As Publicis Groupe<\/strong> accelerates its artificial intelligence pivot \u2014 most recently through a $2.2 billion acquisition of LiveRamp<\/strong> \u2014 the group’s chief strategy officer, Carla Serrano<\/strong>, is sounding the alarm on a parallel trend: women are being quietly pushed out of corporate leadership.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Speaking at the New York Women in Communications Matrix Awards<\/strong> on Tuesday, where she was among those honoured, Serrano told an audience of advertising and media executives that the industry’s vision of the future appears to be overwhelmingly male.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Serrano described watching an investor day presentation from one of Publicis’ largest competitors, where the company’s “vision for the future<\/strong>” was delivered entirely by six white men<\/strong>. The experience was not isolated.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Shortly after, she entered a client pitch meeting with eight senior executives<\/strong> \u2014 also all white men. The back-to-back encounters, she suggested, pointed to a structural regression at the top of the industry.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The warning carries particular weight given the scale of investment reshaping the sector. Publicis’ LiveRamp deal signals a broader industry shift toward data infrastructure and AI-driven marketing \u2014 transitions that historically concentrate decision-making power among a narrow technical elite.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Serrano’s remarks raise a pointed question: as the advertising and media industries retool around artificial intelligence, who gets to define what the future looks like<\/strong> \u2014 and who gets left out of the room entirely.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Publicis Strategy Chief Warns AI Boom Could Erase Women From Corporate Leadership As Publicis Groupe accelerates its artificial intelligence pivot \u2014 most recently through a $2.2 billion acquisition of LiveRamp \u2014 the group’s chief strategy officer, Carla Serrano, is sounding the alarm on a parallel trend: women are being quietly pushed out of corporate leadership. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-popular"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"\nA Pattern Difficult to Ignore<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
The Stakes of the AI Transition<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n