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Let's talk about neurodiversity
This June, Sam Phillips, Chief Marketing Officer at Omnicom Media Group UK, Managing Director OMG Ethnic and Assistant Dean of Omnicom University tackled diversity’s ‘elephant in the room’: neurodiversity. The response was overwhelming. The term defines a range of people who have difficulties with organisation, memory, concentration, time, direction, perception and sequencing. As part of National Inclusion Week, Ali Hanan, founder of the newly released Creative Equality Standard, talks to their training partner, Roxanne Hobbs, founder of The Hobbs Consultancy and Phillips, about why it’s the topic we still have yet to put top of the diversity agenda.
The 30 women trailblazing in creative right now
In the UK, only 12% of creative directors are female. To change this, Creative Equals, which champions gender-equality in the creative industries, is partnering Campaign to celebrate 30 (or 31, as it ultimately turned out) women redefining adland through their creativity and craft.
"The work we saw shows the applicants are punching above their weight in their personal projects, their ambitions, their energy and their determination," Caitlin Ryan, executive creative director at Cheil Worldwide and one of the #CEFutureLeaders judges, says.
#SHARETHESPOTLIGHT
Here we are the world's biggest advertising festival. But where are all the women? The world is 50:50 but the speaker line up at Cannes Lion is not. As ever, Creative Equals - as part of Campaign's #CampaignForEquality is championing a small actionable step by asking men at the festival to #ShareTheSpotlight.
Why we lose our female talent before they even start
We lose 40% of our young female talent before they start in adland
That's why we're asking for your help to raise £10K to fund for talents facing financial hardship.
Right now, women leave advertising schools in equal numbers, but only 30% of our creative departments are staffed by women and just 12% of creative directors are female.
Calling all future leaders: leadership programme open now
Are you ready to step up to a leadership role? Our creative leadership boot camp will run over six months starting on 27th June.
The 30 women trailblazing in creative right now
In the UK, only 12% of creative directors are female. To change this, Creative Equals, which champions gender-equality in the creative industries, is partnering Campaign to celebrate 30 (or 31, as it ultimately turned out) women redefining adland through their creativity and craft.
Creative's 30 future leaders
Do we need quotas to move the industry's figures onwards? Some leaders, such as Google’s ad marketing director Nishma Robb, discussed how without quotas the industry ‘won’t move at the pace we need to’.
Are you one of 30 female future leaders?
With Campaign, we're on the hunt for 30 women trailblazing in creative and destined for leadership roles. If that's you, put yourself forward. Now.
#CEFutureLeaders
How do we double the number of creative directors in London? This. We're inviting 100 of the industry's rising stars to a stellar one-day event with the industry’s top creatives, clients and business leaders. The day includes two one-hour break-out training sessions with executive coaches, speed mentoring and an evening out with the industry's key figures, plus the chance for ’30 future creative leaders’ to feature in Campaign.
Our speakers:
Sandi Toksvig, OBE, co-founder, Women's Equality Party
Tim Lindsay, Chief Executive Officer, D&AD
Rosie Arnold, Head of Art, AMVBBDO
Tracy De Groose, Chief Executive Officer, Dengsu Aegis
Claire Beale, Global Editor-in-Chief, Campaign
Laura Jordan-Bambach, Creative Partner, Mr President, co-founder SheSays
Annette King, Chief Executive Officer, Ogilvy Group UK, Chair OgilvyOne EMEA
Chris Hirst, European and UK Group, Chief Executive Officer, Havas London
Nicky Bullard, Chair and Chief Creative Officer, MRMMeteorite
Cilla Snowball, Group Chairman & Group CEO, AMV BBDO
Richard Robinson, Managing Partner, Oystercatchers
John Rudaizky, Partner, Global Brand & Marketing Leader, EY
Ash Tailor, Global Brand & Marketing Director, Britvic Soft Drinks
Emma de la Fosse wins The Drum's first Creative Woman of the Year Award
Emma's award was announced at The Drum's Dream Awards ceremony. The award was the first of its type in adland and was created to recognise the industry's leading female talent. Emma has been recently listed in the top 100 of the most powerful people in advertising. Congratulations!
And, a massive congratulations to our commended winners, Emma Perkins, ECD of MullenLoweOpen, Helen Fuchs, ECD, DigitasLBi and Hana Tanimura of Google Labs.
Your unconscious bias is showing, Kevin Roberts
Saatchi & Saatchi's Kevin Roberts exposed an unconscious bias with his controversial comments about gender diversity, but the debate is far from over, says the founder of Creative Equals.
The Drum Dream Awards - Creative Woman of the Year
We're super proud to announce our partnership with The Drum's Dream Awards this week. Launched in 2015, The Drum Dream Awards is about those who dare to dream big, championing creative excellence around the world.
BIMA and Creative Equals Launch UK’S First Creative Shadow Jury
On Wednesday 13 July BIMA held the 2016 BIMA Awards judging day – and with it launched the UK’s first ever creative shadow jury. A group of six up-and-coming talented creative women had the chance to shadow some of the leading senior digital thinkers and leaders in the UK. The creation of a shadow jury is…