#LeadingLadies: Sarah Moran

#LeadingLadies: Sarah Moran

Sarah Moran says every business needs three types of people. A hacker to code, a hipster to make it look good and a hustler to manage business development.   Now the CEO of Girl Geek Academy, Sarah has built a small army of hackers, hipsters and hustlers for a...
Apply Design Thinking to Problem Solve Your Life

Apply Design Thinking to Problem Solve Your Life

We first met Amelia Schmidt when she was speaking at a UX event on ‘Why everyone should be a Designer.’ She is a UX Engineer at Clover and co-founder of Estimate Work, General Assembly instructor, speaker and urban gardening enthusiast who writes blogs in her spare...
Word of Mouth Marketing: Why haven’t we nailed it?

Word of Mouth Marketing: Why haven’t we nailed it?

Research tells us 92% of consumers believe recommendations from friends and family over all other forms of advertising.   In an AMA survey, 64% of marketing executives indicated they believed word of mouth (WOM) is the most effective marketing tactic. Yet only 6%...
Agencies working for Social Good

Agencies working for Social Good

To what extent do agencies have a responsibility in combating social issues? Agencies have such creative talent sitting in their offices that it’s unsurprising a great spark of an idea such as online cyberbullying tool Reword was conjured by a team at Leo Burnett. The...
#LeadingLadies: Ally Watson

#LeadingLadies: Ally Watson

Ally Watson’s story is like something out of a rags to riches movie. Raised in working class Scotland with a single parent and a big family, she pursued her dream of becoming an artist, only to be rejected from art school twice in two years. Now based in Melbourne,...