A seasoned creative leader, Stephanie fosters innovative ideas and industry firsts, to deliver boundary-breaking, change-making creativity across both consumer and HCP audiences. She is recognized as an exceptional mentor and strong collaborator, galvanizing teams to deliver both brilliant work and business results.

Stephanie recently returned to The Bloc to lead the network as global chief creative officer. Prior to this, she held chief creative office roles at Hill Holliday Health and McCann Health New York, where she led her team to Agency of the Year wins at Clio Health, The Creative Floor Awards, London International Awards, and The One Show.

For the last 2 decades she has focused exclusively on health and wellness, with clients ranging from major pharmaceutical organizations to health tech start ups commercializing their first product to market.

Originally from the UK, Stephanie has been based in the US for over 25 years.

Andrea is an award-winning creative director who believes in the power of creative ideas that amplify voices of the underrepresented. When Andrea sees an injustice, she craves to change it. Andrea’s work has been recognized by New York Festivals Health (13), Cannes (20 Lions including Grand in Innovation, Gold Design Lion + Gold in H&W), D&AD (4), Clios (16), Clio Health (73), One Show (18), Art Directors Club (10), Webby’s (1), ANDY’s (3), and the London International Awards (8). She helped the agency earn several accolades, including Cannes Lions #2 Healthcare Agency and #2 Health Network (2023, 2024), Cannes #3 Independent Agency (2024), Clio Health #1 Independent Agency (2023, 2024), & LIA #1 Global Independent Health Agency (2023). Her ability to use creative direction to serve this purpose earned her a 2023 Gold Design Lion for “The Congregation”. This idea was created to bring together like-minded individuals, regardless of their current faith or beliefs, who want to take action to protect reproductive freedom after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. She earned a Gold Health and Wellness Lion in 2020/21 for her art direction of the film Skindeep, a story about systemic race-based traumatic stress.

As a mother of two, Andrea is a leader that embodies the “See it, Be it” mentality on a daily basis, and advocates for women in the industry to believe they can achieve a balance of motherhood and being a kick ass creative. She was honored to participate in the See It Be IT mentorship program at Cannes this year, having conversations with several women in the cohort on striking this balance. Andrea is committed to serving as a leader by example across the industry.

Andrea craves experiences that challenge her and change her. She is a past participant in the 2017 RB & Lions Health Innovation Hackathon. In under 36 hours, Andrea led a team of 10 global participants in developing an idea which will help protect children against lung pollution.

Laura Florence, the Creative Leader at Havas Health & You Brazil, boasts an impressive track record spanning over 30 years in the advertising industry. She possesses an extensive portfolio featuring prominent campaigns for industry giants such as Kimberly-Clark (Kotex and Huggies), Mondelez (Oreo, Sonho de Valsa, Lacta Tang, Clight), P&G (Pampers, Vick, Ariel, Always), Unilever (Dove, Hellmann's, Ades), Nike, Adidas, Disney, Philips, Intel, Sanofi, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Abbvie, Allergan, Janssen, Merck, Mastercard, Bradesco, Coca-Cola, Schweppes, Heineken, Jeep, and others.

Her superpower lies in the seamless fusion of tech-savviness, data-driven expertise, strategic creative thinking, content mastery, and decades of experience. She excels at brilliant crafting campaigns while navigating the complex landscape of direct-to-consumer (DTC) and healthcare professional (HCP) communications, all while adhering to regulatory guidelines.

Over the past decade, she has shown unwavering dedication, led teams and transformed offices into hubs of innovation and inspiration.

As a mentor, she has a unique talent for nurturing budding talents into industry superstars. Inquiries with her mentees and their LinkedIn profiles readily attest to her profound influence.

Her most recent achievement? Leading her diverse and talented team to position Havas Health and You Brazil as the most creative health agency within the network for the past five years.

Yet, advertising is not her only passion. You might also find her immersed in the world of literature as a published author, or you can tune in to her podcast "Job pra Ontem." Seeking tranquility? Join her for a yoga class or witness her captivating audiences as a dynamic speaker. Moreover, she proudly embraces the roles of a devoted parent and a staunch feminist activist.

In her world, diversity reigns supreme! As a member of the Advertising Week Diversity & Inclusion Council, ONU Woman, Mulheres do Brasil, and as the co-founder of MORE GRLS, she is resolute in her mission to create an inclusive industry for all the talented women in the field.

Denise Gagliano is an integrated creative who loves building brands, solving problems, and sometimes speaking in the third person.

