Inside The Creative Studio

Stephnee Leathers heads Robert Half’s in-house creative studio, and is a one-of-a-kind professional. She leads the highly complex, global Creative Salary Survey, is an acknowledged opinion leader in the marketing and creative industry, and leads (and founded) the Global Women's Employees Network at Robert Half. All that, and she still finds time to take mid-day walks with her 10-year-old son while remote-schooling with him.

• Creative's Salary Guide: how her global team creates an industry resource - for you.
• What does adaptability look like - in the chaos of today's changing creative landscape?
• To outsource or not to outsource?
• Contractors vs Managed Creative Solutions: what is the best option?
• How to take small steps toward Diversity & Inclusion.
• The struggle of the working moms in today's world - cut yourself some slack.

• 2021 Creative and Marketing Salary Guide
• Robert Half website

Susie Hall is President of the world’s largest staffing firm for creative and digital talent. In this episode, Susie unveils tips for you - that she's learned talking with hundreds of in-house leaders this past year. A few hints: 1) The secret weapons for Ops people - persuasion, resilience, and impact. 2) Fostering your network connections is the key in 2021. 3) Being present with your team matters - especially with remote EVERYTHING. Not least, she's a joyful Mom of two kids under 10, so COVID home-schooling has been her focus - on top of all the above.

In This Episode:

• What do great creative leaders do differently?
• How creative leaders can drive organizational change
• The relationship between operational strategy and joy
• Top skills of amazing operations leaders
• Do you see obstacles or potential?
• Susie's tips to joyfully balance family and work

Links and Resources

• InsideOut with Aquent
• Learn, Teach, Build. 3 ways to engage your organization in design by Susie Hall
• The Formula on LinkedIn
• Susie Hall on LinkedIn