Lisa Topol

DDB New York’s Co-cco Finds Inspiration Everywhere—including In Dog Agility.

- Katie Richards

Before she became a creative force in the advertising industry, Lisa Topol—now co-chief creative officer at DDB New York—was dead set on becoming a professor of religion and 19th century Victorian literature. But while the topic was fascinating to her, it became unfulfilling. “I just felt like I’d never be doing anything that engaged with culture and would just sort of be talking to myself,” she said.