Mike Leibling

Current

• Founder and director at Strategy Strategy™

Past

• International Strategic Planning Director at Saatchi & Saatchi
• Creative Planning Director at DDB
• Market Researcher at HJ Heinz

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Education

• University of Cambridge

Connections

134 connections

Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• My Website

Mike Leibling’s Summary

I work with people, organisations, and people in organisations who want to be (even) better at who they are and what they do.

Mike Leibling’s Specialties:

I'm fascinated by how we - as people, teams, organisations etc - do what we do.
(And how we might, therefore, consider doing things differently...)

Mike Leibling’s Experience

• Founder and director

  Strategy Strategy™

  (Human Resources industry)

  September 1995 — Present (14 years 3 months)

  Mike founded Strategy Strategy to help people and organisations to move on in difficult situations, or preferably to avoid 'situations' in the first place!
  Prior to this he was at Saatchi & Saatchi, ultimately as International Strategic Planning Director.

• International Strategic Planning Director

  Saatchi & Saatchi

  (Public Company; PUB; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  September 1981 — September 1995 (14 years 1 month)

  I was invited back to Saatchis when Strategic Planning was introduced in 1981.
  I increasingly found that I was being asked more and more to do full-time training and coaching and mentoring, so I was helping people, as well as brands, and advertising campaigns.
  The principles are very similar! (Where are you now? Where do you want to be, if you know? Where do you not want to be? What have you tried so far? etc etc)

• Creative Planning Director

  DDB

  (Public Company; OMC; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  September 1979 — September 1981 (2 years 1 month)

  I was poached from Saatchi & Saatchi (to which I returned after two years and one day, but that's another story) in order to build and run a strategic planning department, but with a Creative focus instead of the more conventional account handling focus.
  I built this into a team of seven people.

• Market Researcher

  HJ Heinz

  (Management Consulting industry)

  1972 — 1973 (1 year )

Mike Leibling’s Education

• University of Cambridge

  MA - , Natural Sciences, Metallurgy & Chemical Engineering (why??!!) , 1969 — 1972

  It was interesting how the lecturers all used the 'I've got a full vessel and I'll pour it into your empty vessels' model - ie, sit up, shut up, listen and repeat!

  Activities and Societies:

  Too many to mention, to distract myself from the abysmal (in the main) lecturing-by-rote.

Additional Information

Mike Leibling’s Websites:

• My Website

Mike Leibling’s Groups:

I've been Trustee, Chair, and am now Patron of the Campaign for Learning
www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk

•    Saatchi & Saatchi Employees & Alumni

Mike Leibling’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch