Unlocking the potential in the people behind the brands

Through training and coaching in marketing, innovation and leadership skills

We unlock the growth potential of brands of all sizes by transforming the capability of their marketing teams

LockSmith is Chris Lock and Alex O'Rourke (nee Smith). Between us, we have 50 years’ experience gained in multinationals like Diageo and Coca-Cola as well as start-ups and SMEs such as Fever Tree, Feel Unique and Lily’s Kitchen. We use that combination of experiences to design and deliver bespoke training courses and coaching programmes to develop both the functional skills and soft skills of your marketing team.

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How can LockSmith help?

Functional Skills

We offer marketing and innovation courses that can be run off the shelf or tailored to your needs

  • The Key to Brand Building
  • The Key to Innovation
  • The Key to Customer Marketing
  • Unlock Amazing Briefs
  • Unlock Commercial Marketing Skills
  • Unlock Brand Positioning
  • Unlock Real Insights

Leadership Skills

We work with individuals, teams and founders to unlock their full potential through workshops and coaching

  • Unlock Your Brilliant Best 
  • Find Your Confident Core 
  • Unlock Better Client Relationships 
  • The Key to Getting Stuff Done  
  • Unlock People Potential 
  • One to one career and life coaching
  • Mentoring

What’s it like working with LockSmith?

Collaborative
Fun
Practical
Agile
Creative
Structured
Immersive

But don’t just take our word for it. Listen to what these lovely people have to say.

LockSmith Clients

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Helping award-winning strategists develop ​prize-worthy client relationships​ for The Forge 

Founded by supersmart duo Steven Melford and Simon Garnett, The Forge is an insight-driven innovation consultancy, highly regarded by top marketing businesses like Diageo, Innocent and PepsiCo for their ability to translate what people will care about in the future into commercial returns.​

Although their reputation and business performance was strong, The Forge team had identified a need to shift from transactional relationships to meaningful, personal connections that would set the business up for long-term success.​

Their challenge was that they hadn’t been intentional about giving their client relationships the time & effort needed to unlock that next-level quality that would their business performance. They had a few long-term partnerships, these took years to develop and were the exception, not the norm.​

Unlocking a new generation of Future Leaders​ for Wavemaker UK

Wavemaker is an integral player in WPP’s global media network, and has been one of the UK’s leading media agencies since 2017. From superstar strategists to formidable media buyers, it’s no surprise that Wavemaker has never struggled to recruit top-tier agency folk. ​

Wavemaker’s challenge was developing their top layer of high potential senior talent from being experts in their fields into being effective leaders. ​