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.
