Laurel Stark is a Silicon Valley based creative director and brand marketer who builds teams, structures, and experiences that challenge the status quo, pierce culture, and drive business and humanity forward. From her globally recognized inclusion efforts like the One Club for Creativity’s Next Creative Leaders program, to her boundary-pushing brand work, Laurel’s ideas have been called “world changing” by Fast Company and “industry bettering” by Adweek. Her creative work has been honored by the Effies, the Webbys, the Clios, and the One Show, and profiled in Vogue, Rolling Stone, Adweek, and Pride Magazine. She has been recognized by the Adweek Creative 100, the Brand Innovators 40 under 40, and the Pitch 100 Superpeople. And she was recently identified as one of “Seven women shaping today’s ad world,” by 3% Movement Founder and CEO, Kat Gordon. After holding leadership roles at agencies like Media.Monks, global consultancies like Gensler, and marketing teams at Google and TikTok, Laurel joined EA (Electronic Arts) in 2021. She currently heads up global marcom creative and out-of-game brand expression for one of the world’s best selling, beloved, and most inclusive gaming franchises, The Sims.