Inside Out LIVE 2025

About this event

Inside Out LIVE is an exclusive in-person event that unites in-house creative leaders from our community with industry advisors, inspirational thinkers, and thought leaders.

This immersive day is designed to spark fresh thinking, foster new perspectives, and facilitate the sharing of experiences related to the practice of in-house creative leadership.

In the morning we will be bringing the outside in with our inspirational guests, and in the afternoon, we’ll shift our focus inward, providing dedicated activities to help address the unique challenges you are encountering as a leader.

Agenda

09:30 Arrival, breakfast and networking

10:00 Welcome to Inside Out LIVE with Emma Sexton and Sarah Halfpenny

10:15 Curated Connections

10:45 Creative inspiration session: “Visual trends and insights – How It’s Nice That inspire creativity for internal teams” with Alex Bec, Co- Founder of It’s Nice That

11:30 Coffee break

11:45 11:45 SuperFutures with Harry Ead, Head of Creative, DixonBaxi

12:45 Lunch

13:30 Loving High Standards with Sam Pearce, Executive Coach & Director, Train of Thought
In such a challenging industry, we need to be our best to thrive.

‘Loving High Standards’ explores the more powerful route to a high performing culture. By unleashing what is possible in people, and building cultures where people and high standards thrive, we can create higher performing teams, and better success for our whole industry.

In this session we will:

Explore the mindsets that lead to un-psychologically safe workplaces
Understanding how being a good person can in fact be the shortest route to high standards
Look at the key skills required to embed this in teams

14:45 Break

15:00 Challenge Track 1 – Let the Inside Out® Advisors unlock your
Challenge

15:30 Connect with Advisors and continue the conversations…

16:00 Session close

Benefits of attending

• Gain some specially curated industry inspiration
• Gain guidance, support and knowledge from our exclusive network of Inside Out® Advisors
• Meet your peers and grow your in-house by connecting with over 80 other in-house creative leaders

Fees

• Members: FREE
• Non-Members: £350

Booking is essential.

Venue details

Location: Canva HQ, 33 Hoxton Square, London N1 6PB

Nearest tube:

• Hoxton
• Shoreditch High Street
• Old Street

About our speakers

Sam Pearce, Executive Coach & Director

Sam is an Executive Coach for the Creative Industries. He works to bring clarity, creative thinking and commitment to exceptional leaders. He’s passionate about creating a stronger, more successful agencies & businesses, and has coached 100s of people across dozens of organisations.

Before working as a coach, he worked as an Account Man at adam&eveDDB, Mother and Havas on some of the world’s biggest brands.

About Inside Out, the UK & EMEA’s first independent in-house creative community

Business needs brands, brands need creativity, creativity needs leadership.

Established in 2013, we are here to accelerate the impact and profession of in-house creative leadership by supporting our members and the wider in-house creative community to reach the highest levels of influence and persuasion within the brands they are a part of.

About It’s Nice That

It’s Nice That is an editorial platform spotlighting creative practitioners and projects from around the world. Every day it features innovative, exciting graphic design, illustration, photography, art, animation and lots more. Highlighting both emerging and established creatives, it aims to share unique work, creative ideas and processes with its audience