Shane is Executive Creative Director at HERO/McCann Melbourne. His career spans two continents and four cities, as a creative at agencies including Ogilvy Johannesburg, DDB Sydney, Clemenger BBDO Melbourne and VMLY&R Melbourne. He’s worked on the world’s biggest brands like McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Volkswagen and BMW as well as Australia’s most iconic, like the Sydney Opera House, Myer, Monash University and the Australian Defence Force. Career highlights include inviting people into the Sydney Opera House through their selfies, creating an interactive Christmas bauble that lets children know if they’ve been naughty or nice, enlisting A.I. to help recruit humans into the Navy and creating a dystopian future to attract students to join a university. It’s work like this that has earned him over 150 local and international awards including Golds at Cannes Lions, multiple Grand Prix at Spikes Asia as well as D&AD, One Show, SXSW, AWARD and the Effies. Apart from being an ad nerd, he also boasts a strange accent and an Uber Rating of 4.89.
Ben is an organisational psychologist with over 20 years of research and practice expertise in the measurement and management of employee wellbeing. His research on burnout, stress, creativity, and teamwork has been published in dozens of articles in leading academic journals, and presented at national and international conferences. Ben provides consulting services and delivers professional workshops on employee wellbeing, psychosocial risk management, safety culture, and development of workplace assessment tools. He also has a podcast series, Mind On The Job, in which he interviews researchers and practitioners about the ways they use psychology to solve workplace problems. He is currently writing a book about burnout.
