2025 Creative LIAisons Virtual Coaches

Merlee Jayme

Chairmom / Chief Creative Officer
Jayme Headquarters / The Misfits Camp
Makati City
, Philippines

Merlee Jayme is the 2024 Campaign Asia Women Leading Change Diversity Equity & Inclusion Champion.

She is the Chairmom®, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Jayme Headquarters, a social enterprise agency that is a brave space for diverse creativity.

She is also the Chairmom® and founder of The Misfits Camp, the first-ever safe space dedicated to upskilling the neurodivergent and the deaf with creative talent and helping them become contributing members of our industry.

Before this, she held the esteemed positions of Chief Creative Officer in Asia & Pacific for Dentsu and Global President for Dentsu Mcgarrybowen Worldwide.

Having won countless major awards and the one and only Cannes Lions Grand Prix for the Philippines, she was among the eight women in the world’s top 100 Chief Creative Officers by the 2019 Drum Global Ranking.

She is one of CNN’s Leading Women, an author of four creative books, a mom to four creative women, and an inspiration in breaking the glass ceiling in this mad men’s world.