Resist my interview with Lisa Killbourn where we talk ineffective briefs, strategists role as "The Thinker", and designing the bridge to help clients get to where they need to go.

Listen to the full episode and read some more of my favourite quotes from Lisa here - https://www.strategysheroes.com/episodes/series-1-episode-4-lisa-killbourn

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Morgan Graham is a Partner and Chief Experience Officer at Experiences For Mankind, a San Diego based creative consultancy, with an ethos of preventing agency burnout and promoting work life balance. Morgan has been a marketing instructor at the University of San Diego, and is a long-term mentor in San Diego State University’s AZTEC mentorship programme. She is also on the board of Dent the Future, which brings together entrepreneurs, executives, and creatives who want to create positive and lasting global change.

We chat about:

Morgan’s amazing journey starting as an intern at Experiences for Mankind to now being partner

Client servicing and strategy

Meeting client needs without sacrificing the needs of team members

How it’s possible to have agency ethos of preventing team burnout

Links to some of the stuff we chatted about:

Experiences for Mankind

Dent the Future

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Anna Thairs is an award-winning full-stack Strategy Director, holding senior strategy roles at Grey London and Portas in Melbourne before joining Ogilvy Sydney, where she’s also a member of the agency’s Behavioural Science unit. Anna is vocal about her experiences as a mixed-race woman with OCD, ADHD and depression, and is passionate about driving more in-depth approaches to inclusion and diversity in advertising and beyond.

Our chat includes:

• Understanding neurodiversity and how organisations can be more inclusive to neurodiverse team members

• ADHD including Anna’s own experiences being diagnosed

• The idea of renaissance women strategists

• Intersectionality and the importance of nuance in our perspectives of humans

Links to some of the stuff we chatted about:

• Lemon paper by Orlando Wood - How left brain thinking is undermining creativity and making advertising less effective

• John Cleese creativity talk at Nudgestock 2021

• Learn more about Anna’s strategy career, and check out her amazing artwork

• Anna’s 2017 article on transformational thinking quoted in the interview

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