“Mentoring is all about people – it’s about caring, relationships and sensitivity” Rene Carayol’s, CEO Inspired Leaders Network.
Here at The Marketing Academy we believe that mentoring is a key element of learning and we consider ourselves especially lucky to have some of the UK’s greatest marketers and leaders donate their time to mentor and develop our Scholars. Every year each of those Scholars select just one person from all the mentors and speakers they have met across their Scholarship programme to receive a ‘Merlin Award’. It is their way of thanking and appreciating the individual from whom they received that extra special gift of wisdom, advice, insight and inspiration.
The Merlin Awards were personally presented to the winning mentors at a Gala Party on Monday 13th May at The Emirates Stadium, London. The awards themselves were a glass paperweight inscribed with the Academy’s Mascot ‘Merlin’ the Owl and presented in gift boxes.
The winning recipients of the 2013 Merlin Awards are…
Amanda Mackenzie – Aviva
Andrew McGuinness – BMB Agency
Andy Fennell – Diageo PLC
Andy Sandoz – Work Club
Beth Broughton – The Leading Edge
Carol Brannigan – B2B Consulting Ltd
Carolyn McCall – easyJet CEO
Cilla Snowball – AMV BBDO
Emma Beale – Waitrose
James Brett – Plant for Peace
James Scroggs – HOOP London
Julia Porter – Guardian
Katie Vanneck-Smith – News International
Marc Lewis – School of Communications Arts
Michele McGrath – Brand Learning
Nigel Bogle – BBH Global (Bartle Bogle & Hegarty)
Phil Rumbol – 101
Philippa Snare – Microsoft
Russ Lidstone – Havas Worldwide
Russ Shaw – Tech London Advocates
Sarah Speake – Google UK
Shaa Wasmund – Smarta
Simon Biltcliffe – Webmart
Tom Christie-Miller – Former Disney UK
Sue Farr – Chime Communications
Mark Howe – Google
Mike Hughes – ISBA
Nicki Sheard – BBC
Simon Devonshire – Wayra
Steven Overman – Former Nokia
Sherilyn Shackell, Founder of The Marketing Academy says
“We are incredibly privileged to have so many respected and talented leaders donate their time to The Academy and the effect it has on our Scholars can be incredibly profound. We devised the Merlin Award as a way for each Scholar to thank the Mentor whose advice, insights and wisdom really resonated at that point in their learning. Congratulations to all of them.”
