HOW HUNTING DISCOMFORT, REPRESENTING YOUR COMMUNITY & REACHING BACK TO OPEN DOORS FOR OTHERS TO WALK THROUGH RESULTS IN PHENOMENAL IMPACT FOR YOURSELF & EVERYONE ELSE
Driven to ‘Hunt Discomfort’, Dhane Scotti has achieved more in 15yrs than most achieve in a lifetime. After reaching the heights of international success in advertising and leaving his dream job at Coca-Cola, he made the leap to Google where he’s currently the Global Consumer Lead for Pixel & Nest and began replicating the same impact within 6 months by launching the Childish Gambino campaign at the 2018 Grammy’s. Dhane shares his insights about leadership and life that he’s learned along the way, the right ‘mixoloxy’ required to make work that’s additive to culture, his advice for BIPOC & ‘Other’ people to back themselves and how we can all work towards dismantling systemic racism.
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Snickers ‘You’re Not You When You’re Hungry’ Superbowl TVC:
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February 2021
1.27 Career Overview & Achievements
4.59 Formative career moments
7.53 What else defines you that may not be immediately obvious to others
10.29 ‘Hunting Discomfort’ as a personal growth mantra How cultivating opportunities for yourself can get you to work a Superbowl ad Why minorities should show up by default as their true self
15.33 Daily challenges BIPOC face trying to succeed in structures not built for them Deciding the threshold on when to speak up and let things go
18.52 Responsibility of representing the potential of your whole community as ‘the only’ Reaching back to open doors for emerging leaders
24.18 What people from ‘other’ groups can do to champion equality & equity What ‘Allies’ can do meaningfully champion equality & equity The importance of educating the next generation to affect real social change
28.42 Black Lives Matter - how Corporations & Industries have responded How we can move forward together to dismantle systemic racism How ‘Allies’ can use their platform so BIPOC don’t have to do all the heavy lifting
32.38 The benefits and pitfalls of a growth mindset that ‘Hunts Discomfort’
38.15 How community, volunteer and mentoring is an enriching way to pay it forward and remind you about what really matters
43.09 Global momentum on focus on more diversity in storytelling narratives Creating moments in culture with the right mixology of creative & strategic partners Why Childish Gambino (Donald Glover) agreed to do the Google Pixel campaign
47.38 How to avoid tone-deaf & insensitive work when your team is not diverse Cultural Appropriation vs Cultural Appreciation Top-down accountability, commitment and intentionality for more inclusive outputs
59.20 Tiffani R Warren & Jason White the impact of mentors & sponsors in shaping
60.03 Leadership self-care rituals and habits