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Anna Thairs is an award-winning full-stack Strategy Director, holding senior strategy roles at Grey London and Portas in Melbourne before joining Ogilvy Sydney, where she’s also a member of the agency’s Behavioural Science unit. Anna is vocal about her experiences as a mixed-race woman with OCD, ADHD and depression, and is passionate about driving more in-depth approaches to inclusion and diversity in advertising and beyond.Our chat includes:Understanding neurodiversity and how organisations can be more inclusive to neurodiverse team membersADHD including Anna’s own experiences being diagnosedThe idea of renaissance women strategistsIntersectionality and the importance of nuance in our perspectives of humansLinks to some of the stuff we chatted about:Lemon paper by Orlando Wood - How left brain thinking is undermining creativity and making advertising less effectiveJohn Cleese creativity talk at Nudgestock 2021Learn more about Anna’s strategy career, and check out her amazing artworkAnna’s 2017 article on transformational thinking quoted in the interview Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anna Thairs is an award-winning full-stack Strategy Director, holding senior strategy roles at Grey London and Portas in Melbourne before joining Ogilvy Sydney, where she’s also a member of the agency’s Behavioural Science unit. Anna is vocal about her experiences as a mixed-race woman with OCD, ADHD and depression, and is passionate about driving more in-depth approaches to inclusion and diversity in advertising and beyond.Our chat includes:<ul><li>Understanding neurodiversity and how organisations can be more inclusive to neurodiverse team members</li><li>ADHD including Anna’s own experiences being diagnosed</li><li>The idea of renaissance women strategists</li><li>Intersectionality and the importance of nuance in our perspectives of humans</li></ul>Links to some of the stuff we chatted about:<ul><li><a href="https://ipa.co.uk/knowledge/publications-reports/lemon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lemon paper by Orlando Wood - How left brain thinking is undermining creativity and making advertising less effective</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSSuMFvn2Rg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John Cleese creativity talk at Nudgestock 2021</a></li><li><a href="http://www.annathairs.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Learn more about Anna’s strategy career, and check out her amazing artwork</a></li><li><a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/552257d0e4b0c878b577c879/t/59026a33e6f2e110bafd8f1a/1493330486442/APG2017_AnnaThairs.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anna’s 2017 article on transformational thinking quoted in the interview</a></li></ul> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Episode 14: Anna Thairs, Strategy Director at Ogilvy Sydney

9: Ava and Jaz, Copywriters, Ogilvy Sydney