Cindy Gallop
Cindy Gallop
Lucinda "Cindy" Lee Gallopis an English advertising consultant, founder and former chair of the US branch of advertising firm Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and founder of the IfWeRanTheWorld and MakeLoveNotPorn companies. According to the TED blog, Gallop's TEDTalk "Make Love Not Porn" was one of the "most talked about presentations" at the 2009 TED conference. She currently lives in New York City...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionBusinesswoman
Date of Birth1 February 1960
challenges status-quo
Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.
our-society invisible members
I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.
greatness discomfort
Out of discomfort comes greatness
feminist goes-on term
I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist.
starting-up design beliefs-and-values
I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.
single-mom thinking giving
Vulnerability is a loaded word, and it can off-putting and terrifying to people. The best moment of my life (and by the way, this actually wasn’t a single moment) was when I realized that I no longer give a damn about what anybody thinks. What you'd talk about as vulnerability, I'd talk about as simply being true to yourself.
feminist
I consider myself a rampant feminist.
creative digital-media department
It took a woman to actually do something about the lack of women in creative departments.
thinking giving people
Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my lifewas the day I realized that I know longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That's enormously liberating and freeing, and it's the only way to live your life and do your business.
mistake fire long
The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.
together world tangible
If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.
standing-out statements
I like to stand out and make a statement.