MAKe places work for people
realestate marketing & Communications
For purpose-led property and places.
I help developers, architects, and design-led businesses shape clear, human-centred stories around their projects—connecting people to place, purpose, and value.
My work combines brand positioning, behavioural market insights, service design, and customer experience to make real estate and placemaking feel meaningful. Whether you’re launching a new development, repositioning an asset, or refining your digital presence, I bring clarity, coherence, and creative direction.
Services include
Strategy and narrative development
Campaign direction and brand alignment
Branded environments and marketing suites
Website and content strategy
Press and communications guidance
Furniture packages
Through an evidence-based approach grounded in wellbeing and human-centred design, I help create integrated marketing strategies that feels real—supporting commercial success while contributing to a healthier, more connected built environment.
wellbeing & experience strategy
Designing environments that support people.
Evidence-based, human-centred strategy for workplaces, hospitality and design-led brands. I align place, operations and communication so wellbeing is felt in the experience and reflected in results.
What you can expect
Wellbeing strategy & roadmap.
Experience principles & guidelines.
Sensory & materials direction.
WELL guidance and audits (WELL AP).
Programme and pilot design.
Leadership & internal communications.
On-site journey mapping.
Brand alignment.
How I work
People-first, evidence-aware. Short sprints to set the direction; clear playbooks your teams can use the next day.
Outcomes
Healthier, more coherent experiences; higher engagement and retention; a credible story stakeholders trust.
Practice Advisory & wellbeing coaching
Advisory and coaching for women building meaningful work—across social enterprise, design, creative arts, architecture and independent practice.
Twenty years across interior design, strategy and communications; twelve in embodiment and women’s work; lived experience across EMEA and APAC. This is quiet, practical support that blends leadership, creative development, wellbeing/somatic practice and business advisory. Use it for life-work decisions, for a project brief, or for shaping a health & wellbeing proposition.
What you can book me for
Leadership & direction. Stakeholder alignment; workplace wellbeing; creative development & process; somatic-supported presence.
Practice & business advisory. Market positioning; personal brand; life–work alignment; practical guidance (theory to practice).
Design for health & wellbeing. Neuro-Somatic Design™ input to briefs; wellbeing principles & sense-making for your home, workplace or project.
Creative & cultural strategy. Narrative, brand/communications; systemic & futures mapping; place-making and project guidance.
Architectural & project support. Experience standards; client messaging; wellbeing & service design across touch-points.
Learn what you can expect from coaching with Nina, or book a 30 minute intro consultation today.
“The drive to make sense out of our experience, to give it form and order, is evidently as real and as pressing as the more familiar biological needs.”
Clifford Geertz
MEET Nina
Nina Rattenbury
Founder, Interior Designer and Strategist
I’m Nina Rattenbury, a design and strategy leader focused on Wellbeing, Place & Experience.
A qualified interior designer (BBE.), I bring 20 years across EMEA and APAC—combining human-centred design with marketing communications to make places work for people (and for business). My Neuro-Somatic Design™ framework turns research into practical standards. I also advise and mentor women across creative and social enterprise, blending leadership, business decisions and embodied practice.
