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While I wasn’t in America for long, 4 female, people of colour changed my life forever.
Given how old I am, that’s a pretty big statement and yet it is entirely true.
Mind you, it’s my age – or more specifically, the fact I’m at a level where I have some sort of influence in the industry – that is driving real change in terms of what I hold up as goals I want to hit in the time I have left in adland.
Don’t get me wrong, I still have a ridiculous level of enthusiasm and excitement for helping make great creative work … and I still want to help my team create one of the most interesting planning departments in the industry [based on what we create and how we did it] but I also want to make time for what I passionately believe will help the industry be better … of which one of those things is driving diversity in leadership.
Look, I know I don’t take too many things seriously, but this podcast interview with an HR organisation [I know, HR, but it is part of Niko’s brilliant Gap Jumpers group!!!] is one of the proudest things I’ve ever done.
Not for what I say, but because who helped me think this way.
Of which those 4 female, people of colour in America that I mentioned at the beginning of this post, are some of the most important ones.
Which is why I hope all the women I refer to in the podcast feel I honour the generosity, compassion, friendship and trust they showed towards me, because I am forever grateful to them for who they helped me become.
You can listen to it here.
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Well said and well done Robert.
Comment by Mary Bryant January 25, 2019 @ 6:52 amYou’re a good man Robert.
Comment by Pete January 25, 2019 @ 7:02 amgoodish. manish.
Comment by andy@cynic January 25, 2019 @ 4:05 pmNice to hear not everything in America was a disappointment.
Comment by George January 25, 2019 @ 7:20 amyou should hear what the yankees think of him.
Comment by andy@cynic January 25, 2019 @ 4:05 pm❤️
Comment by Jemma King January 25, 2019 @ 7:54 amstill got shit taste in men then jem?
Comment by andy@cynic January 25, 2019 @ 4:05 pmcongratulations campbell. you actually did something ok for once. whined on too fucking much, but at least it wasnt the usual planning bollocks you usually spout.
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