Helping creative teams embrace generative AI with confidence.Spark supports branding, design, advertising, marketing, and PR teams to successfully adopt and integrate AI into their businesses.We help you to identify the right use cases, learn from the best industry use cases, and build a roadmap to becoming an AI-enabled organisation and empower your people with the knowledge and skills they need to navigate this next generation of creativity.Whether you're looking to reduce costs, speed up service delivery, innovate your product and service offering, understand AI ethics, or build a roadmap for change, we balance short-term impact with long-term vision to guide your business through the AI revolution.

We build employer brands people are proud to work for.Blending employer branding with world-class video and photography, we help organisations tell their stories to engage and retain the best people, recruit the right talent and activate their culture.We believe companies should put the same level of thought and creativity into appealing to their candidates and staff as they do for their customers.

I have worked as an Associate with Q5, now one of the UK's leading management consultancies, since they were founded in 2009. I specialise in organisation design, with a particular focus on the media sector. Highlights have included:Working on Q5's first client, The Guardian, guiding their print and digital integration and newsroom transformation.Delivering Q5's first ever project in the US, working for Burberry in New York.Delivering some of Q5's early work in Australia, working for Aesop in Melbourne.Over the years I have delivered successful organisation design and strategy projects for Bauer Media, The Times and Sunday Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many others.

In summer 2020 I joined the leadership team as a Director at Q5, a management consultancy focused on organisation health.I successfully delivered projects for the NHS, the BBC, The Royal Mint, the British Heart Foundation and National Grid among others.I also sat on the strategy board of Q5, founded their new office in Cardiff, and led the marketing and recruitment effort in the region.

Since leaving Accenture in 2005, I have run a media production business creating people and lifestyle photography and film for global brands.My natural and spontaneous lifestyle images appeal to agencies and brands worldwide, combining the authenticity of documentary with the polish of advertising. Over the years I've shot campaigns for many household names including Samsung, Canon, Sony, Four Seasons, Club Med, GSK, Unilever, McKinsey & Co, Costa Coffee, Hilton Hotels, Club Med and Travelodge.I've also become known for my ambitious personal projects.Handmade London, a survey of the capital's artisan scene, won awards in Creative Review and was widely featured in the creative press. The Europeans, portraits of 100 EU citizens living in the UK, won awards at Creative Pool and the Association of Photographers and was featured in the national press.Follow my photography and film work at http://www.julianlove.com

Projects included:Delivering a multi-national customer segmentation and retail strategy for a major oil company across both fuel product development and convenience store retailingLeading the four marketing workstreams of a major business transformation project of a leading UK life insurance provider, including process design, skills definition, organisation design and business case development.Leading the analytical CRM workstreams of a major CRM transformation project for a large mobile telco.Leading the development of a lead management pilot, business case, implementation and rollout plan for a major UK high street bank across its 2,000 branches.Creating a business model to prioritize investments as part of a multi-million pound CRM transformation program for a major UK utility. Assisted the development of the associated valuation methodology.Supporting the development of the Middle East & North Africa investment strategy of the IFC (a division of the World Bank)Conducting a diagnostic survey and developing the associated best-practice examples, recommendations and business case to identify the marketing capabilities and associated investment priorities for a major UK telco.Leading the development of a customer segmentation and associated marketing strategy and implementation plan for a prestigious national arts organisation.Leading a team developing customer segmentation and marketing strategy for the UK arm of a major Japanese consumer electronics company in support of a new games console. Developing a customer loyalty strategy and supporting the implementation of the associated loyalty card program for the computer games division of a major UK electronics retailer.Additionally, I led the Marketing Community of Practice within Accenture UK, with responsibility for community building, training development and knowledge sharing across the CRM Service Line.

Joined the marketing team of the Financial Services division based in London. Responsibilities included:• Supporting the development and implementation of marketing campaigns• Analysing and reporting on the sales and marketing performance of the UK division• Producing a "State of the Market" report of the UK financial services sector on a 6 monthly basis to identify sales and consulting opportunities and predict likely revenues for forecasting purposes