Chase has always believed great brands start with great leadership. Everything else follows.
Chase grew up in Arizona, watching his dad build and run his own business. He learned early that leadership is both rewarding and genuinely hard, and that the best leaders do right by their people. His dad was also a carpenter, which meant Chase spent enough time helping remodel the house to develop a real respect for people who work with their hands.
Early in his career, he worked at top-tier creative agencies in Arizona, learning branding and client service from people who took it seriously, then sharpened his craft in art direction and brand systems in New York. In 2019, he saw his old friend from Arizona, Aaron Witt, posting photos of an industry he knew nothing about, and sent him a message offering design help. Aaron gave him a shot as graphic designer number five at a little startup called BuildWitt. What followed was five years of building: brands, workshops, websites, a team, and a front-row seat to some of the best construction and infrastructure leaders in the country.
By the time FieldWrk launched as its own agency, Chase had facilitated over 50 brand strategy workshops and worked with companies ranging from five-person startups to multi-billion dollar infrastructure organizations. His team has collectively run over 100 workshops, built over 115 websites, and logged time on hundreds of job sites. The clients, C.W. Matthews, Emery Sapp & Sons, Clark Construction, Sargent, Veit, and many more, aren’t just names on a case study page. They’re partnerships Chase takes personally.
His philosophy hasn’t changed since the beginning: great brands are built from the inside out, and they start with leadership. Culture and brand aren’t separate things. They shape each other, and when leadership gets that right, everything else follows. It’s what drives the work at FieldWrk and what keeps Chase engaged on every new client, uncovering the real challenges, working with the team to find the right path forward, and showing up as a genuine extension of the organizations they serve.
When he’s not leading the team or running a workshop, Chase is outside, backpacking, hiking, running, and skiing in the Rockies when the season allows. He once backpacked through Patagonia and calls it the trip of a lifetime, which feels right for someone who believes the best things in life require putting in the miles. He reads at least ten pages a day and has a particular obsession with the Stoics, some of the greatest leaders of their time, whose wisdom he’d argue is more relevant in today’s fast-paced world than it ever was. For someone who has spent years helping other leaders find clarity, it makes sense that he’d be drawn to thinkers who made it their life’s work.
