Organisations and brands are investing more than ever in communications activity, but the business of running an agency or agency relationship is complex, evolving rapidly and for a lot of leaders under pressure to deliver growth and profitability, it can be demoralising, even dehumanising.

We want to bring back the optimism and humanity that drives sustainable success. Easy? No. But possible? Absolutely.

For the better part of two decades, we - David, Dave and Mark - guided agencies through a period of dramatic growth and transformation (and also a few harder, challenging stages of reinvention and renewal). We don’t know everything, but we do have some hard-earned experience we want to bring to leaders in the business of communications.

We created Folgate Advisors - named for the street in East London where we worked together for more than 15 years - to bring our collective experience to bear. For you.