Emma Murphy
community director
Creative Equals
Emma has over 25 years experience in design, advertising and in-house creative arenas, creating and collaborating with top creative and strategic innovators.
Brands Emma has worked with include Camelot (The National Lottery), CNN, Nestle, Disney, Associated British Foods, Hackett London and the O&CC Group.
Within fashion Emma has worked across the portfolio of brands within The Arcadia Group including Topshop | Topman, Burtons and Dorothy Perkins. Emma has also worked across key client-agency integration initiatives with both Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and adam&eve DBB.
She currently leads the Communities Pillar at award-winning global EDI and social impact consultancy CreativeEquals as Community Director, striving to make positive change in the world. Running initiatives to support underrepresented communities such as CreativeComeback, a female focussed returnship programme now in its 5th year - running in London, New York and Mumbai. This year introducing the first ever UK Disabled Creatives programme to support and champion disabled talent.
Emma’s motivation lies deeply in mentoring and coaching new emerging talent from full and diverse backgrounds and is passionate about closing up the education gap. For over 4 years she’s been proud to be a visiting lecturer at UOH (Hertfordshire of University).
Her industry engagement includes collaborating and judging at D&AD, The Drum and Creative Circle Awards.