More than 425 creative leaders responded to this year’s in-house creative services industry report. Each year the report grows, providing additional data and information creative leaders like you are looking for; below are highlights from this year’s report which is … Continue reading
Although I’d be the first to acknowledge their validity and usefulness in managing an in-house creative team, I’m not a big fan of numbers. I barely hobbled through Trig in high school. But the fact of the matter is that … Continue reading
More than eight months ago I left my role as an in-house creative leader to take on the new challenge of heading Cella—a consulting and training company with the unique mission of supporting in-house creative leaders improve the business side of their creative operations. I first came to know Cella through CreativeExecs Roundtables®, co-hosted by Cella and The BOSS Group. At the roundtables I was engaged by the conversations and motivated to understand and learn from the challenges of my peers. This open dialogue among creative leaders was new, and only when I was a part of it, did I realize the potential benefit of regular engagement with a true peer group (versus leaders within other business groups at my company). Continue reading
It is the elephant in the room that nobody knows is there until it moves in the wrong direction. A healthy corporate culture can be one of the most, if not the most, valuable assets to a Creative Executive. The … Continue reading