Benefits

Founded in 1995, The Managing Partners′ Forum is widely recognised as the champion of practice management as well as providing quality member services. The MPF encourages diversity in management skills around the executive committee through regular high profile campaigns and rigorous awards designed to generate recognition and respect for internal management expertise.

Top-down, our campaigns are getting more experts appointed to executive committees... Bottom-up, our ammunition helps them survive and thrive.

Watch an introduction to MPF from Nigel Knowles, filmed at the MPF 2007 European Practice Management Awards

OUR BELIEFS ARE UNIVERSAL

• Management matters: Clients tend to notice the difference when a firm is well managed as it results in superior service.
• Management increases profits: Well managed firms are more profitable, yet insufficient time is devoted to management.
• Management requires expertise: Management is too important to leave to the managing partner, yet those who are not client facing are often treated as second class citizens, irrespective of their management expertise.

OUR CONTRIBUTION IS A PUBLIC GOOD

• Changing attitudes in favour of management: We encourage and measure diversity in management skills around the executive committee through regular high profile campaigns and rigorous awards designed to generate recognition and respect for internal management expertise.
• Sharing knowledge about topical management issues: We organise Panels of global leaders in marketing, HR, finance and other disciplines to provide free survey-based ammunition to help management experts promoted beyond their comfort zone to make a valued contribution at the table as few were hired for the role, or have the skills or ammunition to cope.

BENEFITS

Leadership

• The most powerful lobby group in professional services, launching a new campaign every six months.
• Organising the world′s premier Awards for excellence in practice management.
• Orchestrating firms to support local communities and economic development.
• Management Diary to increase effectiveness and improve internal communications.

Community and networking

• Regular member-only events in London, New York, Frankfurt and UK Regions with other centres planned.
• Welcoming those leading international offices into the global MPF community.
• Global members′ directory.

Knowledge base

• Concise reports from Forum and Panel events available online
• Executive summaries of member and Panel surveys
• Snapshot of the world′s top professional service firms through the MPF Global 500 Annual Report
• MPF members can attend Panel events to explore a management discipline in more depth
• Tools, case studies and frameworks for implementing change

Advice

• HQ provides guidance to a wealth of practice management expertise
• A member sends a question to mpfpulse@pmint.co.uk. HQ canvasses experts and members, and publishes a summary of contributions.