Hey, Sisters, we know. At the end of January, a small group of us came together to talk about what was going on in the industry and in our offices and what we could do about it. That long night turned into more meetups and phone calls, and hundreds of emails. Many hundreds of emails. Along the way we have grown from 14 women to 180.

We had a lot of questions. We questioned ourselves and each other, and we shared and heard stories that made us both sad and hopeful. As representatives of both independent and holding company agencies, we saw that we had a lot of different processes and procedures that were designed to help but aren’t enough on their own.

We don’t for a minute believe we found all the answers. We found some. You’ve searched and found them too. The answers are there; they just need to be picked up and realized. Answers need to be acted on.

As women in senior leadership positions in , we’ve agreed that we have the power to change this business we love until it looks more like the industry we want to lead.

As leaders, it’s on us to foster a workplace where people are challenged but still respected.

Sexual harassment is not OK. Never. No exceptions. No amount of talent, missed cues, or being great in the room unchecks the No Sexual Harassment box.

Old power dynamics are a lot of the problem. Power that blurs the lines between what you get to do/have/touch/ask for/expect and what you don’t. It’s time to talk candidly about the responsibility that comes with power.

We look at the lack of diversity in this group of women and see the long- term effect of power structures that encouraged some of us to rise but held others back. We see you. We see your talent. We see the gap. We want share of voice and share of power, for everyone.

As we build on the determination of the women and like-minded men in our industry and the agencies who have stepped forward, we’re stepping forward too.

Time’s up, advertising. Time’s up on sexual harassment. Time’s up on lack of representation. Time’s up on inequity. Time’s up on silence. timesupadvertising.com TIME’S UP™ is organizing as a global force for business reform across industry categories. To us, a commitment to reform represents common ground where we can gather in optimism and move forward, together. We’re proud to be the first new industry vertical to formally align with this group and its intentions.

TIME’S UP™/ADVERTISING’s mission is to drive new policies, practices, decisions, and tangible actions that result in more balanced, diverse, and accountable leadership; address workplace discrimination, harassment, and abuse; and create equitable cultures within our agencies.

Bring your voices. We need you.

To kick things off, we’ll hold community gatherings on May 14 in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago. We will also create an online forum for reach beyond major cities. Our goal is real change. We think the best first step in this process is talking face to face with you. Together, we’ll draw the rest of the road map, which should include:

ACTION: Commit to creating solutions that work, starting with examining the processes and policies that have failed us. ACTION: Identify and mentor people representing diversity across the board and who are ready to become agency leaders. ACTION: Adoption of progressive agency training and education that brings this discussion and its solutions out into the open in our agencies.

We’ll post our goals and progress at timesupadvertising.com. Like our TIME’S UP™ sisters, we remain committed to holding our own workplaces accountable and pushing for swift change. Our companies should be safe and equitable spaces for all.

If you run an and would like to commit to our actions to create policy change, contact us. If you would like to support and stand with us, please consider a donation to the TIME’S UP™ Legal Defense Fund, which will help defray legal and public relations costs in select cases for those who have experienced sexual harassment or related retaliation in the workplace.

In solidarity,

Your advertising sisters Signed, TIME’S UP™/ADVERTISING comprises more than 180 senior female agency CEOs, CCOs, and CSOs, including:

Aarti Thiagarajan Bella Patel Corinna Falusi Managing Director, EVP, Chief Talent Officer, CCO & Partner, Mother Mother New York FCB Chicago Crystal Rix Abbey Klaassen Beth Wade Chief Strategy Officer, CMO, 360i Global CMO, VML BBDO New York Alicia McVey Billie Smith Cynthia Augustine Co-Founder & CCO, Swift Director of Talent Management & Global Chief Talent Officer, HR Operations, Leo Burnett FCB Alyson Warshaw Chief Creative Officer, Bonnie Wan Daisy Expósito-Ulla Laundry Service Director of Brand Strategy & Chairman/CEO, Partner, Goodby, Silverstein d expósito & Partners, LLC Ambika Pai & Partners Partner and Co-Head of Strategy, Dana Maiman Wolf & Wilhelmine Britt Hayes President & CEO, FCB Health Chief People Officer, Amie Miller DDB North America Dana Mansfield Chief Talent Officer, Chief Talent Officer, TBWA\Worldwide Candice Hahn McCann North America VP, Managing Director, Amy Armstrong R/GA Austin Danielle Aldrich US CEO, EVP/President, CP+B Carla Serrano

