Chapter 18Publicis Groupe
Interview with Michele Gilbert (Mentor)
Michele is executive vice president and managing director of Global P&G at Leo Burnett Worldwide, a subsidiary of Publicis Groupe.
You have had a long and brilliant career in advertising…
Yes, that's true! I started out at Benton & Bowles in New York as media director for Procter & Gamble and then moved to Saatchi & Saatchi in Paris at the beginning of the 1990s. After Saatchi & Saatchi, I moved to the McCann agency before joining D'Arcy, Paris, where I was responsible for international management, with all its challenges—a position that suited me very well! Following the merger, I ended up in Publicis Groupe in 2002 and was appointed Managing Director / Global Head of P&G Surface Care Leo Burnett Paris, and member of the agency's management committee—and in 2010, was appointed Global Lead P&G Leo Burnett Worldwide, and, consequently, became part of the Chicago head office management team.
Why did you decide to become a mentor?
VivaWomen!—Publicis' internal mentoring network—is the only network I'm part of, and I believe it's important to share our experiences with younger women, so that they can understand how to develop their career in our sector.
This is not always an easy thing to do—but it's always ...
Get Breaking Through now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
