As a youth leadership group facilitated by the Comms Council, First Five Rungs “exists to support newcomers in their first five years in the advertising and communications industry,” explains the group’s leaders Zoë Macdonald-Mair and Xavier Glass.
“We support newcomers in a multitude of ways, from supplying them with our ‘Industry Insider’ booklet, written by us to specifically offer advice on being new to the industry, to conducting research which seeks to understand how to support young talent, and by facilitating industry events designed especially for these newcomers,” they say.
Xavier, who is a Senior Account Manager at VMLY&R, is also the Chair of First
