OCAD U’s favourite female empowerment speaker Series returns, this time to talk with Stephanie Small (Creative Operations Manager, TAXI), about implementing diversity and equity practices in the advertising industry, and the Black TAXI initiative.

RSVP: https://bit.ly/RepresentBlackTaxi

Coffee Chats w/ is a series of virtual casual gatherings with the CEAD team with industry guests. Hosted virtually in small intimate groups, these gatherings will provide a space for group conversations with practitioners who are interested in supporting OCAD U students and grads to offer mentorship, and share their professional insights and journey, while collectively creating an online community.

You’re looking at a creative maverick. A master yarn-spinner. A powerhouse brand builder with communication wizardry as her not-so-secret weapon. And, yes, of course Jordan Doucette is award-winning: Cannes Lions, The One Show, The Clio Awards, etc, etc—if it's shiny and sets off a metal detector, she’s probably won it. Jordan’s journey has seen triumphant chief creative officer stints at renowned agencies including Taxi and Publicis’ Leo Burnett, where she racked up an array of accounts from cars to QSR and CPG to telcos. This champion of progress continues to push for the positive transformation of advertising in her current home of president and partner at No Fixed Address—a Canadian and US-based shop reinventing the agency model.

Interested in joining our next Coffee Chat? Sign up here on Ten Thousand Coffees, and use the office hour feature to RSVP. Ten Thousand Coffees is an online mentoring and networking platform that’s used by emerging talent and professionals around the globe.  

Berkeley Poole is currently the VP & Creative Director at Tokyo Smoke Brands, overseeing and driving the creative for Tokyo Smoke, Van der Pop, Doja and Maitri. Her role and responsibilities includes the store design, brand collateral and retail experience for the Tokyo Smoke stores, e-commerce for each of the brands, ad campaigns, photo direction, product, packaging, social presence and more.

Born and raised in Toronto, Poole graduated from York University and Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany before taking on roles at Barneys New York, V Magazine, Visionaire, Laird + Partners (working on Karl Lagerfeld and Calvin Klein), and MTV. She had also co-founded and created Adult Magazine. Now, Poole brings her wide-ranging talents to Tokyo Smoke, reimagining the visual language surrounding cannabis. Working across print, digital, video, experiential, and product, she creates functional and beautiful designs rooted in conceptual, clever, and strategic thought. She has also been featured in The New York Times, Dazed, Complex, Toronto Life and Flare’s "Top 30 Under 30" – to name a few.

Join us for the next iteration of the Badass Ladies Speaker Series!

Serene Wong, Senior Art Director at JAM3 talks AR storytelling, portfolio building and the future of advertising. Serene Wong is a Sr. Art Director at Jam3 in Toronto — Judge on The FWA, formerly at Zulu Alpha Kilo. She has worked with clients such as Lululemon, Google, Adidas, Sephora, Facebook, Oculus, Coca Cola, Ford, Sick Kids, Dior, Symbl, Marc Jacobs, FoxTV, Oreo, Wells Fargo, Doritos and Red Bull & many more.

Join us for the next iteration of the Badass Ladies Speaker Series!