Clubmate Spotlight: Kristen Porter

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Club Spotlight: Kristen Porter from corporate law to creative marketing

From corporate law to creative marketing-and building businesses that evolve with her

Welcome to our Clubmate Spotlight series, where we shine a light on the people behind the businesses in our Club community – what drives them, what they love, and what makes them, well… them.

In this edition, we’re featuring Kristen Porter, a founder who has built her career across two interconnected worlds: corporate law and creative marketing.

Kristen’s story is less about choosing a single path and more about evolving one – bringing different skills and interests forward at different stages of her career. Today, she leads Realgate Legal, her corporate law business, and Zenovate Marketing, her creative marketing business, combining strategy, expertise and creativity in everything she does.

Two businesses, one underlying thread

Kristen wears two professional hats, but both are anchored in the same core idea: helping professionals build stronger, more sustainable businesses.

Her first venture, O*NO Legal (now known as Realgate Legal),  is a corporate commercial law firm that works closely with real estate agency owners. The focus is practical and strategic-helping clients protect their assets, future-proof their relationships, scale their businesses, and plan for successful exits.

More recently, Kristen sold a 75% stake in the firm, creating space to expand into a second passion that had always been quietly present in the background: marketing.

That led to the launch of Zenovate Marketing, a business that draws on her original university studies and long-standing creative instincts. Through Zenovate, she now works with lawyers and law firm owners to help them refine their marketing, clarify their messaging, and grow their practices in a more intentional way.

Across both businesses, the thread is consistent: helping professionals move from where they are to where they want to be, with more clarity and confidence.

A career shaped by reinvention

Kristen’s path is a reminder that careers don’t always move in a straight line.

Rather than stepping away from law entirely, she has reshaped how she engages with it-pairing legal expertise with creative and strategic marketing work that sits alongside it.

That combination gives her a rare perspective: she understands not only the legal and commercial realities of professional services, but also how positioning, branding, and communication influence growth.

It’s this blend that makes her work across both Realgate Legal and Zenovate Marketing feel deeply interconnected rather than separate identities.

The value of connection inside The Club

Kristen has been part of The Club since April 2021, joining during the uncertainty of the COVID years.

For her, one of the most meaningful aspects of being involved has been the sense of connection it provides-being surrounded by other lawyers who are actively building, sharing ideas, and navigating similar challenges.

That community element has helped reduce the sense of isolation that can come with running and growing a practice. Instead, it creates a space where ideas are exchanged more freely, and where inspiration and support often come from unexpected places.

When reflecting on the impact of The Club, Kristen points to exactly that: the combination of ideas, learning, and opportunity that comes from being part of an engaged and forward-thinking group of peers.

A creative life beyond business

Outside of her professional work, Kristen’s creativity finds expression in a very different arena: fashion.

Each year, she leads a not-for-profit fashion show-training models, choreographing the event, and overseeing production. It’s a hands-on, highly creative project that brings together organisation, storytelling, performance, and visual design.

It’s also a long-standing passion project that keeps her connected to her creative roots-something that predates her legal career and continues to sit alongside it in a very tangible way.

If not law, then marketing

If Kristen hadn’t pursued law, she jokes that she’s now essentially doing what she always intended to do: marketing.

There’s a truth in that reflection. Her current work sits at the intersection of communication, strategy, and creativity-areas that have clearly been present throughout her career, even if they’ve taken different forms over time.

Looking ahead

This year, Kristen’s focus is on continuing to refine both of her businesses, deepening her skills, and strengthening her connections within The Club.

It’s a phase of consolidation and growth-building on what she’s created while continuing to evolve how she works across both law and marketing.

What we love most about Kristen

Kristen’s journey is a reminder that professional identity doesn’t have to be fixed.

She has built a career that moves between law and marketing, structure and creativity, advisory work and hands-on production-without losing coherence or purpose along the way.

At the centre of it all is a clear drive: to help professionals grow in ways that are more intentional, more strategic, and more aligned with who they are becoming.

And in doing so, she’s created a career that reflects not just what she does-but who she is.

You can connect with Kristen HERE

The Next Story We Share Could Be Yours.

There is no single way to build a successful legal career.

The lawyers you’ve met here are proof of that.

Different firms. Different goals. Different versions of success.

What they share is a willingness to think differently and a community that supports them along the way.

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