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Please join us for this PRCA Creative Group event on the evening of 17th October. Please arrive at 18:15 for an 18:30 start.
Did you know there are around ten male Creative Directors for every one female Creative Director in UK PR?
What can be done to ensure more women seek and stay on creative career paths in our industry?
Event Type: Group Event
Address: Teneo Blue Rubicon, 5th Floor, 6 More London Place, London, SE1 2DA
Event Overview
With the marketing industry reaching its ‘inflection point’ on women last year, why are our creative departments still so woefully under-represented? Founder of The Guardian’s Women in Leadership section and women’s rights campaigner, Harriet Minter, will lead a discussion with some of the industry’s leading female Creative Directors and MDs to explore what’s holding women back from pursuing creative roles and what we can collectively do to encourage and lead a change.
Using the experiences of Lotte Jones, Kat Thomas, Gemma Vardon and Rebecca Grant the PRCA Creative Group will take questions and aim to establish a collective plan to foster more creative female futures and break down the barriers that clearly still exist – be they individual, structural or cultural.
Speakers:
Harriet Minter
Harriet Minter is a journalist and speaker who focuses on issues relating to women, the future of work, media and diversity. She has written for publications including The Guardian, The Times and The Pool and has a column in Psychologies. She is a regular speaker on women’s rights, organisational change, workplace diversity and just getting stuff done. She has given two TED talks and appeared on the BBC and Sky News.
Rebecca Grant MPRCA
Rebecca is UK Managing Director at Cohn & Wolfe, one of WPP’s best performing agencies. The agency has won 21 Cannes Lions over the last two years, driven by a culture of curiosity. Rebecca’s personal passion is for the magic that happens when creativity comes together with new technologies. This year PR Week named Rebecca as one of the top five most influential women in comms in the UK.Before joining C&W, Rebecca was at Weber Shandwick and the Red Consultancy.
Lotte Jones MPRCA
Lotte is Creative Director at Teneo Blue Rubicon and vice-chair of the PRCA Creative Group. Lotte takes a strategic approach to creative thinking, fusing it with her love of modern culture to seek highly dynamic responses to client challenges. In 2012 Lotte founded Surname & Surname, which saw her building a team of ten people and a portfolio of twelve clients. In 2016 Lotte and her team moved into the Teneo Blue Rubicon family, working across consultancy disciplines with the agency’s rich portfolio of brands.
Kat Thomas MPRCA
Kat is founder & Global Executive Creative Director of One Green Bean, a multi award-winning agency with offices in London and Sydney, specialising in the creation of branded content designed to have mass currency in social & traditional media. Kat is a Cannes Lions PR Juror 2011 & 2016 and a CLEO Awards Branded Content Juror 2014. Kat and her agency develop big ideas, small ideas and anything in between, the kind of ideas that make you laugh, make you cry, make you want anything from a holiday to a beef sausage.
Gemma Vardon MPRCA
Gemma is Creative Director at Golin. Gemma has a decade's experience in developing and delivering earned campaigns. She has spent her comms career doing work that not only makes brands famous, but also has a genuine business impact. Gemma is currently overseeing the creative output of Golin London’s consumer brands, following roles at award-winning creative agencies including Mischief, Unity and The Academy.