Giselle spent more than 20 years as a brand and communications strategist across some of the best agencies in London from Y&R and WCRS to BBH, Chiat Day and HHCL. During that time, she picked up numerous effectiveness awards, including IPA Effectiveness Gold, Silver and Bronze as well as several Marketing Society Awards. She has advised and ghost written many more. More recently she founded Opinionated Thinking and works with both agencies and with clients directly, specialising in brand and communications strategy & development, qualitative research, facilitation and training. Since going it alone, she has worked with Boots, Weetabix, Sky, House of Fraser & Vodafone Enterprise, Wonderbly & Neilson Holidays amongst many others across both the consumer and B2B sectors. She still very much enjoys working with agencies as she doesn’t like to stray too far from the creative development process.

Tracey Follows is a professional futurist and works with clients on long-term strategies for future growth. Her clients have included Telefonica, Google, Sky, Farfetch, Conde Nast and Virgin. She consults, writes and speaks on strategic foresight and futures, and appeared in a list of the top 50 female futurists around the world in Forbes.

She has spoken at UN HQ in New York, delivered her TedX at the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office and closed at events such as Think With Google. She has appeared on BBC Business Matters, and has been a go-to futurist for many national press titles. She writes her own contributor column in Forbes.

She spent over two decades in marketing as a client including as International Advertising Manager at T-Mobile and Head of Consumer Marketing Communications at BT. She held senior strategic positions agency side including as Head of Planning at VCCP and Chief Strategy Office at JWT, and she held the position of Chair of APG Account Planning Group in the UK, 2013-2015.

She was an Adage 'Woman to Watch' 2017, awarded the Women in Marketing Award for Outstanding Contribution to Marketing 2016, and was Inaugural Creative Strategy Jury President at Cannes Lions 2019. In 2018, she was listed by Business Cloud as a Trailblazing Woman in Tech.

She is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists, World Futures Studies Federation and a Fellow of the RSA.

Janet Markwick works with leaders and their teams to build truly innovative, successful commercial solutions, utterly focused on what matters most... turning business strategic objectives into profitable growth. She has held senior financial, marketing, logistics and commercial roles at Coca-Cola and Sony, where she was Director of Marketing Communications Investment across EMEA, responsible for a $700m annual budget and leading a team of 74 marketeers and procurement specialists. Janet joined Grey London as CFO, becoming Chief Commercial Officer across Grey EMEA in 2012. Janet’s leadership was instrumental in driving 9 successive years of double-digit profitable growth at Grey.

Janet will help develop Implementation plans with you to embed margin growth business transformation programs across agencies. She will work with you to develop similar programs with your key clients to improve the way you and your clients work together. These programs will include how you capture, measure and report value internally and externally with clients. She will help you build a structured program to embed effectiveness into the way you work, day by day as an organization to establish long term commercially and creatively successful strategic partnerships.

Janet has a true generosity of spirit that nourishes talent. She drives a powerful agenda to broaden commercial understanding across agency business, by empowering people to play bigger roles and introducing new ways to measure ROMI. In doing this, Janet has driven and enabled both the creativity and commercial performance of agency and client business grow

In 2015 Janet was awarded an IPA Fellowship in recognition of her game-changing work and support for the advertising industry.

25 years’ experience in theatre and communications as an actress, theatre director, radio producer, presentation and communications skills trainer. She believes that everyone is capable of improving their presentation skills through confidence building and theatre techniques.

She has extensive experience helping individuals improve their performance skills in companies such as Adam & Eve DBB, BBC, Bezier, Brothers & Sisters, Grey London, HSBC, JWT, Jack Morton, Joshua, Leo Burnett, May Gurney, Ogilvy & Mather, PepsiCo, Premier Foods, Sainsbury’s and WCRS.

Fiona’s strength lies in bringing out the performer in everyone, improving on each individual’s strengths and finding ways of eradicating or minimising habits. She can help even the most inarticulate and shy deliver more impressive presentations, speak more clearly, and increase their stature and self-confidence.

Award-winning work as a director, producer and actress. Fiona has directed and produced many dramas for BBC Radio 4.
As a Radio Drama producer she has directed many well-known actors including Mark Strong, David Tennant, Stephen Fry, Ashley Jensen, Jessica Raine and Stephen Mangan.
In 2004, she produced six short films for the UK Film Council Digital Shorts scheme – of which one, ‘Billy’s Day Out’ went on to win the Best British Short Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and is still shown at film festivals globally.

As an actress, Fiona has toured Nationally and Internationally, and appeared on television and film – most notably in ‘EastEnders’, ‘Shoestring’, ‘Tenko’ and ‘Blake Seven’.

Clare is a Chartered Business Psychologist with 20 years’ experience in psychological assessment and talent and leadership development with and for companies such as KPMG, Virgin Media, DaimlerChrysler, HBOS, Shell, M&S, and Orange.

She has an MSC in Psychometrics, and a postgrad in Personal and Business Coaching.

Clare helps to coach C-Suite for increased effectiveness and performance and supports them in areas such as resilience, presence, emotional intelligence, problem solving and creativity.

She has helped people to prepare and pass interview panels, and transition into new leadership roles. She also helps with team coaching to improve team effectiveness and engagement and candidate selection.

In a previous role she singlehandedly developed a talent-screener tool that was so successful it generated revenue in excess of £1m within one year.

Widely published and a regular panellist and speaker. Published presentations for the BPS Occupational Psychology Conference, the Test Users conferences, was a guest presenter at the ABP Conference and had an article published in People and Organisations at Work.

Having started life as a professional musician, Mark switched to study Economics & Statistics followed by a Masters in Marketing Science. He trained as a Planner at J. Walter Thompson (which was dubbed by Campaign as ‘the university of Planning’), before moving to Leagas Delaney (at the time, the most creatively awarded agency in the world). He then became the Executive Planning Director of Leo Burnett (London), moving on to become the Joint Global Head of Planning.

Since leaving the agency world, Mark has worked in a variety of consultancy roles, including alongside Bain, where he was their retained brand strategist. He has worked across almost every imaginable sector globally, B2C, B2B, social, government, etc, on some of the world’s biggest brands, and has earned a reputation for being one of the few Planners genuinely able to swim all the way upstream and down with equal skill.

Mark was the planner behind a huge number of award winning campaigns, and has himself won numerous Effectiveness and Strategy awards (IPA Effectiveness, Cannes Lions, Effies, APG, DMA and DBA), and has been a judge many times for the IPA, APG and Effies in the UK and abroad. He was a founding member of the IPA Value of Advertising Group and former member of the APG National Committee, where he had responsibility for industry training. He has also spoken on a wide range of planning issues around the world, published various articles and contributed to a number of marketing text books.

Mark now leads our Consultancy offering, having most recently directed strategic projects for Google, Facebook, Abbot Labs and Lufthansa.