Smart writing.
Strategic thinking.

Rowena keeps things on track at Words for Breakfast. She’s the one chasing up wayward copywriters, communicating with clients, making sure projects run without a hitch and managing our operating systems.

Her digital nous and knack for building strong client relationships come from over a decade in sales and marketing, including positions at MSN in Auckland and Yahoo in London and Sydney.

Ro spends her days thinking of ways to improve and grow the business. Her best strategy to date has been lots of client lunches and team dinners because if you aren’t having fun, what’s the point?

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Here’s a tidbit that’s almost too convenient: Helen’s grandpa helped write the Heinemann NZ Dictionary.

A talent for copywriting and an eye for strategy have made Helen the go-to woman for her clients. She’s equally comfortable whipping up a witty radio ad, crafting smart business copy for a website or creating a clear, effective strategy to guide a client’s messaging.

Helen is also a well-regarded copywriting trainer, having trained teams from some of New Zealand’s largest corporations including Griffins Food Company, Foodstuffs, Sovereign Insurance and ASB. She’s lectured at AUT’s advertising school and runs the Marketing Association NZ’s extremely popular copywriting courses.

As one of six siblings, Becs can hold several conversations at once without breaking a sweat. That skill comes in handy when she’s juggling calls, emails and incoming briefs as our account manager extraordinaire.

With a previous long-term role at ASB and experience in retail management, customer service, admin, and operating systems are her forte.

Thanks to her two pre-schoolers, she has a stack of books gathering dust at home, so loves the opportunity to read good blog posts before sending them on to clients.

With a degree in communications and experience in various marketing roles, Jess brings deep, strategic thinking to her copy.

What started as a hobby in high school has turned into a full-time career and passion.

Jess has penned articles across a number of industries, comfortably flipping between whimsical travel pieces, informative e-commerce blogs and persuasive financial articles – just to name a few.

Jemima has worked as a librarian, an advertising copywriter and a primary school teacher. It is not a coincidence that all these jobs involve words.

Her degree in communications and ad agency experience mean that a love of words is backed up by experience and a knack for strategy. She can take the briefest of briefs and turn it into compelling copy – whether she’s working on pages of detailed web copy or a mildly hilarious 15-second radio script.

Sarah has been writing since she was tiny – starting with poems about her pets, stepping up to essays at uni and finally turning those skills into a job.

She graduated from Otago University with a Masters in Teaching and Learning, before moving to London. There, she worked for fashion, hospitality and finance brands as a freelance copywriter.

When COVID sent her back to New Zealand, she joined the WFB team where she’s honing her skills writing blogs, articles and whatever comes her way.

Katherine is Words for Breakfast’s oldest copywriter – in both senses of the word. She’s been writing for 40+ years and has worked with us since we started in 2008.

She’s penned poetry, plays, film scripts, blogs, essays, media releases, reviews, newsletters, short stories and novels. She holds a Master’s degree (First Class Honours) in Creative and Performing Arts, specialising in screenwriting. Among other jobs, Katherine has done a stint as the national convener of the NCWNZ Economic Issues Standing Committee, collating a wide range of opinions and writing formal submissions.

When Katherine reads or writes, she is gone from the neck up.

With almost a decade spent in the world of advertising sales (most recently at MediaWorks), Kelly got a feel for how to write compelling copy and slipped into the world of copywriting almost by accident.

Having spent a lot of her spare time as a child on a small yacht bobbing around the Hauraki Gulf with either a book or a pen in hand, creativity and words have always been her jam. In her spare time, Kelly is an over-enthusiastic DIY'er, pretending to be a contestant of The Block – just with two little kids in tow.

Liv is a self-described ‘annoying lyrics person’, who loves a great song just as much as a poem, a novel – or a headline. That obsession with words has taken her to some interesting places.

After graduating with a major in Marketing and International business, she moved to Shanghai and started a Kiwi pie shop – taking care of all the branding and marketing on her own, naturally. Following a successful eight years, she returned home in search of a simpler life, and found it in the beachside town of Omaha.

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