Claire Sanderson is the multi award-winning editor-in-chief of Women’s Health. She is responsible for the strategy and direction of the entire brand across all platforms. Claire is a regular contributor to TV, radio and podcasts. She also speaks at universities about improving social diversity in the media and has worked with the government to improve health outcomes of women and girls as the only media representative on the Women’s Health Taskforce. Claire joined Hearst UK in January 2017. With over 22 years editorial experience, she trained as a news journalist and worked for several national newspapers before moving to magazines where she has held a number of senior roles at high-profile media brands including Look and Grazia. 

Eduardo is Cuban born, American by choice. He is EVP, Executive Creative Director at Brunet-García Advertising, an agency 100% focused on generating social impact by applying exceptional strategic creativity to solve some of the most complex issues affecting our nation today, such as the drug overdose and HIV epidemics, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Current clients include Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), amongst others.

At B|G, Eduardo inspires teams across the agency to foster creativity and work collaboratively to create great work for a greater good. Under his leadership, the agency has won more than 300 awards and has been named one of Adweek's Fastest Growing Agencies in the world for three consecutive years.

Before joining B|G, he led teams throughout Latin America to create regional campaigns for global brands like Samsung, MoneyGram, General Mills, and GE, and he has been an adjunct professor at the Superior Institute of Design (ISDI) in Havana. He is also a painter and illustrator. His artworks have been published and exhibited internationally and live in the permanent collection of several American museums.

Eduardo is extremely passionate about life, ideas, and collaboration and believes that inspiring people is the best currency.

Laurent is a Brand Experience, Digital and Marketing-Communications Transformation Architect, passionate about Brands, Creativity, Story-Telling and -Doing and Data-Driven Marketing.

He has over 25 years of experience in Agencies and Clients in a diversity of categories, geographies, business practices and cultures, having lived/worked in Paris, Munich, New York, Barcelona, Singapore and Basel-Switzerland.

At Colgate-Palmolive since 2018, he has profoundly transformed the approach to communication across the 3 categories, 8 brands and 24 markets, from a brand cultural relevance, brand experience & digital transformation and agency partners transformation perspective.

He is responsible for the most awarded campaigns at Colgate-Palmolive, including a Cannes Silver Lion for Creative Strategy.

He is a DE&I advocate, has initiated and implemented Colgate-Palmolive first DE&I Marketing Vision & Strategy, launched and lead Colgate-Palmolive LGBTQ+ ERG for Europe and Africa Eurasia and is a proud Gay husband and dad of two amazing children.

Mark founded We Are Futures, then known as National Schools Partnership, in 2004. Today he and his team work with businesses who want to use their strength and reach for good in the development and experiences of young people. We Are Futures develop strategies and create programmes that help brands including Samsung, Sky, NatWest, and McDonalds connect with young audiences, whether through CSR, employment opportunities or educating them in skills and knowledge that fall outside the curriculum. 

It was working with new recruits in the army that sparked Mark’s interest in the power of experiential learning, skills development and new opportunities to transform the lives of young people, regardless of background. Upon leaving the army in 1995 he joined World Challenge, the youth expeditions organisation, as training director then head of marketing and ultimately, managing director. In that time, they took it from 10 expeditions a year for children to 350 expeditions annually for a vast range of young people and launched it in the US before its eventual sale to TUI.

Today, We Are Futures brings a unique mix of research and insights, brilliant creativity and strong content, digital and production skills to help business, charity, and government clients to better understand and connect with young people. Alongside their 4 proprietary networks for teachers, young leaders and parents that have a wealth of experience to help prepare young people for adult life, educating them about personal, professional, and emotional issues they would face.

Mark is also a trustee of the British Exploring Society.

Lisa was recently named in Forbes 43 People Changing Advertising For The Climate. She was also one of Campaign magazine's Top 10 Trailblazers of the year in 2021 for her work on climate in advertising.

With over 20 years’ experience in the industry, she’s held leadership positions for brands client-side and in creative agencies, working with Coca-Cola, Marks & Spencer, Heineken, Tetley, Unilever, Walgreens Boots Alliance and more in the UK, Europe and the US. 

In 2018 she came to understand her personal connection to the Climate Crisis and the impact of the work she was doing in the industry and In 2019 co-founded Purpose Disruptors to help the industry transition so it only creates work in line with a 1.5 degree world.

She believes in the power of creativity and imagination to create systemic change together with a new style of regenerative leadership focused on collaboration and creating deeper human connection. 

The Purpose Disruptors project she founded 'Good Life 2030' helps advertising agencies create new visions of a sustainable Good Life through workshops and creative work informed by citizens. In 2021 she made the first ever short documentary about the connection between advertising, consumption and climate change which launched at COP26.

