Practical leadership lessons from the creative frontline: Stephen Page

Stephen Page, Chair of Faber & Faber, will draw on more than 20 years leading, chairing and being a board member of creative and cultural organisations to examine key aspects of leadership at all levels in the creative sector.

Focusing on three areas, he will consider:

• How to approach renewing strategy and motivating yourself and others to drive change
• How to innovate in the face of market change, opportunity and competition
• Dealing with the personal challenge of leading and working in the creative sector

Attendees can expect to hear stories from the frontline of the creative sector through the last three decades, and to come away with practical ways to think about challenges associated with leading within businesses in the fast-moving creative and cultural sector. They should leave clearer about applying some of Stephen’s experience to their own businesses, and to their day-to-day challenges.

Stephen will also allow good time for questions, and will be open to talking about any other aspects that delegates wish to discuss.

• anyone working within creative or cultural companies and organisations
• anyone leading, or with the potential or desire to lead in the future
• anyone who have a general interest in creative businesses

> Early bird BCI member tickets are £30 + VAT (until midnight 22nd Sept)

> BCI member tickets are £40 + VAT (from 23rd Sept)

> Non-member tickets are £65 +VAT.

All tickets include a buffet lunch and refreshments. This event will be held in the conference suite at Foot Anstey LLP. Join us from 12.30pm for lunch, with plenty of opportunity to catch up with old friends and make some new connections too. The talk will begin at 1pm and wrap up at 2pm for those that need to leave, however Stephen will be around until 2.30pm for any additional questions.

Stephen grew up near Birmingham, and has worked in Publishing for thirty years, the last twenty as CEO, now Chair, of Faber & Faber, among the world’s leading independent literary publishers, during which time he became President of the Publishers Association in 2007/8. He was a Non-Executive Director of Bloomsbury Publishing between 2013-17, a member of the Clore Leadership Board between 2017 and 2021, and in 2020 he became Chair of Creative Access, a social enterprise working to make the creative industry’s workforce representative of UK society. He represents the Creative and Cultural sectors to the UK Government, mainly through sitting on the Creative Industries Council where he chairs the Workforce Working Group. In 2021 Stephen set up his own Executive Coaching practice, and now works across many sectors as a coach and mentor. He is a Visiting Lecturer at City, University of London, and is also an amateur drummer in a variety of bands. He received an OBE for services to publishing in 2021. (Photography credit: Images © Anna McCarthy Photography www.annamccarthy.com)

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