The Future of In-House Creative Leadership

This time I'm joined by Steve Peck, VP of Creative at Comcast. Steve has spent over 20 years building brands people love - from his early days at R/GA on Nike, to BBH New York where he created Google's first-ever national TV campaign, including the 'Dear Sophie' spot named Time Magazine's number-one commercial of the year.
He went on to lead creative at agencies including Anomaly, consult in-house at Apple, Meta, and Spotify, and most recently led Pinterest's award-winning House of Creative - a 50-plus-person in-house agency - before taking on his current role building Comcast's in-house creative agency from the ground up. 

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This time I'm joined by Lara Vandenberg, Founder and CEO at Assemble. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Lara moved to New York and spent a decade leading marketing and communications at some of the world's fastest-growing tech companies. Named to both the Forbes 30 Under 30 and B&T 30 Under 30 lists for innovation in advertising, she went on to found Assemble: an enterprise platform and marketplace of over 50,000 creative, production and marketing professionals that helps Fortune 500 brands operationalise their entire contingent workforce.

Lara is sitting at the intersection of marketing, talent and technology so I wanted to get the view from her vantage point and what the future of in-house creative teams looks like from there?

I also want to say that this is not a sponsored or paid for episode, currently I don’t have anyone on the podcast unless they have an interesting, valuable, story to tell.

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This time, I am joined by Margherita Orsini, who has just wrapped up her role as Director of the Creative Studio at a major flavour house to start a new - brand leadership role in the pharmaceutical industry.
Over the past decade, Margherita has led and evolved large in-house creative teams, bringing agency-level quality and strategic rigor into their internal operations.
In just three years, Margherita successfully transformed her team from a basic design production unit into a strategic, "agency-quality" powerhouse, bringing all major campaign and brand work entirely in-house.
Margherita says “I believe that most brand problems are organisational problems in disguise.”
A firm believer that creative leaders must master business strategy to break the "glass ceiling", Margherita is here to share her invaluable insights on navigating corporate change and elevating the role of in-house creative teams.

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This time I am joined by Robert Berkeley the CEO of EKCS Group - a business that sits right at the intersection of marketing operations, technology, talent and outsourcing. He has a genuinely global perspective on how organisations are building and running their creative capabilities, and has been a champion of in-house creative teams long before me!
June and July is conference season, and this year it's been a big one. Cannes Lions in France, the ANA In-House Agency Conference in California, MAD//Fest in London. Between us, Robert and I have been across all three so I wanted Robert to join me so we can start looking at the sessions, the conversations and the patterns emerging across all of them.
So this episode is us comparing notes on what we actually saw and heard, both on stage and the conversations being had 1-1. And what it means for you as an in-house creative leader.

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This time I am joined by Amale Ghalbouni, strategist, author, keynote speaker, and founder of The Brick Coach.

Amale has built a career at the intersection of creativity, leadership, and organisational change - working across industries to help in-house creative leaders move from reactive firefighting to intentional, strategic risk-taking. She's now channelling almost two decades of that experience into her upcoming book, Experimental: The restless leader's field guide for building high performing, change-ready teams. 

At a moment when in-house creative teams are under real pressure to prove their strategic value, to do more with less, and to lead through uncertainty, Amale's thinking feels urgently relevant. 

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