Jury

Jo is a dynamic creative leader with over 20 years’ experience with an ambition to affect positive change through ideas that achieve real impact in the real world. This vision has seen her deliver disruptive campaigns for global and local brands, curate provocative exhibitions, win pitches and create popular events on the edges of advertising. In recent times she’s won a plethora of awards, including a gold Cannes Lion. Alongside multiple awards for her work, she’s proudly collected various accolades including Campaign & Creative Equals ‘30 Creative Trailblazers’, The Dots ‘100 Trailblazers’, Young Creative Council’s ‘Badass Gal’, Pitch Magazine’s ‘Superwoman’. She made the 40 Over Forty list and was named one of Yahoo HERoes ‘Top 100 Role Model Women Executives’. She is regularly invited to join and chair international creative award jury’s such as One Show, Creative Circle, and D&AD and often speaks at events and conferences both inside and outside of the industry, including Women of The World (WOW) Festival. She’s had thought pieces published in industry press including Campaign, The Marketing Society and The Drum and is regularly invited on live radio shows and podcasts, such as Monocle Radio, BBC London Radio, the Ricky Richards podcast and BadAss Women’s Hour. On the periphery of advertising, she’s proactively curated two large, thought-provoking exhibitions: There’s a Good Girl and There’s a Good Immigrant. Each gained wide-reaching organic PR coverage from Elle to The Independent to BBC London Radio. She’s also the founder and host of the popular, non-profit event, Good Girls Eat Dinner which she started in 2015. The mission is simple: to provide visible, inspiring, female role-models across the creative industries and beyond. It has over 7,000 Instagram followers and feedback suggests it’s the best dinner party you’ll ever go to.