The MPF is the world's leading association of managing partners from across the spectrum of professional service firms. In Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire and provide both educational and networking opportunities for managing partners and other senior members of the management team. MPF Yorkshire 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.
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
Co-chair: Peter Smart, Senior Partner, Walker Morris and Ron McMillan, Northern Region Chairman , PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Regional Director: Chris Manners (ICAEW).
Paul Fairhurst (Savills)
Nigel McClea (Pinsent Masons)
Bob McNaughton (PKF)
Jeff Pearey (Jones Lang LaSalle)
DETAILS OF OUR NEXT EVENT
Deciding which budget lines to cut and where to invest for the future
DLA Piper, Princes Exchange, Princes Square, Leeds LS1
Tuesday 27 January 2009
Most professional firms are on their fourth re-work of their budget since May as each month throws up yet more doom and gloom. However, history teaches that successful firms are those that invest in bad times to reap the benefits in the recovery. Every firm is different. At some, the MP sets strategic priorities with practice group leaders and experts from finance, HR and marketing working together to deliver the vision. At others, the MP has a more hands-on role…
Our speakers, Chris Manners and Martin Gaskin, will be sharing personal experiences, case studies and insights on how leaders can go about setting strategic priorities and how these can then be turned into viable business plans and budgets. They will also be sharing insights from the recent MPF HR and Finance Panel survey on managing business assets in a downturn.
About our speakers
Chris Manners has over twenty years experience of professional service marketing - in the accounting, legal and consulting sectors, ranging from niche practices through regional firms to City majors (Norton Rose) and international businesses (Ernst & Young). Since 2005 he has been Yorkshire & Humber Regional Director for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and also the Regional Director for the Professional Marketing Forum. He is also Regional Director for the Managing Partners’ Forum in Yorkshire.
Martin Gaskin is Chief Financial Officer at law firm Addleshaw Goddard. He is a member of the firm's Management Committee and ensures the effective and efficient operation of the Finance, Facilities and IT functions of the firm in the pursuit of its strategic objectives. He works with the Managing Partner, Senior Partner and the Chief Operating Officer on all aspects of the firm's strategic direction and day to day management of the business, with particular responsibility for the financial aspects of the operations. Martin is a chartered accountant with over 15 years' experience in finance and operational roles with Unilever and HBOS plc.
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