Fearless Creative Leadership

Edited highlights of our full conversation. How do you greet change? Evin Shutt is the Chief Executive Officer of  72andSunny , a role she took on in March of 2020. Taking on the senior leadership position of one of the world's most creative and innovative companies, at the very moment the world is shutting down, will instantly reveal your relationship with change. Do you look for it and high five...

Edited highlights of our full conversation. How do you greet change? Evin Shutt is the Chief Executive Officer of  72andSunny , a role she took on in March of 2020. Taking on the senior leadership position of one of the world's most creative and innovative companies, at the very moment the world is shutting down, will instantly reveal your relationship with change. Do you look for it and high five...

Are you really here, in this moment? Lisa Kline is the Vice President of Communications for  BreastCancer.org . They describe their mission as helping people make sense of the complex medical and personal information about breast health and breast cancer, so they can make the best decisions for their lives. Have we ever wanted more to be distracted? Distracted from the chaos, the unpredictability,...

Edited highlights of our full conversation. Are you really here, in this moment? Lisa Kline is the Vice President of Communications for  BreastCancer.org . They describe their mission as helping people make sense of the complex medical and personal information about breast health and breast cancer, so they can make the best decisions for their lives. Have we ever wanted more to be distracted? Dist...

Edited highlights of our full conversation. Are you really here, in this moment? Lisa Kline is the Vice President of Communications for  BreastCancer.org . They describe their mission as helping people make sense of the complex medical and personal information about breast health and breast cancer, so they can make the best decisions for their lives. Have we ever wanted more to be distracted? Dist...

What do you want more of in your life? Greg Hahn is the Co-Founder & CCO of  Mischief USA . Two years ago he was fired by BBDO. When we spoke, eight days after he had lost his job, he was clear about the kind of future he wanted to create. Mischief, a company that didn't exist 24 months ago, were just named Agency of the Year by the Ad Age A List Awards. As you'll hear in our new conversation, the...

Edited highlights of our full conversation. What do you want more of in your life?

Edited highlights of our full conversation. What do you want more of in your life? Greg Hahn is the Co-Founder & CCO of  Mischief USA . Two years ago he was fired by BBDO. When we spoke, eight days after he had lost his job, he was clear about the kind of future he wanted to create. Mischief, a company that didn't exist 24 months ago, were just named Agency of the Year by the Ad Age A List Awards....

Where does work end and life begin? Tiffany Rolfe is the Global Chief Creative Officer at  R/GA , a job she took on in the early stages of the pandemic as part of a new leadership team. Two years ago, the Ad Age A List recognized R/GA as the Comeback Agency of the Year. This year, they are now ranked second among all agencies. Tiffany's email signature reads, Mom and Global Chief Creative Officer....

Edited highlights of our full conversation. Where does work end and life begin? Tiffany Rolfe is the Global Chief Creative Officer at  R/GA , a job she took on in the early stages of the pandemic as part of a new leadership team. Two years ago, the Ad Age A List recognized R/GA as the Comeback Agency of the Year. This year, they are now ranked second among all agencies. Tiffany's email signature r...

Who takes care of you? Colleen DeCourcy has been named Creative Leader of the Decade. She led Wieden and Kennedy to three consecutive Agency of the Year wins and her contribution to creativity has just been recognized by Cannes Lions with the Lion of St Mark Lifetime Achievement Award. I met Colleen in April of 2015. And as I got to know her, I learned that she was humble, that she was generous, t...

Edited highlights of our full conversation. Who takes care of you? Colleen DeCourcy has been named Creative Leader of the Decade. She led Wieden and Kennedy to three consecutive Agency of the Year wins and her contribution to creativity has just been recognized by Cannes Lions with the Lion of St Mark Lifetime Achievement Award. I met Colleen in April of 2015. And as I got to know her, I learned t...

How many ways are you looking at the future? Lori Bradley is the Vice President for Talent at  Chewy . Lori sees the management and development of talent through multiple lenses. Academic. Strategic. Intellectual. For sure. But the perspective she brings that sits on top of all of these is the most important of all. The human one. Here's something you already know if you listen to this podcast. Pe...

