Building Your Dream Team – Proven Recruitment & Retention Strategies

Are you struggling to attract top talent and keep your best employees engaged? In today’s competitive market, independent agencies need innovative strategies to succeed in recruitment and retention. Join us for this exclusive online session, where we’ll share actionable insights and proven techniques to help your agency thrive.

What You’ll Learn:
• How to craft job postings that attract the right candidates.
• Creative ways to build your employer brand.
• Strategies to foster a culture of engagement and loyalty.
• Tips for boosting employee satisfaction through recognition and flexibility.

Whether you’re a growing agency or an established team looking to refine your approach, this session will equip you with the tools to build and maintain a stellar workforce.

Join our panelists online 12th February:

Natalie Winterton-Whitfield, Talent Acquisition Manager at Zeal Creative

A Talent Acquisition Manager, DEI&B consultant, and ADHDer. Natalie’s passion and expertise lie in helping companies build and execute talent strategies that attract, hire, and retain, while also creating equitable and inclusive processes and workplaces where people can thrive.

Rob Short, Head of People & Performance at 2LK

Rob is a creative professional with over 25 years of experience in the creative industry. Starting his career as a graphic designer and expanding his expertise across various design roles in creative agencies, Rob built a strong reputation for his people skills, fostering talent and developing teams, leading him to his current role as Head of People & Performance at 2LK. Here, he focuses on talent identification, employee well-being, career progression and individual personal development. Rob is a mentor for the Design Business Association (DBA) and the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) mentoring programmes and a passionate advocate for giving young creatives opportunities within the design industry and actively supporting them on their journey.

Vicki Wilkinson, People Director at KHWS
Vicki is a People Director, Transformational Coach and Trainer.

After a career built working with startups and SMEs in the creative space, she set up Summit so that she could provide strategic and creative people solutions to a range of growing businesses. Vicki now supports KHWS on a regular basis and many other SME’s fractionally dependent on their needs.

Over the years she have worked with M&C Saatchi, Fallon, Portas, StartJG, Euromoney, EY, KHWS, Second Home, Project Everyone and more. Vicki has a keen interest in sport and pushing herself. She’s also a qualified yoga teacher and has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro! Vicki enjoys working with businesses that are ready to develop and invest in their most important asset – their people & genuinely believes that strong and engaged teams push themselves further, create better work and ultimately achieve business success.