Impact Interviews

Newly-appointed SVP of Marketing & Entertainment at Westbrook Media (yes, Jada Smith's and Will Smith's company), Jabari Hearn, joins us on today's episode to discuss whether adland's entering a renaissance period for brand storytelling. Hear how Hearn took the driver's seat in his professional journey spanning tech, sports, acting and both brand-side and agency-side roles.

Award-winning marketer, academic and cultural translator, Marcus Collins has shaken up companies and conferences across the globe with his knowledge of consumer behavior. Strap in to learn about reading cultural codes and moving beyond the blunt instruments brands and marketers use to describe people and measure success.

Ross Cidlowski knows the line between brand love and brand fatigue can be real thin. At nine months into his new gig as LEGO's director of strategy for the Americas, Ross talks to us about what it means to be in the business of play for the world's biggest toy company: the role of gender in packaging and messaging-and emerging partnerships and resources for parents that mix digital and physical play like never before.

Renown mountain climber, filmmaker, National Geographic photographer and activist, Jake Norton sits down with The Martin Agency's Michael Chapman for a digital dialogue.

Refinery 29 is changing the way media and advertisers speak to and represent women. The publication's Co-Founder and Executive Creative Director, Piera Luisa Gelardi, sits down to talk with us about brand disruption and brand intent.

In this episode we sit down with White House photographer Lawrence Jackson who spent 8 years documenting the Obama Administration and America's favorite first family.

In this episode we sit down brand strategist Heidi Hackemer. Heidi's work lives in the balance between provocation and practicality, helping build companies and brands that create impact in the world.

In this episode we sit down with Mark Jamison, Head of Global Innovation and Design for Visa. Mark leads design teams around the world - from Mexico City to Moscow - that explore and prototype emerging ideas in commerce.

Today we sit down with Dr. Derald Sue, professor of psychology at Columbia University. Dr. Sue is widely considered the most influential multicultural scholar in the United States.

In this episode we sit down with Benita Conde, founder of Create Radical Love, a life coaching and consulting approach for people who want to radically love every aspect of their life. Benita has 20 years of experience supporting and guiding the careers of creative people in the advertising industry.

Wade Davis is a former NFL cornerback whose work focuses on improving race, gender and sexual orientation equality for all. Wade is an inclusion consultant for heavy hitters like Netflix, Google, and the NFL. He coaches senior leaders from top companies around the world on how to build and develop their entire employee population.

Geoff Cottrill has lead the marketing teams at such venerable companies as Starbucks, Converse and most recently Coca-Cola, and has also worked as the head of advertising agency MullenLowe. Geoff knows marketing from all angles – what works and what’s broken about it.