WPP is likely to be shedding leaders to all of the company mega-mergers, however there are nonetheless some good individuals who have caught round for a really very long time. Lindsay Pattison is certainly one of them, and she or he’s now been moved from world chief consumer officer to world chief individuals officer.
It’s arduous to know if shoppers or individuals are a greater job for Pattison, however it appears a disgrace to see her moved into the sort of function that senior girls so usually discover themselves in – basically HR. She’s changing Jennifer Remling, who’s going to Warner Bros’ Discovery.
Pattison has had a stellar profession at WPP and as CEO of Maxus from 2009 she oversaw a interval of big progress and success for the company, which was merged into MEC to kind Wavemaker in 2017. At the moment, she was made GroupM after which WPP’s first chief transformation officer. She grew to become world chief consumer officer in 2018.
She was a graduate trainee at Y&R from 95 to 98 and (after a spell at PHD the place she met and married founder David Pattison) returned to WPP as Maxus CEO in 2009.
Mark Learn, CEO of WPP, stated: “Lindsay is extraordinarily extremely regarded throughout the business as a pacesetter who can establish and develop high expertise, and as a trusted companion to world shoppers. She has a deep understanding of our enterprise, individuals and tradition, and her robust business focus will assist to drive our future individuals technique.”
Pattison stated: “Our enterprise and our shoppers succeed when we’ve got the very best, most extremely motivated expertise. Our most precious property are our individuals, and creating the tradition and atmosphere the place they will do the work of their lives is each what excites me about this new function, and what’s going to ship outcomes for our shoppers.”
Pattison does have plenty of credentials within the “individuals” space and has been a champion of ladies at WPP. She was additionally president of WACL again in 2014.
Outdoors WPP she is tireless too: a non-executive director for the Rugby World Cup (targeted on the ladies’s event to be held in England 2025); a board member (and chair of the compensation committee) of worldwide magnificence firm Waldencast; on the advisory board of Planet First Companions; on Meta’s world consumer council; and the UK Effies advisory board.
