GROW - a DEI consultancy
dedicated to helping advertising agencies and marketing firms unlock empathetic DEI brand truths that build belonging.
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Amplifying Sustainable DEI.
Chief Truths Teller
Jean Grow, PhD, is founder and Chief Truths Teller of GROW - a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) consultancy. GROW helps clients craft authentically inclusive brand strategies and emphatically resonant creative. Before founding GROW, Jean spent 20+ years conducting intersectional DEI research and teaching advertising. She is co-author of the top selling book: Advertising Creative: Strategy, Copy & Design, now in its 6th edition. Prior to joining the academia Jean spent nearly a decade in the advertising industry working with agencies such as Leo Burnett, FCB, and DDB and with clients from Coca-Cola to Zenith. She earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When Jean and her "radically honest" team of Truths Tellers are not helping clients amplify DEI, she may be traveling the world – 32 countries and counting.
Offerings
Offerings provide tools for your organization to break with the traditions of the past to cultivate a better tomorrow building and sustaining a more inclusive culture of belonging.
TruthTellers
TruthTellers are individuals who share their personal stories to enhance cultural understanding in intimate and often provocative ways as part of GROW’s Cultural Engagement offerings.
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