Name: The Keys to Success in Any Role (AMER)
Start: 2025-10-16T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-16T20:00:00+01:00

AMER

Success isn’t tied to a title—it’s about how you show up, adapt, and create value wherever you are. In today’s fast-paced environment, thriving means bringing creativity, resilience, and clarity to every role—while learning how to stretch, reframe, and lead with purpose.

Join Joan Colletta, Founder of The Creative Conservancy and former Senior Director of Global Brand for McDonald’s. Joan was instrumental in McDonald’s global marketing transformation—positioning marketing as a true growth driver and helping the brand recognition as the Most Creatively Effective Global Brand. With over two decades of leadership at McDonald’s, Miller Brewing Company, Mindshare, and Leo Burnett, Joan is celebrated for transforming teams, elevating brand storytelling, and building cultures of creative effectiveness at scale.

Today, through The Creative Conservancy, Joan helps marketing teams worldwide accelerate growth by embedding creativity, effectiveness, and transformation into their culture. She brings a wealth of experience as a speaker at Cannes Lions, juror for global creative awards, and trusted advisor to industry leaders.

What to Expect

Hour One: Joan’s candid lessons from her global career, plus a live Q&A on leading with creativity and confidence in any role.

Hour Two: Peer breakouts to reflect, exchange perspectives, and apply the insights to your own work.

Key Takeaways

Embrace continuous learning to stay adaptable.

Seek and use feedback to accelerate growth.

Stretch beyond comfort zones with confidence.

Reframe problems to unlock new solutions.

Build resilience in the face of change.

Know when to say yes, and when to say no.

Walk away with practical strategies, creative inspiration, and renewed confidence to succeed in any role—no matter your industry or career stage.

Joan Colleta

Former Senior Director of Global Brand, McDonald's, WeQual Alumni

With over two decades of experience driving growth and creative excellence at brands like McDonald’s, Miller, and Mindshare, Joan is a strategic marketing leader known for transforming teams, elevating brand impact, and building cultures of creative effectiveness at scale. At McDonald’s, she played a key role in the company’s global marketing transformation—helping position marketing as a growth driver and contributing to McDonald’s recognition as the Most Creatively Effective Global Brand.

Emma Hicks

WeQual

VP of Memberships & Programs

Emma is an experienced strategic leader, specializing in professional development at the C-suite and senior management levels. With a track record for delivering solutions across a broad range of global sectors and industries, Emma brings a wealth of experience and a deep passion for continuing professional development.

Emma is a Fellow and Advisory Board Member of the Learning Performance Institute (LPI), holds certifications from the Institute of Directors (IoD) and Association for Talent Development (ATD), and is a former Education Committee member at the European Confederation of Directors Associations (ecoDa).

Outside of WeQual, Emma has a young family (8-year-old Joshua, 6-year-old Jasmine, and a recent ‘furbaby’ addition, Monty the cockapoo), who keep her equally busy, active and above all grateful.

Ovin Mohan

WeQual

Director of Leadership Development

Ovin Mohan has coached over 1000 senior leaders representing the world’s largest companies. As a result, he is recognized as a “Brilliant” (CPO – JustEat), “Exceptional” (CTO – Prologis), and “Amazing” (CFO – Holcim) Executive Coach.

He has created award-winning coaching programs for Apple and received five-star feedback from 360-degree Coaching at Christie’s for leaders from C-suite to -2 levels. He is a guest lecturer on various MSc programs focusing on strategic leadership development. He advises on a Board that informs the training for the leading coaching training company in the US. Ovin has led large-scale leadership development programs for NATO, the NHS, Barclays, and HSBC and has lived and worked in Chicago, NYC, Valencia, and London.

He was previously Head of Leadership Development, managing the largest CMI centre in the UK, delivering and assessing leadership capabilities up to PhD level. He also designed the curriculum for the Institute of Leadership and Management at L7 (MSc equivalent), which received an “Outstanding” award from ILM.

As a former athlete, in both martial arts and football, his approach to leadership development is driven by teaching deliberate practice of tools, providing feedback to refine those skills, and holding the highest standard of competitive accountability. This is further strengthened by his master’s in occupational psychology.