The MPF is the world's leading association of managing partners from across the spectrum of professional service firms. In the North West 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 North West and provide both educational and networking opportunities for managing partners and other senior members of the management team. MPF North West 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
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: Michael Shaw has been managing partner of Cobbetts since 1996, prior to which he was a property lawyer and responsible for establishing the firm's very successful banking team. During his time as managing partner he has introduced a number of radical practices in terms of management systems and operational structure focused increasingly on added benefit and value for clients. The firm has been taken through six mergers by Michael en route to establishing a national Top 50 practice.
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
Mark Blakemore has been Office Managing Partner at Baker Tilly since 2000, and was responsible for leading the firm’s management through merger with HLB Kidsons in 2002. A passionate local figure, Mark was Chairman of pro.manchester in 2005 and appointed to North West Economic Forecasting Panel 2006.
Michael Brabner is Managing Partner of Brabners Chaffe Street. Michael’s expertise has particular emphasis on acquisitions and disposals, MBO’s and MBI’s, corporate finance and venture capital, company reconstructions and reorganisations and joint ventures and corporate and business advice to retained clients. He is also a director of a number of private companies.
Malcolm Buchanan is Regional Director, Corporate Banking North West with The Royal Bank of Scotland. Malcolm has over 20 years experience in corporate and commercial banking roles in London and Scotland. In his present role Malcolm has responsibility for the Bank’s 60 strong Corporate Banking Team across Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumbria.
Joy Kingsley is Senior Partner of law firm Pannone LLP. Under her leadership the firm has grown from 200 to 700 people and from billings of £6m to £44.5m. She was the motivating force in the firm’s 3rd place ranking in the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies 2007
Mike Perls is Managing Director of MC2, the leading independent marketing agency in the North specialising in the financial and professional services sector. Formerly a business manager of The Manchester Evening News following a spell at The Observer in the early '90s, Mike was named in North West Business Insider's 42 under 42 class of 2006 and is regional director of the PM Forum, as well as a member of the NSPCC Business Committee.
DETAILS OF OUR NEXT EVENT
Recruitment and retention or restructuring and redundancy?
Managing HR and rewards in uncertain economic times
Cobbetts, 58 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HZ
Thursday 18 September 2008
According to classical economic theory, in a downturn demand for labour falls, so pay pressures and staff attrition rates should correspondingly decline. Yet many employers today appear to be facing a unique 'cost/talent crunch', as sharply higher prices and costs combine with continuing key skill and talent shortages.
So how are organisations responding in this challenging climate to maximise their performance through effective HR management? Does performance-related pay work in the bad times as well as the good? Should you be investing more in your staff or laying them off? Will the popular notions of employee engagement and 'great place to work' survive a downswing? Should we be continuing to improve employee involvement and communications or are we seeing a pick-up in labour militancy?
Using data from their economic and chief executive surveys, and drawing on their recent client experiences, Duncan Brown and Emma Robertson from PricewaterhouseCoopers' HR Services' practice will inform and challenge you to consider how best to manage and reward your employees in the current climate.
About our speakers
Duncan Brown is a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he leads the management and employee reward work. He has more than 20 years' experience in HR and reward consulting. He also spent five years as Assistant Director General at the CIPD. Duncan is a leading commentator on HR issues, with his most recent book being Strategic Reward: Making it Happen. He has appeared on BBC TV breakfast and evening news, as well as Radio 4's Today programme. Human Resources magazine voted him at number five in its listing of the most influential practitioners in UK HR in 2008, though his children award him a somewhat lower rating.
Emma Robertson is a Senior Manager in PwC's Human Resource Services team in the North West and provides advice on all aspects of HR and remuneration for employees and senior executives. Before joining PwC, Emma was head of reward for a FTSE 250 company within the retail sector for five years. This involved advising on all aspects of remuneration from executive pay to trade union negotiations, as well as working on post-deal integration following acquisitions into the company and due diligence on disposals.
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