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I had a great time on the ‘I love that ad’ podcast, talking about my 3 favourite ads. Listen here. (Ep. 141)
I spoke at the IAA conference focused on ‘Creativity 4 Better’. My talk was titled: ‘A Beautiful Mind. Can creativity build a better society.’
I was honoured to be part of the Brand Experience & Activation jury at Cannes. Then I wrote an article for Campaign documenting my experience. Full article here.
Good Girls Eat Dinner, the popular, non-profit event series I’ve run since 2015, is now available in take-out form, AKA a podcast! Listen here.
I was a guest on the Creative Floor Awards podcast. Listen here.
I was a guest on the Shout Out to Help Out podcast. Listen here.
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I was invited to speak at Creative Equal’s RISE Conference. Read the full article here. Watch the interview here.
I featured in an article delivering the Top 10 Take Aways from the Creative Equal’s RISE conference. Full article here.
I was honoured to be invited to speak at the 2022 Creative Equal’s RISE conference, held at the Royal Horticultural Hall, London
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Our important campaign for White Ribbon was awarded ‘Ad Of The Day’ by Campaign just after it launched at the end of August, 2021.
‘The Not So Beautiful Game’ was a proactive campaign I originally led during the 2016 World Cup for The National Centre for Domestic Violence. It’s impact then was huge, plus it won multiple awards, including a gold Cannes Lion. During the Euro’s the campaign was just as relevant. Media companies came forward and enabled a new OOH run - including sites at Wembley Park. The Metro ran a piece on the surge in domestic abuse following the Euro’s final and featured our campaign. Article here.
‘The Not So Beautiful Game’ was a proactive campaign I originally led during the 2016 World Cup for The National Centre for Domestic Violence. It’s impact then was huge, plus it won multiple awards, including a gold Cannes Lion. During the Euro’s the campaign was just as relevant. Media companies came forward and enabled a new OOH run - including sites at Wembley Park. The Metro ran a piece on the surge in domestic abuse following the Euro’s final and featured our campaign. Article here.
Loved taking part in this C4 panel talking about all things queer and how advertising can (should) do better to represent. The session can be viewed here.
‘Abusers Always Work From Home’ for the NCDV (proactive, zero budget) was awarded a GOLD British Arrow.
In March 2021, the Independent used an image of our NCDV campaign (live since June 2020) to illustrate the crisis around domestic abuse following lockdown. Full article here.
I always enjoy joining or chairing award juries and this year is no exception.
I wrote this piece, published by Creative Brief on International Women’s Day, and it was the most read content that week. Full article here.
Despite being made proactively with zero budget, Abusers Always Work From Home took 81% of the vote and beat off tough competition from big budget campaigns such as KFC, Budweiser, Ikea, Just Eat and Tesco. Full article here.
Abusers Always Work From Home was recognised as one of the Top 20 pieces of work in 2020... and we were in great company. Full list here.
Having creatively led pitch-winning work for Sage, my next challenge was to oversee the development and production of the full, integrated campaign in just one month. The whole team bossed it, naturally. Full article here.
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Having been the Jury Chair for the Gerety Awards I joined a panel to discuss great work and how we can create space for different voices to thrive. View the full panel event here.
I’m part of the Snapchat Global Creative Council to drive positive change on the small screen.
Having been part of the original Create Not Hate team, alongside Trevor Robinson in 2007, I’m once again involved in the latest incarnation as a mentor.
I wrote about 5 ads from May/June 2020. Full article here.
I wrote a piece discussing Ben & Jerry’s response to the death of George Floyd versus other brands. The full piece - which I originally wrote for La Norme Beauty - is here.
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I was honoured to be asked to record an ISOLATEDtalk which I filmed on May 31st, shortly after the death of George Floyd. You can watch my talk, THE MESSAGE MATTERS by clicking here.
The coronavirus ’lock-down’ has resulted in domestic abuse incidents increasing by 49% in the UK. As we finished off on a new campaign to address that, Shots asked me to talk about the previous, award-winning campaign we created for NCDV. Full article here.
I wrote a poem about the Coronavirus, the weekend before shops were ordered to close. I posted it on my linked in and The Marketing Society picked it up.
Campaign selected 10 of The Dots’ ‘100 trailblazers’ to spotlight.
I was in great company when I featured in The Dots list for International Women’s Day 2020 which showcased 100 trailblazers redefining the creative industry.
Good Girls Eat Dinner, the non-profit passion project I founded and host every two months, featured (organically) in Elle, January 2020.
Our KitKat / Airfix proactive work got a great response and later picked up various awards.
The Drum asked me to respond to the question: How has marketing changed the world for the better in the past 10 years?
| hosted this event and wrote a poem alongside other staff. Full article and poems here.
I joined some awesome people on the #40overforty list.
I featured in The HERoes Top 100 Role Model Women Executives 2019.
I was listed amongst Campaign & Creative Equals’ Female Future Leaders.
I was on The Drum Show.
The Guardian invited my opinion on ‘sexist’ ads in the wake of #MeToo.
Badass Women’s Hour invited myself and my co-founder, Sophie Blowfield, onto their show to talk about La Norme Beauty. It was also broadcast on Talk Radio.
I was listed as a Young Creative Council’s Badass Gal.
I was one of eight women featured in a 9 page article in The Observer which discussed equality and the gender pay gap in adland.
Front cover of the above article.
I’ve taken part in many SheSays events, including this panel discussion.
Having been one of Pitch Fanzine’s 100 Superwomen in 2018, I was featured as one of 6 alumni in 2019.
I was listed as a Pitch 100 Superwoman in 2018.
House Notes, the Soho House magazine, featured La Norme Beauty - a non-profit passion project I co-founded.
I took part in this SheSays panel discussion, sponsored by TikTok.
‘The Not So Beautiful Game’ campaign was written about across more than 100 news platforms, including the Huffington Post.
Jessica Pan’s brilliant book mentions Good Girls Eat Dinner! I’ve since invited her to speak at GGED.
I spoke at Copy Cabana, a day-long seminar for writers, or anyone interested in words.
I wrote this piece about World Mental Health Day for The Marketing Society. Full article here.
‘The Not So Beautiful Game’ campaign was written about in over 18 countries across the world and was also the focus of discussion on The Sunday Live Show on the BBC.
In response to the shocking rise in hate crime following the vote to Brexit, I curated an exhibition called There’s A Good Immigrant, I then wrote a thought piece for Campaign about why migration is important for creativity. Read the full article here.
In 2014, while I was a creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi, I was asked to give a talk about being a female creative director. Rather than preach to the converted, I wanted to reach a wider audience - including those who may doubt how creative women can be, so I created and co-curated an exhibition to celebrate female creativity. There’s a Good Girl was the first all-women exhibition (The Saatchi Gallery did their first all-female exhibition a year later). Twenty incredible artists took part, including Alison Jackson, Pam Glew, Hattie Stewart and Sara Pope. It attracted widespread press attention within the advertising industry and beyond, including this double-page spread in The Independent.
I was invited to speak at the Women Of the World Festival (WOW)
Following Brexit, hate-crime more than doubled. I curated a second exhibition called There’s a Good Immigrant, to showcase the invaluable creativity and diverse perspectives that migrants bring to the UK. The exhibition received much press attention - part of which involved a live interview on Monocle Radio with one of the artists, Sara Shamsavari.
After a Private View At Saatchi & Saatchi the exhibition, There’s a Good Girl, moved to a space in Soho where it was open to the public for free for several months. Style Magazine highlighted it.
