About me
Michelle Morgan is Co-Founder of 6 businesses including Livity, a youth-led creative network bringing brands and young people together, for the better. Michelle navigated school ok, but didn't really know why she was there, she failed most of her exams, went to college, got chucked out of college and after a few 'wilderness years' talked her way into a Hong Kong Ad agency.
In 2001 she co-founded Livity as an experiment to see whether there was space in Agency Land for a socially responsible youth marketing agency. A business that placed equal importance on profit & purpose. Michelle's story is built mostly on fails, overcoming shyness, anxiety & lack of self-belief as well as the more cheery foundations of fun, faith & friendship. She talks about building a £multi-million business, her confidence & self-belief; the struggles and joys of balancing purpose and profit; why championing diversity & putting young people at the heart of everything is smart and inspiring and why creating your own trophy cabinet & team of cheerleaders is critical to giving Imposter Syndrome the boot.
16 years into the business she co-founded, she's tackling perhaps the greatest leadership challenge of all, handing over the day to day to a new leadership team. Still very much a part of Livity, she's moving into a non-executive role that will free up her time to support a much needed & different rhythm to life. As she stared her own ‘What Next?’ in the eye with a mixture of elation & fear Pjoys emerged. Once a social entrepreneur… “Michelle’s openness and her natural ability as a storyteller make her a standout speaker. As the co-founder of a successful and innovative creative business, her professional story alone is one worth hearing. But her authentic, witty, unpretentious and quietly inspirational style is as powerful as it is calm. Mark St Andrew, Festival Director for Cannes Lions.
Projects
- Violently, physically, mentally burnt out'I violently, physically and mentally burnt out' Physical and mental exhaustion is something that most people in the start-up world can relate to. For ad agency boss Michelle Morgan, it led to a violent burnout and her taking 18 months off work to recover. But what happens to a company when the boss burns out? Find our here.
- Burning brighter after burning outIt’s OK to say! Dear Creative Social crew, Thank you. It was such a privilege to share my Cannes Lions Festival talk at Creative Social #MiniCannes last night, hosted by the UK Twitter folk, alongside Daniele Fiandaca Trevor Robinson, Shahnaz Ahmed, Jaki Jo Hannan, Nadya Powell, Henry Cowling, Claire Beale, Tom Ollerton, Elizabeth Cherian and Johnny Vulkan (what a super inspiring bunch of humans they all are!). As demonstrated, it is quite a challenge to squeeze a fairly full on personal story i
Projects credited in
- Leaders with social heart: 100 creative changemakersCelebrating social responsibility is at the heart of what we do, so we've partnered with Squarespace – whose mission is to inspire people with creative ideas to succeed – to shine a light on 100 influential luminaries from art, technology, charity, design, business and more that are working tirelessly to make our world a better place. To highlight these organisations, we asked 10 creative changemakers to each nominate 10 people behind inspiring brands, products and movements with amazing social
Work history
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FounderPJoys
London, United KingdomFull Time
Co-FounderLivity
London, United KingdomFull Time
Skills
- Strategic Planning
- Partnerships
- Advertising
- Public Speaking
- Content
- Consultancy
- Marketing