24 Hours With… Ben Shipley, managing director Spectrum Group
24 Hours With… spotlights the working day of some of the most interesting people in Mumbrella’s world. Today we speak with Ben Shipley, Group Managing Director, Spectrum Group
6:07am There are three minutes before Samsung’s masterpiece Morning Flower erupts from my phone and earns me an elbow in then ribs from my darling, sleeping wife. I silently disable it as my feet hit the floor and routine programming takes over. I grind coffee for my morning stovetop fix, diving under a shower until it is ready.
My first intellectual challenge of the morning comes soon after, as Otis, my Ninjago-loving five-year-old is woken by my ruckus.
“Daddy, would Sensei Wu beat a shark with his Spinjitsu?” I buy enough time to rustle breakfast by asking if they’re fighting on land or in water.
Shouldn’t the speaker have won some awards to give a talk on what makes work award winning?
Hi Talking the Walk,
Ben was the 2015 Australian representative on the Cannes Lions PR jury.
Cheers,
Miranda
That may be so, but has he won any awards himself??
Hi talking the walk,
Thanks for reading all the way to the end and finding something to comment on.
For the record I’ve won awards regionally and internationally at the Sabres and PR Week for work done as part of excellent teams at JWT and H+K.
My talk at CommsCon will be focused on what happens inside the jury room and how Australian agencies can use that insight to get more recognition for the great work they’re doing, plus I’ll give myself a few chances to be wrong by predicting winners for this year.
Hope to see you there.
Ben.