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October 2025
Coffee convertors– Making client conversations meaningful
Making the most of marketing: the partner’s view
November 2025
Hybrid, Human, High‑Impact: Rethinking Client Events in 2026
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Coaching Skills Academy
The Coaching Skills Academy organises advanced online training workshops to help marketing leaders enhance their coaching and mentoring skills.
Delivered by subject-matter experts with deep professional services sector knowledge and relevant experience.
Topics covered include Advanced Coaching Skills; Developing resilience in others; Team coaching and Mentoring relationships.
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PM (Professional Marketing) Magazine sits at the heart of the Forum’s membership offering as an inclusive benefit. First published in 1993, it is a highly regarded printed resource for everyone involved in marketing the sector.
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Treat them as clients
Referral marketing has long been a source of work for professional services firms, yet for equally as long has been approached in a largely ad hoc and informal way. But no longer. Today, marketers are building and managing sophisticated referral programmes tracking...
Womble Bond Dickinson – How advertising builds brands
Womble Bond Dickinson is currently running three brand-building advertising campaigns. Dale Gorley explains why. When it comes to marketing in professional services, the significance of brand building is often overlooked. There is pressure for an immediate return on...
Dodging a bullet (but not for long)
Icarus gets lassoed into community engagement. Readers last found me dangling on the precipice of career doom. It was all the doing of Rosemary, our head of human potentiality & fulfilment, or whatever she is calling her department this week. She’s had the...
Mentor Match
Helping member achieve their goals through sharing experiences and learning from others.
Mentoring is a learning & development partnership between a Mentor with vast experience and expertise, and a Mentee who wants to learn.
Established Mentorships
Matching points
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