Beyond: Sustainable growth on your terms.

Hanna Läikkö

Hanna Läikkö

Hanna is a brand, design and innovation business leader with almost 25 years of experience working with leading international brands. She works at the intersection of strategy, design and technology and is committed to helping purpose-led organisations, teams and leaders to achieve their strategic goals through creative leaps.

FJ Rutjes

FJ Rutjes

FJ helps companies go further, faster. He's held several senior leadership roles in retail, FMCG, healthcare and med- tech. He’s an innovation advisor to hungry start-ups and ambitious scale-ups. He's worked with some of Europe's most well-known brands, such as Philips, Innocent, KLM and Mont Blanc. He’s also worked in a private equity setting at Unilabs, Europe's 2nd largest diagnostics group, where he was Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer.

Claire Lewis

Claire Lewis

Claire has over 25 years of experience in business, finance and leadership much of it spent founding, leading or investing in sustainable businesses that make positive social impact. She has worked with a diverse range of businesses from the Coop Group and Barclays to tech startups and impact investment bank ClearlySo.

Tony Foggett

Tony Foggett

Tony is the co-founder and CEO of Code Computerlove, one of Manchester’s largest and most awarded digital agencies that was acquired in 2016 by MediaCom. Over the past 20 years he has engendered the agency’s continual evolution and reinvention in line with technological and consumer changes.

Martina Gobec

Martina Gobec

Martina is a design strategist, leader and coach and has led creative teams at the likes of Sony, ustwo and Bain & Company. She is passionate about creating meaningful, human experiences out of technology services and products.

Sean Sankey

Sean Sankey

Sean has a background spanning finance, tech, consultancy and creative. Over the last 15 years he has been trusted by organisations large and small to help their leaders deliver significant change. He has worked in, or been a consultant to executive teams, in a range of SME’s across the digital & creative sector as well as organisations as diverse as Aviva, Capgemini, Dept. for Work & Pensions, Skyscanner and Shop Direct.

Grace Marshall

Grace Marshall

Grace coaches, trains, writes and speaks on productivity. She helps people adopt new ways of working and thinking about their work to replace stress, overwhelm and frustration with success, sanity and satisfaction.

Mark Kelly

Mark Kelly

Mark has a digital and operational background and has consulted and coached owners and their teams in a range of agency types. Mark writes the guides and articles for the Smart Insights ‘Agency Growth Hub’ and its operational management toolkit. He is also an associate lecturer for Manchester Met University on their ‘Big Agency’ unit.

Kate Wood

Kate Wood

Kate is a leadership coach and facilitator with a background in learning & development, employee engagement strategy, continuous improvement, communications and marketing. Having worked across the board in blue-chip, non-profit and civil service organisations, she supports leaders and businesses to gain clarity and strengthen resilience, allowing people to thrive.

Louis Georgiou

Louis Georgiou

Louis is co-founder and Managing Director of Code Computerlove, a Digital Product and Service Company, started in 1999, now part of the MediaCom North Group. Louis’ areas of expertise have spanned digital strategy, UX and agile delivery for clients, such as Oxfam, Brother, BBC and Go-Ahead Trains.  In his role as MD, Louis is an advocate of autonomous teams, placing culture, learning and lean/agile working at the heart of the company and his specialisms are in digital transformation, balancing technology, process and culture.

Susanna Lawson

Susanna Lawson

Susanna founded OneFile in her back bedroom in Manchester and it transformed the sector and grew to a team of 80+ and over 1.3m users. OneFile was listed in The Times Top 100 businesses to work for in 2021 and was awarded a Queen's Award for Innovation. Susanna successfully sold OneFile in October 2021 to Constellation, the second-largest tech company in Canada. Susanna has mentored and coached many business founders to support them to grow and scale.

Mark Harland

Mark Harland

Mark Harland is a leader, consultant and social entrepreneur. Over his career, he has worked extensively with global brands including Cadbury and Jaguar, as well as supporting high growth SMEs working with their management teams to unlock growth potential. Mark has more than 25 years’ experience in running businesses and coaching leaders from business and third sector organisations.

David Crawford

David Crawford

David Crawford has worked for the last 25 years in marketing and digital agencies of all shapes and sizes. He was most recently Managing Director of Branded3, one of the UK’s leading search agencies, and has also held senior positions at McCann, BJL and twentysix. He has worked directly with clients such as American Airlines, UPS and Bentley and held positions in a number of tech start-ups delivering their digital & marketing strategies.

Ben Davies

Ben Davies

Ben has worked in creative businesses for over 20 years, as a Managing Director, Creative Director and a hands-on Designer and Artist. This included 12 years as Co-Founder and MD at The Neighbourhood – an award winning Manchester creative studio. He now draws on this experience and more, in his work as a Non-Exec Director, advisor and mentor to leaders and teams, in companies of various sizes. He brings empathy and energy to help people get clear, get aligned, and get on with the work that matters.

Jon Minchin

Jon Minchin

Before joining Form, Jon spent a number of years at Unilever managing the creative aspects of global innovation projects and helped to shape and define some €1bn brands including Magnum and Lipton. He’s been on the judging panel for Santander's Emerging Entrepreneurs programme for the UK’s top University entrepreneurs. He works closely VC&PE backed businesses helping to clarify their positioning and strategic advantage to accelerate their early growth. He’s supported over 200 leaders and organisations create clarity and change.