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A point of view: How DEI powered AXA’s Titanium 2025 Grand Prix

Leo Burnett Beirut's Nada Abisaleh shares how DEI took centre stage at Cannes Lions 2025, and was approached as a creative differentiator.

By Nada Abisaleh, Head of Leo Burnett Beirut on DEI at Cannes LionsBy Nada Abisaleh, Head of Leo Burnett Beirut

This year at Cannes, the Lions didn’t just roar, they roared for change. From Glass to Titanium, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) were everywhere in Cannes.

Dove’s “20 Years of Real Beauty” was a no-brainer for our Glass Grand Prix, a category built to spotlight long-term systemic change and culture shifting communication.

But the campaign everyone kept referencing on stage, in jury rooms, in the Palais halls was AXA’s “Three Words” which garnered an array of metals, including Titanium Grand Prix, Cannes’ most prestigious and coveted award.

Why? because “Three Words” is more than a campaign. It’s a business transformation embedded in a product, forever changing home


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Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.