Creative Strategist James Hurman shares stories of Chance and Luck.
Taking a chance on something or someone can be a heart-stoppingly terrifying experience. The unconventional route can hold many traps and pitfalls, but once you’ve overcome these risks you’ll often find yourself with a seriously inspiring, valuable, and ingenious result, one that otherwise may never have existed. The work of our November 2014 speaker, James Hurman, is testament to that. Having crafted an impressively successful career, James shared with us his personal tales of the power and beauty of chance.
About the speaker
James is the founder and principal of Auckland innovation consultancy Previously Unavailable. Prior to launching his own business, James was an advertising agency leader whose career was built on marketing campaigns internationally renowned for their creativity and effectiveness. Many of his campaigns have seen him taking chances on unconventional ideas, strategies and processes. His resulting work for the likes of TVNZ, DB Breweries, Vodafone, V Energy Drink, Westpac, Yellow Pages and Levi’s has been recognised with 22 Cannes Lions (the Oscars of advertising) and 50 local & international marketing effectiveness awards. To top it off, in 2013, James was named the world’s #1 advertising strategist.
James is also the author of internationally acclaimed business book The Case for Creativity, a treatise on the link between creativity and commercial success, described by The Coca Cola Company as “beautiful words of wisdom.”
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