Being JPC / Diversity & Inclusion / Thought Leadership / 08 Mar, 2020

Spidey senses and #BoyBosses: How the women of JPC innovate to drive client results

Innovation is key to everything we do here at JPC, whether we’re helping our clients win multi-million pound bids, developing immersive experiences or building laser-focused campaigns. And with studies showing that having more women on your team vastly improves innovation efforts, I was curious to discover how this plays out at JPC.

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Business / Diversity & Inclusion / 12 Oct, 2017

Dove: Why ‘doing’ D&I isn’t doing enough

Just a few months ago our founder, JP, wrote about the implications of Pepsi’s controversial ad, hoping that we’d see a real shift in the workplace diversity debate and encourage a much more inclusive business mindset. Unfortunately, Dove’s latest ad disaster is proof that the world’s biggest brands aren’t engaging with what D&I really is…

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Business / Diversity & Inclusion / Strategy / 28 Jul, 2017

Banning discriminatory ads is naive – here’s why

Hold your hats and hallelujah! Protein World’s morally languid Beach Body campaign has actually done some good. After a year of formal discussions, the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) has announced they’ll be implementing a crackdown on adverts that promote offensive or false stereotypes. Before you start celebrating though, here’s a little rain for your…

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Business / Diversity & Inclusion / 23 May, 2017

The Heineken advert and the importance of diversity of opinion

You have to hand it to the advertising team at Heineken for managing to scrape together a five-minute commercial with social and political (and, I suppose, drink-related) themes at its centre and avoiding disaster, especially when you consider the fact that it was only a month ago that Kendall Jenner and the creative types at…

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Business / Diversity & Inclusion / Strategy / 08 May, 2017

4 reasons why diversity should be on your strategic agenda

Have a skim over any corporate Twitter feed and you’re likely to encounter a healthy dose of diversity messaging. While few are doing anything as disastrous as Pepsi’s recent faux pas, much of what appears is little more than a box-ticking exercise with no real substance behind it. For me, this represents a huge missed…

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Diversity & Inclusion / Strategy / 06 Apr, 2017

PepsiGate: Why values should drive diversity

Pepsi’s short-lived controversial advert shows why values should drive diversity How did Pepsi get their latest advert so wrong? Criticism for the ad ranged from ‘absurd’ to ‘disrespectful’ and even ‘a sick joke’. Some have called for a boycott of all Pepsi products. The ad begins with Kendall Jenner modelling at a photoshoot while a…

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Business / Diversity & Inclusion / Strategy / 28 Mar, 2017

Why Your B2B Marketing Content is Probably Sexist

Last week, while watching the video of Mary Beard’s excellent London Review of Books Winter Series lecture on Women in Power, I was struck by her focus on language – in particular on the way in which language that excludes women from power has become part of our everyday lexicon. Women, Beard points out, are…

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Design / Diversity & Inclusion / Events / 07 Mar, 2017

The Guerrilla Girls – Is it even worse in Europe?

We’re all about challenging creative ideas at JPC, and you can’t get more challenging than The Guerilla Girls. Formed in 1985, the American art activists have had over 55 member combinations throughout the years, who all remain anonymous to this day thanks to the gorilla masks they wear. On a mission to highlight discrimination in…

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