My name is Chris Barrington and I support agency owners and their teams to build a more profitable, respected, confident and saleable business. And a more enjoyable one. That’s a tough task. I should know, because I spent ten years thinking - and doing - the same things as many agency owners, only to find I’d built a business that I neither enjoyed or provided the lifestyle I aimed for. It took two years of unthinking to turn that generalist design agency into the expert consultancy I wanted. In doing so my small team and I created one the UK’s most creative and profitable employee engagement businesses.

I work across many aspects of agency life from positioning, new business development, process, pricing, and exit strategy through to content creation, better briefing, project strategy and creative thinking.

• My mission is to challenge and inspire agency owners to build a better business - and a better life - often by doing things differently.

• My vision is to help shift the balance of power in the client-agency relationship in your favour.

• My approach is rooted in the belief that conventional wisdom tends to produce conventional results.

Unlike most business consultants, I don’t offer a theorist’s view from the outside, but a practitioner’s view from the inside. I preach what I practiced. For a daily rate you get my experience and expertise to help make the changes, meet the challenges and seize the opportunities in front of you (or create them).