AGENDA
The Changing Nature of Leadership
14th April 2016 – Google Town Hall
08:30 Registration and breakfast 09:00 Welcome: Sarah Ellis, Founder of Inspire London 09:30 How to Run a Marxist Business in a Capitalist World: Simon Biltcliffe, Founder and Chief Executive of Webmart It’s time to rip up the leadership books…: Sherilyn Shackell, Founder of The Marketing Academy Why Almost Everything You’ve Been Told About Leadership is Almost Certainly Wrong: Shilen Patel, Founder of Independents United and CEO Distill Venture Why Would Anyone Want To Follow You?: Debbie Klein, CEO of Engine Europe & Asia 11:00 BREAK 11:30 Is Leadership Really Changing? 1.0: Panel chaired by Suki Thompson, Founder at Oystercatchers, with Ann Pickering, HR Director of O2 and Chris Duncan, Chief Customer Officer of News UK, Michele McGrath, Group Managing Director at Brand Learning 12:00 Don’t Get Hung Up On One Dream Of What You Could Do: David McQueen, Business Mentor and Executive Coach 12:45 LUNCH 13:45 So You Really Want to Lead – The Case for Change: Tim Lefroy, CEO of The Advertising Association 14:15 Unruly By Name, Unruly By Nature?: Sarah Wood, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Unruly 14:45 Is Leadership Really Changing? 2.0: Panel chaired by Sarah Ellis, with Harriot Pleydell-Bouverie, Chief Whisk and Founder of Mallow & Marsh, Daianna Karaian, Founder and Chief Executive of This is Thoughtful, George Neel, Smirnoff Marketing Manager Europe at Diageo, Rajeeb Dey CEO of Enternships.com, Daniel Murray, Founder of Grabble, and Simon McEvoy, Founder & Head of Strategy at threepointzero 15:15 BREAK 15:45 How to Lead Brilliantly in a Changing World – A Practical Guide: Kevin House, Change Specialist at The Art of Being Brilliant 16:15 When Bearded Developers from Shoreditch met a 147 Year Old Retailer: Jon Rudoe, Digital & Technology Director at Sainsbury’s 16:45 Close and Goodie Bags: Sarah Ellis We are very excited to announce the opportunity to win mentoring sessions again at our Inspire London event. We have a fantastic line up of over twenty-five senior leaders, entrepreneurs and academics with experience across a broad range of industries, who are all offering to share their knowledge and experience, including: Adam Johnson, Marketing Director, Global Radio Carol Welch , Group Brand Marketing, Digital & Innovation Director, Whitbread Chris Laidlaw, Head of Smirnoff Europe, Diageo Chris Stagg, General Manager Africa Innovation, Diageo Debbie Klein, CEO Engine Europe and Asia Emma Harris, Founder of Glow London Helen Tupper, Head of Marketing, Virgin Red James Tipple, Managing Director, Virgin Red Jennifer Elworthy, Marketing and Communications Director, Freesat John Harber, Managing Director UK & Ireland, Lenovo John Watton, EMEA Marketing Director, Adobe Kate Huang, Marketing Director, Business of Fashion Lindsay Pattison, CEO, Maxus Mark Newton, CMO of Gousto Michele McGrath, Chief Executive, Brand Learning Phil Rumbol , Founder 101 Rachel Eyre, Head of Planning & Propositions, Sainsbury’s Richard Costa-d’Sa , CEO Deep Focus London Sally Cowdry, Consumer and Retail Director, Camelot Sherilyn Shackell, Founder / CEO of The Marketing Academy UK & Australia Shuvo Saha, Director of Google Digital Academy Simon Jones, Managing Director Premier Inn Simon Peck, MD, Engine Stevie Spring, Chairman of Children in Need Suki Thompson, Founder, Oystercatchers During the event there will also be the opportunity to win mentoring sessions in a raffle which will be available to purchase on the day. Raffle ticket price is £5.00, and all donations will go the Marketing Academy Apprenticeship programme.