Joanne Zaiac Email & Phone Number

For over 35 years, Joanne has been a leader in the marketing and advertising agency industry built on her passion around 3 core tenets: being a trusted advisor to top Fortune 500 clients, developing and retaining the best talent and teams, and creating a culture and community focused on being a top place to work. She joined Grace Blue Partnership, a global boutique executive search firm focused on the advertising and marketing industry and views her move into executive recruiting as a natural culmination of weaving together her deep knowledge of the advertising and marketing industry, her passion for building strong and enduring Client relationships and her commitment to identifying and nurturing the best talent in the industryJoanne is a born and bred Client Service and Agency leader and operator with deep experience across global networks at Wunderman/WPP, Digitas/Publicis Groupe and dentsu International. In her Agency career, Joanne’s roles spanned from her role as Chief Client Officer at dentsu International, driving integrated and innovated marketing solutions for top clients, to Chief Client Officer at Merkle, the CRM arm of dentsu, where she created a client-first organization and approach. Joanne also spent 17 years at Digitas/Publicis Groupe where she was President of the NY and Atlanta region as well as Chief Operating Officer. Joanne oversaw the innovative, strategic and digital marketing programs that helped transform and build brand equity for Fortune 100 brands including American Express, Pitney Bowes, Comcast, and Delta. She tripled the number of clients, grew the region from 100 employees to over 600 employees and helped the region earn a host of awards, from 7 consecutive years as Best Places to Work in NY and Best Places to Work in Atlanta, to numerous creative and media awards including Cannes Grand Lions. Joanne also currently serves as an Independent Director for Designer Brands Inc. In her role as an Executive Talent Advisor, Joanne loves working with clients to understand their strategic focus and their senior talent needs and connecting with top talent in the industry to match candidates to opportunities. For Joanne, executive recruiting is a win:win: helping clients transform their marketing organization by finding the best leader for the role, and helping great talents maximize their career potential.

Listed skills include Digital Marketing, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Advertising, Integrated Multi Channel Marketing, and 3 others.

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  Harvard University

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