Tahaab Rais has won over 750 top-tier regional and global awards across Cannes, Effies, One Show, D&AD, Jay Chiats, Andy's, Clios, LIA, New York Festivals, WARC, Loeries, Dubai Lynx, among others, including a record of 340+ Effies.
He's the MENAT CSO of Publicis Groupe. That's Middle-East-North-Africa-and-Turkey, a region with hundreds of millions of people in it.
Some conversations I feel at home in. And this is one of them.
In this interview, we discuss the ingredients that go into an agency being able to do award-winning work. We discuss the obvious stuff (like working with exceptional people) as well as the stuff that's only obvious when you no longer have it (like agency leadership that will fight for your ideas).
We also discuss a campaign his team and client have been winning awards for lately: “James Jefferson: A Fraudster, Created by a Bank, to Reduce Financial Fraud” for Emirates NBD.
You can find Tahaab here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tahaab/
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750 Awards Later…Chief Strategy Officer Shares The Ingredients - Tahaab Rais, CSO MENAT at Publicis Groupe

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Dr Anastasia Karklina Gabriel has just published her first book "Cultural Intelligence for Marketers: Building an Inclusive Marketing Strategy". 
Having earned a PhD, Anastasia has consulted for many agencies and now works in Reddit's Global Insights team.
In this chat, we discuss a few of the key concepts in the book as well as the experience of writing it. 
You can find Anastasia here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasiakgabriel/
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Cultural Intelligence for Marketers: Building an Inclusive Marketing Strategy - Dr Anastasia Karklina Gabriel

Rob Estreitinho and I have just dropped a deck for you. It's called "Stop Collaborating And Listen".
In it, we discuss why workshops are being forced on everyone right now, how this isn't always a good thing, and what to do about it.
You can find the deck here:
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Stop Collaborating And Listen - Why Do Workshops Defeat Us? - Rob Estreitinho, Salmon Theory

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Top Ten Strategist Traits - Live From Hell's Kitchen

Alexandre Kazuo Kubo and Lucas Ribeiro are Associate Creative Directors at McCann New York. Recently, they published a guide on having and expressing award-winning advertising ideas.
It's relatively rare for employed big-agency creatives to publish like this so I took the opportunity to get them to talk us through their free guide while forcing them to indulge me in my love of Brazil and Brazil funk.


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Kazuo is here: 
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How To Have Award-Winning Ideas - Alexandre Kazuo Kubo, Lucas Ribeiro

Camilla Petty recently released a workshop guide from 15 years of experience in advertising. I've run hundreds of these things and have thoughts. So we got together to discuss what makes a workshop work as well as the things that don't.


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750 Awards Later…Chief Strategy Officer Shares The Ingredients - Tahaab Rais, CSO MENAT at Publicis Groupe

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