Shannon Miller Heads to Company Braveness for New Function

Adweek’s Shannon Miller, managing editor of creativity, creator economic system and DEI, is departing the corporate and shifting to impartial Toronto-based inventive company Braveness to take the position of government director of growth, a brand new place on the company.

In her new position, Miller will probably be accountable for serving to Braveness talk its imaginative and prescient each internally and externally, from press to new enterprise, because the company continues its development in North America.

“My major purpose and mission is to assist the company inform its story each inside and out of doors of the work it produces,” Miller instructed Adweek. “My largest job will probably be to boost all of that via comms and branding and assist the world see them because the pure storytellers that they’re.”

Braveness was based in 2022 by former companions at celebrated Canadian company Rethink, Dhaval Bhatt and Joel Holtby. The company is backed by No Fastened Tackle, together with co-founders Dave Lafond and Serge Rancourt, and it’s the newest addition to the North American impartial advertising collective that additionally contains New York inventive company Mischief @ No Fastened Tackle. The company already counts CIBC, KFC Canada and Nescafe Canada as shoppers.

“From our very first name, we knew that Shannon can be an incredible match at Braveness,” Bhatt stated in a press release. “Not solely does she have an unbelievable resume and a finger positioned firmly on the heart beat of the trade, her positivity and get-it-done angle is completely infectious.”

That is Miller’s first time working at an company, however at Braveness she noticed a chance to study from a few of the finest inventive minds within the trade who’ve a ardour for the work.

“For some time, it was trendy to be self-deprecating about working in promoting. We’re slowly getting over that as an trade, however attending to know Dhaval Bhatt, (president and companion) Niki Sahni, Joel Holtby and (CSO and companion) Tom Kenny has actually pushed dwelling what it means to completely love what you do and what this trade has to supply,” stated Miller.

Miller got here to Adweek as inventive and inclusion editor in 2021 from the A.V. Membership, the place she was information editor. She shortly established herself as a beneficial asset to the Adweek staff as a journalist, editor and host of the favored Yeah, That’s In all probability An Advert podcast and the founding father of the Off Madison podcast and platform, telling the tales of the trade disruptors who redefined promoting and put DEI on the map. She additionally had an ease as a moderator and host, interviewing celebrities and executives alike whereas giving the viewers loads of perception.