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Alex James has spent the last 12 years helping B2B service businesses across the globe become experts at conveying their expertise. He believes the go-to strategies of the 2010s, like niching down, solving problems and sharing ideas are no longer enough. Because in a post-AI world (where output is cheap & everyone's a specialist) you can't just share ideas - you need to own one. You need a perspective. His cut-to-the-b...
Melissa Havel is a senior communications strategist, executive advisor, and team coach who blends big-idea thinking with a disciplined approach to problem-solving and delivering results. She has driven powerful storytelling and strategic communications campaigns across owned, earned, and paid channels for organizations of all sizes, drawing on her extensive experience as a senior director at Portland General Electric and a...
Mark Jones is an accomplished educator, producer, and author, known for bridging the worlds of culture, technology, and education. As the Dean of the Faculty of Animation, Art, and Design at Sheridan College and former Director at Seneca Film Institute, Mark has dedicated over 25 years to empowering the next generation of creatives. His book, The Starving Artist Myth, challenges long-standing stereotypes about creative car...
Héctor Ayuso has spent the last 30 years chasing ideas and making them real. Call him an artist, filmmaker, creative director, storyteller, or just a guy who can't sit still—labels don’t matter, doing does. From Spain to Mexico, Italy to the U.S., he’s built studios, taught, spoken on stages, and created projects that live outside the usual boxes. For nearly 25 years, he founded and shaped one of the world’s most influenti...
Marcel Petitpas is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability. In his work as a speaker, podcast host, and consultant, specializing in Agency Profitability Optimization, he's helped thousands of agencies, consultancies, and professional services firms worldwide measure the right metrics and improve their profitability.
He’s on a mission to help...
Mandi Ellefson transformed her life from battling $175k in debt to amassing a multi-million dollar net worth before hitting 40. As the visionary behind Hands-Off CEO, Mandi isn’t just another success story; she’s a lifeline for consulting agency owners drowning in the day-to-day. Her magic? Transforming million-dollar agencies into scalable enterprises with minimal CEO dependency. Mandi has propelled hundreds of agencies t...
Cecilia Owens is an esteemed finance and operations executive with over 20 years of progressive experience in financial reporting, budgeting / forecasting, strategic planning, cash management, business operations, HR oversight, and business relationship management. Cecilia is currently the Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer at Grandview Entertainment, a renowned management company that represents awe-inspiri...
Tony Kadillak has spent 20 years in branding and promotion, servicing today's most recognizable entertainment and sports brands. Currently EP at Versus, he’s been responsible for supporting the strategic growth of his agency teams, while focusing on key clients to drive the value of design-led thinking to their bottom lines.
For over ten years, Carson Hood has played a crucial role as the executive producer at BigStar. He s...
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Esther Weinberg is a business growth accelerator that equips executives in high-growth media and technology industries to create game-changing breakthroughs, increase profitability in declining markets and create successful and sustainable“portable” virtual cultures with executives, leaders and te...
This is a recording from RevThink's The Weekly Briefing from August 7th, 2024.
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Blair Enns is on a mission to change the way creative services are bought and sold the world over. He is the CEO o...
Alana Tompson is a Melbourne cinematographer and the creative director of Said & Done Media.
She also hosts a podcast called Said & Undone which interviews creatives about what could be done – and is being done – to increase the diversity of the film, TV, media and advertising industries to make them a more inclusive place.
With her career commencing as a camera operator on Animal Planet's acclaimed series '...
Kevin Robinson is an award-winning design leader with decades of experience as a director, entrepreneur, executive creative director, strategist, and advisor. Throughout his professional career, Robinson founded and led Juniper Jones, a multidisciplinary studio, and most recently, Creative Dept., a new platform whose mission is to provide access to extremity-vetted talent on a fractional monthly basis; allowing brands to e...
Marlene P. Naicker, a serial fashion entrepreneur and the Founder/Creative Director of MULDOONEYS, epitomizes resilience and innovation. Born in apartheid-era South Africa in 1975, she draws inspiration from influential figures like Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, embodying fearlessness and empathy.
Facing adversity head-on, Marlene battled cancer while simultaneously building MULDOONEYS in 2009, showcasing her strength ...
Joanne is CEO of Turner Duckworth, a world-class branding agency with studios in San Francisco, London and New York. Turner Duckworth has designed some of the world’s most valuable brands, including Amazon, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Levi’s and Samsung.
Joanne’s first career was in the art world, having worked at prestigious art galleries in New York, Monaco and San Francisco, and the Guggenheim Museum. After deciding on a...
Stephen Price is the founder and creative director of Stash Media Inc. and executive editor of Stash Magazine and the Stash Permanent Collection – the world’s only video streaming platform dedicated to design, animation, and VFX.
Stephen has given dozens of talks on design at festivals/conferences from Los Angeles to Hamburg and Istanbul to Caracas and curated scores of film screenings in over 20 countries. He also ove...
Will Travis is an internationally respected brand builder and social connector. With a career leading respected branding / advertising agencies ATTIK, Dentsu and SidLee as CEO, he has worked with brands like Toyota, Facebook, Apple, Nike, Coca-Cola. After a 25-year career in elevating products and services, Will launched Elevation Barn (link below) to elevate people, future-proofing their self-belief through defined higher...
Those who know, know: Camp Mograph fosters inclusivity, promoting open dialogue among attendees and speakers without hierarchy.
Originally a passion project, the event has transformed into a business, posing challenges in balancing time commitment and preserving the initial vision. Today, a pivotal decision looms on whether to expand into a full-scale business or maintain a smaller scale.
What happens when your studio fully exploits the untapped potential of sonic expertise? To answer that question, our guest Eric Singer shares a bit of the science – and a lot of his passion – from the forefront of audio awesomeness at Coupe Studios.
Follow the work of Eric Singer and his team at Coupe Studios: https://coupestudios.com/
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In this special podcast episode, Tim Thompson, founder at RevThink, sits down with the inspiring creators behind the newly formed community, Mothers of MoGraph: Jennie Davis and Kaci Smith.
Discover the strength, resilience, and great creativity that drives the Mothers of MoGraph as they challenge stereotypes in the industry.
Kaci Smith is a Motion Designer and School of Motion TA based in Eugene, Oregon. Working in moti...
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