The MPF is the world's leading association of managing partners from across the spectrum of professional service firms. In Midlands we have created a local organisation that provides top-calibre educational and networking opportunities for all its members. By introducing thought-provoking and cutting-edge best practices that are transportable from one sector to another, we are dedicated to enhancing leadership and the status of the management team. more...
EVENTS
Meetings are run locally in the Midlands and provide both educational and networking opportunities for managing partners and other senior members of the management team. MPF Midlands connects the local professional services community with the wider MPF network, whilst generating real value for members closer to home. As a membership organisation, all our meetings are member only. However, those interested in joining are welcome to attend one event as our guest in order to get a feel for the Panel. See current event or download previous meeting report
Attendees at the May 2008 event in Birmingham
From right: Bill Barker (Martineau Johnson), Jon Leedham (DTZ) and Chris Rawstron (DLA Piper)
From right: David Sedgwick (Clarke Willmott), Paul Wilson (Shakespeare Putsmans) and Paul Ray (Browne Jacobson)
Please contact your local Regional Director or MPF Executive Manager, Paul Lemon if you wish to hear more about our events and/or membership.
KNOWLEDGE
The MPF collects confidential data and conducts regular surveys amongst MPs and members of the management team based worldwide. Leading consultants in strategy and leadership, appointed by the MPF Executive Committee, prepare monthly surveys on strategy and leadership issues, summarise findings, and make presentations at MPF events held in key cities worldwide (London, New York, Frankfurt etc). All findings are released for free into the public domain to ensure professional firms everywhere have access to reliable facts on key management issues. more...
CAMPAIGNS
The MPF is the most powerful lobby group in professional services, launching a new campaign every six months. MPF campaigns confront the professions on particular issues aiming to empower the management team and help connect the local professional services community into the MPF network.
Current campaigns include:
- In search of Management talent: A “prospectus” for the professions
- Time Management: MPF Management Diary - time well spent?
- Partner Career Paths: Exploring the sound of silence
- Leadership Selection: Less politics, more transparency, clear reward
- Unsung Heroes: No-one should be treated as a second class citizen
We aim to remain at the cutting-edge of business thinking in professional services through regular surveys of our members and global leaders in marketing, HR, IT, finance etc, while allowing members to canvass each other on a management issue through MPF Pulse.
AWARDS
We organise the European Practice Management Awards, the only competition to focus on the contribution of different disciplines to managing a professional firm. Widely recognised as the premier Awards in Europe for those with practice management roles, the competition has been running since 2002.
COMMITTEE
Chair: Brian Smith, Managing Partner, (Browne Jacobson)
Regional Director: Simon Chadwick is joint head and co-founder of Chadwick Nott, Simon has been involved in legal recruitment since 1990. He specialises in high profile partner and team moves, mergers and acquisitions, recruitment brand building, UK / worldwide recruitment & retention strategy, and targeted business growth. He has also worked on a number of discreet projects to build up or re-engineer teams or departments in law firms.
Simon can be contacted on 07768 094648
Peter Clarke, Managing Partner, (King Sturge)
Simon Hart, Managing Partner, (Baker Tilly)
Sarah-Jane Osborne, Director, (Claremont Group Interiors)
David Sedgwick - David qualified as a solicitor in 1982, joined Clarke Willmott in 1986 and became a partner in 1990. He has been managing partner since 1999, during which time he has helped the firm to develop from a £13m practice with 13 offices in Somerset into a £50m business based in Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton and Taunton.
DETAILS OF OUR NEXT EVENT
Influencing partner behaviour to drive profit
Martineau, No 1 Colmore Square, Birmingham B4 6AA
Thursday 4 September 2008
Now more than ever it is vital that partners’ energies are focused on delivering those outputs the firm needs - and it is the managing partner's job to make that happen. The use of the right metrics can ensure that you get what you want!
Highlights include:
- The PSF model - ‘Get the work - Do the work - Collect the cash’
Why do so many partners only focus on the ‘doing’ at the expense of the other two and to the detriment of the firm? How can Managing Partners change that?
- Metrics - ‘Sustainable Value’ supported by the appraisal process
- Motivation - Not everything that counts can be counted!
- At all times focusing on bottom line results
There will be lots of opportunity for participants to share their views and ask questions. We hope you can join us.
About our speaker
Jonathan Holt qualified as a solicitor in 1980 and established boutique firm Holt Phillips in 1984. Following a merger with Eversheds Jon quickly rose to become head of both the Volume Business and Commercial Practice Groups and was appointed to the senior management team. He was accountable for some 58 partners and 260 fee earners across 13 offices in the UK and Europe turning over in excess of £75m. As client partner for some of Eversheds largest clients Jon was a key member of the team which devised and implemented the firm's CRM strategy. When he moved to London Jon led the firm's drive to maximise opportunities arising out of the 2012 Olympics. Jon is an experienced coach and mentor.
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