Lunch with Laurie featuring Sharon Callahan
Lunch with Laurie: Leadership Perspectives to Challenge Your Thinking is a monthly video series with HBA President and CEO Laurie Cooke.
This week's guest features Sharon Callahan.
Sharon is CEO of CDM, one of the worlds’ leading healthcare advertising agency networks and she also serve as Chief Client Officer of Omnicom Health Group, the world’s largest and fastest growing network of healthcare communications companies. Before joining CDM, Sharon was CEO of TBWA\WorldHealth, a healthcare advertising agency network she founded in 2016. Under her leadership, TBWA\WorldHealth quadrupled in revenue and profitability, grew to 12 offices across the globe, and was named 2019 Agency of the Year by Medical Advertising News.
Previously Sharon served as an Independent Director of Vertical Health before it was acquired by TopSpin partners.
Sharon an active board member of several organizations including: LGBTQ Victory Fund (Chair), GLAAD, the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association, the Arthritis Foundation, Women Against Alzheimer’s, the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s) Government Relations Committee, and the Coalition for Healthcare Communications.
In 2019 the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) recognized her as its Woman of the Year. She was recently named a PharmaVOICE red jacket honoree in recognition of her three time appearance on the list of the 100 Most Inspiring People in the Life Sciences Industry. In 2018, Medical Advertising News selected her as it’s Industry Person of the year.
A frequent speaker on the power of women’s authentic leadership, Sharon co-founded and continues to champion Omniwomen, OpenPride, and the Black Career Collective, Omnicom’s employee resource groups, designed to foster the full potential of women, LGBTQ+, and Black employees within the company.