Leadership Workshops
Playmaker Leaders is a workshop seminar series for CEOs and Executive Teams who want to develop their people and grow businesses.
This three-part seminar series, managed by BWCommunications, hosts Asian business expert, Campbell MacKintosh and elite business performance specialist, Simon Madden; along with special guest business presenters, like exit strategy expert, Kerry Boulton.
Ben, Campbell and Simon present on the Three Business Horizons, which include examinations of business strategy; branding and in maximising human capacity.
The outcomes include a Toolbox of strategies and techniques to implement quickly and a follow up program from Playmaker Leaders.
We have hosted three sell-out, ticketed workshops, grown the database to +1,000 and seen 92% increase in “Leadership” tagging on LinkedIn from happy participants
Ben as a Leader
Some of No Fussing About agency (2009-2016) Partners and ADs
NFA was among the first “collective agencies” established in 2009
Business & Product leadership
Ben Walkenhorst is known as a qualified transformative brand, business and product builder.
Ben has been providing leadership, strategic direction, commercial and operational development, people management, and innovative campaigns in Australia and globally across various sectors including finance, tech, retail, hospitality and community law for brands both large and small.
He has established four marketing functions and a brand, events and campaign agency, No Fussing About - all with national or global footprints.
Ben has led multi-located, multifaceted. cross-functional product, IT, marketing, communications and design teams. These have been teams of two to workforces up to 200 (100 employees and 100 volunteers) in agencies, in-house and at outdoor Festivals.
Embedded internally or consulting, Ben is able to quickly assess and convert a company's "big market challenges" into effective commercial plans, based on expertly, collaboratively, crafted stories.
Leading with the “Empowerment and Agreement” Model, Ben believes that great leaders inspire the fire within people and great managers ignite the fire under them.
He inspirationally leads large, multifaceted marketing teams to deliver with a high-performance mindset.
What's your verse?
Poetry, beauty, romance, love...music.
My heart pumps faster,
My skin tingles;
When I work with brands to uncover their verse and we create compelling stories for their business together.
Hope, imagine, trust.