Kelly Gibbons & Beth Doane, Main+Rose

This entry nominates Kelly Gibbons and Beth Doane from marketing and communications agency Main+Rose as outstanding female leaders.

Main+Rose’s services span the full brand advisory and marketing spectrum, from research and analysis, brand strategy and visual identity to marketing and communications. Together with clients, Main+Rose’s vision is to help leaders achieve their brand and communications goals, anticipate and react quickly through focused intelligence- gathering and insightful counsel and to ensure key decision makers understand their positions and perspectives. This capacity is combined with deep expertise in crafting and honing messages that present a client in a compelling manner to its most critical audiences and stakeholders that matter the most to its policy outcomes, commercial objectives and/ or marketing goals. Kelly & Beth’s leadership style is extraordinary in that it is individual and out of the box, driven by the lived experiences of both women. Beth in particular has been inspired by her interactions with the late Tony Hsieh, Zappos founder, a company that was sold to Amazon for an all-stock deal of $1.2bn.