Michael Pollock
Brooklyn NY
Michael works with creative and media professionals and leaders of creative businesses large and small, bringing them the experience, techniques and inspiration to take their businesses and careers to new levels of success. Visit his website to learn more.
He brings his unique set of experience to helping creative pros to build careers and businesses. His clients include advertising and PR agencies, digital product design and innovation firms, graphic and industrial designers, and film/ TV companies from huge to tiny. He has worked with individuals at Havas, RGA, Vice, Disney and Discovery, and on projects with Ogilvy and with commercial production companies in the US and UK.
Michael has appeared on The CBS TV This Morning show, speaking as an expert on career advancement issues. He has been an invited speaker at RealScreen Summit in Washington DC and a panelist at Internet Week NY. He has given career seminars to graduate classes at The New School and at NYU.
A Brit, Michael’s career got off to a running start in London making TV spots and helping his company win the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Festival. Before starting Pollock Spark in 2001, Michael started and led award-winning TV and radio production departments at global ad agencies JWT and TBWA. Clients served include American Express, Burger King, Kodak, Warner Lambert American Red Cross and many more. He has built elite design and film-editing boutiques, bringing talent to New York from around the world.
During the dotcom boom, he created a party-going, cosmo-drinking monkey that dramatically boosted website traffic; at marketing agency Digitas he was a Creative Director for the American Express website.
He graduated in Physics from Bristol University in England, where he ran their internationally recognized Operatic Society, and he lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with his wife Laurie.