Joanna Lawrence
Joanna Lawrence
Global Chief Strategy Officer
Havas Media Network
GLOBAL
Biography
Jo is the Global Chief Strategy Officer at Havas Media Network, where she leads transformative initiatives that redefine media strategic advisory services for their clients and talent. She also heads up the agency’s Global Media Creativity Council, connecting brilliant thinkers globally to collaborate on and champion braver client solutions.
Through a diverse career, gaining different perspectives across the media industry, Jo’s experience spans data analytics in market research, media planning at Mindshare and being a new breed communications strategist at Naked Communications. She then spent over a decade at OMD EMEA, building the regional Strategy function, managing the international division and establishing their European content practice. Next, prior to joining Havas, Jo spent time driving business transformation for the commercial team at Telegraph Media Group and consulting with global clients at Flock Associates on evolving their Media Operating Models.
Jo finds her creative inspiration in running an industry module for London College of Communications, staying connected to Gen Alpha gaming and fashion culture via her kids, long coffee-fuelled conversations with friends, obsessing over foreign travel, reading fiction (paper, not Kindle!) and trying to make time for wandering around art galleries.