With a firm footing in both agency and brand terrains, Tabitha brings to the Inside Out® Community practical and seasoned expertise developed over 25 years in the advertising and marketing sectors. Her journey in the industry has always been about finding strategic solutions and enhancing the operational efficiency of in-house and agency-side creative departments, aligning them closely with business objectives.
Cato has spent her career helping clients grow their brands through a deep understanding of changing cultural meaning. Cato specialises in finding insight that makes a difference and unlocks new ways of thinking and being. Through questioning, reframing, and (re)imagining, she crafts strategies, stories, designs, and experiences that positively shape culture – and resonate more deeply with people.
Paul is the CTO and Co-Founder of Filter, a digital development agency specialising in performance and personalisation. Renowned for his calm and insightful approach, Paul frequently addresses audiences as a public speaker, focusing on personalisation in web and open source development at scale. His expertise extends to providing professional guidance on technology strategy and implementation for businesses of all scales.
Ex-Head of Creative and Branding at Ocado, Michael built a creative digital studio capable of extraordinary things and acted as “the heart of the brand” for one of the UK’s best-loved brands. A regular contributor at our Breakfast Clubs, Michael has the ability to interpret an in-house challenge and draw on his own experience of supporting teams to scale, grow, and evolve to meet the changing needs of the business, tackling the unknown even when chaos swirls and deadlines loom.
Janet works with executive leaders and their teams to build innovative, successful commercial solutions to business problems. Focused on understanding the business, Janet drives learning and transformation programmes that turn business strategic objectives into profitable growth outcomes.
Kevin Frank is an independent creative leader. Most recently, he was Executive Creative Director of LinkedIn, where his team was named Advertising Age In-House Agency of the Year and he was named to Campaign’s 40 `over 40 list. Prior to Linkedin, he was a Creative Director at Apple and held creative positions in agencies, including being the first copywriter at Venables, Bell and Partners.
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Published author, advisor, and speaker on progressive leadership practices, Gillian specialises in leadership transformation in the modern workplace and has worked with Design Leadership Teams at companies like Spotify, Typeform, and WeTransfer. Dubbed the “architect of the unseen” by her clients, Gillian loves to troubleshoot and get things unstuck by teasing out and solving the organisational and leadership pain points that come with scaling businesses and teams.
Roy Murphy is co-founder of G3NR8, the AI & Web3 creative consultancy. He helps large organisations with AI strategy, insight, development, and employee engagement. Roy works with brands across consumer healthcare, finance, pharma, transport, and marketing sectors to drive productivity and growth.
Marty Davies is an award-winning creative strategist, campaigner, writer, advertising industry thought-leader and changemaker. She sits at the intersection between LGBTQIA+ culture, history, rights, the creative industries, and the attention economy. Frustrated with the state of inclusion, Marty founded their own creative strategy consultancy in 2018 – Smarty Pants Consultancy – that’s historically specialised in customer activation and retention.
Gareth Chilton is the founder of ManMachine, a multidisciplinary consulting team in the MarTech and AdOps spaces. Gareth is passionate about helping businesses bridge the gap between people, processes, and technology in their digital transformation and beyond, focusing largely on advertising agencies and customers.
Mali Okoi-Obuli is a Producer by trade and has been working in the media, advertising, and branded content space for almost 20 years. Her career journey so far has taken her through the world of fashion, sports, tech, music, and lifestyle.
She is the Founder of newly formed OURHouse, a creative and strategically led production services agency, which is committed to producing elevated content – lovingly told through a cultural lens and collaboratively executed by best-in-class global talent.
Lucy is an AUDHD (Autistic and ADHD) Creative Director and Founder of The Future is ND- a platform that champions and empowers neurodiversity in the creative and tech industries. Advocating through a program of regular events, keynotes, workshops, consultancy, and creative projects, Lucy’s work is focused on educating organisations and society on how to foster and empower a more neuro-inclusive workforce and world.
The Inside Out® Community works hard to seek opportunities for our members to share their experience and insights and broaden their network.
Earlier this month we were thrilled to not only offer our members FREE tickets to attend Mad/Fest London, but we also got them on stage to showcase how they are leading the work, leading their teams and the industry.
In-house creative leaders are playing more of a significant role in brand creativity and marketing. We are therefore thrilled to be partnering with the UK’s largest Marketing Festival next Month bringing the in-house perspective to the programme.
We are very excited to announce that we are launching a brand new podcast called The Future of In-House Creative Leadership, brought to you by the Inside Out® Community – the professional home for in-house creative leaders.
It is a wild wild west out there for recruitment with restructuring and redundancies. We are regularly having lots of conversations with in-house creative leaders looking for help with their job search.
Our advice to people has been to ‘think like a business’. Here are some questions to ask yourself…
