Professionals

CLIC celebrates the inspirational leaders of the business world...

Green & Black's Founder, Jo Fairley, explaining why your business needs to have soul

Knights Plc boss, David Beech, on why he has banned secretaries

Alice Stephenson discusses why the UK law industry needs to stop covering its a**e

Sharon Thorne, Deloitte's Global Chair, talk about how to combat imposter syndrome

Martin Frost CBE discusses how he created Cambridge based unicorn CMR surgical

All articles

TEN WAYS TO BECOME A LINKEDIN JEDI

LAURENCE FISHMAN - PARTNER , NYMAN LIBSON PAUL

Laurence Fishman’s LinkedIn posts not only reach millions of people but they also win him significant new business. Here’s how he does it… If your painstakingly crafted LinkedIn posts elicit less noise than cosmic dust drifting pointlessly through deep space, don’t worry. You are not alone. It’s a painful fact of cyber-life that most LinkedIn […]

HOW WE REVERSED A DOWNWARD SPIRAL AND GOT OUR TIGERS ROARING

ANDREA PINCHEN , CEO - LEICESTER TIGERS

“You only sing when you’re winning!” The chant often reverberates around sports stadia when a team goes behind. Supporters of the losing team – full of joie de vivremoments ago – are suddenly morose, and fans of the newly winning team swoop to smack them when they’re down. Ha! Not so loud now are you?! Take that, losers!

‘THE UK LAW INDUSTRY SHOULD STOP COVERING IT’S A**E. IT’S TIME TO BE BOLD’

ALICE STEPHENSON , FOUNDER & CEO, STEPHENSON LAW

Alice Stephenson stands out among many British lawyers like art on a beige wall. A mum at 18, the tattooed entrepreneur shatters the mould of the traditionally safe, old boys club member, middle-class solicitor. The airflow created by her peers doing double takes on seeing her inked-up arm could power a wind farm. Here’s her story…

“The UK is the best place in the world to start a business, but the US offers the biggest prize”

Daniel Glazer - Partner , Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Daniel Glazer, head of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s London office, reveals his thoughts on the challenges of scaling in America…

Deloitte’s Global Chair on breaking the glass ceiling and the impact of imposter syndrome

SHARON THORNE - GLOBAL CHAIR , DELOITTE

For the first time, a Big Four firm has named a woman as Global Chair. In one of Sharon Thorne’s first interviews since her appointment, she tells CLIC about her ambitions, her passion for inclusion and why she’ll never stop battling imposter syndrome…

Merging two firms isn’t easy. Here’s how we do it…

David Beech , CEO, Knights plc

Knights plc has successfully completed eight company takeovers since 2011. CEO David Beech has led every one. He knows better than most that when you fuse two organisations, you play with fire…

How to succeed as a female boss

JULIE ADAMS , SENIOR PARTNER, MENZIES LLP

Julie is not one to let gender hold her or her peers back. During her first meeting as a partner, a colleague quipped that it was great that they finally had someone to pour the tea.
Read Julie’s story below…

Seven business lessons from the cockpit

Matt Meyer - Qualified pilot and CEO , Taylor Vinters

By looking closely at the aviation industry, we can learn a huge amount. Matt’s breath-taking stories help us to look outside our own bubble at a world where skilled leadership and improvements to workplace culture save lives, not pounds…

No unnecessary meetings. Zero office politics. Is this professional-services nirvana?

James Knight - Founder & CEO , Keystone Law

Goodbye, unnecessary meetings! Cheerio, negative intra-office relationships. Farewell micro-management! CLIC meets the founder of Keystone Law Plc…

“Accountants” will soon be extinct

Richard Kleiner - CEO , Gerald Edelman

You’ll never hear Richard Kleiner call himself an “accountant”, and it’s not a word you’ll see on his firm’s website, either. Actually, that’s not quite true. If you Google “Gerald Edelman” the first thing you’ll see is: “If you’re looking for an ‘accountant’, you’re in the wrong place.

CLIC meets FT’s Legal Innovator of the Year

Jonathan Brayne - Partner , Allen & Overy

CLIC meets Jonathan Brayne, Partner at Allen & Overy and FT Legal Innovator of the Year 2018

What outstanding client service really means...

Lee Ranson - CEO , Eversheds Sutherland

Every Tom, Dick and Harry claims to offer “outstanding client service”. Lee Ranson, CEO of Eversheds Sutherland, tells CLIC what this descriptor really means…

From Geoffrey Boycott to inverted leadership pyramids…

Gideon Moore - Managing Partner , Linklaters

Linklaters brings to mind tradition, prestige, success, money and impressive lawyers. And it’s inside Linklaters grand headquarters that we find ourselves waiting to chat with Gideon Moore, firm wide managing partner…

Why I’ve banned secretaries

David Beech - CEO , Knights plc

Professionals don’t need PAs and partners who blow profits on employing them lack business acumen, says the CEO of Knights plc

“Profitability is an enabler not an objective”

Paul Rawlinson - Global Chair , Baker McKenzie

Paul Rawlinson, global chairman of Baker McKenzie, talks to CLIC about the journey to becoming a Sunday Times Top 100 Best Company to Work For and just what it takes to pass the partner test…

“A brilliant professional looks like this…”

Baroness McGregor-Smith CBE - Chief Executive , Mitie Group

FTSE 250 chief executive and chartered accountant, Baroness McGregor-Smith, on what she looks for in her advisers…

Professional services firms boast that they are ‘innovative’ unfortunately, many are deluded…

Mike Harris - Founder , First Direct & Egg

In this exclusive CLIC article with serial innovator Mike Harris – founder of Egg, First Direct, Garlik and IconicShift – we discover what innovation really means and how firms can harness it to stay ahead of the curve…

The future’s bright for accountants – but only if they bin their old textbooks

Helen Brand OBE - Chief Executive , ACCA

What will the world need from its accountants in the future? Well, ACCA’s report might suggest that if accountants stick only to traditional finances, then they could soon be made redundant and replaced by a combination of young multiskilled upstarts and computer programmes…

“But who drives the tractor?” – Why sexism is alive and well in professional services

Jane Keir - Senior Partner , Kingsley Napley

Sexism is still alive within some of us. Maybe hidden more than it once was, but still hardwired into our habits, assumptions and behaviours. And the legal industry is no exception. We’re not making the progress that, by now, we should be…

“Accountancy is not about selling services. It’s about selling dreams”

Feargal McCormack - Managing Director , PKF-FPM

Why does your firm do what it does? A surprising number of professionals can’t answer this all important question. One man who knows “why” is Feargal McCormack, managing director of PKF-FPM which was named Practice of the Year at this year’s Irish Accountancy Awards…

“Why I broke my vow to never step foot inside an accountancy firm”

April Bembridge - Head of People , PKF Cooper Parry

After a terrible experience as a young employee at an accountancy firm, April Bembridge came to hate the profession. Fifteen years later, she’s helping PKF Cooper Parry to become one of Britain’s most sought-after employers…

The formula for perfect business development

Steve Varley - Former Chairman UK&I , EY

EY UK boss Steve Varley shares his philosophy on business development and explains what attributes impress him the most…

“Who says revenue has to grow? We must develop better ways of measuring success”

Paul Eagland - Managing Partner , BDO

Original thinking propelled this working-class cockney to the summit of the accountancy world. And now Paul Eagland, BDO UK’s philosophical leader, is challenging many of the long-held assumptions in his industry

“In the business world, people try to cover their backs. They are afraid”

Simon Cohen - CEO , Leicester Tigers

Simon Cohen, CEO of Leicester Tigers, explains how organisations can learn from sport’s relentless focus on winning…

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