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Rob Campbell is Chief Strategy Officer at Colenso BBDO, a creative agency that has worked with iconic local and global brands to produce award-winning work that has the power to create positive change. With Google, Nike and Spotify among the brands Rob has worked alongside; his career path has seen him become a well-known strategist and a champion of creativity and chaos.

Things we chat about:

  • 'Head of Strategy' is a position Rob has held a few times before. We discuss what his journey has been like directing creative energy professionally
  • The power of chaos and whether disruption is necessary in today's world to capture people's attention
  • His project Dream Small and how this came about
  • Some of the barriers the youth of New Zealand are facing today.
  • Why Rob thinks creative pathways in tertiary education are undervalued
  • The need to do more to support entrepreneurship in our young people
  • His views on people in management needing to be comfortable with creativity, outside of the industry
  • Whether this such a thing as non-creative people
  • Why we are so afraid of failure and how we should educate our youth to form healthy relationships
  • What creativity contributes to society and its role in tackling how countries deal with mental health
  • Covid’s impact on our understanding of creativity's power for health and well-being?
  • Sometimes the daily demands of life can be draining. Rob also shares his tips on cultivating creativity and making space for it.