GODOT CREATIVE - Key Persons
Beckett founded Godot in 2006 as a boutique creative consultancy, focused on solving complex problems with a toolkit of media, technology, behavioral science, and design. With over a hundred client engagements over the course of 27 years, Beckett believes that what the world deems as "creativity" is simply solving problems through a human lens.
Before founding Godot in Boulder, CO, Beckett served the US and British consulates in St. Petersburg, Russia teaching art history and technology, ran an import/export business out of Tallinn, Estonia selling Chinese antiques, designed international management programs for Japan Tobacco, and worked as a copywriter for Ogilvy.
Returning to New York, he contracted with KPMG (copy), D&G (art), and HIT Entertainment (hybrid/strategy) in partnership with PBS and Sesame Workshop to launch the TV channel Sprout.
Bryce joined Godot as a copywriter in 2016, providing content, style, and substance to multiple projects including, most recently, Hyatt's high-level leadership training and virtual onboarding.
A true creative polymath and autodidact, Bryce is "finally finishing" their Masters in Philosophy at the University of Colorado Denver while they continues to work with Godot as senior copywriter, thought partner, activist, and occasional musician.
A long time friend of the organization, Charlie first formally worked with the Godot team doing video production work for Hyatt's DEI initiatives. Since, he has continued to serve in a production and messaging role for clients inside and outside of the diversity space.
A gifted illustrator, natural communicator, rabid romantic, and genuinely kind, funny human, Charlie brings high-level creative thinking, a persuasive voice, and intuitive millennial tech to Godot's team of gray-haired fuddy-duddies.
Spann lives in Denver with his cats, who also happen to have studied criminal justice and worked in the event promotion and natural foods industry.
Vu has spent his life at the intersection of communication, technology, and humanity. He has served on the launch team of every large scale suicide prevention effort since 2003. His groundwork is at the heart of the safety and security protocols for Google, Facebook, Youtube, Tumblr and more. He was the National Suicide Hotline's third hire.
Vu has spent his life designing population-specific programs that transition communities from traumatic events to post-traumatic growth. With his profound understanding of human nature and how we interact with messaging, however, he's equally at home selling widgets as long as they are widgets of substance.
In all of these efforts, Vu takes a profoundly personal approach to large scale issues. His mom fled Vietnam in 1978 when he was four months old, making him one of the first "boat people." After a year in a refugee camp, they were sponsored by an American family to come to the U.S. He spends his life trying to provide others with the same kind of refuge that he felt in that moment.
Vu holds a Masters degree in Communications and Instructional Design from Teachers College at Columbia University.
Jennifer Gandin Le is a writer, editor, and photographer. She has an extraordinary gift for helping people translate their ideas into clear, powerful written language that conveys the heart of their message. Most recently, Jennifer has worked with authors like James and Laura Victore, John Howard, Marcela Lobos, Ana Catalina Reynoso De La Garza, and Enolia Foti.
Jennifer also edited Danielle LaPorte's White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path from One Seeker to Another, and Rochelle Schieck's Qoya: A Compass for Navigating an Embodied Life that is Wise, Wild and Free, a book based on the movement that has been featured on Oprah.com and in publications like New York Magazine and Psychology Today.
When she was just 24, director Francis Ford Coppola commissioned her film adaptation of the best-selling novel The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank. Her non-fiction writing has been published in Reuters, Wired Magazine, Time Out New York, BUST Magazine, and The Village Voice.
Gandin Le graduated with honors from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She's also an alumna of the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, a national organization of over 2,500 women ethical leaders working toward social change. She lives in Austin, TX, with her husband, two young sons, dog, and two ball pythons.