Hey, I’m Donna

Hey there! I’m Donna Moritz, Australian Visual Content Strategist, Canva Verified Expert and a Super Creator of Business Templates for Canva. I love transforming teams of non-designers into confident Canva users to create on-brand, high-impact visual content.

But let’s talk about you. Chances are you’re here because you want to harness the full potential of Canva for your team. Whether it’s a team of 2, 22 or 122 I can help you streamline visual content production, enhance collaboration and maintain brand consistency.

Or maybe you’re here for the fun Canva tutorials and templates… Canva Training + Templates is my jam!

 

The Fun Facts

  • Socially Sorted (my blog) is loved worldwide, named by Forbes as one of the Top 5 Blogs You Should Know About, and listed by Inc. Magazine as one of 15 Social Media Blogs You Should be Following! 
  • I’m one of only 50 Canva Verified Experts worldwide and a top tier Canva Super Creator of templates for the Canva Library. (My templates are highly popular with Canva users (downloaded over 25 million times!). 
  • I was one of Canva’s first users (#358) and got to introduce Canva to many large audiences as an international speaker in the early days.
  • I’ve presented at conferences across the globe from Social Media Marketing World/Content Marketing World in the US to Unesco in China to workshops for some of the biggest brands in India at the Indian Digital Media Awards. I once played drums at the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame in the US at Content Marketing World in Cleveland. (see next fun fact).
  • Yes, I can play the drums (we had a family band when I was a kid). I can juggle too, but that’s a bit rusty. So is the drumming if I’m completely honest ;o)
“Visual Storytelling is a cataylist for trust. The more your audience sees your visual content, the more they experience YOU and spend time with you … that builds trust.”

Donna Moritz

…A Little Background On Me

I’m an Aussie who spends most of her time hanging out on the Sunshine Coast with my husband, two teens and a Lagotto Romagnolo (yes, that’s a pup… of Italian descent so he loves food and has personality).

I fell into social media from an 18 year background in business and communication. It’s a speech-therapist-turns-founder-of-international-working-holiday-recruitment-agency-and-discovers-out-how-to-use-clever-marketing-strategies-kind of tale.

Outside of the Canva Training, Template Design and Speaking I do at Canva (see above), here are a couple of little-known facts about me that shape who I am at work:

Little Known Fact 1:

In 2001, I started a working holiday (recruitment) agency with a fellow health professional – to help therapists live and work in the UK. When you go up against big agencies with multi-million dollar advertising budgets you pretty soon learn how to:
  • get social (before the advent of Facebook!)
  • leverage the power of digital content (yes our website was an early version of a blog, we just didn’t know it yet!)
  • use visual storytelling (even if we had to travel to Universities to do it!)
  • inspire word of mouth marketing by giving massive value and create amazing customer experiences.

What did I learn from this? I learned to think differently.

I also learned that I LOVE marketing in travel and tourism!

Little Known Fact 2:

My husband and I continue to own a wellness practice in Australia with an award-winning referral-based business. A couple of years ago, word of mouth referrals proved so powerful that we made the big decision to ditch advertising and focus our entire marketing budget on loving our clients to bits. You see where I am going with this? I learned to think differently.

I know a thing or two about word-of-mouth marketing, user generated content and providing massive value to a community of people that care about what you care about. It’s also why I am often asked to speak and train within the marketing and travel industries.

And because I do fun things like getting my audience to wear 3D glasses in presentations. Anything might happen when I have the space to be creative!

Stick with me, read my blog and subscribe to my newsletter, and you will see will start to think differently (and think in 3D) too… and get better results!

The Power of Design Literacy (& why it matters)

You have more important things to do than spend hours learning how to design. Yet now, in 2025 it’s never been more important to be able to communicate, collaborate and create visually as a team. In fact 92% of leaders surveyed by Canva expect employees in non-design roles to have basic design skills and knowledge. That’s where I step in! 

Design Literacy doesn’t work in a silo. With visual collaboration tools through to brand assets, brand protections, templates and aprovals, your team can work smarter in Canva – even the non-designers! With the right training and systems (I got you!) you’ll save hundreds of design hours to produce visual content quickly and weasily… and get back to doing your important, impactful work. 

Me, When The WiFi
Is Switched Off

I am a travel, cacao and red-wine loving creative mother of two (awesome teens) with a wicked imagination. I live on the gorgeous Sunshine Coast in Australia so believe me I am not a fan of spending hours on social media going around in circles. I would rather have my feet in the sand with my family, as I am sure you would too. As such, I’m always searching for new ways to use tools like Canva to create content quickly and easily so I CAN switch off.

I love to laugh, to paint, to create (I am a Disney-tragic and proud of it) … and I LOVE playing with visual content creation tools and teaching my audience how easy they are to use!

Click here to read more about my speaking and training. If you follow my blog you will see that I keep it real and I am not afraid to make fun of myself. I’m cheeky. And I’m conversational. I want my readers and subscribers to feel like they are talking with a friend.

I hate the word guru, love to learn, I am fiercely loyal and I love to help people. That’s where I come in handy for you!

“Donna’s knowledge in visual social media and content strategy for business is astounding”

Susan Maynard, Connect Tourism.

Ready to create amazing, on-brand, high-impact visual content as a team?
Talk to me about how we can work together today!