
Marketing
Mike Nicholson
Professional Mentor / ECD at the School of Communication Arts 2.0
Self-employed
Mike Nicholson draws upon his thirty years of experience as a copywriter, Executive Creative Director and Mentor.
Having won over 130 industry awards and worked for great agencies including AMV BBDO, TBWA, Google and Wieden+Kennedy, Mike has spent the last eight years mentoring over 200 people to get into and thrive in all the top agencies.
His passion now is passing on all the techniques he has learnt to enable the next wave of creatives to shine.
He mentors private clients and also shares his techniques via his Substack (miketheadvertisingmentor.substack.com/).
Alongside his mentoring, Mike is also the Executive Creative Director at The School of Communication Arts 2.0.
In his spare time, Mike still likes to use his creativity by drawing cARToons (mikenartist.com). With these, he’s on a mission to add laughter to the Art World.
"Having won a Gold for my first poster whilst on placement at AMV, David Abbott hired me. I'm now looking forward to sharing techniques to this year's attendees so they too can win."