The challenges facing agency leaders right now are profound – wearing multiple hats, managing without the usual level of team support, and navigating an opaque landscape – what to do next and how to do it is not a straightforward problem to solve. 

However, the DBA and its panel of experts is addressing these problems head on, exploring how we can solve these challenges together and how you as agency leaders and team members can make a practical difference right now to the fortunes of both your own businesses, and your clients’.

Join DBA CEO Deborah Dawton and five DBA Experts for a 90 minute live panel discussion and Q&A, and get to the heart of the most important questions you should be asking yourself right now and uncover the answers that reveal what you should be doing, and how.

We’ll be exploring:
– What leaders can do right now to increase their personal effectiveness and fundamentally shift their approach and their results 
– What exactly has changed in the client world and how does your industry knowledge bring genuine expertise and value to your clients
– How to position design, and your business, as a solution to your clients’ recovery
– How to shift your business to respond to, and create new market opportunities, and how you find the courage as a business to move into that space
– What that means for both your business model and your people, what does that change look like, and how should it be managed

Expert panel:
Catherine Allison, Master the Art
Lucy Mann, Gunpowder Consulting Ltd
Erica Wolfe-Murray,  Lola Media Ltd
Jeremy Paterson, IF Media Consultancy
Lucy Unger, Freelance Consultant

You can send any questions you may already have around these issues in advance to bookings@dba.org.uk.

Join us live from 13.00-14.30 on Friday 1 May and register here.

The DBA Expert panel

Catherine Allison
Master the Art

Catherine provides bespoke presentation and communication skills training to help agencies win more business.

https://www.dba.org.uk/experts/catherine-allison/

Lucy Mann
Gunpowder Consulting Ltd

Lucy helps agencies optimise their new business performance.

https://www.dba.org.uk/experts/review-lucy-mann/

 
Jeremy Paterson
IF Media Consultancy

Jeremy helps SME agencies to drive growth and efficiency by bridging the gap between operations, commercial and finance to create transparency, enabling business leaders to make confident, informed decisions.

https://www.dba.org.uk/experts/jeremy-paterson/

Erica Wolfe-Murray
Lola Media Ltd

Erica helps companies across the creative, cultural and tech sector to innovate and grow, using their existing intellectual assets and IP to evolve new products and services, to build new business model and revenues thereby ensuring long-term commercial resilience.

https://www.dba.org.uk/experts/erica-wolfe-murray/

Lucy Unger
Freelance Consultant

Lucy helps put your issues into context. As a highly experienced, commercial and culturally fluent business leader she understands what questions to ask, and when, to help you and your business move forward. As someone who constructively challenges you, she makes it less lonely at the top.

https://www.dba.org.uk/experts/lucy-unger/

The DBA Expert Register

If you have a particular business challenge or are looking to move your agency to the next level, we’ll work closely with you to connect you to an expert, whatever the issue. We’ve identified expert consultants with sustained and relevant experience in supporting the design industry, so you can rest assured that we can introduce you to the right one to meet your needs.

Our Experts have extensive experience supporting the creative industries and are:

• DBA Approved.
• Recommended by peers.
• Reference checked.

If you’re interested in becoming a DBA Expert find out more. Alternatively email Eleanor Singh for more information.