In this episode, our guest is Nikki Lamba, who sits on the DDB Worldwide Executive Leadership team as DDB’s first Global Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Officer. 

In her role, Nikki is responsible for designing and implementing DDB’s global DEI strategy, ensuring that DDB’s core values are a key driver for agency culture. Nikki is also a part of DDB’s North America Leadership team, where she partners closely with the regional CEO and CPO to ensure that DEI is strategically intrinsic to the people and talent strategy. Additionally, Nikki leads DDB North America’s Equality in Advertising Council which brings together DEI champions from across offices to drive the strategic plan by curating activations designed to educate and create shared dialogues. She also sits on the board of Asian Leaders Circle, an OPEN ERG within Omnicom Group that is dedicated to progressing and empowering all Asian employees. 

Prior to her current role, Nikki spent 11 years with global research organization Catalyst, providing partnership and guidance on organizational strategies and DE&I programming in order to hire, advance, and retain diverse talent for F1000 organizations across a range of industries.

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