Join us on 8 March for another enthralling instalment of AWARD Twilight Talks in Melbourne, featuring neurodivergent trailblazer Beth O’Brien.
Join us on 8 March for another enthralling instalment of AWARD Twilight Talks in Melbourne, featuring neurodivergent trailblazer Beth O’Brien.
ABOUT
“Stick this in your heteronormative, neurotypical, Infinite Jest-loving pipe and smoke it.”
Join Melbourne's creative community for an unmissable event featuring Beth O’Brien – a queer and neurodivergent creative leader who has navigated a path through the industry as an ‘outsider’.
Beth, Head of Innovation at The Monkeys, will share her story including her approach to creativity and how advertising could have an even greater impact for good.
This event is for anyone creative, in leadership, or interested in people and the world around them.
Hosted by Award Council Member Tara Ford, Chief Creative Officer at The Monkeys, part of Accenture Song.
ABOUT BETH O'BRIEN
Beth is a globally recognised creative who has been described as a magic combination of optimism and dogged determination – qualities needed to achieve impossible ideas.
After wrapping up a Master’s in Fine Arts, and entering creative advertising, she won New Zealand’s first D&AD Black Pencil for her work on Pedigree’s K9FM and moved to New York to take up creative roles at RGA and Droga5. There she created work for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, billed as “a masterpiece in political advertising” by The New York Times and Forbes Magazine.
In the four years since returning home, Beth has been labelled as one of the top people under 40 championing change and progress in the APAC region.
She is a big believer in using creativity to dismantle systems that don’t serve the marginalised, young people or the planet. Imagining new ways of doing things is her absolute favourite past time.