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
Cindy Gallop quotes about
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
moving advertising
We have to move from making good advertising, to making advertising good.
hate people advertising
People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.
giving advertising summit
When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.
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.
fun careers flying
I had a high-flying career. Never wanted to get married. All I wanted to do was have some fun.
starting-up design beliefs-and-values
I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.
action knows happens
Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.
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.
team men design
When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself - because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike.
creative digital-media department
It took a woman to actually do something about the lack of women in creative departments.