Job: Client Strategy and Satisfaction
Preferred title: Admiral
Favorite thing about your job: Working with great people.
When not working: Being outdoors. Listening to music. Or, ideally, both at the same time.
What I listen to: Everything from Sturgill Simpson to Pat Metheny to Boy Genius and a few bands and artists in between.
Words of wisdom: Do no harm.
Favorite movie: High Fidelity
Dream dinner guests: Bill Murray, Carl Sagan, and The Dalai Lama
Favorite vacation destination: Elk Lake Michigan (in August)
My passion is: Make a difference.
CHAD GIDDINGS
Be in the moment and make the best possible decisions with the information available to you – then move on.
Chad Giddings has re-joined J.Schmid for a ‘second tour’ – his first lasting four and a half years. Chad’s role encompasses everything from client and agency strategy, to branding and planning, to agency (and J.Schmid people) growth.
He also washes his own dishes.
Over a rather long and at times illustrious career, Chad has seemingly done it all. Twenty years of marketing and advertising agency life. Almost another 20 on the client-side as head of a global consumer brand, CMO for a couple of tech and start-up companies, not to mention leading sales, product, and corporate communications teams. Over this period Chad has called Los Angeles (Hermosa Beach to be exact), New York and Memphis home – only to return to his roots in Kansas City.