LEGO Serious Play expert Michael Fearne joins IPA Strategic Planning Course speaker line-up
LEGO Serious Play expert and IPA Strategic Planning course speaker challenges planners to embrace play to develop creative mindset
Participants to the IPA Strategic Planning Course “Changing Perspectives” will come head to head with LEGO Serious Play expert Michael Fearne who will challenge them to adopt new methods of thinking.
Fearne who has worked with brands including KPMG, EY, Australia Post, and Lexus uses LEGO to engage people, change conversation dynamics and solve complex problems.
Says Fearne: “Building something with your hands unlocks knowledge you didn’t know you had and LEGO Serious Play is a different way to answer the big questions you’re already asking.”
Click here to watch a video of Fearne tackling the art of effective business meetings.
The founder, of LSP Academy, adds to the already impressive line-up of speakers including UK strategist Mark Earls (aka HERDmeister) and effectiveness expert Peter Field.
The IPA Strategic Planning Course “Changing Perspectives” aims to turn common marketing misconceptions upside down and to disrupt the status quo. Over the three-day residential course, speakers, chairs and participants will experience a mental cleanse before collectively creating a manifesto on how marketing can be improved.
Described by The Guardian as “like Malcolm Gladwell on speed”, Mark Earls’ session promises to be fast and furious. He will bring the learnings from his latest book Copy, Copy, Copy to life in a workshop and will also share previously unpublicised key learnings from the #IPASocialWorks study group – a project identifying good practice in social media effectiveness and measurement.
Earls’ interactive and tailored course aims to teach students how do ‘better’ strategy as well master how to think critically about advertising and marketing. The author and recovering planner believes planners need to be a lot sharper about the way they think about people and behaviour.
Says Earls of his course content objectives: “Planners need to be able to recognise different styles of decision and adopt strategies appropriate to that style. And at speed. It’s tough but more fun. Less why do people do what they do and more how.”
The Godfather of Effectiveness, Peter Field, returns with his effectiveness deep dive which was one of the most talked about highlights from last year’s course. Straight from the UK, Field will be sharing the best and latest thinking on marketing effectiveness based on his analysis on the IPA Databank – the most rigorous database on marketing effectiveness case studies in the world.
The course, which is designed for advertising and marketing communications professionals with upwards of five years experience, will be chaired in Sydney by chief strategy officer of M&C Saatchi Australasia, Justin Graham (27-29 August), and in Melbourne by head of strategy at AJF Partnership, Pieter-Paul von Weiler (3-5 September).
The co-chairs are: JWT’s executive strategic planner Angela Morris in Sydney; and BWM Dentsu’s head of strategy Jordan Price in Melbourne.
Says Morris on the timeliness of the course: “There have never been more ways to reach people than we have today, but it’s never been harder, because audiences are cynical, marketing fatigued and increasingly indifferent. Nor have the principles, tools and tactics of our trade come under more question in terms of how viable they are.
“It’s our responsibility to critically assess how marketing is working (and not working) and take nothing – new or old doctrines – at face value in our relentless pursuit of marketing effectiveness.”
Price is enthusiastic about the lineup stating: “I think we have a great list of speakers, and a fascinating mix of speaking and workshopping activities.
“I’m looking forward to vigorous differences of opinion playing out, and being exposed to points of view that differ from my own, and may go places I’ve not thought about.”
Course information:
IPA Residentials are designed for delegates to step away from the day-to-day business for three days of intensive mentoring, analysis, debate and interactive learning that can be applied the very next day. Accommodation and meals are included.
SYDNEY
3 Days, Residential presented by Justin Graham
Date: 27-29 August 2017
Venue: Ovolo Woolloomooloo, Sydney
Corporate member: $3,300 per person (including GST)
Non-member: $5,500 (including GST)
MELBOURNE
3 days, Residential presented by Pieter-Paul von Weiler
Date: 3-5 September 2017
Venue: The Cullen, Prahran, Melbourne
Corporate member: $3,300 (including GST)
Non-member: $5,500 (including GST)