Steve Miller is the Executive Creative Director and Vice President of Fuse Marketing. In this episode, we hear how he got his start as an account executive and made the jump to creative, his advice for senior teams who want to move up the management ladder, and why wearing sunglasses to an interview is…how we should say this…inadvisable.

Today we sit down with Ari Elkouby, Executive Creative Director at Wunderman Thompson.  Ari's career has taken him from a package design department at Loblaws. To Fallon Worldwide in Minneapolis. To several senior positions at agencies across Toronto.  In this episode, we go into detail about his interactive agency pedigree and how it informs his approach to creative. How he likes to form close relationships with clients to build trust, and an agency partner who specialized in updating brand mascots like the Jolly Green Giant.

Paul Wales is the Founder of Upstream; a content creation company in Toronto. Previously at Jay Walter Thompson, Paul is responsible for creating one of the most iconic brands in Canada. Trust us, you are intimately aware of his work because at some point you’ve likely watched, listened, interacted or consumed, the beloved brand that is Tim Hortons. In this episode, we cover his upbringing in Hamilton Ontario where the Tim Hortons brand began, and learn how the stars aligned for him to shepherd one of Canada’s most recognizable brands.

Baron Manett is the President of Per Se Brand Experience and Co-Founder of The Ensemble Company; a speaker series that provides learning experiences for the next generation of leaders. In this episode, we learn about his beginnings working in the music industry, how starting from a sound strategy leads to the best work, and how Per Se uses empathy to connect with brands and their audiences.

David Footman is currently a Cinematic Director at Ubisoft in Toronto, where he lends his craft to telling powerful stories for some of your favourite games such as Far Cry 5, Splinter Cell Blacklist. and Assassins Creed Unity. In this episode, we cover his early career in traditional filmmaking, his transition to storytelling in games, and how the next generation of consoles will revolutionize the world of gaming.

Patrick Ingoldsby is an Art Director at Ubisoft Toronto, heading up the design of such games as Assassin’s Creed Unity and Watchdogs Legion. In this episode, we get into exactly what’s involved in creating games with authenticity, where he sees the future of gaming going, and how he finds time to have a family while also immersing himself in playing the games, himself.

Shane Ogilvie is the co-founder of the Toronto agency The Garden Collective, working with such clients as Samsung, Roots and The United Way. In this episode, we chat about his beginnings working in the gold mines of his home town Timmins, selling Electralux vacuums door-to-door (no, we're not kidding), to becoming one of the top ten global leaders who are reinventing the advertising industry.

Ron Tite is an award winning writer and Creative Director. Speaker, Author and Founder of Church & State, a content marketing agency with such clients as Air France, Evian, Microsoft, Hershey’s, Johnson & Johnson and Volvo. Previously, he was the Executive Producer & Host of the award-winning CBC show Monkey Toast. In this interview, recorded live before a studio audience, we discuss his second book THINK. DO SAY. among other subjects including the state of social media influencers, developing your brand beliefs, and why it matters to “Do” what you “Say”.

Cameron Labine is a Lead Writer for Ubisoft in Toronto. Before penning such games as Assassin’s Creed and Watchdogs Legion, Cameron worked as an accomplished director and screenwriter producing such films as Mountain Men and Control Alt Delete. In this episode, we get into his past as a child actor, his beginnings as a filmmaker, and exactly how he creates video games with an R rating.

Elma Karabegovic is currently an Associate Creative Director at FCB in Toronto and has held senior creative positions at agencies such as Ogilvie & Mather and Juniper Park. In this episode, we learn about her move from war-torn Bosnia to Canada, what it’s like to overcome being a new Canadian while getting a start in the ad biz, and how having an egalitarian attitude has served her well throughout her career.