Ep 67 is the first episode from our whirlwind Scottish tour. Discussing her love of art, we are joined by Nicky Wilson - Curator, Collector and Co-founder of Jupiter Artland. Nicky studied fine art at Camberwell College London followed by a masters in sculpture from the Chelsea School of Art. On graduating she won a British School of Rome Sculpture Scholarship. Her sculpting practice took a hiatus whilst she raise her five children but she having moved to Bonnington House, a grand 17th century m...
Mar 11, 2020•46 min•Season 2Ep. 67
International Women's Day, overcoming fears, challenges of organisational transformation and the earth righting itself are just a few of the subjects we discuss with this month's panel with the legendary, Sam Conniff. Entrepreneur, Author, Consultant, Speaker, Mentor - what hasn't Sam done? He has also been officially ordained as a pirate - for real. ☠️⚓️ Founder of Bafta-winning content agency Don’t Panic, Co-founder of Livity; a creative agency using youth culture to design the future (they ha...
Mar 04, 2020•59 min•Season 2Ep. 66
For episode 65 we are joined by the incredible, the wonderful Steffany George, Head of Movement for the University of Essex’s East 15 - Acting School. Born and raised in Texas, Steffany trained as a dancer at the Virginia Commonwealth University moving to New York once she graduated. She shares that early on she had to juggle several jobs, barely make ends meet whilst freelancing as a dancer and found her path leading her more towards movement working with actors. She went on to teach at the pre...
Feb 26, 2020•54 min•Season 2Ep. 65
Fresh from the Brits and seeing Lizzo perform (we are so jealous), this week's equally fabulous guest is Nishma Robb - Marketing Director for Google UK. Nishma walks us through her role - it is epic! Responsible for brand reputation, as well as leading the advertising and the industry marketing for Google UK, she talks about the importance of curiosity and building bespoke teams to meet the demands. A lover of stories, she shares that as a child she was set on becoming a journalist, but after do...
Feb 19, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 64
A little extra from episode 63 that didn't make it into the edit but we loved Leah's go-to for inspiration on all things witches, punks & Riot Grrrls. 'We are the granddaughters of the women you couldn't burn!' 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-...
Feb 18, 2020•3 min•Season 2Ep. 63
For episode 63 we are joined by not one - but two incredible women - Jay Yule & Leah Airey. Jay is a dance artist and choreographer whose work is influenced by feminist philosophies, with a particular interest in the readdressing the audience and performer relationship. Leah is a Production Assistant at Shoot Europe - a production house based London. And together they collaborate on Viva La Vulva - a celebration of female and non-binary sexuality. They discuss their careers, how their collab...
Feb 12, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 63
Must be love, love, love. We are kicking off February discussing all things love & creativity. Seriously, are there any better topics? And fitting to the occasion, we are joined by Humanist Celebrant, Zena Birch. She shares her creative journey, landing by accident her current role where she brings stories and ceremony together to annotate moments. We collectively discuss; Valentine's day and it's portrayal in the Media & Comms industry. We also talk about our experiences of our 'relatio...
Feb 05, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 62
A combination of commerciality, creativity and kindness - this week's guest, Jane English is a Business Director for British broadcaster's Channel 4 (C4). Whilst studying a BA in English, Jane was unsure of a career path or role suited to her. It was whilst in the waiting room to see the university's careers advisor, she happened upon a copy of 'Campaign' magazine and at that moment knew she had found her calling. Positioned in Channel 4's in-house creative team, she talks about her role being m...
Jan 29, 2020•33 min•Season 2Ep. 61
This week we are joined by multi-award winning Animation Filmmaker, Kate Jessop. She discusses her broad influences, which range from Jarvis Cocker to Dadaism and shares her creative journey - none of which she planned - from studying illustration, playing in bands, becoming a DJ and creating her own visuals which ultimately led her to filmmaking. She talks about her animation style and process, managing both her creative and mental wellbeing and reflects on her the difference between her and he...
Jan 22, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 60
A balm for the ears and soul - a soothing listen! This week we are joined by Creative Brand Consultant & Founder of Lemons Me, Davina Ajana. We discuss her extensive design talents and epic career history. She has worked for a number of major global fashion and beauty brands: Clarins to TKMax to Boden (and everyone else in between). She shares the reasons behind setting up her own Creative Brand consultancy: giving her the freedom to explore her own creative style and the vital importance of...
