Scaling Creativity Without Slowing the Business
Scaling Creativity Without Slowing the Business
The Ortus Club, in partnership with Canva, invites you to an evening of great food, peer exchange, and meaningful conversation with fellow senior leaders navigating the realities of creative operations at scale. Over dinner, you'll join a curated group of marketing, branding, and creative executives for an off-the-record discussion on one of the most pressing questions facing enterprise organisations today: how to move faster without losing control of the brand.
The Topic
Scaling Creativity Without Slowing the Business
As customer expectations rise and demand for digital content continues to grow, many large organisations find it difficult to keep pace. Creative bottlenecks, often driven by siloed teams, limited design capacity, and inconsistent brand execution, can quietly reduce efficiency and slow time to market.
Addressing these challenges is no longer solely the responsibility of design teams. It requires a broader organisational approach to collaboration, workflow design, and content creation at scale, particularly in environments where teams operate across functions, markets, and regions.
When teams are better enabled to create content within clear brand and governance frameworks, organisations can move faster and respond to market needs more effectively without sacrificing control. So how are today's leaders rethinking the way creativity flows through their organisations?
Where do creative bottlenecks most commonly occur within enterprise workflows today?
How can organisations scale content creation while maintaining brand consistency and governance?
How do regional or market-specific requirements typically impact speed, consistency, or risk in content workflows?
What practical steps enable non-design teams to create content without increasing risk or complexity?
The Evening
6:30 PM — Arrival of guests and drinks reception
7:00 PM — Welcoming and opening address by The Ortus Club
7:10 PM — Short introduction by Canva
7:20 PM — Discussion initiated by the moderator and continued by the group
7:50 PM — Appetisers are served
8:20 PM — Discussion ends, mains are served
9:00 PM — Drinks and networking
Who Should Be in the Room
This discussion is designed for senior leaders interested in unlocking enterprise velocity by removing creative bottlenecks, scaling content production, and maintaining brand consistency without added complexity. Job titles may include CMOs, Heads, VPs, and Directors of Marketing and Branding, alongside other senior decision-makers shaping how creative work gets done across their organisations.
Confirmed Attendees Include
Vice President, Creative Marketing at JP Morgan Chase
Vice President of Sales at Propio Language Services
Senior Director, Media Channel Planning & Marketing Transformation at GAP
Senior Director, Marketing Services at Globant
Marketing Director at Unity
And more to be confirmed.
How to Join
Attendance is by invitation only. To request a seat at the table, please submit your details via the request form. Once confirmed, you'll receive a calendar invite along with full event details, including venue and dress code.
The Host
Canva is a global visual communications platform empowering teams of every size to design, collaborate, and publish content at scale. By combining intuitive design tools with enterprise-grade brand controls, Canva helps organisations remove creative bottlenecks and enable every team to produce on-brand content, without slowing the business down.
The Organisers
The Ortus Club runs executive knowledge-sharing events worldwide, bringing senior leaders together for curated, off-the-record discussions in a relaxed, peer-to-peer setting.