Wildwood specialise in finding and nurturing the very best talent and bringing them together with some of the world's most renowned agencies and businesses. Based in Europe, with a focus on London and Amsterdam, Wildwood work across all communication industries and disciplines, specialising in advertising and marketing. We pride ourselves on our bespoke and personal service for placing candidates at all levels - from intern to leadership positions.

At Wildwood, we believe that any agency or business is only as good as the people within it. The attitude they have, the personality they inject, the culture they create and most importantly, the talent and skill they bring.

We believe that diversity brings a cultural richness and creative power to our industry. We believe in nurturing the talent of tomorrow as much as guiding the best talent of today. We believe in managing careers for life not just for the next role. We believe in placing the right people in the right place.

Anna Hristou, Founder

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Anna spent 9 years in Account Handling, working her way up from graduate trainee at Havas to Group Business Director at Dare, gaining experience at Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, adam&eve DDB and Brothers and Sisters along the way. She has worked on brands such as EA Sports and Games, Hovis, John Lewis, Vodafone and Sky Sports. Anna decided to redirect her knowledge and experience of the industry and her skill for nurturing talent to becoming a headhunter for some of the biggest and best agencies in Europe. 

Emma Beddard, Consultant

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Having started out at Rushes Post Production following graduation, Emma moved into the Project Management/Production team at Poke, looking after clients such as Rimmel, The Guardian and American Express. Emma worked in a hybrid PM/Producer role as well as Studio Manager and managing internal resource. For the last ten years she has re-focused her attention on helping brands and agencies find the very best talent within London’s creative industry.

Leoni Azille, Team Manager

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Leoni is an experienced Assistant Director and Production Assistant, freelancing in the Film & TV industry since graduating from university. Leoni’s notable credits include projects like Silo S2 (Apple TV), Top Boy (Netflix), Say Nothing (Disney+) and Bridgerton S2 (Netflix), as well as music videos and commercials. She brings her ability to excel in a high-pressure creative environments along with strong team-collaboration and problem-solving skills, to help the team flourish at Wildwood.

Clare Jones, Lead Coach

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Clare has led highly recognised creative businesses in entertainment, culture, design and advertising (Proximity, The Monkeys, We Are PI) and mentored brilliant creative people for over 20 years. She's made award-winning work for IKEA, Nike, Mazda and Heineken to name a few, and held GM, MD and COO positions. On return from Australia in 2015, she consulted to network and indie agencies in Europe, and gained accreditation as a transformational coach in 2020.  She loves to research the latest organisational thinking and values-led people strategies to create coaching and cultural shift programmes - so that everyone can have a positive and productive working life and a brilliant career.

Your creative career is unlikely to unfold in a straight line.  That’s what makes it exciting, sometimes frustrating, never boring.  Sometimes we’re motivated to stretch our wings and strike out somewhere new, sometimes we develop and grow in place. Sometimes, the industry decides our fate without consulting us at all.

We believe that nurturing the best industry talent involves some extra support from time to time.  Some shared wisdom, some healthy challenge and a focus on making good, well-thought through decisions.

That’s why we offer our candidates and partners access to coaching and support, so you can build a career, or a business, in whatever shape suits you.

Individual Coaching

Sometimes creative people get stuck, and need an outside perspective. To help build the most compelling interview story, to prepare for a strategic step up or to simply to rediscover wood from trees.  

Whether you’re C-Suite or starting out, we offer personalised one to one coaching sessions that put an (experienced) problem solver on your team.

Coaching packages and ad hoc sessions available.

Book a free 30 min intro chat at calendly.com/clare-wildwoodtalent

Organisational Coaching

Organisations can often use a little extra brainpower when they’re ready to evolve.  The addition of current organisational psychology or a helpful framework for change can make all the difference.  

Founder support, leadership alignment, strategy reviews, people and culture guidance - if you’re off track, underprepared or need to plug a gap, we can step in to scaffold and offer expert advice.  Practical, straightforward and with minimum disruption to the day to day.

Coaching programmes and workshops available:

Contact our Lead Coach, Clare at clare@wildwoodtalent.com to arrange a consultation meeting.

Our team wanted to kick off 2024 by creating something with a bit of oomph.

So we've produced a series called After Work.

In each episode, we have 10 minute conversations with our favourite advertising leaders, at home over a cuppa.  

The idea is that you get to see the human behind the Campaign article and get to know them a little better.

After work with…Natalie Graeme

Uncommon Creative Studio

After work with…Josh Harris

neverland

After work with…Harriet and Hannah

Pablo London

After work with...Helen Calcraft

Lucky Generals

After work with…Stephen Corlett

180 Amsterdam

After work with...Cat Sims

Content Creator/ Podcaster/ Author

After work with…Tom Ghiden
JOAN Creative

After work with…Toby Horry
TUI

After work with…Mark Eaves
Gravity Road

After work with…Paulo Salomao
The Or

After work with…Lucy Hudson
MD @ McCann Birmingham

After work with…Carly Avener

Leo Burnett

After work with…Mizzy Lees

Mr President

After work with...Alex Bennett-Grant

WE ARE Pi, Amsterdam

After work with...Miranda Hipwell

adam&eveDDB

After work with…Neil Henderson

St Luke’s

After work with…Katie Jackson

Channel 4

After Work Drinks: Carly Avener & Josh Harris
CEO x CEO
Leo Burnett & Neverland

After Work Drinks: Carly Avener & Toby Horry
CLIENT x AGENCY
Leo Burnett & TUI

After Work Drinks: Lucy Taylor & Jemima Monies
CGO x CGO
ex MullenLowe & AMV BBDO

After work with…Toby Southgate
We Are Social

After work with…Xavier Rees
AMV

After work with…Rani Patel

CALLING

After work with…Ryan Lietaer

Accomplice

After work with…Jessica Tamsedge

Dentsu Creative

After work with…Hannah White

New Commercial Arts

After work with…Matt Charlton

Brothers and Sisters

After work with…Nishma Patel Robb

The Glittersphere

After Work Drinks: Hannah White & Tom Ghiden
MD x MD
NCA & JOAN Creative

After work with…Alex Best
Wonderhood

After Work Drinks: Harriet Knight, Hannah Penn & Alex Bennett-Grant CULTURAL PIONEERS
Pablo x WE ARE Pi

After work with…Lou Fielding
Joint London

We'd love to meet you. Send us an email and we'll do the rest.