Events

Join us for our People Pulse event where we will be joined by a panel of guests to discuss more findings from the recent survey.

The People Pulse is a quarterly benchmarking survey that covers areas such as leadership, diversity & inclusion, wellbeing and purpose. All areas that impact the culture and performance of the agency and the happiness of your staff.

INSPIRING YOUR TEAM: Leadership, Teamwork and Motivation

This short and pithy session is ideal for those who have cracked the basics of
managing the process of developing ideas but are now finding it hard to
manage people and teams

Paul will provide some simple thoughts and skills around becoming a more
effective leader of people and teams.

We will not be recording this session so please do attend online on the day.

After the session we hope attendees will have a greater confidence to lead, inspire, and to understand how to spot a motivated and demotivated team.

Paul Burns: Paul spent 25 very successful and exciting years at Saatchi & Saatchi looking after client business. He became their Training Director and first Director of Knowledge Practices, sitting on the main Management Board of the Agency.
He is recognised to have passion and skill in developing people and won several industry awards for Learning and Development.
Paul has run accounts across a wide variety of businesses, from the hugely successful bid and launch of the National Lottery, to fast turnaround business on News International. Having led teams on large and complex financial brands and has run countless Blue Chip FMCG brands.

Paul launched The Burns Unit tlc and in 2009 and has built up an enviable client list. The Burns Unit tlc works with many of our key trade bodies in the UK, Europe and the Far East including; the Alliance, IPA, ISBA, EACA, the 4A’s and also with over 60 leading agencies from traditional above the line agencies, to large and small media agencies, specialist digital and search agencies as well as a number of blue chip client organisations.

Further details coming soon on the topic of this Q3 meeting, however please do secure the date & register below.

About the group: Lead by Dan Pritchard, CEO at Program Agency. New Business is vital for every successful and thriving agency and the people who take responsibility for generating opportunities for growth need to be constantly on top of their game. The Alliance New Business group meet every quarter to network and learn from experts and each other. Challenging existing processes and picking up knowledge, insights, and ideas to become even more effective in winning new business and growing existing clients. This group also benefits from the expert guidance from the team at JFDI.

At the very first CEO Summit in 2019 our Guest was Sophie Devonshire, author of the inspiring book “Superfast. Lead at Speed”

Since then Sophie has expanded her role as an industry leader to become CEO of The Marketing Society.

We are delighted to welcome Sophie back for the CEO Summit on 19th July.

As CEO of The Marketing Society Sophie has stated “one of the fundamental beliefs of The Marketing Society is that together we can do more than alone”, a sentiment and value it shares with the Alliance

Therefore we want to explore how we as CEOs and our agencies can meet our professional goals through collaboration .

Further details coming soon on the topic of this Q3 meeting, however please do secure the date & register below.

About the group: Our Wellbeing Group meet quarterly to remain constantly informed of the latest tools and resources to assist them in their vital work of maintaining the wellbeing of their agency people. They share, discreetly, the issues they face and mentor each other in best practice. They provide vital input our the Alliance programme of support which includes the annual Festival of Happiness.

Further details coming soon on the topic of this Q2 meeting, however please do secure the date & register below.

About the group: Lead by Graham Kemp, Founder of the Alliance. Sustainability, it’s a vital topic for agencies, and indeed the planet, and it is not only the right thing to have high on the agenda but is also a commercial imperative with an increased focus from enlightened brands and procurement to establish an agency’s credentials in this area.

Our Action Group intends to: –

• Create awareness of the need to have Sustainability on the agenda.
• Help agencies on their journey to become more environmentally friendly
• Help agencies with accreditation in things like B Corp
• Curate the latest thinking and thought leadership to share with members
• Share experiences of successes and barriers

Further details coming soon on the topic of this Q3 meeting, however please do secure the date & register below.

About the group: Lead by our Member Lead, Gemma Popejoy Chief People Officer at TMS. We prefer to call this group the Diversity & Inclusion Action Group because they are committed to taking actions that make a difference. They meet regularly to help us fulfil the vision that our Member Agencies have workforces that are truly representative of all sections of society and each employee feels respected and able to give their best. The Alliance is committed to optimising diversity and inclusion in our Member Agencies. We expect all member agencies to be fully committed to the D&I journey because we know it makes great business sense.

Further details coming soon on the topic of this Q3 meeting, however please do secure the date & register below.

About the group: Lead by Andrew Southcott, MD at Captivate Group. We have created a programme for Commercial Directors to meet, learn, share, and debate important issues in the world of agency management. They get together, often with expert input, to cover critical topics like benchmarking trends in profitability, property strategies, remuneration models, negotiation, and budgeting. They are keenly aware of the key performance indicators in independent agencies and share thought leadership in successful approaches to problem solving.

Further details coming soon on the topic of this Q3 meeting, however please do secure the date & register below.

About the group: Lead by Gellan Watt, Award-winning CEO, ECD & Brand Strategist turned board advisor and NED. Independent agencies are proud of the output from their creative teams and understand their unique ability to solve client problems in innovative and effective ways and with an agility that sets them aside. Our Creative Group meets to ensure they remain at the cutting edge of the communications process and cover topics as diverse as recruitment, training, idea generation and award-winning campaigns.

Defining the Skills of a Great Manager – Further details coming soon, meanwhile please do save the date & register below.

About the group: Lead by our member lead Rebecca Brennan COO at Kyan. When we ask CEOs what are the biggest challenges they face invariably the subject of talent is high on their list. No wonder there is always lots to talk about when the Talent Group meet every quarter. How do we attract new talent to the industry, how do we retain and develop this talent, how do we manage and get peak performance from our teams? What can we do to promote diversity? Collectively we can begin to find solutions and the sharing of knowledge accelerates the process. We also look at practical aspects like developing a Code of Conduct for Recruitment Agencies.