This Dynamic Duo Found Success by Bucking Ad Industry Norms

How diversity and compassion create winning work at Terri & Sandy

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Terri Meyer fondly recalls the time she called up the executive creative director at D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles and laid down the law. “Are you getting me that birthday present I want?” she demanded. And he did. A few days later, the present was waiting in the lobby.

It was Sandy Greenberg.

Meyer and Greenberg are unique in the world of advertising. They ascended the ranks of the agency world as co-creative directors in the 1980s, when many women were kept from ascending at all.

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This story first appeared in the May 7, 2018, issue of Adweek magazine. Click here to subscribe.