Adam Isidore is an award-winning production leader who transforms companies and makes work that becomes part of the popular culture.
My first job out of college was as a counselor for emotionally challenged children. It was useful training for a career in advertising, as is being the son of a mad men icon who talked shop around the kitchen table and took me to my first Cannes at the age of eight. I love what I do.
I’ve worked as a producer, editor and director. My early career focused on producing films and commercials, highlighted with over three dozen Super Bowl spots. My focus now is producing results and companies. My favorite brief is helping companies ignite the booster rocket to its next evolution.
As the Director of Integrated Production and management team member, I helped FCB NY transform the quality of its work, contributing to its turn-around success the past four years as Cannes’ Network of the Year 2020, The One Shows’ Most Awarded Agency in North America 2020, Adweek's 2020 Global Agency of the Year and Ad Age’s Best Places To Work. We fired off award-winning/results-producing projects for Burger King’s Whopper Detour, Michelob’s Courtside, Michelob’s McEnroe vs McEnroe, Spotify “Song For Every CMO,” and Mike’s Hard Lemonade’s “Mike’s In A Beer World,” growing in size, acclaim and revenue in the middle of a pandemic.
As Executive Producer/Director of Business Development for The Mill, I helped it become more global and successful, tripling its size during my tenure by improving process, collaborations and profitability. We moved from siloed Visual Effects company to All-In production company with both direct-to-client AOR relationships and a booming experiential/emerging tech offering.
I helped animation house Charlex also triple in size during my tenure as their executive producer.
My agency pedigree is boldly influenced by my time at BBDO as a VP/Executive Producer on high profile spots as well as helping to launch the Cingular Wireless brand. I was a go-to choice of many of the agency’s renowned ECD’s, and still count them as friends and colleagues.
I began my career as an editor, learning the craft of storytelling -- the first of which was a somewhat fictitious story I told about my experience level in order to get my first job. I eventually focused on non-fiction, producing, directing and editing an award winning feature documentary based on one of my father’s famous PSA’s.
I greatly enjoy working with our industry’s younger talent to help them learn their craft. I am proud that many of the people I’ve mentored now run their own departments or companies. I teach my staff the art of negotiations with a 15-minute talk using five scenes from “The Godfather.” I keep things uncomplicated with this simple mantra: great work, impeccably produced leads to more work.