She was a speaker at both COP26 and Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity and is a regular speaker, panelist and judge with many organisations She also holds advisory positions with Media Trust Weston Communicating Climate and The Centre for Sustainable Design and is an assessor on the CISL course at Cambridge University.

Ross Middleham, Creative Lead at the Met Office, has been described by his Executive team as having a ‘major and ubiquitous impact on how the world sees the Met Office’.

With nearing 20 years of ­design industry experience working in graphic design, brand, interactive experiences and social media, he thrives on mentoring, sharing inspiration and innovating.

He oversees design, video and social-first content creation, delivering positive, inspiring creative leadership and clear brand direction.

Ross’s values are similar to those of the Met Office. He strives for excellence in everything he does and is a ‘force for good’ when helping to inspire students to follow a creative career path. He’s an ‘expert by nature’ talking at industry conferences and sharing best practice with other government departments and agencies. He ensures the team ‘keep evolving’ by proactively making new industry contacts to learn from. He encourages all the team to share their work, understanding that they are ‘better together’.

Ross truly ‘lives and breathes’ design, taking inspiration from everything around him.

Damien Hooper-Campbell is a C-level leader and board director with more than 20 years of expertise in culture, leadership development, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) and community engagement. Prior to joining StockX, Damien served as the first Chief Diversity Officer at Zoom Video Communications. In this capacity, he led the build and implementation of Zoom’s global DEI strategy with a focus on its current and future employees and customers, its products and its communities, and also oversaw the buildout of Zoom's first global University Recruiting practice. He was also an inaugural member of the Board for Zoom Cares, the company's philanthropic and social impact program. 

Prior to joining Zoom, Damien was a Vice President at eBay where he served as the company’s first Chief Diversity Officer for four years. While at eBay, he led the design and implementation of eBay’s global strategy for embedding DEI across its workforce, workplace, and marketplace. He also led eBay’s University Recruiting & Programs team and was a member of the eBay Foundation’s Board of Directors. Before eBay, Damien served as Uber’s first Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion and as a Diversity Strategist at Google. Prior to Google, he was a Vice President in Goldman Sachs’ Pine Street Leadership Development Group. Prior to Goldman, he held positions with the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation and Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Division.  

Damien is a member of the Board of Directors for Harry’s, Inc. and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). He serves as a member of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science Dean’s Advisory Board, the Chelsea Factory's Advisory Council and The Steve Fund’s Crisis Response Task Force and Corporate Leadership Council. Damien’s thought leadership on culture, DEI, leadership and community engagement has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, TechCrunch and The Globe and Mail. 

Damien graduated with a BA in Economics from Morehouse College and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was both a Bert King and Morgan Stanley Fellow.

Named to AdWeek’s Creative 100 list in 2021 and selected by AdAge as one of the top marketing executives leading sustainability efforts, Felipe Ambra is a creative purpose-driven leader at Corona. Felipe is known for leading several brand initiatives that consolidated Corona as one of the most consistent brands in the beer industry and the fastest growing brand globally within AB InBev’s portfolio. As Global Vice President of Corona, Felipe has played an instrumental role in building and strengthening Corona as a brand born at the beach and dedicated to reconnecting with nature through creative and impactful global strategies. 

Notably, Felipe has elevated Corona as a thought leader on sustainability, accomplishing the protection of 100 islands in partnership with Parley for the Oceans, as well as introduce many initiatives to raise awareness of marine plastic pollution. He has also led the introduction of Corona to the branded content and storytelling world, which was crowned in 2020 with the launch of Corona Studios. Under his leadership, Corona continues to hold the title of “the world’s most valuable beer brand” by Brand Finance®.

Felipe joined the Corona brand team in 2018. Prior to his role as vice president, Felipe joined AB InBev more than two decades ago as a trainee in Brazil and worked his way up beginning in sales and trade marketing to director of marketing having contributed to the continued expansion of AB InBev’s portfolio in countries like Peru, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Guatemala, Puerto Rico and over 20 Caribbean islands before joining the global Corona team.

Felipe currently resides in the Greater New York City Area.

Peter joined Amalgamated Bank in 2016 from Unum Group where he served nine years as Vice President of Brand and Advertising. He led the repositioning and marketing efforts for all of Unum’s insurance brands in the U.S. and U.K. Before that, Peter was a Senior Vice President at a number of large New York City advertising agencies including, Grey, JWT, Ogilvy and Bozell. Over his career, he has created integrated marketing campaigns for thirty-five companies including financial industry giants Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, NASDAQ and Commerce Bank.

As a co-founder of Do the WeRQ, Graham helps tell the platform's story and connect the movement to partners who embrace the value of queer creativity. The mission of Do the WeRQ is simple: increase queer creativity, representation and share of voice in the advertising industry. The

organization brings people across the industry together to foster connections, share experiences and collaborate on cultural transformations that support the LGBTQ+ community 365 days a year. He is also an Austin-based reputation management, public relations and communications consultant — empowered by nearly 20 years of experience advancing meaningful brand conversations.

With nearly 15 years of experience in the purpose/ESG/impact space, Whitney Dailey is a thought leader at the intersection of purpose and communications.

At Allison+Partners, Whitney serves as Executive Vice President, Purpose and leads the agency’s newly formed Purpose Center of Excellence – a dedicated team specializing in Purpose brand strategy and ESG leadership, backed by A+P’s global network of more than 500+ creatives and storytellers. In this role, Whitney helps clients establish, communicate and measure ESG goals and strategies, as well as build breakthrough social impact programs and thoughtful, strategic Purpose programs and initiatives from the ground up.

Whitney’s expertise in Purpose, marketing and communications has helped guide forward-looking thinking and communications strategies on behalf of brands including PepsiCo, Athleta, B. Lab and others. She has personally authored upwards of 400 articles and 30 research reports on sustainability, social justice, and ESG topics and shared her message from the digital wavelengths of myriad podcasts, the lectern at Harvard University the stage of Sundance and Fordham’s Responsible Business and Future Fashion Coalitions.

In her previous role as Senior Vice President of Purpose Marketing, Research & Insights at Porter Novelli, Whitney transformed the agency into a Purpose-driven organization through powerful thought leadership, communications and marketing. During her tenure at Porter Novelli and Cone Communications (acquired by Porter Novelli), Whitney bolstered the agency’s profile through a host of speaking engagements, POVs, op-eds, insights, and more – including leading in the development and distribution of award-winning research studies, such as the 2021 Porter Novelli Business of Cancel Culture Study, 2020 Porter Novelli Executive Purpose Study and 2019 Porter Novelli/Cone Purpose Biometrics Study (named Top 14 Research Insights by Institute for Public Relations).

Prior to Porter Novelli and Cone, Whitney worked on the Corporate Program team at Ceres, an environmental nonprofit aimed at advancing solutions and action on the world's most pressing sustainability issues. In this role, Whitney analyzed corporate member sustainability reports and participated in stakeholder engagement sessions for Fortune 500 companies.

Whitney holds an MBA in Environmental Management from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a BA in Business Administration from the George Washington University. She also earned an MBA Certificate in Clean Energy and Sustainability from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is a frequent guest lecturer at colleges and universities including Boston College, Boston University and Simmons College. Whitney was named a Top 100 Giving Influencer on Twitter by Give Local America in 2015 and in 2019, was a finalist for PR News Platinum Awards PR Professional of the Year. She sits on the board of the Global Impact Relations Network.

Roya Shariat is a Brooklyn-based writer and social impact professional, currently leading Impact and Brand Partnerships at Glossier. Roya created the social impact function at Glossier in 2018, and has since grown the portfolio of work to encompass a Grant Program for Black entrepreneurs in beauty, charitable partnerships at all retail locations, and a product donation strategy. Roya has worked for leading brands and organizations including Chobani, the ACLU, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Roya writes a weekly newsletter on food and culture called Consumed and runs a popular cooking TikTok account with her mom Gita that has over 185,000 followers and more than 15 million likes across the platform.

Carole Diarra joined UGG® as the Vice President of Global Marketing in 2021. She excitedly steps in to unleash the next level of growth as the world-renowned Southern California-based brand continues to transform into a more fashion-driven, lifestyle brand and expands its global footprint. She will design and lead the global UGG® brand marketing strategy to create brand heat, drive brand strength, inspire consumer engagement, and deliver commercial results. She will influence how global consumers think about and connect with UGG® as an iconic brand, steering the business through the next inflection point and phase of growth.

Carole was most recently the Chief Marketing Officer of Arbonne International, a global company based out of Southern California providing vegan, luxury skincare and nutrition products. She was responsible for driving over 30% revenue growth and led a major rebrand focused on transparency and sustainability while becoming a Certified B Corporation. She was responsible for R&D, creative, social, digital media, and product marketing.

Prior to Arbonne, Carole lived in New York and worked for 15 years at L’Oreal SA, a leader in the beauty industry where she held various positions in brand management, P&L, and innovation across multiple brands, including Vichy and Garnier, and spent five years in the L’Oreal worldwide headquarters in Paris, France.

