Cindy Gallop
Cindy Gallop
Lucinda "Cindy" Lee Gallopis an English advertising consultant, founder and former chair of the US branch of advertising firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and founder of the IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn companies. According to the TED blog, Gallop's TEDTalk "Make Love Not Porn" was one of the "most talked about presentations" at the 2009 TED conference. She currently lives in New York City...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionBusinesswoman
Date of Birth1 February 1960
together world tangible
If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.
new-york agency office
My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.
mistake fire long
The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.
responsibility opportunity missing
Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.
order agency systems-and-processes
Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then you did the print ads, then you did everything else - including the website. Everything has changed, but the systems haven't.
children decision realization
There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.
issues rights causes
My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.
believe creativity people
Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.
feminist
I consider myself a rampant feminist.
team men design
When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself - because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike.
creative digital-media department
It took a woman to actually do something about the lack of women in creative departments.
world action good-intentions
The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action
thinking giving people
Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my lifewas the day I realized that I know longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That's enormously liberating and freeing, and it's the only way to live your life and do your business.
single-mom thinking giving
Vulnerability is a loaded word, and it can off-putting and terrifying to people. The best moment of my life (and by the way, this actually wasn’t a single moment) was when I realized that I no longer give a damn about what anybody thinks. What you'd talk about as vulnerability, I'd talk about as simply being true to yourself.