The SCEGGS P&F Association Years 11 & 12 Parent/Daughter Breakfast

Students in Years 11 and 12 and a parent/carer are warmly invited to attend the Parent/Daughter Breakfast:

We are thrilled to welcome back to SCEGGS Old Girl Milla MCPHEE (2007) as our guest speaker.

Recently returning to Australia after 10 years working in New York and the UK in the marketing and advertising industry, Milla is now the Chief Strategy Officer for The Monkeys (part of Accenture Song), one of Australia’s largest creative agencies.

Milla started her career as an academic in Behavioural Economics at The University of Sydney and then tried a short stint as a management consultant, before finding her true home in the creative industry. She spent five years as a brand and creative strategist at Droga5 Sydney, then in New York, working to earn Cannes Lions Indie Agency of the Year; Creativity Agency of the Year & Adweek Agency of the Decade. Milla then moved to London, heading up Strategy at adam&eveDDB, where she led her team to become the only strategy department to ever win the ‘Triple Crown of Effectiveness’ (APG, Effies & IPA Agencies of the Year), as well as Cannes Lions Global Agency of the Year and EU Agency of the Decade. After this, she did her time client side as Amazon’s Head of Brand & Creative Strategy, working on award-winning advertising for the global Alexa, Prime, Grocery and retail brands. 

In her current role, Milla leads brand, creative and advertising strategies for clients like Qantas, Telstra, NRMA, as well as government and non-profit brands. She’s also returned as a continuing academic at The University of Sydney Business School and is a regular panelist on ABC’s Gruen.  

To hear more about Milla’s career journey and her fascinating insights, join us on Friday 17 May!