Consello’s Wendy Clark to receive Medill’s Don Schultz Award
Clark’s career with top brands highlights marketing innovation
EVANSTON, ILL. -- The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications has selected Wendy Clark as the recipient of the 2026 Don Schultz award for Innovation in Teaching, Theory and Practice of Integrated Marketing Communications.
Clark is partner and president of Consello, the leading global advisory and investment platform with offices in the US, UK, Ireland and UAE, providing strategic counsel today's leaders need to grow and transform their organizations.
“Wendy has been an innovative marketing leader throughout her career,” said Medill Dean Charles Whitaker. “Her insights in guiding top brands and significant leaders makes her an excellent recipient of the Don Schultz Award.”
Before joining Consello, Clark was CEO of Dentsu International, a global advertising holding company, where she led the $5B company across 145 countries and a workforce of more than 45,000. Prior to Dentsu, she served as CEO for DDB Worldwide, a global creative advertising agency operating in 100 countries with 10,000 employees.
Previously Clark held senior marketing positions at The Coca-Cola Company, rising to president of Sparkling Brands and Strategic Marketing for Coca-Cola North America, and at AT&T where she served as SVP of Global Advertising.
Called “one of the most important women in advertising” by Advertising Age, Clark has earned numerous recognitions over the course of her career, including the Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications; the She Runs It Advertising Woman of the Year award; and the Brand Refresher on the Fast Company top 10 list of Innovative Business Disruptors, among others.
Her efforts were formally recognized in 2007 upon her induction into the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Achievement; in 2017 when Advertising Age named Clark its Executive of the Year; and in 2019 upon her induction into the Marketing Hall of Fame of New York.
She also is a Board Director for luxury jewelry company David Yurman.
Medill’s Schultz award is named for long-time Medill Professor Don Schultz who played a pivotal role in creating the field of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) and establishing the IMC department at Medill in the early 1990s. Medill was the first school to offer a graduate degree in Integrated Marketing Communications in the United States. Schultz is regarded internationally as the “father of IMC.” He died in 2020.