In her role as Cella General Manager, Jackie Schafferhas consulted for Fortune 500 clients with more than 400 in-house team members and for teams at mid-sized businesses, government entities, and educational institutions with teams as small as four designers. Her management competencies lie in operations assessments, financial management and talent management. Prior to joining Cella, she led an international "mega-sized" creative team through an evolution of production studio to strategic partner.
Sessions
The State of the In-House Design Team: Results of the New Industry Report
Wednesday, May 6 • 11:30am – 12:15pm
What are the biggest challenges facing in-house creative teams? What processes and systems do the top corporate design departments use to manage their work? Who’s hiring, and who’s outsourcing? For the past five years, The BOSS Group, Cella Consulting and InSource have teamed up to benchmark the in-house creative community. The In-House Creative Services Industry Report documents responses from more than 400 in-house leaders representing Fortune 1000 companies across several business categories. Jackie Schaffer, vice president and general management of Cella, and her colleague Connor Smith, president of the The BOSS Group, will present "hot of the presses" findings and analysis from this year's In-House Creative Services Industry Report. They will share what's new, what's trending — and what all in-house managers and staffers need to know now.
