Building Creative Community: Establishing value systems with Ramona Harris
In this week’s special bonus episode of Holding up the Ladder, we’re talking value systems and building creative community. I’ll be sharing some of the lessons I’ve learned/am learning over the past 8-10 years building my music production company. I’m joined by my good friend Ramona Harris- she is global head of language services at Hogarth, the world’s leading creative production partner for many brands and agencies including Coca-Cola, Nespresso, Dyson.
She is extremely pragmatic and has a gift for taking bigs ideas and knowing how to practically implement them - I run a lot ideas past her. Hopefully you’ll see what I mean during the course of our discussion. We come from very different worlds but I strongly believe in working with people and having friends who hold similar values but very different perspectives, if done right I think they actually help take you further than if you’re only interacting with people with similar thinking.
And here are the ‘Principles’ for building creative community that we speak about:
What are you trying to building, knowing your why
Valuing the people you work with
Be kind to people
Paying it forward
Principle of reciprocity
Learning when and when not to compromise
Finding your tribe/your community
Just do it!
Guest: Ramona Harris
Title: ‘Building Creative Community - Establishing value systems with Ramona Harris’
Book: Impact Capital by Sir Ronald Cohen
Film: Brooklyn Boheme
Podcast episode about my friend Ian Toothill who inspired principle No. 8, Just do it!