Disruption Director, TBWA\Manchester
As Disruption Director at TBWA, Lorna Hawtin is responsible for asking questions, wreaking havoc and building strategies to give challenger brands an unfair advantage. She was awarded the Sir John Hegarty Scholarship to the Berlin School of Creative Leadership, where she put her skills to use, causing disruption in the best possible way to gain an Exec MBA.
By asking the hard-to-answer questions, challenging herself, and inspiring her classmates to do the same, she not only received the honour of Valedictorian, but took home the Michael Conrad Outstanding Thesis Award for her thought-provoking research on “Unpicking the Extrovert Ideal in ‘Adland’".
As well as being part of the agency leadership team, she is also a frequently published commentator within the industry, with a special interest in how neuroscience can help shape strategy. She was 2014 Convener of Judges for the IPA Effectiveness Awards having won a number of Effectiveness awards as author in her formative years. She is also a Fellow of the IPA in recognition of her exceptional prolonged contribution to the industry body and her work in developing the Eff Test and the IPA's effectiveness strategy. She is also now a member of the U.K. Effie committee and the IPA's effectiveness leadership group.