Amy Avery Chief Strategy Officer, Publicis Danielle Austen Chief Intelligence Officer, Droga5 Communications & CEO, Publicis Founder, Managing Partner & CEO, fluent360 Amy Hellickson New York Managing Director, Carmina Drummond Danielle Trivisonno Laundry Service POSSIBLE Chief Culture Officer, CCO Americas, Amy Winger Dawn Winchester Chief Strategy Officer, VML Chief Digital Officer, Cathy Butler Publicis Worldwide North America Amy Worley CEO, Barbarian Chief Connections Officer, VML Chloe Gottlieb Debbi Vandeven Global CCO, VML Ana Bermudez EVP, CCO, R/GA VP/Managing director, Christine Chen Debby Reiner The Community Grey NY Director of Communication CEO, Andrea Cook Strategy & Partner, Goodby, Deidre Smalls-Landau President, FCB/SIX Silverstein & Partners EVP, Global Chief Cross Cultural Officer, Universal Christine Prins Andrea Diquez McCann & Identity Chief Executive Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi NY Saatchi & Saatchi NY Devika Bulchandani President, McCann Angela Johnson Cindy Curry President, CFO, Energy BBDO Chicago Donnalyn Smith mcgarrybowen New York President, North America Claudia Valderrama Momentum Worldwide Angie Hannam CFO, Wieden+Kennedy Global Chief Talent Officer, Colleen DeCourcy Eileen Kiernan R/GA J3 Global CCO, Wieden+Kennedy Global President, Elana Gorbatyuk Janet Kestin Kate Weiss SVP Strategy, Partner, Sid Lee Co-Founder & Partner, Swim EVP, Human Resources Business Partner, Universal McCann Elizabeth Rosenberg Jennifer Hohman Director of Communications, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Katrien De Bauw 72andSunny FCB Global Global President, TBWA\Media Arts Lab Elyssa Phillips Jenny Campbell Global Chief of Staff, FCB Global Managing Director, Kelly Graves 72andSunny Los Angeles CMO, FCB Chicago Emily Wilcox Director of Client Services, Jess Greenwood Kelly Johnson Johannes Leonardo SVP, Head of Strategy, R/GA President, 215 McCann Emma Montgomery Jess Monsey Kelly Schoeffel CSO, Leo Burnett Chicago Managing Director, Executive Strategy Director, 72andSunny New York 72andSunny Los Angeles Erica Grau COO, Deutsch New York Jessica Reznick Kerri Soukup Partner/ Managing Director, EVP, Executive Creative Director, Erica Hoholick Magnetic Collaborative Leo Burnett President, Phenomenon Jiah Choi Kim Getty Erica Schmidt Partner & CEO, Anomaly LA President, Deutsch Los Angeles EVP, Managing Director, NA Cadreon Jill Nykoliation Kirsten Flanik CEO, Juniper Park\TBWA President & CEO, BBDO NY Erin Riley President, TBWA\Chiat\Day Jo Shoesmith Kris Kiger Los Angeles CCO, EVP, ECD, Design, R/GA Evin Shutt Judy John Kristen Cavallo Chief Operating Officer & CEO Canada & CCO North CEO, Martin Partner, 72andSunny America, Leo Burnett Kristen Clark Gail Heimann Justine Armour Chief Talent Officer, President, Executive Creative Director, TBWA\Media Arts Lab and 72andSunny New York TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles Heide Gardner SVP Chief Diversity & Inclusion Karen Costello Kyla Jacobs Officer, New York (Corp) IPG CCO, The Martin Agency Chief Marketing Officer, TBWA\Worldwide Heidi Hackemer Karen Hunt Founder, Wolf & Wilhelmine West Coast Region President, Lara Griggs Universal McCann COO & Partner, Y&R Heidi Hovland CEO, DeVries Global Karen Kaplan Laura Janness Chairman & CEO, Hill Holiday CSO & Partner, Helen Pak Barton F. Graf 9000 President, Grey Toronto & Chief Karin Onsager-Birch Creative Officer, Grey Canada Chief Creative Officer, FCB West Lauren Crampsie Worldwide Chief Marketing Helene Leggatt Karina Wilsher Officer, Ogilvy Anomaly President, Global COO & Partner, DDB Canada Edmonton Lauren Schaefer Karyn Rockwell Partner and Head of Ops & CEO, FCB New York Jaime Robinson Culture, Wolf & Wilhelmine Co-Founder & CCO, Kasha Cacy Leslie Barrett Joan Creative CEO, US Universal McCann Managing Partner, Jamie Rosen Kate Jeffers Goodby Silverstein & Partners Chief Marketing Officer, Partner/ Managing Director, Leslie Sims Publicis Worldwide North America Venables Bell & Partners CCO, Y&R Jane Reiss Kate MacNevin Libby Brockhoff Chief Brand Experience Officer, Global President, MRM/Mccann Grey NY Founder and CEO, Kate Schermers Odysseus Arms Jane Tamraz Director of Production, Executive Director, VML Chicago 72andSunny Los Angeles Lisa Clunie Nancy Vonk Sara Gavin Co-Founder & CEO, Joan Co-Founder, Swim President, N.A., Weber Shandwick Lisa Dujat Nannette DuFour Sarah Hofstetter Chief Talent Officer, Global Chief Client Officer, CEO, 360i FCB New York McCann Worldgroup Sarah Thompson Liz Taylor Natalia Schultz Global & New York CEO, Droga5 CCO, FCB Chicago Chief Talent Officer, Publicis Communications (East) Sarah Watson Liz Valentine Chairman & CSO, BBH NY CEO, Swift Nathalie Fagnan COO, Publicis Worldwide Sedef Onar Lora Schulson North America Chief Talent Officer & Partner, Director of Production, 72andSunny 72andSunny New York Nicky Bell SVP, Managing Director, R/GA LA Sharon Callahan Lynn Lewis CEO, TBWA\WorldHealth Global CMO & East Coast Region Olivia Legere President, Universal McCann Partner and Managing Director, Shelley Brown Wolf & Wilhelmine Chief Strategy Officer & Partner, Lynne Reilly FCB Toronto Global Chief Growth Officer, Pam Scheideler Universal McCann Chief Digital Officer, Shelley Elkins Deutsch Los Angeles SVP / ECD, Maren Elliott Jack Morton (Chicago) Chief Talent Officer, Swift Paola Colombo SVP, Managing Director, Singleton Beato Margaret Johnson R/GA SF Chief Diversity and Engagement CCO & Partner, Officer, McCann Goodby Silverstein & Partners Patty Jones EVP, Managing Director, Susan Credle Margaret Keene DDB Canada Vancouver Global CCO, FCB ECD, Mullen Lowe Preeya Vyas Susan Gianinno Publicis Worldwide Marianne Malina Managing Partner, Digital, Chairman, GSD&M President, Saatchi NY North America Marjan M. Panah Renee Jennings Susan Hoffman Chief Talent Officer, Wieden+Kennedy CFO, Joan Global CCO, McCann Worldgroup Renetta McCann Susie Nam Droga5 Martha Hiefield Chief Talent Officer, Leo Burnett Chief Operating Officer, CEO America’s, POSSIBLE Rhea Hill Suzanne Powers McCann Worldgroup Melanie Johnston Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Global CSO, President, DDB Canada Toronto 72andSunny Tamara Ingram Melanie Myers CEO, Worldwide, JWT Robin Fitzgerald Global Director of Talent, Chief Creative Officer, Wieden+Kennedy Tammy Fischer BBDO Atlanta Managing Director Specialized Melissa Nelson Agencies, FCB Health Rosemarie Ryan President, Publicis Seattle Co-Founder, Co:Collective Tara DeVeaux Melissa Schoenke Chief Marketing Officer, Sally-Ann Dale Chief Connections Officer, BBDO New York Cheif Creation Officer, Droga5 Compass Point

