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Stuff About AdvertisingMad Women: Influential Women in AdvertisingEver heard of Resor, Lawrence, or Robinson? No? How about Ogilvy, Bernbach, or Wieden? Yeah, I thought so.It's time to change that.Join me for a special International Women's Day episode as I explore the stories of the "Mad Women" who shaped the advertising world. From crafting iconic campaigns to pioneering techniques we still use today, these women broke barriers and left a lasting legacy.In this episode, you’ll hear about Helen Lansdowne Resor, Mary Wells Lawrence, Phyllis Robinson, Caroline Jones, and Jane Newman, plus a few more currently in the in...
2025-03-0723 min
Uncensored CMOSnapchat CMO on fixing social media, being creative leader of the decade and lessons from Dan Wieden - Colleen DeCourcyColleen DeCourcy is the Chief Creative Officer at Snap, having previously spent over a decade at Wieden+Kennedy as co-president and Chief Creative Officer, working on some of the largest brand accounts in the world. In this episode we talk about Colleen's time at W+K, some of her favourite quotes from Dan Wieden and how she's now tackling brand at Snapchat.Timestamps00:00 - Intro01:22 - Colleen DeCourcy background03:30 - Winning creative leader of the decade06:30 - Colleen’s tenure at Wieden+Kennedy13:50 - The TIME Interview18:39 - From retirement to jo...
2024-05-0842 min
Campaign ChemistryCampaign Chemistry: Snap CCO Colleen DeCourcyColleen DeCourcy has carved a career out of pushing boundaries and making change.In her nine years leading Wieden+Kennedy, DeCourcy evolved the agency to embrace digital and social media while reshaping its policies and leadership team to reflect an increasingly diverse workforce. She did it all while raising her daughter as a single mother. Two years ago, she came out of a brief retirement to join Snap as chief creative officer, compelled by the platform’s mission to right some of the wrongs social media has inflicted on society and particularly on youth. Snap’s mos...
2024-04-2443 min
Talking to OurselvesAnselmo Ramos hosts Colleen DeCourcyGUEST HOST: Anselmo Ramos, Co-Founder and Creative Chairman of GUT. Founded just four years ago, Gut has been an Ad Age A-List Agency 4 years in a row. The agency’s string of successes culminated at this year’s Cannes, where GUT won 35 Lions, becoming the #1 Independent Network of the Year, Latin America Network of the Year, and GUT Buenos Aires became both Independent Agency of the Year and Global Agency of the Year.GUEST: Colleen DeCourcy, Chief Creative Officer of Snap as of 2022. Previously, Chief Creative Officer and Co-President of Wieden+Kennedy. Under Colleen’s leadership, Wieden+Kennedy...
2023-08-231h 03
Fearless Creative LeadershipColleen DeCourcy - "The Icon"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, that she was vulnerable. That she was going to make it happen, even though, as you'll hear, she was filled with self-doubt.
2022-03-1946 min
Fearless Creative LeadershipColleen DeCourcy - In 15Edited 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 that she was humble, that she was generous, that she was vulnerable. That she was going to make it happen, even though, as y...
2022-03-1919 min
Masters of Scale8 reliable lessons for unreliable timesIf 2021 is even half as unpredictable as 2020 was, you'll need to dig deep into your resilience and wisdom to get through. We've pulled together this special episode of Masters of Scale to serve as a sort of primer for the new year, full of lessons learned from the sometimes devastating, sometimes inspiring year we just put behind us. These lessons come from a range of guests we've spoken to in a time of incredible change. Some are stories about doing everything right – and still ending up in crisis. Others are about overcoming the odds with grit, heart, and compassion. Fe...
2021-01-0754 minMasters of ScaleRapid Response: Why brands must take a stand, w/Wieden+Kennedy's Colleen DeCourcyLegendary ad agency Wieden+Kennedy pioneered some of the most successful campaigns in history. But 2020 has raised the stakes for companies—and fundamentally changed how advertising works, W+K president Colleen DeCourcy tells us. Even as her own business adapts to financial and cultural strains, DeCourcy and her team have been guiding brands from Nike to Coca-Cola to Uber in selecting the right messages in a turbulent world. Meshing an economic goal with an emotional message has never demanded more creativity. Brands should take a stand, she argues, but not on everything.Read a transcript of this ep...
