Associate Director
CurrentAs the UK’s biggest specialist agency, JLA advises on and provides keynote and after dinner speakers, facilitators and awards hosts, comedians and cabaret acts for corporate, public sector and private events. We have unparalleled buying power, as well as depth and breadth of industry knowledge that draws on our longstanding relationships with talent, stretching back to our foundation in 1990. I advise a broad cross-section of clients from financial services through to pharmaceutical, publishing houses through to trade associations and energy companies on what will work best for their event programme and how to successfully match their brief for a particular audience. Whenever possible I also attend events to see the talent in action, enabling me to talk with first hand experience on who would work effectively for my client’s events. The relationships I have with clients are open and friendly; I’m on-hand 24/7 to ensure the process works seamlessly from planning all the way through to delivery.JLA publishes the annual Index and hosts regular Speaker Breakfasts with motivators, business leaders and opinion formers. We also stage The Real Variety Show, where 850 event organisers and producers come to preview up and coming performers.We have been described by The Times as "the barometer" and The Financial Times as "the UK's Leading Speaker Bureau." According to the Independent, "JLA has opened up whole new avenues of corporate entertainment."
