Creative and strategic transformation company co:collective has promoted Jamie Hall to managing director of its business + brand practice. This practice drives business growth by helping clients articulate brand strategy, define audiences and build future-ready brands.
Over the past five years at co:collective, Hall has played a pivotal role–first by leading strategy, creative and innovation initiatives for clients including Google, the ACLU, LinkedIn and the New York Times. She then became head of client engagement where she oversaw all client relationships, led the client engagement team and propelled organic growth across the company–contributing to over 30% YoY growth in 2021.
As managing director, she will oversee a cross-functional team including business strategists, brand strategists, researchers, and writers, drive modern, industry-leading work, partner with clients at the highest level, and direct co:collective’s growth and success through three lenses: its people, work, and impact.
co:collective is focused on amplifying its thesis that purpose-led businesses are better business, that purposes must be put to work through actions, and that acting generously to solve the world’s most pressing problems is the most profitable action a company can take. To put this into practice, co:collective is committed to spending the next decade helping companies align on audacious goals that leave a net positive impact on people, the planet, and in turn, their profits, and reorient them toward internal and external action that accelerates progress.
Hall’s elevated leadership duties mark the culmination of a storied tenure at co:collective–one that began under the most serendipitous yet meaningful of circumstances. “Five years ago, I met and marched beside [co:collective CEO/Co-Founder] Rosemarie Ryan at the Women’s March in DC,” Hall recalled. “After talking all weekend about the impact we wanted to make amidst a world undergoing massive change, I found myself in co:collective’s office on Monday morning to discuss leading their work with the ACLU. Years later, it’s an honor to continue to walk beside Rose and the rest of this phenomenal team as we help businesses and brands stand for, and do, more.”
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More