Connecting global healthcare expertise with local impact in the UK. Rewriting the rules of customer, stakeholder and patient engagement. Driving last change.
Commercial | Medical Affairs | Patient Solutions |
Experience Design (XD) | Recruitment
People-led, insight-driven, technology-enabled.
We develop engagement strategies and deploy the right sized teams to execute promotional, scientific and patient engagement for your brand.
We design, deploy and manage field, hybrid and remote teams who engage your healthcare targets on your behalf – in the right channels at the right time with the right message. Includes promotional engagement and educational engagement with HCPs.
Our customisable contact centre solutions are especially effective when results are needed quickly or within a defined window e.g. launch, seasonal campaign, recent formulary win. Our successful digital sales teams have office-based collaboration at the heart of their culture and service.
Harnessing the power of empathy and insights to enhance access and adherence. Our nurse and clinical educator teams deliver hands on care and virtual support throughout the disease and patient journey. We partner with you to design and implement UK and European Patient Support Programmes (PSPs).
We deliver custom MSL programs designed to build deeper relationships by delivering the right scientific messaging, and spark the right dialogue, at the right time, with the right KOLs and HCPs.
Our tailored, comprehensive and integrated medical information solutions deliver exceptional engagement experiences with your customers every hour of the day.
Our flexible recruitment solutions for clients are the cornerstone of many of our capabilities.
End-to-end recruitment for direct hire into the client’s own headcount, for commercial, medical and clinical functions. Includes strategic services like competency mapping, candidate assessment.
Our consultants provide agile, precise executive search, bespoke leadership assessment, coaching and mentoring.
We deliver flexible solutions to clients in the life sciences sector for short and mid-term needs for a wide range roles.
To help our clients engage their internal and external audiences, we create experiences that inspire a lasting change in attitude, behaviour and performance:
Our Emota teams design and produce live and virtual events, congress and exhibitions around the world for our clients’ internal and external audiences.
Our Nazaré teams create learning programmes and capability interventions for client organisations that transform the behaviour of people and the performance of the organisation.
Our Forty1 consultancy teams create employee experiences for client organisations that enrich working lives and inspire lasting change in culture and behaviour.
of commercial outsourcing experience and clinical education legacy
Net Promoter Score (NPS)
experience in medical affairs
years creatively engaging audiences
Head of Clinical Solutions, UK
Managing Director, UK and Ireland
Commercial Operations Director
HR Director, EU North
Client Solutions Director
Head of Clinical Excellence & Operations, Patients Solutions
UK & Ireland Finance Director
Kate Kelly is the MD for UK & Ireland at Inizio Engage (formerly Ashfield Engage), Kate started her career as a nurse with the NHS, her experience spans over 30 years in healthcare and pharmaceutical industry working in both clinical and commercial roles, leading operational expansion, developing strategy & continuous improvement for both business and people.
As an experienced senior leader she is passionate about providing bespoke engagement solutions that help clients reimagine how they give support and engage with their patients, payers, people and providers delivering solutions to support clients improve treatment outcomes.
Connect with Kate on LinkedIn.
A data-driven targeting and segmentation strategy executed by our Customer Engagement Centre tripled patient invitations and reversed declining vaccin
CASE STUDY (UK) Addressing low HPV vaccination rates among 18–25-year-old women in the UK.
Our client, a leading global pharmaceutical company, needed to build a new primary care commercial team.
Global Managing Director
President, Inizio Engage XD
XD, Chief Growth Officer
XD, Chief Operating Officer
Global Managing Partner
Managing Director, Global
Russ has worked in marketing communications for thirty years, holding strategic and leadership roles in a variety of blue-chip companies including Coca-Cola, Havas, IPG, WPP and Inizio.
Russ is a Marketing Group of Great Britain member; Mentor and Scholarship panel member for The Marketing Academy; Forbes Business Council member; RSA Fellow; speaker for Speakers for Schools, Bloom ambassador, EMBA advisor for Oxford Saïd Business School and holds an Honorary Doctorate from University of West London. He is Chair of Trustees for Creative Mentor Network, former Chair of Isla and NED of Basketball England.
He has been Management Today ‘Leader of the Year’; Creativepool ‘Creative Leader of the Year’; featured as Campaign magazine ‘Top 10 CEO’ & ‘Top 10 Strategist’; voted one of the UK’s ‘Inspirational Creative Leaders’; named by DIMA as a ‘Top 50 Male Advocate for Equality’ and recognised as Women in Marketing’s ‘Equality Advocate of the Year’.
Connect with Russ on LinkedIn.
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