creative Director for Bruce Mau Design, Publicis Brand Design, and FCB, Amanda has led branding projects for:
  • RBC (Royal Bank of Canada)
  • SickKids Foundation
  • Rogers
  • QuadReal
  • Doane Grant Thornton
  • OLG (Ontario Lottery & Gaming Corp.)
  • The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  • Pulitzer Arts Foundation
  • Sasaki 
  • Sinai Health System
  • Harvard Graduate School of Design
  • Hutchins Centre for African & African-American Studies
  • USC Annenberg
  • Rutgers University
  • Arizona State University
  • Columbus Metropolitan Library
  • Loussac Library (Anchorage)
  • Wolfsonian Museum
  • University of Maine
  • Hutchins Family Foundation
  • Big Blue Bus of Santa Monica
  • City of Sudbury
  • Brookfield Residential
  • The Mayo Clinic at ASU


    Connect & Contact
    Working Session is based in Toronto, Canada.

     While we are sometimes at capacity for creative work, we are always grateful to be connected with new clients and collaborators. 

    Please get in touch if you’d like to start a conversation (email link)