Leland Maschmeyer

Leland is the co-founder of COLLINS, a transformation consultancy with offices in New York City and San Francisco. Between 2016 and 2021, Leland stepped away from his day-to-day leadership at COLLINS to lead Chobani as its first Chief Creative Officer and, eventually, its first Chief Brand Officer. In that period, he built Ad-Age’s “2018 In-House Agency of the Year” and won top honors from major global award shows such as D&AD, Cannes, The One Show, among others. In that period, Chobani appeared on Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies in the World” list five times.

He has earned recognition from the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, from IBM as “Design Thinking Leader,” from Ad Age as a “Young Influencer” and from the Association Of National Advertisers as a “Master of Marketing.