Meet Our Partners
& Experts

Kimberley Fulwood KF Strategies

At KF Strategies, we go beyond basic Workamajig training. We tailor the platform to fit your unique people, processes, and business goals—starting with your team. Using tools like The Predictive Index, we align your people strategy with your business strategy, then assess and optimize workflows across departments. Finally, we customize Workamajig to bring it all together. That’s the KF Strategies difference: solutions as unique as you are.

At KF Strategies, we don’t just train our clients on Workamajig and then disappear. Workamajig isn’t a one-size-fits-all kind of tool. To be most effective and to give you the greatest ROI, it must be tailored to how you do business and to the people and processes that drive it.

That’s why we work to ensure that all the aspects of your business are performing optimally. So, we start with your people, your most vital asset. We utilize tools from The Predictive Index to help connect your business strategy with a people strategy that addresses hiring, retention, team culture, and more.

Then, we evaluate your existing processes in accounting, operations, sales, and
administration. We identify and address any gaps that are limiting your business’s
potential for growth.

Lastly, we leverage Workamajig, and customize it to your unique requirements.
Your story is unique, as are your people and processes. So, we design solutions that
are customized and specific to you.
That is the KF Strategies difference.

Get in Touch: 

Kimberley Fulwood
Founder & CEO
Web: kf-strategies.com
Phone: 901-283-4872
Email: kimberley@kf-strategies.com

Anthony Gindin Agency Different

Over the past 23 years, Anthony has built six companies, published two books, spoken at events around the world, worked with executive leaders in 17 countries and been recognized with 11 international marketing awards.

Although a 23-year agency veteran, Anthony's unique perspective was born and bred in the 9+ years spent client-side, living in Europe and working with some of the best agencies in the world (Ogilvy, BBDO, etc.).

During this time, Anthony researched, evaluated and was pitched to by hundreds of agencies - making him an expert in what clients truly look for and care about when selecting an agency.

As a testament to this, in 2011, Anthony was brought on by the Canadian government to help redefine their RFP process for Canadian Crown Corporations.

In 2013, Anthony "defected" back to the agency side, where he used his "inside information" to grow a small agency from $3.5M to $14M in just three years, while growing the client base from North America into Europe and the Middle East.

To date, Anthony has closed over $43M in agency new business and financing.

As a tenacious entrepreneur, Anthony has more recently built his own consulting practice and co-founded two ecommerce companies - exiting both successfully after taking each of them public (CSE) within 12 months.

Blair Enns Win Without Pitching

Blair Enns is on a mission to change the way creative services are bought and sold the world over. Through his global consulting practice Blair works with principals and personnel of design firms, ad agencies, public relations practices and other creative businesses to help them transform from a high cost, pitch-based business development strategy to one where the firm commands the high ground in the relationship and shapes how its services are bought and sold.

Through his global consulting practice Enns works with owners of advertising agencies, design firms and public relations practices to help them transform from a high-cost, low-integrity, pitch-based business development strategy to one in which the agency commands the high ground in the relationship and shapes how its services are bought and sold.

As a speaker and author, Blair endeavors to be the sand in the industry-wide pitch machine, questioning creative firms and clients alike on the sanity of the pitch-based approach. Beyond questioning, however, he offers an alternative way forward for creative businesses, delivering a new set of protocols on how to gain new clients without first parting with ideas or sacrificing respect.

Blair has lectured and consulted across the Americas, Europe, Australia and the Middle East, addressing many national and international conferences of design, advertising and public relations. In fact, Blair has addressed our audience at our Workology 3.0 Conference held in Chandler AZ. He taught us a thing or two! Prior to launching Win Without Pitching in 2001, Blair spent 12 years working in account service and business development roles for some of the world's largest ad agencies and some of its smallest design firms.

Blair Enns is author of the self-published Win Without Pitching - Sales Success for Marketing Communication Agencies, and author of the Win Without Pitching Newsletter. He has been published in Design Week magazine (UK, April 2007) and the journal Persuading (August, 2004, February 2005). His paper on Key Performance Indicators for Professional Practice Development was presented at the World Congress on Total Quality Management (2005).

Enns is a member of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants. He operates from the remote mountain village of Kaslo, British Columbia, Canada, where he lives with his wife and four children.

Get in touch:

Web: winwithoutpitching.com
Phone: 250-353-2591

Karl Sakas Sakas and Company

Growth is good… unless it gets out of control. As a management consultant and executive coach, Karl Sakas helps agency leaders make smarter decisions for smoother growth—with advice developed from experience guiding hundreds of agencies on every inhabited continent.

Sakas & Company helps simplify life for agency leaders with one-on-one support, executive education and resources, and training opportunities for you and your team.
What’s different about working with Karl as your agency consultant and coach?

First, you get a boutique client experience, with a structured yet flexible process. Clients love having a private, objective sounding board who can identify quick wins and help implement long term strategies. Running an agency is complex, but it doesn’t have to be so complicated.

Second, Karl’s deep background in agency operations means he focuses on pragmatic advice, to help agency leaders uncomplicate their day-to-day while running the agency smoother. To help you build momentum, you'll get access to his Resource Library of 50+ time-saving templates. After all, success requires turning ideas into reality.

