Darley Stewart is the founder of Golden Hour, a disruptive venture reshaping how creative teams work. With a background in cognitive science and postgraduate research on moral cognition – plus a decade of experience in the advertising industry – she has built a science-backed, highly practical program that helps corporate creatives reconnect with themselves and unlock their deepest insights.
As a creativity and flow-state instructor, Darley specializes in bridging what neuroscience proves we need with what businesses demand. Her sessions are structured, interactive, and designed to dismantle burnout while reigniting curiosity and originality at work.
Endlessly fascinated by how the creative mind works, she is obsessive about solving the crisis of creative exhaustion. In addition to her corporate innovation work, Darley is certified in the fundamentals of mindfulness-based stress reduction, bringing both rigor and humanity into every room she leads.
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What Creative Teams Really Want
Creative brilliance doesn’t come from running at full speed, all the time.
It comes from cycles – deep work, real recovery, and space to dream.
Teams crave rhythms that fuel their best work: time to recharge between sprints, focus without a calendar full of distractions, and clear direction that cuts through the churn. They want to know their work matters, even when their favorite ideas never see the light of day. And that isn’t achieved solely through self-congratulatory “town hall” meetings. It needs to reach deeper than that.
They want freedom to wander into wild thinking during downtime. So when it’s pitch time, they bring a sharper, braver mindset to the table.
Golden Hour was built for this. To protect the spark. To keep the work – and the people who make it – alive.