Disciplines
About
We are The Disruption® Company.
If you’re not disrupting, you’re conforming. If you’re conforming, you’re going unnoticed.
So we disrupt.
Disruption is our starting point and our guiding light. It’s a unique TBWA way of thinking. A proven, successful, collaborative business tool that helps us forge a unique path for the growth of our clients’ brands. It’s the art of asking unexpected questions in order to get to a place nobody else has discovered. Ask the same old questions, you get the same old answers. And old gets you nowhere.
The status quo is there to be upset. Let’s upset it. Let’s disrupt it.
People

Clients
Insights
- Ownership
- Group owned
- Established
- 1973
- Number of Staff
- 101-150
- Turnover
- Not Disclosed
Showreel
Ethos
We are The Disruption® Company.
If you’re not disrupting, you’re conforming. If you’re conforming, you’re going unnoticed.
So we disrupt.
Disruption is our starting point and our guiding light. It’s a unique TBWA way of thinking. A proven, successful, collaborative business tool that helps us forge a unique path for the growth of our clients’ brands. It’s the art of asking unexpected questions in order to get to a place nobody else has discovered. Ask the same old questions, you get the same old answers. And old gets you nowhere.
The status quo is there to be upset. Let’s upset it. Let’s disrupt it.
Culture
Here in London, led by our leadership team Larissa Vince (Chief Executive Officer), Andy Jex (Chief Creative Officer), Sandie Dilger (Chief Strategy Officer) and Melody Sylvester (Chief Production Officer), we are able to offer all of our clients the spirit, pace and hunger of a start-up but with the security and experience of an established shop.
We have a strong identity and talk a lot about having a pirate sprit.
There are core agency values that come with that and run through the veins of everyone that works at TBWA:
Challenging - we are independent thinkers, always looking for ways to disrupt the status quo for the better. Pirates play the game but don't always follow the rules.
Entrepreneurial - we are adaptable, flexible and always on the look out for creative or business opportunities.
Collective spirit - we build and improve our culture together as one crew and we are all guardians of the TBWA brand.
Ambition
We continue to bring Disruption® into the 21st century for our clients. We create disruptive ideas that locate and involve brands in culture, giving them a larger share of the future.
Diversity
Based on terminology used in the IPA diversity survey 2016
Gender
Male
Female
Executive Management
- 40%
- Male
- 60%
- Female
Heads of Departments
- 50%
- Male
- 50%
- Female
All Employees
- 55%
- Male
- 45%
- Female
Ethnicity
White
BAME
Executive Management
- 60%
- White
- 40%
- BAME
Heads of Departments
- 80%
- White
- 20%
- BAME
All Employees
- 84%
- White
- 16%
- BAME