KarenLandShort
Global Executive Creative Director, Sustainability, Accenture Song
Karen Short is a creative leader with two decades of experience building brands of influence through purpose-driven creativity and innovation. Her goal in the sustainability practice within Accenture Song is to make sustainability relevant and actionable for everyone. She has used creativity as a force for good for dozens of companies, including Under Armour, Meta, Prudential, the YMCA, Chobani, Enphase, and non-profits such as the United Nations, Potential Energy, the Clinton Foundation, the National Women’s Law Center, the Asian American Federation, the Fungi Foundation, and more.
Her work has been acknowledged by top award shows, including the ANDYs, One Show, D&AD, Art Directors Club, the Clios, the Effies, Webbys, and Cannes Lions (where she has earned multiple Titanium Lions and the first-ever Glass Lion). Her gender equality work has also been honoured by the United Nations. Short has been recognised twice in the Adweek Creative 100, as well as Business Insider’s Most Creative Women in Advertising.
Before stepping into her sustainability role at Accenture Song, Short was Executive Creative Director at Droga5 for ten years, spanning the years when the agency was awarded both Adweek and AdAge’s Agency of the Decade.