Patrick Pittman

Patrick Pittman is a Newfoundland and Toronto-based writer, editor, filmmaker, and strategist who has spent his career asking questions, figuring out new ways to tell better stories and build better communities, and to help himself and others understand the ways the world is changing at the edges of things. 

As the co-founder of No Media Co, Patrick provides research, strategy and knowledge translation services across a wide range of sectors from healthcare to publishing to cybersecurity and industrial automation, understanding specific stakeholder needs to translate and deliver complex messaging. Recent major clients include the Gates Foundation and X (Google’s “moonshot factory”). He is a member of Group of Humans — a globally distributed community of select creative leaders and change architects, including astronauts, BAFTA winners, policy makers, and some of the technologists behind the most transformative platforms and initiatives of the last few decades. 

He was previously the creative and editorial director of Toronto content agency Totem, where he headed-up Folio and CMA award-winning projects with some of North America’s largest brands, including Acura and GEICO. He has been a correspondent for Monocle in Australia, the South Pacific, and Canada. He continues to consult regularly for other creative agencies on content and strategy, and has worked with the New York Times’ T Brand Studio, Vice’s Virtue Worldwide and BBC Worldwide’s StoryWorks unit.