Jan 15, 2020•39 min•Season 2Ep. 59
Prepare yourself for a wild ride! This week we are joined by the incredibly exuberant, Jennifer Clarke, Data & Transformation Strategy Leader. Taking us on her creative journey, Jen talks about starting out in printmaking before discovering her love of data when doing her Masters in Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburg. On graduating, she moved into an Operations Analyst role before landing a job as Digital Strategist & Product Manager whilst simultaneously moonlighting in a freel...
Jan 08, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 58
We kick off the new year... the new decade with the wonderful Kate Bassett - Head of Content at Management Today and a journalist. We discuss our personal and industry reflections of 2019, our thoughts of new year’s resolutions and share what we are hoping to achieve in the coming year. Plus, there is a lot of talk about breakfast and Greggs vegan sausage rolls (Kate’s slightly obsessed). We wish all our listeners a super creative 2020. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse cre...
Jan 01, 2020•45 min•Season 2Ep. 57
For episode 56 we are joined by the incredibly talented Art Director and Illustrator Flavia Amaral, in our first anti-podcast for Series 2. Flavia shares starting out in the industry. Working hard, developing her skills to become an Art Director but also returning to her creative beginnings, drawing, and how vital it was she nurtured this too. She talks about her love / hate relationship with being outside her comfort zone and completely surprised me, reeling off a list of unpredictable challeng...
Dec 18, 2019•4 min•Season 2Ep. 56
For episode 55 we are joined by the super-focused foodie founder, Laura Mimoun. Laura shares her journey from studying business to being a very happy marketer when one evening she and her husband discovered/created salad rolls contained within rice paper. They knew they were onto a good thing and took a leap to found Kaleido Rolls . I think you will be able to tell by the interview - I'm a fan! They are so delicious and super healthy! Laura discusses finding inspiration everywhere, managing the ...
Dec 11, 2019•34 min•Season 2Ep. 55
For our first interview for Series 2, we are joined by DJ & Label Manager, Alice Whittington - aka DJ Norsicaa. Alice shares how her love of music (and also hogging the iPod at office parties), led her to quit her job in education and administration to take a four-week course and set out to become a DJ. In the beginning, working long hours and often for free, it wasn't easy. But through grit, determination and with an ear for fantastic tunes & beats within a couple of years, she carved o...
Dec 04, 2019•33 min•Season 2Ep. 54
We are super pumped to be back with Series 2 of Greater than 11%. A few changes since we took a break at the end of September, all of which we cover in this episode but first and foremost we have tweaked the format a little. The beginning of every month will feature a panel discussion with Renee Vaughan Sutherland, Crystal Eisinger and a special guest. In between, Renee will still be interviewing awesome women about their creative careers and roles. This episode was intended to be a warm and sho...
Nov 27, 2019•50 min
In this very special bonus episode, Founder and Host of Greater Than 11% is interviewed by Ursie Downes. Renee discusses her career journey, from working as a conveyancing and law clerk, moving to France to work as an au pair, to London to studying for her degree and working as an artist and Creative Director. In Renee's own words, she doesn't 'know balance' and she talks us through her busy creative life, managing a team at London video agency, Hub, working as an artist... oh and starting a pod...
Sep 18, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 53
For our final episode in Series 1, we are joined by the incredible Composer, Hannah Kendall. Hannah discusses her early start in music: learning to play the violin at four years old. She shares how her love of all things music grew throughout her childhood and in her teens, she would go to the library each Saturday to loan Bach CDs. She confesses that she had never considered composition as a career, as she had never known or been taught about any women - or women of colour composers at school. ...
Sep 11, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 52
This week's guest is the gracious Costume & Set Designer, Sophie Thomas. Sophie shares, after careful consideration, choosing a creative path over following in her family's vocational footsteps and becoming a 4th generation Doctor Thomas. After completing an art foundation Sophie chose the costume and set design course at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, realising it would give her more practical creative skills than an art degree. She discusses her love of collaboration within se...
Sep 04, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 51
This week’s wonderful guest is Event, Marketing & Comms Consultant and founder of Flex Events, Emily Philp. Emily shares her creative journey to discovering event management and her own surprise that she founded her own business. She discusses the importance of resilience and having a sense of humour; both when running an event but also in managing her company, 'because things will go wrong.' She also stresses the importance of having networks, meeting people and connecting and gives her top...
