Hi, we’re Chris and Alex

Hi, we’re LockSmith

LockSmith is…

LockSmith is a small team of top-tier marketing capability experts. Founded in 2020 by long-time friends Chris Lock and Alex O'Rourke (née Smith), LockSmith was born from Chris & Alex's 25 years' experience leading world-class brands and passion for unlocking growth in the people behind those brands. LockSmith has since grown into a small team of Master Learning Smiths, our guild of marketing subject matter experts, learning designers and highly-experienced facilitators who are at the top of their game. The best part? Every single one of our team truly shares our passion for unlocking the potential in people and creating a generation of better marketers.

Chris

Chris is rather old and has 25 years marketing experience, gained at multinationals like Coca-Cola and Diageo, eCommerce SMEs like Feel Unique and more recently within UK scale-ups Lily’s Kitchen and The Collective.

He’s worked with every part of the marketing mix, across UK, Europe and Global markets, with teams and budgets of all sizes. In recent years, Chris’ focus has turned increasingly to eCommerce and digital marketing. Throughout his career Chris has coached and developed teams and delivered marketing capability training courses, with a real emphasis on passion for creative thinking and on joyful collaboration.

Alex

Alex isn’t quite as old as Chris but like him has 23+ years marketing experience gained working in multinationals, SMEs and start ups, on some of the world’s best loved brands. Alex & Chris worked together at both Camelot and Diageo, and most recently Alex spent 3 years at Fever-Tree where she set up the Innovation department and was instrumental in one of the most successful challenger stories in history.

Alex has experience across the full marketing mix and particularly loves all things brand strategy and creative development related. But most of all she is passionate about people and loves nothing more than coaching, training and developing teams & individuals and seeing them thrive. ​She is a qualified transformational life coach and an accredited DISC (behavioural profiling) practitioner.

Master Learning Smiths

We are proud to have signed up to 1% for the planet. That means that we donate 1% of our revenue every year to charities and causes that support the environment.

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To play our part more directly, we plant a tree for every person that has a meeting with us, and every delegate on one of our courses.  Our partner is sustainably run meetings.

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