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Leigh Hopwood
CCMA CEO
Leigh is the CEO at the CCMA (Call Centre Management Association), an organisation dedicated to supporting contact centre professionals through networking, learning, and celebrating industry talent. Since joining the CCMA as Marketing Strategy and Brand Director in 2013 she has helped build the business into the UK’s largest community of contact centre professionals. Since taking over as CEO in 2020, the resources available to members has grown significantly and membership has more than doubled.
As Chartered Marketer and Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Leigh joined the Board of the CIM in 2014, becoming Chair for three years in 2016 where she led a transformation of the organisation across culture, governance and customer experience, turning significant losses into three consecutive years of profit. She continues to give back to this community and is a Trustee on the CIM Benevolent Fund.
For the last 25 years Leigh has been helping organisations develop their marketing capability. Having led marketing functions for IT companies specialising in niche markets, she has spent time as a business advisor and a marketing coach supporting marketing professionals at all levels.
As Chartered Marketer and Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Leigh joined the Board of the CIM in 2014, becoming Chair for three years in 2016 where she led a transformation of the organisation across culture, governance and customer experience, turning significant losses into three consecutive years of profit. She continues to give back to this community and is a Trustee on the CIM Benevolent Fund.
For the last 25 years Leigh has been helping organisations develop their marketing capability. Having led marketing functions for IT companies specialising in niche markets, she has spent time as a business advisor and a marketing coach supporting marketing professionals at all levels.
Gerry Brown
Customer Lifeguard Chief Customer Officer
Gerry Brown, aka The Customer Lifeguard, is on a mission to save the world from bad customer service. He helps businesses save customers at risk of defecting and breathes life into their customer service operations and customer experience strategy. Gerry has provided organizational leadership on people development, business transformation, customer engagement and technology enablement for some of the largest companies in the UK, Canada, and EMEA. These include National Express, Nutricia, The Royal Albert Hall, Endsleigh Insurance, O2, Screwfix, Sage, Sky, Bell Canada and TELUS. He is a frequent speaker, chairperson, panellist and facilitator at conferences, webinars, company events and other business gatherings, where his many years of business and customer service experience provide stimulating, thought-provoking engagement and audience participation. He is also a published author and his new book When a Customer Wins, Nobody Loses is available on Amazon to help business leaders to create winning and memorable customer experiences.