Samia Chebeir Tasha Gilroy Nancy Alley President, FCB Montreal Director of Inclusion and Chief Talent Officer, Deutsch Community, Y&R Global Sandi Hildreth Nancy Crimi-Lamanna Global Director of HR, Thas Naseemuddeen Chief Creative Officer, Wieden+Kennedy Partner & CSO, Omelet FCB Toronto Tiffany Francis Nancy Reyes Sandra Williams Chief Talent Officer, 360i Managing Director, Chief Diversity officer, TBWA\Chiat\Day New York Publicis Groupe Tiffany R. Warren Tracy Lovatt Wanda Pogue SVP, Chief Diversity Officer, CEO, Batten & Co. Chief Strategy Officer, and Founder & Saatchi NY President, ADCOLOR Traecy Smith Director, 72U Los Angeles Wendy Clark

Tiffany Rolfe Global CEO, DDB Worldwide Partner & Chief Content Officer, Val DiFebo Co:Collective CEO, Deutsch New York Tina Manikas Valerie Nguyen President FCB/RED, FCB Chicago Partner and Co-Head of Strategy, Wolf & Wilhelmine Tonise Paul President and CEO, Vita Harris Energy BBDO Chicago Chief Strategy Officer, EVP, FCB Global

TIME’S UP™/ADVERTISING is proud to have our sisters from the following industry organizations standing beside us:

American Association of Advertising Agencies: Marla Kaplowitz President and Chief Executive Officer Keesha Jean-Baptiste SVP Talent Engagement and Inclusion Alison Fahey CMO Margie Parker-Lamparillo EVP Learning and Development/Strategic Partnerships Tina Allen SVP People and Culture

The Interactive Advertising Bureau: Anna Bager Executive Vice President of Industry Initiatives and the entire TIME’S UP™ community of women in entertainment and beyond!