Eat Your Beets

Canada’s leading strategic thinkers share their tips to improve the health of your strategic planning 

27 Strategic Thinkers

One shared passion: Improving the health of strategic planning.

Eat Your Beets is packed with essential lessons from how to build iconic brands, to purpose brands, to inclusive brands, to more effective brands, to collaborative brands, to even your own brand. So whether you are thinking of making a career in planning, just starting out, or already established on your strategy journey, there is plenty here to learn from, reflect on, and consider as you hone your skills and broaden your frame of reference.

The Authors

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Shari Walczak

Co-Founder and CSO
The Garden
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Dino Demopoulos

Former CSO
Gut
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Heather Segal

CSO
Zulu Alpha Kilo
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Maxine Thomas

CSO
Zulu Alpha Kilo
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Nicola Poskitt

Director of Strategy
Will
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Florian Schedler

Head of AI
Grey Health
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Sub Nijjar

CSO
Cossette
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Ute Preusse

Founder & CEO
Will
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Geoff Gingerich

SVP Strategy
LifeLong Crush
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Catherine Kelly

President
Target Marketing and Communications
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Kristy Pleckaitis

SVP Strategy
Broken Heart Love Affair
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Sarah Thompson

Former President
Dentsu Media
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David Rusli

Chief Strategy Officer
Wavemaker
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Sammy Rifai

CSO
Initiative
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Thomas Wilkins

VP Strategy
No Fixed Address
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Michelle Campbell

Strategy
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Penny Norman

Group Strategy Director
Rescue
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Fanny Chabot

Brand Strategist
Strategic Studio
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Jean Claude M Kikongi

Head of Strategy
Sid Lee
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Brittany Dow

VP Strategy
No Fixed Address
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Umar Ghumman

Former Chief Experience Officer
VML
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Catherine MacLeod

President & CEO
thinktv Canada
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Jack Dayan

Founding Partner, CSO
Full Punch
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Shereen Ladha

VP Creative Strategy Lead
Hill + Knowlton
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Rebecca Lyttle

Senior Strategist
Pigeon Brands
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Rory Petty

Strategy Director
VML
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Stephanie Freeman

Global Strategy Director
EssenceMediacom

Press Coverage

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Book Reviews

"Eat Your Beets is comfort food for strategists at all levels. It’s a unique project where you can feel at home in your element and still find something new in each essay that pushes your own thinking and gets the brain going. Many of the essays favour life experiences over books, but I still like books, and I like this one on my shelf."

Elyssa Seidman, Group Strategy Director

"Brilliant strategy needs to come with an understanding of people and our collective history. Eat Your Beets sits nicely with provoking new thinking."

Sarah Thompson, Former President

“A wonderfully eclectic journey into the minds of leading Canadian advertising strategists. One running theme throughout: Out brands thrive when we look at the world from different perspectives.”

Jason Dojc, Head Coach of the Creative Advertising Program

 

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