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Tim Love, Now Advocate for Online Safety, Discusses Concerns for Children and Navigating between Fact & Fiction…
Eighteen months ago, former Omnicom Vice Chairman Tim Love released his award-winning book Discovering Truth: How to Navigate Between Fact and Fiction in an Overwhelming Social Media World. Drawing inspiration from renowned business leaders, Discovering Truth explored how today’s social media affects trust in institutions and divides an increasingly polarized society. After a series of lectures […]
Industry Expert Joanne Davis Shares How to Get Your Agency to Run Through Brick Walls—Without Paying More…
… Through humor and wisdom, Joanne Davis provides an essential new book for maximizing Client-Agency Relationships by highlighting “good” and “bad” marketer behavior… More than one trillion dollars are spent globally on advertising—a figure exceeding the GDP of 19 countries. Imagine the waste to companies and their stockholders when marketers do not learn the basic […]
Dave McCaughan, Expert on Age and International Culture, Explains What Brands Get Wrong about Older People…
Dave McCaughan is a storyteller, marketing expert, consultant, and public speaker passionate about understanding the interconnection between people and brands. He spent three decades with McCann throughout Asia, developing the Strategic Planning practice and working with a stellar roster of global clients. Ten years ago, he created a fascinating consultancy called BIBLIOSEXUAL for “marketing what […]
Lana McGilvray of Purpose Worldwide Offers Insights on How Purpose Drives Measurable Growth…
Lana McGilvray is the Co-Founder and CEO Of Purpose Worldwide, a communications consultancy that specializes in helping clients define and connect purpose to growth. In an era of accountability, particularly in marketing, even the most noble missions must be associated with economic outcomes. Given her broad experience with brands, associations, nonprofits, and tech companies, Lana discusses the biggest challenges in […]
P&G’s Taide Guajardo and ISBA’s Phil Smith Aim to Ensure All Ads Are Accessible to People with Hearing or Vision Loss
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that one out of every thirteen people have enough hearing or vision impairment to depend on captioning and descriptive audio for their media use. By 2050, WHO also anticipates that 2.5 billion people will be living with some degree of hearing loss. While these statistics may seem overwhelming, the Ad Access Alliance, […]
Parity CEO Leela Srinivasan Champions Research on Women’s Sports to Find that Brands Have a Massive Opportunity…
Parity was created in 2020 to close the gender income and opportunity gap in professional sports, and CEO Leela Srinivasan has been in her role for a year. To help revolutionize the financial model for women athletes and create meaningful opportunities for brands, she has championed what may be the most extensive study of women’s […]
Michael Kelly of World Bicycle Relief Discusses a Viable Nonprofit & Social Enterprise Model Relevant to Brands…
Michael Kelly has worked in digital media and communications strategy roles at consumer packaged goods and technology companies for much of his career. Several months ago, he accepted his “dream job” as Communications Director of World Bicycle Relief. While he’s a cycling enthusiast, he’s also passionate about the mission to supply bicycles to remote regions of the […]
Shell’s Rahul Malhotra Outlines How AI has Equipped Teams with Global Access to the Company’s Vast Creative Assets…
Rahul Malhotra is responsible for global brand strategy and architecture for the Shell brand family, which includes overseeing brand identity, brand stewardship, employee ambassadorship, and brand purpose. Over 125 years old and valued at over $50 billion, the Shell brand is one of the world’s top 23 most valuable brands, and its yellow and red […]
WFA’s Stephan Loerke Outlines a Framework for Positive Marketing Behaviors in an Increasingly Complex World
Today’s marketing environment is demanding— not only due to endless changes to consumer habits and proliferating technology but also geopolitical crises, polarized politics, and nonstop media reactions. Driving brand growth through purposeful and inclusive policies that embrace diverse audiences has never been more complex. Reflecting increasing demands from regulators, pressure groups, investors, and society, WFA (World […]
CSL’s Anthony Farina Talks About Brand Value, the Power of Disruption, and Staying True to Purpose…
For the past decade, Anthony Farina, Chief Communications & Brand Officer of biotech giant CSL, has been part of the company’s extraordinary evolution. From his beginnings as the first communications leader in CSL’s century-long history, he has helped champion a purpose-driven ethos or “promise,” which enabled the CSL family to unify as one global brand […]