Our Agency

Keep Left is a specialist PR & creative communications agency with offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane built around three practices that work independently but are stronger together.

We’re commercially minded, creatively driven and deeply invested in the work. This has allowed us to stay at the top of our game for 25 years.

Our value lies in our values

We’re not afraid to change what we do – but we’ll never change who we are. Our values guide how we work – internally, and with our clients.

Our values

Empathy starts with curiosity.

We appreciate the complexity of the human brain and the diversity of opinions people hold. Relentless curiosity pushes us beyond our familiar corners, helping us pop our own bubbles and welcome new perspectives.

This is Wholebrain Thinking in action.

We’re people, people.

We love working together, and with our clients – we want you to love the work as much as we do. We also believe that diverse perspectives lead to better solutions, so we invite people in to challenge our own thinking and drive results. We’re all about outcomes here, not egos.

We’re a team of co-pilots.

No one flies solo at Keep Left. We look out for each other and our clients. A problem for one of us is a problem for all of us. But we don’t shy away from the hard stuff. One of our clients calls this our “spinach-in-the-teeth value” because we’ll never let anyone veer off track. It’s in our DNA to roll up our sleeves before we’re asked, because we win together and learn together.

Good enough isn’t good enough for a Leftie.

We’re driven to do more, be more and achieve more in everything we do – for our clients and for each other. Once we nail the fundamentals, we hustle, go deep and back ourselves, until we reach that sweet spot where real impact happens. We can’t help it. It’s just the way we are.

It’s more than a job to us.

Look, we’ve got really high standards. We care deeply about the quality of our work. We respect each other’s expertise, hold ourselves to high standards and see every piece of work through to a strong result. Our focus is on mastering our skills while constantly reevaluating our approach against transparent, measurable outcomes. That’s how we keep getting better.

Meet the Team

The work is only as good as the people behind it. Across our Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane offices, we’ve built a team of strategists, creatives, PR specialists, writers, designers and producers who are genuinely invested in what they make and who they make it for.

We don’t hire people who are satisfied with good enough. We hire people who care about the craft, back each other without being asked and go above and beyond for clients.

Because at Keep Left, we know this is what it takes.

  • Caroline Catterall

    Managing Director

  • Gillian Gosling

    Head of PR

  • Johanna Murray

    Head of Creative

  • Blair Kimber

    Executive Creative Director

  • Erin Oliver

    Studio Director

  • Ryan O'Leary

    Reputation Lead

  • Zoe Morely

    PR & Culture Lead

WE’re PART OF the Hardie Grant MEDIA Network

Keep Left is part of Hardie Grant Media, an independent Australian marketing network of 130 people spanning strategy, creative, media, social, content, production,
PR and influencer marketing.

That means the expertise of a specialist agency with the resources and reach of something much larger.

It gives us complementary capabilities, shared thinking and a network we can call on when the brief demands more.

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