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Naima Hidalgo Muñoz
Finalist | South Wales Awards

Naima Hidalgo Muñoz

Client, projects and studio lead at Toward

10 to 15 years experience
  • Creative Business of the Year Award
  • Creative Design Firm of the Year Award
  • Design and Creative Team of the Year Award
  • Outstanding Leadership Award
  • Women in Creative Industry Leadership Award
  • Women Manager of the Year

About Naima

I am the cog that keeps everything working smoothly. I am the compass that helps everyone navigate in the same direction, and yes, I love a good pun! Day-to-day, I look after a wide range of client accounts. No two days are the same, and one week might include a website restructure, a brand development scope, campaign support and a set of brochures — my work is varied, and I love this! The sectors vary a lot, which gives me so much knowledge, but the problems and job are the same: understand what a client actually needs, turn it into a scope the team can deliver, and steer it through to completion. I also handle client communications, project scheduling and invoicing. I'm often the person clients speak to most, so I see my role as building trust through consistency. That means replying when I say I will, flagging issues before they turn into problems, and telling people the truth even when it isn't what they want to hear. I'm direct, and I value directness in others. Toward isn't the kind of agency that just says yes, and I don't think I'm the kind of person who does either. Saying no well, with reasons and a constructive alternative, is one of the most useful things I can do for a client.

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About Toward

We are an independent strategic brand and web design agency. Founded in 2002 by Tom Lloyd and Mike Jordan, both graduates of the University of Glamorgan, the studio has worked continuously for more than two decades. We have delivered work for over 300 clients across more than a dozen sectors. We help organisations become clearer about who they are, what they stand for and how they should present themselves. Our clients are typically organisations with something to prove. Many have complex stakeholder groups, bilingual requirements, accessibility obligations or a need to explain something difficult in a simple way. That is where our studio's strategic grounding matters most.

About Naima's team

We're a lean studio by design. Our core team is small and senior, and senior involvement throughout a project is the model, not the exception. Clients deal with the people who are doing the thinking and the work, not with an account layer that passes messages back and forth. Where a project needs capabilities outside the core team, we bring in trusted specialist partners while keeping responsibility for strategy, creative direction and overall delivery. This gives our clients the reach of a larger agency without the overheads, and it means each discipline is handled by people who specialise in it. The market is full of agencies that will produce a logo, a website or a campaign on request. Our team's difference is the thinking behind the finished product. We ask the questions that need asking before any design work starts. We put senior people on every project. And we will say when the brief is wrong, because we would rather earn a client's trust than simply win the job.

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Naima's road to the ceremony

  1. Nominated

    Nominated on 5 October 2026

  2. People's Choice vote

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  3. Finalists announced

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  4. The awards ceremony

    Thursday, 29 October 2026 at Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff CF11 8AZ, United Kingdom

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