Why CEO & founders need to stop hiding from their own marketing — join ThreeTenSeven at Leeds Digital Festival, 24.09.26

Not putting yourself out there as a CEO/Founder is holding back your company, preventing investors taking you seriously, and making your marketing team's job much harder. Making time can feel impossible, but that's because you need a system. You might also think it's cringe or cheesy, or only for people with mega confidence. Wrong again — it's one of the highest-leverage things you can do for your business, and it's starting that'll make you feel confident, as we'll explain.

This event will be hosted by Rachel Burrell-Cook, MD of creative agency ThreeTenSeven, who has not just big opinions but proof that building a personal brand helps business. She speaks from her own experience and on behalf of clients and friends who frequently (secretly) message her for tips, always with a tone of embarrassment.

It's part of Openhouse, our creative talks-and-conversations series that's been running for over ten years — but this one's different in honour of LDF: it's us doing the talking this time. We promise no pitching for our services, just inspiration, ideas, and hands-on help developing your own brand and content calendar. You'll leave with a kick up the arse and a practical framework for sharing your opinions with the world, more regularly and more easily.

REASONS TO ATTEND:

- FREE (though we'll be emailing you to ask for an donation to our charity of the year, Bone Cancer Research Trust - totally optional)

- Small session in our creative studio in Oakwood.

- Zero corporate away-day vibes.

- Free pizza, drinks and parking.

- You want the framework and the why, not just "post more" — started in the session and yours to take away.

- You leave with a simple system for regular content you can run yourself.

- You want permission and a push to stop finding reasons this doesn't apply to you.

- Informal and brief, in a room full of other founders and leaders quietly having the same crisis of confidence you are.

- Bring a dog or child if it needed for you to attend

AGENDA

5.45pm — Mingling begins if you need to

6.00pm — Doors properly open

6.15pm — Session starts: the challenge, the framework, live pushback and Q&A if time

7.30pm — Finish

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