Gareth Healey - Agency Coach & Mentor

Gareth Healey is a marketing agency mentor working exclusively with owner-directors of established independent agencies. As an agency coach, he has more than 24 years experience in the sector to draw upon. 

For 15 years, Gareth was CEO and equity partner of his own agency in Leeds, UK. He acquired his business in a management buy out in 2002, transforming it from a family-run design agency, into a fully integrated £12.5 Million agency. In 2014 they acquired a Shoreditch digital agency giving them a London base and a headcount of 175 talented people.

In addition to numerous creative awards, Gareth’s agency achieved Investors In People Gold accreditation. They were crowned “Yorkshire’s Best Company to Work for” by the Yorkshire Evening Post, beating Yorkshire-headquartered PLC, Morrisons Supermarkets in the process. They were also ranked as the top creative agency in the UK outside of London by Campaign magazine.

After 18 years, Gareth successfully exited his agency. Since doing so, he has invested in early-stage tech companies as a business angel, and has mentored a number of tech start-up founders.

Gareth originally developed his love for marketing at University. Over the course of his career he has found a similar passion for people development through mentoring.

You might consider marketing and mentoring to be unrelated. However, Gareth is drawn to both for the same reason; their ability to influence and change behaviour.  Above all, good marketing and good mentoring both start with active listening.  Trying to develop a deep understanding of your audience.