Encompass is a Mexican and Canadian owned creative agency founded by Carlye Smedley and Gabriel Delgado. As founders, we lead the vision and bring together a team of creative professionals with diverse skills. We focus on collaboration, personalized attention, and bringing each client's vision to life, supported by a capable team. We stay hands-on, while your ideas stay at the center.
ABOUT US
We believe nothing meaningful is built alone. Progress grows from shared effort, mutual support, and the understanding that we're stronger when we build together. That belief brought us here as founders, and it continues to guide how we build Encompass—through shared vision, trust, and the contribution of every person involved.
HELLO, I'M CARLYE
My professional background combines graphic design, strategic communications, and experience within the Canadian public sector. While working within municipal government in Canada, I contributed to assessing community needs, identifying local challenges, and developing strategic approaches to support community growth.
Through my strategic direction and hands-on execution, what began as a community initiative grew into a successful regional program over four years. Alongside my public sector experience, I've also worked with private clients across different industries, developing brand identities and creative solutions tailored to their individual businesses and goals. At Encompass, I bring that experience and creative range to help shape ideas into thoughtful, effective work.
My academic background includes technical qualifications in graphic design and computer systems, complemented by diplomas in business management and customer service completed in Canada. Being able to communicate in both English and Spanish also helps me connect with and understand a wider range of people and perspectives.
My professional career started in the public sector, where I served as director of a municipal youth institute and as private secretary to an elected government representative, giving me first-hand insight into public administration and institutional relations. After that, I entered electoral politics as a candidate and independently ran my own campaign, which gave me a clear sense of the challenges of campaigning and the importance of understanding people's realities. That experience helped shape my political philosophy, grounded in political materialism. I focus on the social realities and material conditions that shape people's perspectives, which helps me understand different viewpoints and work respectfully with various candidates. For more than five years, I developed and managed digital campaigns, handling messaging, audience analysis, content strategy, and crisis communications, including analyzing social media performance data to inform publishing strategies. Here at Encompass, I bring that experience into data-informed marketing and creative direction, helping clients communicate effectively and achieve their goals.
HELLO, I'M GABRIEL
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