Throughout her 20+ years in the industry, Denise has worked from coast to coast (plus stints in Tokyo and Rome), creating impactful campaigns for clients big and small, from global powerhouses like Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, Toyota, and P&G to small pro-bono clients and startups.

Denise is a true believer in the holy trinity of strategy, concept, and craft, which she applies with equal muster to everything that crosses her desk, from Super Bowl spots to SEO search.

When Denise isn’t creating memorable advertising, you can find her writing, traveling, or eating, preferably all at the same time.

Annie loves stories. She’s focused on making the world a little better, every day. She believes that the best marketing is integrated, viral is not a style but a cultural phenomenon, and everyone should work in an agency for at least a year

Wendy rejoined WPP in a newly created role to ensure strong, global, WPP-level support for clients around the world and further differentiate, diversity, and expand WPP’s footprint in the transforming health sector.  With ongoing transformation in the healthcare sector, her goal is to partner within WPP to provide end-to-end integrated solutions for clients. She has career-long experience (and passion) include reproductive and women’s health, various areas of cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and patient support and a range of chronic diseases like diabetes and HIV. 

Prior to rejoining WPP, Wendy was Chief Communications Officer at Organon, responsible for overseeing global communications to spin off the first women’s health company of its kind, achieve Organon’s vision, build the corporate brand (Here for Her Health) and reputation, drive commercial growth and shape the culture of this women’s health spinoff from Merck. 

Before joining Organon, Wendy was CEO of WPP’s GCI Health, where she set and carried out the vision to solidify GCI Health as a best-in-class, fully integrated healthcare communications company. Wendy joined GCI Health in 2010 from MS&L where she was the global leader of business and client development. 

Wendy began her career in the nonprofit sector, serving as vice president of marketing of Planned Parenthood and vice president of marketing for the National League for Nursing. 

Wendy is passionate in her pursuit to improve the lives of women and has been a frequent speaker on unraveling stigmas in women's health issues. She has appeared at several industry events including SXSW, Fierce Pharma PR & Communications Summit (chair and host for multiple years) Reuters Customer Engagement USA, Global Wellness Summit and others. 

She has a masters degree in History and lives in the metro NY area. 

With over 20 years of experience in advertising, Marty combines outstanding creativity with superior knowledge of the industry and constantly pushes the boundaries of creativity by bringing together art and science to inform work that will drive human impact and behaviour change.

Marty serves as the CCO of TANK Worldwide, where his creative vision since joining in 2015 has helped TANK become a global leader in the health and wellness space today with offices in New York, Toronto, London, and Montréal. TANK has become one of WPP’s fastest growing agencies, driven by Marty’s creative teams that are reinventing the role of health/wellness agencies by crafting ambitious, impactful stories.

His work has spanned the globe and won numerous awards along the way across Cannes, the LIA’s, The One Show, The Webby Awards, Clio Health, the Lisbon Health Awards, New York Festivals, the Anthem Awards, Epica Awards, Applied Arts, the Rx Awards, and Communication Arts.

Marty has sat on multiple juries including the LIA’s inaugural pharma jury, Cannes Lions Health & Wellness jury, The One Show, Young Lions, The Webby Awards, Clio Health, New York Festivals Health, the Lisbon Health Awards, the Anthem Awards, the Marketing Awards, the MM+M Awards and the Rx Awards.

Mentoring young creatives is not limited to Marty’s own agency – he annually participates as a coach in LIA’s Creative LIAisons program. Marty is also highly sought-after as a guest speaker, drawing on his extensive expertise to offer valuable insights and strategies. His passion for all forms of artistic expression makes him a unique creator who stands out for his ability to solve a problem by turning an idea into a beautiful piece of work that can positively impact human lives.

Former spinning instructor. Some-time axe thrower. Aspiring world traveller. Joy went to art school to be an art director but ended up writing instead.

Working in agencies both big and small, Joy has contributed to big consumer brands like Labatt, Johnson & Johnson, Porsche, Walmart, and Mazda. Her enthusiasm for creative problem solving and working with multi-disciplinary teams has led to noteworthy accomplishments, particularly the award-winning Music for Memory Project for the Toronto Alzheimer’s Society.

Conceptualizing and executing this awareness campaign sparked a curiosity in the resilience of patients and caregivers which eventually led Joy to Health advertising. Working in Health has reinforced her belief that placing the human being at the centre of the solution is key. Joy has led award-winning creative in a number of therapeutic areas, including Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Oncology,
Respirology, and Rheumatology.

From Walmart to Takeda, from mass consumer to pharma, Joy is continually inspired to go past “good” to get to “great.” And, when she’s not thinking of the next big idea, she’s probably in a spinning class or planning her next trip