The CMO Podcast

Nick Law (Accenture Song) | The Marketing Industry Needs More Freaks

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Apr 8, 2026
Nick Law, Creative Strategy & Experience Lead at Accenture Song and former R/GA and Apple creative exec, discusses creativity and leadership in modern marketing. He talks about managing creativity at scale. He explains why organizations must protect unconventional talent. He explores blending systems, storytelling, design, commerce, and AI without losing human judgment.
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INSIGHT

Design Your Company Around Future Work

  • Creative companies must design themselves for new outputs rather than force new work into old structures.
  • Nick Law explains R/GA reverse-engineered capabilities and processes around the internet, keeping fixed principles but changing practices constantly.
ADVICE

Anchor With Principles And Rotate Practices

  • Anchor your company in unchanging principles and make practices flexible to adapt to new mediums.
  • At R/GA the principle of combining systems and stories let introverted systems thinkers and expressive narrators work as equals.
ANECDOTE

Follow Leaders You Trust Into New Worlds

  • Nick moved from agencies to Apple because he admired its blend of technology and design and later to Accenture to follow David Droga.
  • He joined Accenture with faith in Droga rather than detailed knowledge of the company.
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