Third, Karl customizes his advice to your situation—your Values, Goals, and Resources. Your agency isn’t cookie cutter, so don't accept cookie cutter advice. This includes helping you stay actively accountable, with support dedicated to helping agency owners calm the chaos of agency life.

Karl has appeared in Digiday, Entrepreneur, Crain’s, and more. He speaks at events like INBOUND, SoDA Academy, and Content Marketing World. Karl is the author of Made to Lead, The In-Demand Marketing Agency, and more than 400 hundreds of articles on agency management.

When he’s not advising agency leaders, Karl enjoys volunteering as a bartender on a 1930s railroad car, mixing martinis at 100 miles an hour.

Ready to get your fast-growing agency under control again? Contact Karl to see if you’re a match.

Get in Touch: 

Email: concierge@sakasandcompany.com 
Phone: 919-410-6224
Web: https://sakasandcompany.com/

J. Mark Riggs Pemberton

Mark is the founder and CEO of Pemberton which is a management consultancy that exists to be the go-to resource for marketing/communications agencies to discover and reveal pathways to organic growth while changing the mindset of an RFP-obsessed industry.

Before starting Pemberton, Mark spent 20 years in the agency world working for IPG’s Mullen Lowe, an Ad Age A-List Agency, Taylor, the Provoke’s Consumer Agency of the Decade, MWWPR and French/West/Vaughan, the Southeast’s largest independent agency.
Mark has spent a career learning the art of integrated communication developing and executing award-winning consumer programs for brands and companies like Allstate, Honda, Ford, Kimberly-Clark, Polaris, Coke, Diageo, RJ Reynolds, SunTrust Banks, the U.S. Navy, the Atlantic Coast Conference and ESPN, to name a few. Mark has a reputation as a business-builder and a strategic counselor and has experience in leading client services, insights and planning functions, as well as developing talent. A creative thinker and problem-solver, Mark believes that great thinking can “come from anywhere,” it’s the ability to harness it and leverage it for clients that makes the intellectual property of the agency valuable and an integral part of the marketing mix.

Get in touch:
Web: www.pembertonworldwide.com
Phone: 704-307-5255

David C. Baker Punctuation

David speaks to, writes for, and consults with the expertise marketplace via ReCourses, He has worked with 900+ firms under that umbrella, and tens of thousands of others have been through ReCourses seminars or attended a speaking engagement.

David also owns RockBench Publishing Corp., a traditional and electronic publisher of courageous thought leadership insight. Through it they give sharp thinkers the sort of platform they deserve. Search for “rockbench publishing” at Amazon and you’ll get a feel for the quality of the offerings.

David has been a featured speaker at nearly every marketing industry conference (APDF, HOW, AIGA, PRSA, Counselors Academy, MYOB, SEGD, BDA, PROMAX, Y, etc.), as well as nearly every association that serves this field. He has spoken at multiple TEDx events.

He has been a frequent contributor to nearly all the major publications that serve the marketing industry (Critique, Communication Arts, HOW, Rough, Creative Business, PR Intelligence Report, Creative Planet, In-Review, Graphic Artists Guild, Agency Insider Report, Post Industry, Internet Professional Publishers Association, etc.). David also edited Persuading for its entire tenure of six years, earning accolades from subscribers all over the planet.

His work has been discussed in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, Forbes, MarketingProfs, and BusinessWeek. David is also the author of three RockBench titles: Managing (Right) for the First Time, Financial Management of a Marketing Firm, and The Business of Expertise.

Get in Touch:

https://www.davidcbaker.com/
Phone: 615.831.2277

Laurie Mikes Second Wind

Second Wind’s founder and former managing director the late Anthony P. Mikes was an advertising executive who spent twenty-five years managing and owning advertising agencies and graphic design studios. Through his experience, Mr. Mikes came to recognize the value of shared information as it relates to successfully managing an advertising agency.

Second Wind (Mr. Mikes’ second life in advertising) was the result. For more than thirty years, Second Wind has been a thought leader and innovator for smaller agencies. They provide world-class content, advice and services to help advertising, graphic design, marketing, interactive and pubic relations firms grow and in fact, to BE better.

Second Wind is currently led by Laurie Mikes. Laurie has been with Second Wind since 1996 and currently acts as Chief Operating Officer. She oversees the daily operations of the business while keeping one finger on the pulse of the industry.  In addition to consulting and training, Laurie is deeply involved with member agencies, speaking with them on a regular basis. Whether it's providing guidance about financial matters, agency growth or operations, her years of experience bring valuable insight and perspective to agencies looking to build a successful sustainable business. Second Wind and Workamajig have had a relationship for more than 15 years and
support each other in their endeavors to help advertising agencies work smarter, faster more efficiently and profitably.

Get in Touch: 
Web: secondwindonline.com
Phone: 610-374-9093

Avalara

Avalara helps businesses like increase efficiency and accuracy by automating tax compliance, enabling streamlined customer experiences globally, and simplifying vendor management.

