Sally runs Something Big, a B Corp, employee-owned agency based in Surrey that punches above its weight. Having won briefs against agency heavyweights like Ogilvy, Something Big specialises in employee communications with a particular focus on DEI initiatives. Clients include DHL, Telefonica, and IAG. In this conversation we discuss:

• How she’s always been the ‘odd one out’ from her school days 
• Her experience of being the only female in a team of 24 men
• Why she had to keep her relationship with her husband secret for over a decade
• How she’s embraced being uncool in an agency world of cool people
• The significance of turning 50 for her
• Her work at Something Big and their specialism in employee comms, workplaces, and DEI
• Her personal connection to DEI through her experience as a woman in a male-dominated workplace
• How the Barbie movie signifies a huge amount of progress in gender equality, but also highlights how there’s more to do
• How to run DEI programmes in a huge company that spans 220 countries
• How to build a client relationship 25 years long
• What it takes to be the world’s best workplace
• The problem with agencies who are ‘in it for themselves’ rather than for the client
• Winning a brief against Ogilvy
• The piece of work she’s most proud of 
• The nuts and bolts of employee ownership
• Building psychological safety in her business by example
• Dismantling a blame culture
• The potential commercial windfall from looking after people properly
• How community building could improve our society through citizen engagement

Connect with Sally on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/somethingbig/

Visit: https://somethingbig.co.uk/

Connect with Rob on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-warren/

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