IPA Podcast

Oli Richards, CMO at The Beyond Collective is joined by the Founder of Persuasion Communications, Jane Austin, in this episode of IPA New Business Diaries. Oli and Jane discuss her career, why the industry should rethink the way they view PR and agencies should be devoting time to it.

One of the most awarded creatives in the world, Mark Denton joins Paul Bainsfair to talk about his route into advertising, his extensive career, the decision to become an intern in his 60s and what has changed about the industry over the years.

Wavemaker’s Lisa Thompson and dentsu X’s Lee Mabey join the IPA On podcast to discuss social mobility and classism in advertising and whether agencies are doing enough to combat it internally and in the ads themselves. For more on Common People: https://commonpeople.substack.com/ For Lee's speech about Classism: https://youtu.be/8E5SF6JnKhE

Nagmeh Taheri, Chief Business Development Officer at Publicis Media is joined by Fergus Waddell, Head of Growth at Saatchi & Saatchi London to discuss his move from account management into new business, the Pitch Positive Pledge and the increasing importance of effectiveness, efficiencies and numbers in media pitches.

IPA President Josh Krichefski joins Paul Bainsfair to discuss the inspiration behind his People First agenda, and some of the biggest issues facing our industry today.

IPA New Business Group co-Chair Pedro Martins is joined by Saatchi & Saatchi London CSO Richard Huntington for a discussion about his route into advertising, all things pitching and new business and Richard's mental health journey.

Heather Jackson is Co-founder at GenM, an organisation that empowers brands to take menopause seriously and to use their platforms to normalise the conversation. In this conversation about why menopause is simultaneously a gender, medical, workplace and governmental issue we are also joined by AMV BBDO's Chief Diversity Officer and HR Director, Kelly Knight.

Laura Vipond, Chief Growth Officer at Ogilvy UK is joined by former IPA President Julian Douglas to talk about all things pitching and new business, including last year’s launch of the Pitch Positive Pledge and what it means for our industry moving forward.

Charlotte Lockhart is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of the 4 Day Week Campaign. She works to promote the benefits of a productivity-focused and reduced-hour workplace internationally. Through this, she is on the board of the Wellbeing Research Centre at Oxford University and the advisory boards of US and Irish campaigns for the four-day week. In her role, she is a sponsor of the World Wellbeing Movement alongside a number of leading global partners. Charlotte, alongside her partner Andrew Barnes, has been conducting the largest-ever trials of the four-day week, across the UK, US, Canada, South Africa, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. We discover how the four-day week has massively improved productivity, well-being, and burnout.

Following the recent passing of "adland's greatest philosopher", the great Jeremy Bullmore, IPA Director General Paul Bainsfair sat down with Caroline Marshall, William Eccelshare and Amelia Torode to discuss Jeremy's groundbreaking work, impact on our industry and lasting legacy. For an archive of Jeremy's work visit bestofbullmore.com