Carole started her career at Accenture in strategy consulting and worked across government, retail, pharmaceutical, and technology businesses. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her bachelor’s degree from Duke University in Economics.

Carole has lived and/or worked in New York, Paris, London, Madrid, and Central America, and speaks proficient French. She is married with two children and currently lives in Paris, France with her family. She is passionate about inspiring and uplifting young girls and women to be resilient and courageous in achieving their dreams.

Dora Nikols is the founder of Social Mission, a leading public relations and social purpose agency based in Australia that works with for-purpose, health and wellness brands to help them stand out and stand for something. She helps brands find their social purpose grow, change the world, and capture their audience's hearts, minds and emotions.

She lives by the philosophy shared by Martin Luther King Jr, ‘that our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter’ Working in PR for the past 20 years, she has seen first-hand that standing for something makes you stand out the most. 

She integrates a bold social purpose into your company’s DNA that guides its PR, social media and storytelling, so you grow, change the world and leave behind a powerful legacy. 

Dora has worked with a diverse range of purpose-driven brands and non-profits, including Unilever, The Benevolent Society, Koala Mattress, Country Road, Tamburlaine Organic Wines, Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreats, Pipping Hot, Thursday Plantation, Domestos, Schick, Unicef, Life Education, WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), The Bernie Banton Foundation, Rainforest Rescue, The Smith Family, Goodman Fielder and many more. 

Andrea set up Skating Panda, a creative social and environmental impact consultancy over a decade ago. She combines commercial marketing experience with deep issue knowledge to advise leaders in the fields of sustainability, health, gender and international development. She is as comfortable helping a traditional business adapt itself to a purposeful, impactful future, as she is creating ground-breaking campaigns on the biggest and most pressing challenges of our time.

Real impact is at the heart of everything Andrea and Skating Panda do -work that drives long term positive, sustainable, and quantifiable social and environmental change and drives towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals and beyond.

Andrea is a board director of the food poverty community business, Maymessy, and a trustee of the peer-led family health charity, mothers2mothers. She is a lifetime member and helped establish the Women's Equality Party and also regularly mentors purposeful entrepreneurs through Unreasonable. She has particular interest in women’s, community and family health and, among other things, has played a pioneering role to put the menopause firmly on the national and international agenda. But she knows there is still much to be done.

Skating Panda works with responsible organisations - businesses, charities, philanthropy, NGOs, governments, media, and individuals - to turn intent into impact and to improve outcomes for clients, people, and the planet around the world. Since June 2022, Skating Panda has been B Corp certified.

After 20 years working across various FMCG brands locally and internationally, Ary found his dream job working with the fantastic social enterprise, Change Please Coffee. 100% of all profits made through coffee sales go towards fighting homelessness. We provide employment opportunities and vital solutions to those in need.

Prajakta More is VP Associate Creative Director at McCann Health, New Jersey. She loves bringing a fresh approach to day-to-day projects to inspire direct reports and clients. She is an award-winning creative, industry-recognized thought-leader, columnist, and international juror and believes that advertising and activism can co-exist.

Anne serves as the Global communications leader for Gas Power’s Inclusion & Diversity Initiative as well as the Communications Director for GE’s Gas Power business for Sub-Saharan Africa. In both roles, she defines and leads the strategic communications function, implementing initiatives to drive targeted business outcomes for both internal and external audiences.

In July 2021, she was also appointed as Chief Diversity Officer for Gas Power, EMEA Pole.

With over 18 years of communications experience from her roles at Schneider Electric, Agence France Presse, and the Consulate General of France, Anne has a track record of developing innovative and results-oriented communication strategies to drive business performance, brand reputation, employee engagement and leadership communications.

In addition to her communications expertise, Anne has been leading sustainable development and diversity initiatives throughout her career. She led the Schneider Electric Foundation in Nigeria as well as its Access to energy program for underserved communities, building and implementing programs and partnerships with public and private enterprises. In GE, she has led CSR and Diversity efforts for the Gas Power business in SSA, with a keen focus on gender equality, women in STEM and community-based programs.

Anne has a B.A in Foreign languages from the University of Benin in Nigeria, and an M.A in Communications, Media and Public relations from the University of Leicester, UK. She has native proficiency levels in English and French as well as notions of German and Arabic.

She lives in Cote d’Ivoire with her husband and three children. In her spare time, she loves to travel and volunteer for health, education, and social development causes.

Fleurie is a multi-dimensional marketer and professional relationship builder. Following a 10-year career that spanned advertising, gaming, digital, creative and campaigns, she joined Stronger Stories as a Director, advocating for story as the single greatest weapon in the fight for environmental and social justice. BIMA100 Rising Star, Bournemouth University Alumni 30 Under 30 in 2020 and passionately vegan boxer.

