About us
Building the agency we always wanted collaborating with us
Vivace is a global B2B creative studio and consultancy that helps businesses drive meaningful brand and commercial impact.
We tackle complex marketing, branding, content, and communications challenges through our four key practice areas: Insights, Strategy, Studio, and Media Lab.
Our engagement method immerses us within your business, fostering long-term relationships that fuel creativity and innovation.
By taking a community-centric approach, we connect our clients with senior talent from our extensive global network across creative and MarComm disciplines.
Founded in 2023 by longtime collaborators from Thomson Reuters and LSEG, Ryan Sheppard and Joel Leeman, Vivace is the agency we always wanted working with us.
Meet the founders
RYAN SHEPPARD
📍 London
First and foremost a storyteller, Ryan has been a senior content executive and corporate editor-in-chief across LSEG, Refinitiv, and Thomson Reuters, and has a passion for developing talent, driving innovation, and convening both people and ideas. Ryan takes pride in maximizing a company’s resources to drive impact across digital channels and is particularly gifted at partnering with a company’s subject matter experts to create compelling and accessible insights.
He’s spoken at events around the world and loves helping to shape future business leaders through his work with Exeter University.
Ryan has lived and worked in the UK, Switzerland, USA, and Australia and holds a Bachelor's degree in marketing from Curtin University, Western Australia.
JOEL LEEMAN
📍 Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Joel Leeman is a seasoned content strategist and executive producer. He is the host of Connection Request, a podcast about career journeys.
Prior to his adventures in entrepreneurship, Joel spent a decade in global content leadership roles with brands including the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), FTSE Russell, Refinitiv, and Thomson Reuters.
Joel started his career in social media, which took him around the world, along the way interviewing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and covering high-profile events like the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos and the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Joel loves spending his time on career mentorship and also works with several nonprofits including the Hennepin Theatre Trust’s board of directors. With deep roots in the music world, Joel is also a freelance musician, playing with a jazz band in Minneapolis and occasionally sitting in as a studio musician on friends’ recording projects.