Isabelle Bale
Strategy Director, M&C Saatchi World Services
Izzy has almost 20 years’ experience delivering complex behavioural and attitudinal change communications across the UK, EMEA, Australia and APAC. During this time she has worked across a broad selection of blue-chip commercial brands as well as on some of the world’s most pressing security and defence issues.
She leads the strategy team regionally across Europe for M&C Saatchi World Services. Prior to this she spent 7 years driving innovation led-comms strategy at Omnicom Media Group delivering media and industry firsts with commercial clients across gaming, AI and long form content. This produced work that was awarded at Cannes across multiple years and won an Emmy in 2022. She was also the winner of the Chair’s Prize for the 2022 IPA Excellence Diploma in Brands for her work on non-binary thinking.
When not in the office, Izzy is also the vocalist for trans black metal band “DAVGHTER” who supported Kate Nash at Brighton Trans Pride and were featured in the documentary “Dear Wes” by Trans Matters Worldwide. She also founded London Metal Pride, the only heavy metal pride event in the capital, now in its’ second year.