Next Creative Leaders
Next Creative Leaders is a portfolio competition that identifies, celebrates, and gives a global platform to talented, gender expansive creatives who are making their mark on the world with both their work and a unique point of view on creative leadership.
Next Creative Leaders 2025 Jury
Kiah Nicholas
Senior Creative
Wieden+Kennedy
Sydney
Kiah is a Senior Creative at W+K, the head of Award School Online, an industry awards judge, mentor, tutor and speaker.
The Cinderella of walking in others’ shoes; Kiah specialises in subversive ideas that flip deep-set mindsets for true, long-lasting behaviour change.
Over the last 13 years, she’s won at every major award show, been named B&T’s Top 30 Creative, authored children’s books, changed the dictionary, and played a key part in campaigns that have gained global fame; including an idea so brave, Forbes felt compelled to publish a story entitled “The Creative Power of Alienating an Audience”.
An ambassador and staunch advocate for neurodiversity, mental health, diversity and equality, for Kiah, “success” is as much about driving the industry forward, as it is about driving results.
The Cinderella of walking in others’ shoes; Kiah specialises in subversive ideas that flip deep-set mindsets for true, long-lasting behaviour change.
Over the last 13 years, she’s won at every major award show, been named B&T’s Top 30 Creative, authored children’s books, changed the dictionary, and played a key part in campaigns that have gained global fame; including an idea so brave, Forbes felt compelled to publish a story entitled “The Creative Power of Alienating an Audience”.
An ambassador and staunch advocate for neurodiversity, mental health, diversity and equality, for Kiah, “success” is as much about driving the industry forward, as it is about driving results.