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Should we kick creatives out of leadership and the boardroom?

Several leaders have opined that across brand-building, marketing, and advertising the industry is witnessing a diminishing presence of pure creative expertise at the highest levels of corporate leadership.

“Do you want to see the industry improve? Let’s get creatives and creativity back in the boardroom and in C-level leadership roles.” These are comments echoed by a score of leaders in conversation with Campaign Middle East over coffee, so we decided to write about it and share their voice with the world.
Several leaders have opined that across brand-building, marketing, and advertising the industry is witnessing a diminishing presence of pure creative expertise at the highest levels of corporate leadership.
“Paying lip-service to “creativity” by placing isolated creatives in senior positions where they are nothing but a silent minority, in the current model, is nothing but a sham. In


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the authorAnup Oommen
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.