In operation since 2004, Avalara serves customers from 95 countries. It helps businesses of all sizes get tax compliance right. In partnership with leading ERP, accounting, e-commerce, and other financial management system providers, Avalara delivers cloud-based compliance solutions for various transaction taxes, including sales and use, VAT, GST, excise, communications, lodging, and other indirect tax types. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world in Brazil, Europe, and India. 

AvidXChange

AvidXchange transforms how business's manage and make bill payments with their invoice and payment automation solutions.

EdenRed

Edenred Pay is the market leader in B2B payments automation. We provide our customers with an advanced integrated payables solution that automates invoice-to-pay end-to-end. At Edenred Pay, we understand the intricacies of accounts payable, and our customers’ needs are at the heart of our solutions.

Our integrated platform connects buyers and suppliers with ERPs, banks, Fintechs, and payment rails. We optimize supplier enablement, invoice automation, and supplier payments to create a frictionless payables process. The result is an innovative approach to B2B transactions that delivers value and provides a better experience for all parties across the B2B payments ecosystem.

Edenred Pay delivers results for our clients. Our platform is designed for small, mid-size, and enterprise businesses, across all industries. No matter your invoice volumes, legacy ERP, or where your staff works, we automate your payables process from end-to-end.

Bionic

Bionic's mission is to enable media teams to boost advertising effectiveness through smarter technology for media planning & media buying.

• For Ad Agencies: Bionic automates your media planning and media buying workflows. It saves time, eliminates errors, and improves results.

• For Advertisers: Bionic brings transparency, accountability, and control to your media investments.

• For Ad Sales: Bionic helps you manage your Media Kits, RFPs, and Orders. It gets you into more media plans.

Agency Management Institute (AMI) is a management consulting business that specializes in helping owners of small and medium sized marketing communication companies move up to their next performance level—and keep improving.

The Agency Management Institute was founded in 1995 (originally called Agency Management Roundtable or AMR) with the intention of teaching and promoting the highest standard of business practices and professional ethics among privately owned agencies (advertising, PR, digital, marketing) in North America.

We also wanted to create a network of agency owners that offered each member a safe, confidential and supportive environment in which to learn, explore and successfully master these business best practices so they could build profitable, sustainable and widely respected agencies.

The ultimate measure of both AMI and its network of member agencies is that each affiliated agency consistently contributes to their clients’ growth and stability, are creative and fun places to work, enhance and shape their community, and serve the business owner’s goals.

Our clients include agencies of all shapes and sizes — advertising, digital, marketing, media, graphic design and PR firms — each with the same goal — they want to get better and make more money.

MAGNET is an active network of agency CEOs and Principals of independent advertising and marketing firms. We span six continents, have decades of thought leadership and insights, and create opportunities for growth for members. Our face-to-face approach and culture of transparency strengthens bonds between members and creates relationships to help answer those questions that keep agency leaders up at night.

MAGNET was the brainchild of a group of ad executives who envisioned a noncompetitive network for agency leaders to share knowledge and resources. Launched in 1946, the network has continued to grow and evolve, but what hasn’t changed is MAGNET’s culture of transparency, open sharing and genuine camaraderie.

MAGNET is so much more than just a global professional network of partnered agencies; we are your gateway to unparalleled marketing support and collaboration.

There is a way to get the insights, the scalability, the credibility and the answers to the questions that keep you up at night. With MAGNET, you have a global network of CEOs and Principals who understand what you're going through in running an independent agency.

Scale. Reach. Gravitas. The holding companies undeniably offer them. And if the drawbacks weren’t so equally obvious, one would own your agency by now. With AMIN, you’ll always forge your own path. You’ll just do it knowing you’ve got allies in over 50 talent-packed shops spanning the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. How’s that for gravitas?

Canadian marketing expertise starts here. Say hello to the Canadian Agency Network (tCAN), Canada’s only network of independent advertising, marketing, and communication agencies. No one knows Canada better! Communicating in all languages with complete marketing expertise and a local know-how. From coast-to-coast.

Mirren is a training firm that specializes in advancing the skills of senior teams at agencies in digital, advertising, PR, experiential, and more. For client-facing teams, we provide the new skills, frameworks, and methods to more effectively impact each client’s pressing business needs – resulting in significant organic growth

Fueled by member collaboration, Taan Worldwide is a growth incubator for independent marketing agencies. Our relationships are what makes us different. We’re fiercely dedicated to an open culture, which promotes trust and connections that are often deeper than a typical business network – allowing for selfless collaboration and high-level idea exchange in pursuit of inventive solutions.

Taan membership is purposefully a wide range of expertise across the spectrum of communications agencies. PR, traditional agencies, creative firms, strategic consultants, digital, research, media buying, experiential, design, mobile developers, social marketing, research, crisis management... you get the idea. We believe that each of us offer a perspective that will expand our collective knowledge that will strengthen our businesses. A team of peers that work to benefit each other. Along with broad portfolio of capabilities that enable our clients to extend their brand around the world.

This is not an organization for everyone in this business. But for those who see the benefit of such an open environment, demonstrate the commitment to sharing among peers, and bring to Taan a valuable perspective, these are the agencies that will be welcomed into our organization.