Advice for Growing Businesses this Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a holiday to celebrate gratitude and focus on the good that we have in our lives. A time to take a moment from the hustle and bustle of our busy schedules and reflect. We are so thankful for our Flock family, amazing clients, our continued business and the list goes on. Looking back to when we started eight years ago, we were the small kids on the block, or if you asked…
Read MorePrioritising Disability Inclusion
In the recent “All In” UK advertising industry census, it was encouraging to see survey questions included on mental health and disability, which is often overlooked in corporate D&I agendas and is evident in the census results, showing disabled talent underrepresented in our industry at just 9% vs 20% working age population. Unsurprisingly this also…
Read MorePushing Past Diversity in Marketing, Promoting Authentic Representation & Inclusion
Fostering a culture of inclusivity in Marketing Pride Month has begun, and with it, an important reminder that whilst there has been so much progress, the journey towards equality for the LGBTQ+ community is far from over. Being truly authentic in having an inclusive culture means going further to understand more than you can see to…
Read More5 Key Traits of Marketing Transformers
Here at Flock, one of the key service areas we provide revolves around our clients’ People – assessing team skills, building better relationships, and improving ways of working for the likes of McDonald’s, ASDA, Sage, Ford, and Pepsi. But also, help clients to identify and place the world’s best marketing transformation talent through our work with global executive search firm Grace Blue, who has placed candidates for clients…
Read MoreFemale Leaders To Celebrate in 2021
2020 saw the issue of leadership styles come squarely into frame as the world looked to PMs, MPs, and to a wider extent, CEOs and business leaders, to guide us all through crisis. Many articles picked up the question of gender in-country leadership, and asked if the Covid-19 crisis was managed better by female leaders like New…
Read MoreFlock’s Top Tips for Marketing Operations
Flock recently partnered with the WFA to conduct a piece of research on the evolution of the Marketing Operations function. View a sample of the study here; Watch our webinar on the findings here. From this research Flock have developed six top tips for marketing operations: 1 Processes Understand your existing processes, structures, tools and…
Read MoreCMO Roundtable – The Marketing Department of the Future
We’re preparing for the next Flock CMO Roundtable in association with our Executive Search Partners Grace Blue and are excited to be welcoming marketing leaders from a range of sectors, to add to the buzzy and enterprising atmosphere at Gezellig in Holborn. We’re going to be talking about the Marketing Department of the Future and…
Read MoreMaximising Your Agency Relationships – People
It amazes us how often marketers talk about the pros and cons of different agencies, without considering the people in them. At Flock, we believe agencies are just platforms for people. We know this because we’ve not just worked in agencies, but we’ve run them at the highest levels. An agency is often not ‘good’…
Read MoreGrace Blue Partnership Launches Sports Division Headed Up by New Partner Eric Guthoff
We are pleased to announce that our Global Strategic Partner, Grace Blue, global executive search and M&A advisory firm, has expanded into the sports industry to target leadership at sports agencies, teams, venues, and leagues, as well as eSports, media, and technology companies. Flock announced a Global Strategic Partnership with Grace Blue in 2017. Grace…
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