Two Planners Talking Before They Plan - Julian Cole, Strategy Consultant
Julian Cole and I decided to speak in public for an hour before we plan the year. Well, probably, a few years. It's the first time we've sat face-to-face to plan the events we do–specifically, The Str...
5 Feb 20201h
The Craft Of Planning - Lee Maicon, Strategy Boss
Lee Maicon is Chief Strategy Officer of McCann - the North American Chief Strategy Officer. It's a big role but Lee cares about the small things such as the craft that goes into account planning. "Cra...
4 Feb 202033min
Translating Your Non-Strategy Skills Into Strategy Skills - Dino Demopoulos, Strategy Head
Two things Toronto-based strategy head Dino Demopoulos has spent much of life doing are music and strategy. In this interview, we discuss how promoting events, running record labels, and DJ-ing have s...
29 Jan 202033min
Where Are The Mid-Life Women? - Jane Evans, The Uninvisibility Project
Jane Evans runs the Uninvisibility Project. Having been a prolific creative director and having run an agency, she's now on a mission to make women over 50 uninvisible. You can find Jane here https...
27 Jan 202043min
Practicing Strategy - 10 Examples From Britney Spears To Durians - Marco del Valle, Strategist
Marco del Valle is a strategist at Epoch Design in the UK. He recently posted hypothetical strategies every day for a month. How do you sell Britney Spears to CEOs? The durian to westerners? Yoga to b...
23 Jan 202057min
Trying To Parent In An Industry Allergic To Age - Katrina Grönberg, Strategy Head
Katrina Grönberg (née Wong) is a career-long planner. Her first planning role was at Leo Burnett in Sydney then she worked at Droga5 and then she went to BBDO in New York, met a guy, moved to Sweden, ...
20 Jan 202052min
Managing Strategists - Brian Wakabayashi, Strategy Head
Brian Wakabayashi leads strategy at 215 McCann in San Francisco. He started as an admin. Well, as an admin to an admin. And, as he grew into bigger roles and roles that weren't only about doing the st...
17 Jan 202053min
What You Learn When You Collect Ads For Two Decades - Dabs, Adland
Dabs runs Adland. It's a website with over twenty years of ads from around the world. Adland went down recently after a copyright dispute. But it's back up. This week. And that's really cool. In this ...
16 Jan 202044min