If you could look into the future and see the results of what you're doing today, would you want to? Uncommon London was just named Creative Agency of the Year for the second year in a row, and Independent Agency of the Year. It's the first time a company has ever received both awards at the same time. Creative leadership isn't a theory. It's a practice, and it happens in the real world. And the r...

Are you leading a team or a group of individuals? Joanna Coles is the CEO of  Northern Star Acquisition . She's the former Chief Content Officer for Hearst Magazines, and the former Editor-in-Chief of Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan. She sits on the boards of Snap and Sonos and she advises some of the world's most influential businesses. She's also brilliant at telling the story of what's going on a...

Are you re-imagining the future or re-building the past? Justin Spooner is the co-founder of  Unthinkable - they describe themselves as a digital strategy and digital transformation company. Transformation is a word that gets used a lot. It also gets practiced little. Mostly because it's hard and expensive and, honestly, in some respects it's frightening. It's why so many companies are so focused...

How do you know when something's impossible? This is the full conversation with the futurist Faith Popcorn that we recorded a few weeks ago, some of which we included in our first episode of the year - 'How Will The Best Leaders Lead In 2022.' Faith is the founder of The BrainReserve and she and her team are hired to tell companies and industries what the future looks like. Most people like the il...

In the movie of your life, which part do you want to play? During award-winning costume designer Ellen Mirojnick 's career, she's worked with directing greats, from Steven Soderbergh, to Ridley and Tony Scott, to Oliver Stone. She's the reason the name Gordon Gekko immediately conjures an image in our mind, and why Bridgerton swept millions of viewers off their feet. Ellen turns costumes into char...

Edited highlights of our full conversation. In the movie of your life, which part do you want to play? During award-winning costume designer Ellen Mirojnick 's career, she's worked with directing greats, from Steven Soderbergh, to Ridley and Tony Scott, to Oliver Stone. She's the reason the name Gordon Gekko immediately conjures an image in our mind, and why Bridgerton swept millions of viewers of...

Who do you really want to join you on the ride?  Nils Leonard is one of the co-founders of  Uncommon London . They describe themselves as a creative studio building brands that people in the real world actually wish existed. Nils has been on the show before. He was one of my early guests on the podcast and that conversation came in the early days of Uncommon and he was very open about his ambition...

Edited highlights of our full conversation. Who do you really want to join you on the ride?  Nils Leonard is one of the co-founders of Uncommon London . They describe themselves as a creative studio building brands that people in the real world actually wish existed. Nils has been on the show before. He was one of my early guests on the podcast and that conversation came in the early days of Uncom...

How much power do you give the past? Vincent Bragg and Joe Nickson are two of the co-founders of ConCreates . They started the company in federal prison where, as you'll hear, you can learn a lot about business and even more about life. There are so many aspects to the story of ConCreates that it's difficult to know which ones to highlight. The resilience of human beings. The power of imagination....

Edited highlights of our full conversation. How much power do you give the past? Vincent Bragg and Joe Nickson are two of the co-founders of ConCreates . They started the company in federal prison where, as you'll hear, you can learn a lot about business and even more about life. There are so many aspects to the story of ConCreates that it's difficult to know which ones to highlight. The resilienc...

If you don't know what you don't know, how certain should you be about what you do know? Parts of this conversation with  Kerry Sulkowicz , the leadership confidant and psychiatrist, were featured in last week's Look Ahead at 2022 episode. If you haven't heard that yet - I spoke to nine different leaders about how society has changed as a result of the last two years, and what that means for leade...

This episode is featured in Fast Company. As we look to 2022 and beyond, how will the best leaders lead? As we wrap the wildest year that we've ever heard of, I thought it would be helpful to put some context around what just happened and where we go from here. Over the last couple of weeks I've been asking some of my previous guests for their take on four questions.  How have we changed? What doe...