Rob started at THE 3RD EYE as an intern and since, has helped grow T3E from 15

people to 60. His fresh approach to creativity in health and wellness has led to a 30

percent growth in agency revenue, and increased brand awareness for clients. For

Rob, wellness is inherently holistic — he believes that living longer is all about helping

people live a better quality of life.

Puff is the Co-founder of 3 Sided Cube Inc, with years of agency experience working with the likes of The Red Cross, Global Commons Alliance and World Resources Institute. She has vast amounts of practical knowledge in various different sectors and works closely with our clients to ensure we deliver the very best service, and impact.

Garrett was PPK’s fourth non-owner employee, joining the team in 2005 as a Senior Account Executive. Since coming on board, the agency has grown almost 20x, and today Garrett fulfills the role of agency President, leading a team of almost 100 dedicated, resourceful, strategic team members who all support the agency's clients business goals through creative solutions. His strategic business insights have helped PPK to win major accounts in Southeast Florida, including the Florida Lottery, Tires Plus Total Car Care, The Tampa Bay Rays and Pinch A Penny Pools. When he’s not working, Garrett spends every possible moment he can outdoors, and loves introducing his two awesome young kids to new and exciting adventures.

Hanisha Kotecha has spent almost two decades helping deliver effective and award-winning campaigns for global brands, renowned charities, and disruptive social enterprises including Dunelm, Clearscore, Outsystems, Motorpoint, Escada, Dogs Trust, WaterAid, Public Health England, Vodafone and Lexus. Having worked at both big network agencies and independents, most recently as MD of GOOD, Hanisha’s experience covers almost any scenario you can think of. Which is why she is pivotal in helping organisations drive business transformation and results, building brands that real people can’t help but care about. Under her leadership, the account management department drive deeper and more meaningful relationships with all our clients and ensure we exist as extensions of their teams, caring as much about the results of any campaign as they do. Hanisha is a member of WACL and consults for Creative Access.

Meg helps businesses uncover and cultivate authentic brand narratives and expressions through imagination, craft and storytelling. With a MFA in Design from SCAD and BA in Journalism from University of Georgia, Meg has worked in publishing and branding for 20 years. She has developed identities, campaigns, and experiences for some of the world’s most recognized brands including Heineken, Kimberly-Clark, GSK, Danone, American Express, Verizon and Bank of America. While brand building is her focus, Meg is most proud of her work with organizations empowering women and children—including The Girl Scouts, Planned Parenthood and Teach for America. Featured in FastCo, The Drum, Digiday, and Creative Boom and a recent AIGANY board member, Meg has been named GDUSA's 2021 Person to Watch.

Charlotte Pearce is a radically empathetic Forbes 30 under 30 entrepreneur, keynote speaker and CEO of Inkpact.com. She is on a mission to help brands be more human, and to change the way we think about customer and connection. 

Inkpact is a tech business with a difference. Working with global brands like Sweaty Betty, Tiffany, Deliveroo and many more they have proven to drive sales, retention and lifetime value by sending triggered handwritten notes and gifts written by their scribe tribe of over 1,000 people globally.  

Charlotte has been invited to speak and influence corporates, governments, schools, charities, and even royal families spreading her message of good business is good business and helping people build brands and live a life they love.

Nilesha is Managing Director of GOOD Agency with over 25 years of client leadership experience. She is a Global Marketing & Communications expert with commercial Purpose and third sector Brand and Fundraising expertise. At GOOD she spearheads the agency operations, is a senior advisor to a portfolio of charity and Purpose-driven commercial clients and is responsible for driving agency growth.

Nilesha is also a fiction writer. Her debut novel, The Uprising of Rita Marsh, has been acquired by Faber as a crime list superlead and will be published in 2024.

Michael is a Creative Entrepreneur who has spent the last few years building KINDE, an entertainment & marketing agency based in South London. As the Managing / Creative Director of KINDE, he was announced as The Drum’s Rising Star in 2020 and since then Michael has gone on to acquire clients including the likes of Paramount Pictures, Amazon Prime Video & Disney to name a few. Working across partnerships, content development, events/experiences & digital KINDE’s mission is to serve with purpose, create influence and deliver victory.

Client MD, Wavemaker. Focused on being an indispensable partner for clients, bringing them ideas and work that positively provokes their growth across finance, FMCG and travel sectors. I believe that we should 'be the change' that we want to see in the industry, so I actively lead Diversity and Inclusion groups, particularly helping those who've taken parental leave to get back into the industry and coaching our future generation of client leaders.