Breaking the performance plateau: Growth, Budget & Impact

Date:

Friday, 22nd August 2025 8:00AM - 10:30AM

Venue:

BIMA House, London

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Join Launch for a lunch panel discussion on how marketing teams can unlock growth, budgets and long-term impact.

About this event

In today’s economic climate, marketing leaders are under more scrutiny than ever. Marketing must perform-now-and prove its value in language the board understands. But what happens when results stall, budgets tighten, and channels stop scaling?

Join us for a powerful conversation with leaders who’ve lived through the plateau and pushed beyond it.

This panel brings together the perspectives that matter most when you’re being asked to do more with less-and still deliver growth.

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What to expect

This isn’t a “tips and tricks” session. It’s a straight-talking journey through:

  • The reality: What performance plateaus really look like, and why they happen
  • The pivot: How to shift strategy, creative, or commercial thinking to move forward
  • The unlock: What convinces a board to invest again-and how to frame the ask
  • The future: What sustainable growth looks like in a changed marketing world
A hamster running on a wheel that is starting to smoke, representing the power of performance content.

Event details

You’ll hear from:

  • A marketing leader who’s faced the plateau head-on and found a way through
  • A CFO who’ll share exactly what gets boards to say “yes” to marketing
  • An agency growth partner who sees the patterns, pitfalls, and possibilities across brands
  • An intermediary who knows what conversations are really happening behind closed doors

This event is for:

This panel discussion is ideal for marketing leaders and agencies looking to help get out of the ‘performance plateau’. If you’re navigating a performance ceiling, trying to unlock budget, or seeking the next phase of growth, this session is for you.

You can expect to leave with:

  • Practical advice on how to escape the cycle of short-term thinking
  • Real-life examples of how brands are breaking through their growth ceiling

If your results have plateaued but your ambition hasn’t, this one’s for you.

You'll hear from

Jaye Cowle

CEO and Founder of Launch

Jaye Cowle is the CEO and Founder of Launch, the happy performance agency, which she’s grown from a kitchen-table startup to a multi-million powerhouse without external investment. With plans to more than double revenue in the coming two years, Jaye is driven by an ethos that happy people do great work. This philosophy has guided her in building a high-performing team that thrives on well-being, growth, and excellence.

Amy Budd

Client Services Director, Launch

Amy brings over 25 years of expertise in marketing and client services, with a track record of driving growth for brands like Canon, Neal’s Yard Remedies, and Toshiba. At Launch, she leads high-impact partnerships that delivered measurable success, championing
client happiness through our connected approach to performance marketing.

Keir

Keir Mather

Marketing Consultant, Neon Bridge

Working together with brands and agencies to build high-performance partnerships that ignite collaboration, unlock creativity, and deliver better marketing outcomes. Former BBH London & Essence Head of Client Services, and Exposure MD.

Fleur

Fleur Horner

The Value Engineers

Dr Fleur Horner is Global CEO of Strategy, Innovation and Design consultancy The Value Engineers. Having started her career in the world of science as an Exercise Physiologist, she pivoted in 2012, joining TVE to work with some of the world’s biggest and best-loved brands before taking over as CEO last spring. Fleur and her team have leveraged their expertise to help brands such as PlayStation, TikTok, Icelandair and Gail’s cut through seas of meaningless data, move beyond decision paralysis and transform the theoretical into tangible, actionable roadmaps to brand growth.

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