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Cindy Gallop is a woman to be reckoned with. With a background in brand-building, marketing, and advertising, she’s been a trailblazer since 1998, when she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York. Since then, she's only gotten more badass, earning accolades like Advertising Woman of the Year and being named one of the 15 Most Important Marketing Strategy Thinkers Today, alongside the likes Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin.
What really makes Cindy exceptional, is her outspokenness and willingness to challenge the status quo. Not content with just doing things the way they've always been done – oh no, when she sees something that is not working or needs to be done/done differently she moves to make those changes. Case in point, in 2009 during her TED presentation, in reaction to and based on her own direct personal experience dating younger men, she launched to a live audience that included Robin Williams (who BTW was duly impressed) Make Love Not Porn, THE social sextech platform designed to promote positive sexual behavior and values. It is a frank, open, and positive place for all to learn about sex that is very much needed. The world has been engaged and supportive of her endeavour ever since.
She also lends her badassery as a board advisor to a bunch of tech ventures, works as a personal brand/life/executive coach, and consults on brand and business innovation for companies around the world. Her consultancy approach “I like to blow shit up.”. You will never be at a loss for what she is thinking, particularly when it comes her fierce advocacy for diversity and inclusion in advertising, tech, and business. Her impact on those industries has been immeasurable.
So it should come as no surprise that when asked for her best piece of advice Cindy says “Don’t give a damn what other people think, do what you believe.”. This has certainly served her well
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