Clemenger Group
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Sep 23, 2026
Tom OpieGUEST
Yeah.
Andy ScottHOST
From junior copywriter at Clemenger to globetrotting creative director, you have earned some serious silverware along the way, as I've mentioned in the intro.
Andy ScottHOST
On your LinkedIn profile, you say, I'm passionate about the in-house agency world and building creative teams that go beyond marketing, using creativity to solve problems and create impact business-wide.
Andy ScottHOST
When did you realise you had creative urges and that maybe there was a living to be made from it?
Tom OpieGUEST
So I actually started at Clems as an account coordinator.
Tom OpieGUEST
I reached out to Kim Bowen a bunch of times and said, oh, would you have any time to have a coffee and kind of catch up? And he was nice enough to do that.
Andy ScottHOST
Just for the listeners, Kim Bowen was the managing director and executive chairman at Clemenger BBDO Adelaide.
Tom OpieGUEST
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alan HartHOST
named AdAge's In-House Agency of the Year, and has been behind some of Amazon's most beloved work, including the iconic Granny Sledding ad and the global It's On Prime platform.
Alan HartHOST
She grew up in rural Australia and has held creative leadership roles at IPG, Leo Burnett, and Clemenger BBDO.
Alan HartHOST
Today on the show, we talk about how to protect and teach human creativity in an AI native world, what it means to be both a builder and a curator, and whether the future belongs to specialists, generalists, or simply the curious.
Alan HartHOST
That and much more with Joe Shoesmith.
Jo ShoesmithGUEST
And I turned up to university in Melbourne to study art.
Jo ShoesmithGUEST
What was ultimately going to be fine art, I didn't really know what I wanted to do and I stumbled into this thing called advertising and I've always loved team sports and advertising to me felt very much like that because you have copywriters working with art directors, working with photographers and I really loved the speed with which you make ads versus what can be the isolation and slowness with which you make art and so Followed that pursuit, got my first job in Melbourne at Clemen de Bibidio where I was really fortunate to have a lot of great mentors who taught me a lot and I really kind of got that foundation of what it meant to work in the industry and what the culture of the industry was like.
Jo ShoesmithGUEST
went from Clemenger to Leo Burnett, which ironically was two buildings down the road in Melbourne.
Jo ShoesmithGUEST
So I packed up my box and walked two buildings down the road.
Alan HartHOST
named AdAge's In-House Agency of the Year, and has been behind some of Amazon's most beloved work, including the iconic Granny Sledding ad and the global It's On Prime platform.
Alan HartHOST
She grew up in rural Australia and has held creative leadership roles at IPG, Leo Burnett, and Clemenger BBDO.
Alan HartHOST
Today on the show, we talk about how to protect and teach human creativity in an AI native world, what it means to be both a builder and a curator, and whether the future belongs to specialists, generalists, or simply the curious.
Alan HartHOST
That and much more with Joe Shoesmith.
Jo ShoesmithGUEST
And I turned up to university in Melbourne to study art.
Jo ShoesmithGUEST
What was ultimately going to be fine art, I didn't really know what I wanted to do and I stumbled into this thing called advertising and I've always loved team sports and advertising to me felt very much like that because you have copywriters working with art directors, working with photographers and I really loved the speed with which you make ads versus what can be the isolation and slowness with which you make art and so Followed that pursuit, got my first job in Melbourne at Clemen de Bibidio where I was really fortunate to have a lot of great mentors who taught me a lot and I really kind of got that foundation of what it meant to work in the industry and what the culture of the industry was like.
Jo ShoesmithGUEST
went from Clemenger to Leo Burnett, which ironically was two buildings down the road in Melbourne.
Jo ShoesmithGUEST
So I packed up my box and walked two buildings down the road.
Stephanie CoombesHOST
So what inspired that decision?
Andy DinanGUEST
Well, in my youth, I had a public relations company, which I built up and then I sold some 30 years ago to an advertising agency, the Clemenger Group.
Andy DinanGUEST
And I retired and I hired an art consultant and I started collecting art.
Andy DinanGUEST
And as I'd go around the galleries, it was this real kind of pretty woman, you're too young to know, but there was a movie called Pretty Woman with a woman who got money and suddenly no one would help her.
Eleanor DickinsonPANELIST
Nothing to do with their trajectory.
Eleanor DickinsonPANELIST
Danny Basil comes into the business, and she brings this absolute muster of a stellar team with her from Clemenger.
Tim BurrowsHOST
And she...
Tim BurrowsHOST
Yeah, she'd come over from the Omnicom Group.
Eleanor DickinsonPANELIST
Yeah.
Eleanor DickinsonPANELIST
From Clemenger BBDO.
Eleanor DickinsonPANELIST
So she brings with Anita, she brings Simon Waser, who's the chief strategy officer, and they form a, a sextet who are going to, alongside an investment company called Park, buy the Australian brand of M&C Saatchi.
Tim BurrowsHOST
So in other words, a management buyout.