Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer Susan Ahern (center) is pictured with (l-r) Emcee Danny Wallace, Director of Marketing Roy Sexton, Director of Business Development Megan McKeon, Board Ex CEO Cameron Ireland.
The “Best in Theme” winners at the Management Partners’ Forum Awards for excellence in the management of professional services firms, held in London Tuesday night, were all law firms: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner for making their business more productive; Kennedys for helping their clients be more productive; and A&L Goodbody for enabling its community to flourish.
Clark Hill was honored with a Best Marketing Initiative award.
“This award is an honor that recognizes our firm’s strong culture of collaboration, innovation and teamwork,” said Susan Ahern, chief marketing and business development officer. “It reflects the incredible spirit of partnership and commitment to service delivery excellence of not only our marketing and business development team but also of all operational and business teams in our firm,”
“Now in their 18th year, our Management Excellence Awards, in partnership with Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times, uniquely provide leadership teams with independent evidence of their contribution to the business, its clients and its community,” said Neville Eisenberg, forum chair. “Demonstrating this contribution puts our members at the heart of strategic conversations and increases their personal influence and people’s trust in their plans, while strengthening the reputation of their firms with clients.”
Exceptional Achievement awards were received by Boodle Hatfield, Willmott Dixon and Ian Jeffery:
• Boodle Hatfield won Exceptional Achievement by a firm for retaining a clear focus on its core client base throughout its 300-year history and still working for its very first client. This is underpinned by a culture of gender equality and, uniquely for the legal and many other sectors, a majority female leadership team and equity partnership.
• Wilmott Dixon won Exceptional Achievement by a management team for constantly driving an agenda for positive change to improve the construction industry, as evidenced by being placed in the top five in the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to work for, and leading the UK in Europe for diversity and inclusion according to the recent FT Diversity Leaders.
• Ian Jeffery won Exceptional Achievement by an individual for his 15 years leading Lewis Silkin, consistently focusing on two core business sectors, employment and creative industries, and on providing an exceptional working environment. The latter resulted in the firm being placed in the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to work for nine times in succession.
These were the Theme and Category winners on a busy night:
• Business Theme:
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Best in Theme + Best Business Innovation); Clark Hill (Best marketing initiative); Dentons (Best learning & development programme); FTI Consulting (Best thought leadership); Lewis Silkin (Best employee engagement); and Stephens Scown (Best corporate culture).
• Client Theme:
Kennedys (Best in Theme + Best new solutions for clients); Mason Hayes & Curran (Best enhanced solutions for clients); and University of Oxford & Meridian West (Best knowledge provision to clients).
• Community Theme:
A&L Goodbody (Best in Theme + Best diversity initiative); and ByrneWallace (Best community programme).
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