Advertising Council Australia (ACA) has partnered with Kantar to launch Create Space, the industry’s first-ever diversity and inclusion census that will collect anonymous data on gender identity, social and ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, mental health, family status, and experiences of inclusion at work.
Jasmin Bedir, CEO of Innocean; Simon Wassef, Chief Strategy Officer at whiteGREY; and Renata Yannoulis, Senior Strategist at TBWA Sydney, are each members of the ACA’s D&I committee.
In this special episode, they talk about the impact of changing your identity to fit in, why the answer to opening more doors is “we just fucking do it”, and whether we’ve strayed from our reputation as a collection of misfits. Or were we never really that to begin with?
Jasmin speaks of white privilege in adland, Renata explains why she wants senior leadership to pay attention to the census results, and Simon issues a challenge to award show jurors: Give away your place to someone from an underrepresented community.
You can complete the census until 15 December at createspacecensus.com
Right now, we're recording and producing Advent from home, on the lands of the Dharawal and Gadigal people. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.
Editing and mixing for Advent is done by Andy Stewart, with production support from Declan Clow Wood. Editorial guidance and research comes from Brittney Rigby. Alex Watts hosts Advent.
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