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Ellyn Davidson Put in 23 Years Before She Bought the Place
She arrived at Brogan & Partners as a 22-year-old intern. After learning the business from nearly every angle, she became its owner - and kept the agency's most unusual promises intact.
Ellen Faulkner Took the Long Way to the Top - Then Made Room for Others
She accepted half her salary to learn the agency business. Three decades later, Lewis chose its first woman CEO - a determined operator who believes the real work of leadership is knowing when to let go.
Stephanie Crockett Spent 19 Years Learning the Agency. Then It Became Everyone’s Business.
After nearly two decades inside Mower, Stephanie Crockett inherited a founder’s chair and an employee-owned future. Her method is less corporate theatre than candor, community and the steady work of earning trust.
Marion Crawford Learned to Find the Story Before She Built the Agency
Before she sold strategy, Marion Crawford sold bar-code scanners, wrote television news on the ride back to the station and learned to keep the day's number on a sticky note. Those old habits still explain the agency she runs today.
Jessica Savage Built Her Career by Listening Before She Led
The DS+CO president and CEO turned a love of print, a habit of close observation and 22 years inside one agency into a distinctly human way of leading.
Angelo Antoline Has Been Making Things Up for a Living - and Making Them Last
He built an agency in a spare bedroom, sold it, started again and carried a copywriter's eye into enterprise AI. The through-line is not reinvention for its own sake - it is the stubborn craft of making an idea clear enough to travel.
Eric Damassa Built a Career on Knowing When to Say No
Anomaly’s Global Partner and CMO has spent 15 years making restraint look like a growth strategy. Now he is helping redesign the agency model for an era when hours matter less and intelligence matters more.
Becky Jones Has Spent 25 Years Making Advertising Feel Human
An internship pulled her toward cable. A research job got her through the door. At Viamedia, Becky Jones turned the supporting work of marketing into a 25-year study of how people, culture and technology move together.