Managing Partners’ Forum

Formed in 1995, The Managing Partners’ Forum is an influential UK-based professional body that supports the growth, productivity, and prosperity of professional services, with a focus on the mid-market.

Mentoring

Peer Groups

Events

Re-tuning your firm

The Managing Partners’ Forum brings together leaders at professional services firms to share ideas on strategic leadership and management excellence, guided by a prestigious Advisory Board.

Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times are knowledge partners.

The Managing Partners’ Forum also organises campaigns and provides an independent voice and direct access
to policymakers. Founder and Chief Executive, Richard Chaplin, served as a member of the UK Government’s Professional & Business Services Council for six years.

Mentoring

– Serve as Mentor or Mentee on the Mentor Match programme

Peer Groups

Same 7/8 members meeting every six weeks with a qualified moderator.
Separate groups for firmwide leaders, COOs, HR leaders and CMOs

Roundtables

Three specialist groups (Finance & Operations; Strategy & Marketing;
People, Performance & Culture) holding regular in-person and online sessions

Management Team Together

Quarterly in-person meetings for all members

Summits

Half-day events held twice annually with cutting-edge themes

Social media

Regular posts to the 2,000+ followers on LinkedIn

Sector trends tracker

Completed quarterly by a research panel of 100 firms

Re-tuning your firm

Online show on alternative Fridays, hosted by Richard Chaplin

Management Excellence Awards

Prestigious awards have run for 22 years, presented at an online ceremony with high profile sponsors

Online content

News, committee members, videos, survey findings etc on website

Managing Partners’ Forum groups

Our specialist groups have held well-attended roundtables, and the Management Team Together in-person quarterly sessions were revived in Autumn 2022 after a 30-month break due to the pandemic. Our hard-working chairs, directors and committee members ensure that Forum programming is aligned with the requirements of our members.  Reports and videos from previous meetings are available as a resource for members.

Management Team Together Group

Given the interdependency of management functions in tackling the big issues, this group brings together all ‘C-suite’ disciplines to encourage dialogue and different perspectives.

Finance & Operations group

The Forum’s Finance & Operations Group provides a formal network of respected leaders who manage and advise on financial and operational matters.

People Performance & Culture Group

The Group provides a formal network to examine the impact of the very real changes that are redefining every aspect of work, and concepts that engender best practice.

Strategy & Marketing Group

The Group provides a formal network for those with responsibility for marketing and business development and tasked to implement their firm’s strategy.

Upcoming events

The International Management Excellence Awards 2024

These annual Awards, in association with knowledge partners Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times, uniquely recognise the contribution of leadership and management to the business of professional services firms based worldwide.

Re-tuning your firm

The Managing Partners’ Forum is delighted to advise that its ‘Retuning your firm’ live show is returning to Zoom monthly from Friday 22 March. It remains open to all at no cost.

Co-hosted by a Managing Partner/CEO, the new format for the show comprises an update from a leading political consultancy; the findings of an original survey/tracker completed by members of the leadership team at hundreds of professional firms; and a panel session with guests to discuss emerging issues of importance to the leadership team.

Individual presentations on either show can be searched for and watched below. They are also available on YouTube on the Re-tuning playlist.

Events and reports

Over 900 senior people from 400+ firms in 18 countries have registered since March 2020. This is what they are saying:

Absolutely excellent.

Thank you again for a great initiative. I keep thinking that they can’t get any better, and each week you prove me wrong! A real highlight of the pandemic.

Your Friday webinar stands out amidst a flood of invitations as the absolute must-see.

The excellent discussions have become compulsive viewing.

Exploiting opportunities in tough times

The predicted economic recession may have been averted (until the next revision of the data by ONS...), but growth remains elusive. Business investment has fallen dramatically due to the toxic mix of Brexit, political uncertainty, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

How do firms balance cost control with the need to invest to support growth?

As leaders of Professional Services firms, we recognise that there are a number of cost challenges driven largely by the current macroeconomic and geopolitical environment. Whether that be wage inflation, higher energy costs, rising PI premiums or looming pressures...

Re-tuning your Firm – Episode 84- Strategy, Focus, People

Episode 84 of Re-tuning your Firm, recorded on 27 January 2023. Host: Richard Chaplin Panelists: Francesca Lagerberg, Global CEO of Baker Tilly International Neville Eisenberg, former Managing Partner of BLP, on leadership lessons from the financial crash Tim...

Re-tuning your Firm – Episode 83- Practice, Thinking, Importance

Episode 83 of Re-tuning your Firm, recorded on 13 January 2023. Host: Richard Chaplin Panelists: Francesca Lagerberg, Global CEO of Baker Tilly International Andrew Hedley, Founder & Director of Hedley Consulting, on the importance of strategic thinking Zoe...

Re-tuning your Firm – Episode 82- Coaching, Marketing, Succession

Episode 82 of Re-tuning your Firm, recorded on 25 November 2022. Host: Richard Chaplin Panelists: Francesca Lagerberg, Global CEO of Baker Tilly International Richard Oakes, Chief Executive of 010 Group on four components of great coaching Virginia Cook, Marketing...

Eligibility

  • Leadership/ senior management role at a professional services firm
  • With two paid-up members, others can be proposed at no extra cost
  • Leading suppliers to the sector
    can apply (only a few are accepted!)

Membership

The membership year commences on 1 July. Dues for those joining during the year reduce by a fixed amount for each elapsed month (£100 for Anchor memberships; £100 for Team memberships; £200 for Peer Group memberships). All rates are exclusive of VAT at 20%.

Contact us to become a member

Or Call: +44 (0)20 7786 9786

Testimonials

“The Forum creates a relaxed and trusting environment in which senior individuals feel able to openly discuss the issues that confront them. High quality speakers and worthwhile subjects that persuade busy senior people to give up time.”
Fay Gillott

Ex-Chief Executive, Atkin Chambers

“Our involvement with the Forum gives us access to the latest strategic thinking within the sector, which is invaluable in this changing world in which we operate.”
Stuart Lisle

Partner, BDO

“There is simply no substitute for the opportunity to share and learn from the experience of peers from across the professional services industry. The Forum enables this, whilst providing a steady stream of ideas and challenge in our rapidly changing world.”
James Entwisle

Managing Partner, Hymans Robertson

Contact Us

For further information, please contact Claire Mitchell, Head of Memberships, at claire.mitchell@pmint.co.uk or +44 (0)20 7786 9786

020 7786 9786

mpf@pmint.co.uk