Executive Creative Director - BBH London

Helen Rhodes is passionate about great ideas that are beautifully crafted and embedded into culture - such as building an immersive Upside-Down experience for Netflix’s global premiere of Stranger Things 4, finding humour in the absurd for Wild and Ribena, and smashing the stigma surrounding sex and cancer for the charity Girl vs Cancer.

In 2021 she launched The Barn, a creative training programme at BBH all about finding and supporting the next generation of creative talent in the UK and removing traditional barriers of entry into the industry.

Prior  to BBH, Helen was the ECD of BBC Creative where she was responsible for overseeing all of the broadcaster’s creative output. Some of her highlights include the multi-award winning special-build for Dracula, and the BAFTA-winning Tokyo Olympics 2020 campaign. While there, she also launched BBCU, a creative incubator programme for ethnic minority candidates to improve diversity and inclusion at the BBC.

Before that, Helen spent six years at Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, making bucket loads of work for KFC, Samsung and TurboTax to name a few, which helped the agency to its position as both AdWeek and AdAge Agency of the Year. 

She loves her three kids, music, running, reading and design.

EXPERIENCE

ECD: BBH London
ECD: BBC Creative
CD/CREATIVE: Wieden + Kennedy Portland
CD/CREATIVE: DLKW/Lowe
ACD: Dare
CREATIVE: MCBD
CREATIVE: RKCR/Y&R
CREATIVE: TBWA/London
CREATIVE: CDD