Heidi D’Agostino

Heidi D’Agostino is executive vice president and manager of insights and research for Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. D’Agostino has conducted comprehensive research programs for clients in the corporate, not-for-profit and governmental sectors. She specializes in addressing client needs using the full sphere of research approaches, including secondary and competitive analyses, media and online conversation audits, literature reviews, and original qualitative and quantitative research. D’Agostino is best known for her global thought-leadership research experience, for which she has co-authored eight white papers and spoken at a number of industry conferences. She led the ground-breaking global thought-leadership research behind Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty from 2003 to 2009. Her co-authored article with Drs. Dorothy and Jerome Singer from Yale University for Unilever’s Every Child Has the Right program was featured in the winter 2009 issue of the American Journal of Play: Children's Pastimes and Play in Sixteen Nations: Is Free-Play Declining?. D’Agostino received a bachelor's degree from New York University.