Meet Laurel 👋

Laurel Stark is an executive creative director known for work that challenges the status quo, pierces culture, and drives business and humanity forward. She’s worked for Media.Monks, the Google Brand Studio, TikTok, and EA (Electronic Arts), where she’s led teams, brands, and business through critical moments of evolution.

From her entrepreneurial efforts to her commercial work for brands like Avon, Google, Hilton, and The Sims, Laurel’s ideas have been called “world changing” by Fast Company and “Industry bettering” by Adweek. And in 2023, the 3% Movement’s Kat Gordon said Laurel’s inclusive leadership was “shaping the future of advertising.” 

Her work has been honored by the Australian Grammys, the Entertainment and Music Clios, the Effies, Fast Company’s Brands that Matter, the One Show, and the Webbys. And has been profiled by Rolling Stone, Vogue, Glamour Magazine, Refinery29, and the New York Times. She’s also been celebrated by the Adweek Creative 100, the Brand Innovators 40 under 40, the ADCOLOR Leaders, and the AWNY Future is Female Awards.

As co-founder of Next Creative Leaders, produced in partnership with the One Club for Creativity, Laurel has been a champion for boundary-pushing work and historically marginalized leaders for the last decade—helping accelerate the careers of nearly 200 women and gender expansive creatives around the world.