Navigating Advertising’s Corporate Ladder & New D&I Initiatives
Kianna is a previous guest of the digital hub podcast, some of you may remember her, at the time Kianna was Senior Recruitment Business Partner for Mediabrands, Kianna is now DE&I Manager at Mediabrands leading their strategy for 2023 and is delivering on a plan to land 3 serious improvements to the overall D&I strategy in 2023.Kianna is a successful black woman in her own right, her new role is a natural progression for herm as she has already devised and contributed so much to Mediabrands D&I strategy in her previous role its great ear her insights and what she has loaned for 2023 and beyond.Seun is the Managing Director of Matterkind. Seun leads Matterkind UK and Ireland, IPG’s essentially, IPG’s activation intelligence company.Seun, super bright & super driven graduated university in Manchester however while at Uni he took a gap year as an intern and that was his first taste of the advertising sector, and BOOM the rest is history! Seun has flourished in the sector, and he describes his journey well with a story of how his current role as MD unfolded. As a young black MD Seun is also an D&I advocate, acknowledging that working in advertising as a MD is a rare role for a black man, therefore he is working closely with Kianna to ensure the groundwork is laid down for up & coming people of colour can following his footsteps. Thank you, Kianna & Seun.