2020-11-1936 min
Rapid ResponseWhy brands must take a stand, w/Wieden+Kennedy president Colleen DeCourcyLegendary ad agency Wieden+Kennedy pioneered some of the most successful campaigns in history. But 2020 has raised the stakes for companies—and fundamentally changed how advertising works, W+K President Colleen DeCourcy tells us. Even as her own business adapts to financial and cultural strains, DeCourcy and her team have been guiding brands from Nike to Coca-Cola to Uber in selecting the right messages in a turbulent world. Meshing an economic goal with an emotional message has never demanded more creativity. Brands should take a stand, she argues, but not on everything.See Privacy Policy at https://ar...
2020-11-1936 min
Progress Through CreativityFestival Talk | Brand Activism in a Hyper-Charged SocietyAt Cannes Lions in 2019 Tiffany R Warren, SVP and Chief Diversity Officer at Omnicom and Founder & President of ADCOLOR chaired a panel examining successful and unsuccessful attempts by brands to take a stand on divisive issues and discussed execution, outcomes and how to successfully embrace brand activism, in a real, impactful way. She was joined by Wieden+Kennedy Co-president & chief creative officer Colleen Decourcy, Writer, Producer and creator of the critically acclaimed series Blackish, Grownish and Mixedish Kenya Barris and President & CEO of TBWA\Worldwide Troy Ruhanen.
2020-06-0300 min
Fearless Creative LeadershipNeal Arthur and Karl Lieberman of W+K New York on Clearing The Path To Creativity"The Removal Men". If you're interested in unlocking creativity in the people around you then Wieden + Kennedy is a real-time case study. Like all great creative companies, it is three-dimensional, and no two sides look the same. Understanding how and why it works means looking at it from several angles. In earlier episodes, I've talked to Colleen DeCourcy, who has a global perspective; Eric Baldwin and Jason Bagley, who had just taken over the leadership of Wieden in Portland; and Jesse Johnson and George Felix, about how the agency/client relationship works when Wieden is at...
2019-04-191h 02
Fearless Creative LeadershipNeal Arthur and Karl Lieberman - In 15 "The Removal Men". A 15 minute edited highlight of our full-length conversation. If you're interested in unlocking creativity in the people around you then Wieden + Kennedyis a real-time case study. Like all great creative companies, it is three-dimensional, and no two sides look the same. Understanding how and why it works means looking at it from several angles. In earlier episodes, I've talked to Colleen DeCourcy, who has a global perspective; Eric Baldwin and Jason Bagley, who had just taken over the leadership of Wieden in Portland; and Jesse Johnson and George Felix...
2019-04-1917 min
MIXED COMPANYEpisode 60 - TIME'S UP, ADVERTISING, FOR REAL ft. Colleen DeCourcyIn May, Time's Up Advertising hosted it first meeting to address sexual harassment and systemic inequality in the workplace. Pushback on social media pointed at many feeling the event was mishandled. Wieden+Kennedy's co-president Colleen DeCourcy, one of its' founders, joins us to discuss how the group is pivoting to ensure change is inclusive and sustainable.
2018-10-0855 min
Fearless Creative LeadershipColleen DeCourcy of Wieden + Kennedy on Unifying Disparate Ideas'The Non-Linear Person'. The most meaningful and actionable definitions of success are your own. The ones that you are self-aware, intentioned and brave enough to establish for yourself. These personal KPI's are the ones that drive Fearless leaders when the rubber hits the road. For those leaders, the ability to look themselves in the eye and know that they held themselves to their own standards is the most meaningful definition of success. For those leaders, the future is built on two words that begin with i. Intention and integrity. They also happen to b...
2017-11-031h 12