Anna Thairs is an award-winning full-stack Strategy Director, holding senior strategy roles at Grey London and Portas in Melbourne before joining Ogilvy Sydney, where she’s also a member of the agency’s Behavioural Science unit. Anna is vocal about her experiences as a mixed-race woman with OCD, ADHD and depression, and is passionate about driving more in-depth approaches to inclusion and diversity in advertising and beyond.

Our chat includes:

• Understanding neurodiversity and how organisations can be more inclusive to neurodiverse team members
• ADHD including Anna’s own experiences being diagnosed
• The idea of renaissance women strategists
• Intersectionality and the importance of nuance in our perspectives of humans

Links to some of the stuff we chatted about:

• Lemon paper by Orlando Wood - How left brain thinking is undermining creativity and making advertising less effective
• John Cleese creativity talk at Nudgestock 2021
• Learn more about Anna’s strategy career, and check out her amazing artwork
• Anna’s 2017 article on transformational thinking quoted in the interview