05/08/2026
Top 5 Creative Directors Saniss Awards
4. Judith Cebrián de Pedro, Executive Creative Director - Grow
💡 What was the main creative challenge you had to solve for the project?
We had a lot of data on care, the people involved, economic and social impact... Each figure was more powerful than the one before it. Showing that data would have been enough.
But when there is so much to tell an audience that’s already immunized to data, we needed a story. One capable of making the complex simple. And, above all, memorable.
At Grow we are convinced that memory is directly related to emotional activation. That’s why we work with a universal idea that doesn’t need to be explained a job you can’t refuse.
How? Even more important. Not telling it, but discovering the message, and exposing it as a slap of reality: someday, we will most likely need to care for a family member and sacrifice parts of our work, social, and personal life.
💡 What’s your favorite creative ritual?
The ritual begins long before we sit in front of the brief. It is not where or when, because a very important point for me is to fill your head with references, stories, experiences, conversations over some beers, songs, books, trips... That is the creative material with which ideas will be formed later.
The day that Chat GPT can come to the bar, drink a beer and talk about creativity with me [is the day Chat GPT can compete with me]. To be a good creative you have to live in the world. This requires getting away from screens from time to time and activating social empathy. And it continues with the brief, a team of creatives, strategists with concerns, and these three questions:
1. What the customer needs to communicate
2. What the world needs (society, patients, stakeholders...)
3. How do we tell it to make it relevant?
We have been reflecting on this [our ritual] for some time, and it’s not based on the intention, but on our experiences. We put the demand on ourselves to make a positive impact on the environment, through our work and as individuals. We have called this Creative Consciousness.