Aug 28, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 50
This week’s amazing guest is Strategy & Operations Lead at Google, Crystal Eisinger. Crystal describes her approach and flavour to strategy and operations, stressing the most important element is ‘empathy,’ especially when it involves change. She discusses her life-changing ‘gap year’ in the industry with multinational professional services network, Deloitte, before she went to university. Sharing, that the knowledge and confidence she learnt, set her up to take more risks in her career - no...
Aug 21, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 49
This week's guest, Sahdaish Pall is a creative polymath! She is an Author, a Board Game Creator (two to date!) and a Domestic Violence Service Manager but it doesn't stop there. She also is a co-founder in S.W.A.N, a Community Interest Group whose aim is to develop positive change in the community and to inspire, develop and empower women to live confident and fulfilled lives. She has also published a cookbook, written articles for the likes of the Guardian and won numerous awards for her talent...
Aug 14, 2019•51 min•Season 1Ep. 48
For episode 47 I am joined by the wonderful Global Head of Brand at Graze, Cristina Loaiza. A healthy snack company founded just ten years ago, Cristina discusses the fast pace at which Graze operates and how this helps keep the internal brand team nimble - being able to make decisions quickly. She talks about her challenge: not being quite sure what she wanted to do when leaving school and then university before she found (and fell in love with) marketing. She shares that for a period of time, ...
Aug 07, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 47
For episode 46 we are joined by PR guru and strategy ninja, Lucy Werner. She is also the founder of The Wern: a specialist communications consultancy and training hub for startups, entrepreneurs and independent brands. Initially focused on being a journalist - she discovered and fell in love with PR after doing a week's work experience in her teens and becoming pretty shit hot once she got her foot in the door. She discusses the challenges of working in an agency versus in-house and how always b...
Jul 31, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 46
This week we are joined by Director of Strategy & Innovation and podcast founder & host of 'Who's Next,' the fabulous Zara Bryson. Zara's energy is infectious! Not only does she discuss her role, but she also shares, with gusto, her love of maths, which is more about overcoming confidence blockers as much as it is about maths. Never been a fan of the subject? There is a chance you'll be a convert after listening to Zara's zeal on all things maths & problem-solving. With ambitions of ...
Jul 24, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 45
For episode 44, I am joined by Manger of Brand & Campaign Planning, Evelyn Marfo-Sakey. In between making me laugh a lot, Evelyn shares her career journey starting out as a secretary and realising quite quickly that she wanted to be doing something a little more exciting. Through her own tenacity, she moved into an account planning role within a creative agency. A job she loved and set her in good stead for her current role as Manager of Brand & Campaign Planning. She discusses the diffe...
Jul 17, 2019•39 min•Season 1Ep. 44
An energetic treat of an episode! Visha Naul is Google’s Marketing Lead for Industry Partnerships, but this isn’t her only role, she is also one of the co-founders of WACL’s (Women in Communication London), Futures Network. Futures offer; support, mentoring, networking and facilitates events that are inspiring and encouraging for Future Leader Award winners. It also creates the opportunity and space for the exchange of knowledge & expertise. In addition, the Network provides advice and suppo...
Jul 10, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Karin Onsager-Birch is the creative powerhouse and award-winning Chief Creative Officer at FCB West. In this bonus addition to episode 36 (recorded at the wonderful Creative Equals: Rise in May 2019), Karin shares her creative journey and some of the lessons she has learnt along the way. She talks about some of her early experiences and observations such as all the interesting creative briefs were potentially being discussed and allocated in the men's toilet. She also shares the importance of le...
Jul 05, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 36
For episode 42 we visited the Prague Quadrennial (PQ) and caught up with Theatre Development Officer, Marina Maleni. Marina studied a combination of Fine Arts, Sociology & Drama in Texas, returning to her native Cyprus to work as an actress, firstly in the theatre but then extending into film, tv & radio. She discusses how her current role at Cyprus Theatre Organisation (THOC) arose from a challenge and how moving from the stage to an office desk was a bit of a culture shock. Working to ...
Jul 03, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 42
This week I'm joined by Coder, Suze Shardlow. Suze was fascinated by programming from a young age - citing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' as an inspiration. Ferris' character, played by Matthew Broderick, hacks into the school computer system to change the number of days he has skived. Suze was encouraged at primary school to explore computing but by the time she reached secondary school, with little access and no encouragement, the option to pursue it evaporated. Whilst her interest in coding never...
Jun 26, 2019•45 min•Season 1Ep. 41
