Tim Hill is Growth and Development director for Hill & Partners. His purpose is to help independent creative and design businesses grow faster, perform better and build sustainable client relationships.

We discussed:

-If you are a new business person right now when the future is so uncertain, how should we be selling now?

-How should new business teams be taking care of their clients

-Coping strategies for business developers

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Collette Philip is the founder and managing director of Brand by Me. She specialises in is helping brands that drive positive change and social impact.

Everything she does is about putting strategy at the heart of brands and unlocking brands to achieve transformation.

We discussed:

-The difference between a knee jerk reaction vs a more thoughtful and considered one.

-The pressure between short term results and long term success. -Do we have the wrong metrics?

-Which brands have a role to play

Sally Henderson is an Executive Change Mentor, offering support, advice & help to senior leaders to keep you & your business going during the challenges ahead. 

We discussed:

-How our emotions have changed over the weeks and how to manage them

-How do you lead yourself first before your employees

-Frameworks for dealing with stress, fear and anxiety

-Keeping perspective healthy 

-Prioritising your own needs

-Sally's silver linings.

Richard Wood is the Managing Director of Six & Flow, a Manchester-based growth

Marketing agency working across digital to help grow businesses through brand awareness and Customer acquisition.

Michael Scantlebury is the Founder of Impero - a modern, independent creative agency - winner of five Agency of the Year Awards.

Impero's clients include Martell Cognac, Ugg shoes, The Volvic water brands at Danone,  Lindt & Sprungli, Havana Club Rum and General Mills

We discussed:

-How clients are responding

-Sales and new business 

-Supporting employees to keep motivation up

-Making order out of chaos 

-Michael's silver linings

ANTHONY IANNARINO is a highly respected international speaker, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and sales leader specializing in the complex business-to-business (B2B) Sale. Anthony is best known for his work at The Sales Blog, which has helped him gain recognition as a top thought leader in sales strategy.

Nik Govier is the founder and CEO of Blurred. 

In January 2019 Blurred was named PR Week’s #1 ‘ONE TO WATCH’ FOR 2019. Within a few short months it's secured a number of major global clients, focusing on work which embraces the blurring of the lines between corporate / consumer and internal/external comms. 

We discussed:

-The importance of core values for decision making at this time

-How clients are responding 

-Treating people like human beings 

-Keeping the energy of her team-high

Guy Wieynk is the Global CEO of Analog Folk and the former CEO of Publicis UK, the 3rd largest communications firm in the world, where he led the transformation of the UK’s broad client offering, during which the business won some of its biggest clients from the last decade.

We discussed:

-Should we put sales and marketing on hold or ramp up?

-Selling without looking opportunistic

-Communicating with clients and employees at this time

-How agencies and creative businesses can support each other.

Joe Hine is a Partner at SI Partners. A global growth consultancy, he supports clients to build value within their businesses and providers M&A advice on high value, cross-border deals.

We discussed:

-The importance of first securing your business

-Over-communication to your employees

-What you business will need to look like post-crisis 

-Digitally enabled businesses vs legacy businesses challenges

-How to de-risk your business

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Julianna Richter is a partner at Waypoint Partners, a leading Growth and M&A Advisory firm in the UK and US.  

She has spent the last 20+ years in senior leadership and agency management roles where she has focused on Communications, Operations, Client Management and Business Development. 

I started by asking her: 

'How should we be thinking about the problem. How are you and your clients thinking about the problem today?

Enjoy the chat