Nancy Hartley is Joint Executive Creative Director of SapientNitro Brisbane, the agency behind the groundbreaking Tourism Queensland campaign, Best Job in the World. The campaign earned Best of Show at numerous international awards, including One Show, London International Awards and New York Festivals, scooped three Grand Prix and five Lions at Cannes Lions, and received the highest accolades possible for creativity and effectiveness.

Nancy and her creative partner and co-ECD James Burchill joined the agency in its infancy three and a half years ago. Their stewardship as creative directors has seen the agency more than quadruple in size, winning a string of Agency of the Year titles before being named New York Festival’s inaugural Boutique Agency of the Year worldwide.

In 2009 Nancy was invited to judge AWARD and to speak at, and judge, Australia’s Caxton Awards. In 2010 she joined the juries for One Show Interactive and New York Festivals Avant-Garde.

Nancy began her career as a copywriter with the Clemenger BBDO network and has worked on a multitude of brands including Virgin Blue, Lion Nathan, JAL, Parmalat, News Limited, Mars and Volvo.

On the Ad Age Creativity Awards Report she now ranks in the world’s Top Ten Creative Directors.