Winner: Employer of Choice at 2026 IMB Bank Business Awards

Okay, we’re just going to say it: we won Employer of Choice at the 2026 IMB Bank Illawarra Business Awards!

We’re still a little bit buzzing.

It started at the Kiama Business Awards, where we took out Employer of Choice for the first time. We figured that alone was a pretty great night. Then somehow we found ourselves at the University of Wollongong on Friday 11 September, in a room full of some of the best businesses this region has to offer, hearing our name called out again, this time for the whole Illawarra and South Coast.

So, how does a marketing agency with no office, no requirements to ask for a day off, and no fixed 9 to 5 end up winning an award specifically about being a great place to work? Honestly, we think it’s precisely because of all of that.

Here’s the short version of how we do things. Pay is transparent across the whole team, no guessing games, no awkward conversations avoided because nobody knows what anyone else earns. Profit is shared so everyone is invested in the business’ success. Decisions get made by whoever’s closest to the work, not bounced up a chain of managers until someone with a fancier title signs off. And there’s no office to commute to, no clock to punch, just people trusted to do brilliant work in whatever hours actually suit their life.

Turns out, when you treat people like capable adults instead of employees who need watching, they tend to do their best work. Who knew (hint – we did).

We built Marketing Movement around two goals: do genuinely excellent marketing for small and medium businesses, and build a workplace where people, especially women, can actually live their best lives while doing it. Not one or the other. Both, always.

This win belongs to every single person on our team, the ones who show up, do exceptional work for our clients, and then go coach a kids’ footy team or make it to school pickup because their job lets them. That’s not a nice extra. That’s the whole point.

Huge thanks to Business Illawarra, IMB Bank, and the Kiama Business Network for the recognition, and for putting on two brilliant nights.

To our incredible team, and everyone who’s ever believed that work doesn’t have to look like everyone else’s version of it, this one’s for you.

Now, we’re off to represent Illawarra and the South Coast at the NSW Awards!