Helping businesses succeed
What Wise Heads is all about
We are a business consultancy staffed by senior ex-client side and agency marketers. We deliver strategic marketing consultancy to assist the C suite in driving their business forward. We bring to your business experience and knowledge but above all wisdom.
We'd love to talk about your business over a coffee, we'll even pay.
How we help
We bring to your business experience and knowledge but above all wisdom. We aim to help you cut through the day to day to assist in building a strategic plan to drive forward your performance.
From writing marketing plans to structuring marketing depts., providing interim Marketing Director cover or assistance in permanent recruitment.
We each also bring specific areas of specialist knowledge and experience to help on more focused projects. This includes Brand Strategy & Architecture, Brand Development & Corporate identity, Sponsorship, CRM, Performance – (SEO, PPC, CRO), Sustainability messaging, Reputation management, Social Media, Content, and agency management.
We are not an execution or campaign agency but know plenty of people who are if you need an introduction.
The wise heads
We are all seasoned campaigners (from Amazon to BP, from FTSE 50 to FinTech start up), each with over 25 years of experience in marketing.
Gavin Wheeler
Partner
Gavin has spent over 30 years as both a client and an agency principle growing businesses, launching products, new brands and creating new markets.
As a client, he launched Lexus as a new car marque, launched Digital TV and Broadband for what is now Virgin Media and helped accelerate Amazon’s revenue growth across Europe by devising and implementing its CRM strategy.
He launched his own agency WDMP in 2002 to deliver strategic revenue and customer growth programmes for blue chip clients such as Aviva, Hiscox, Talk Talk, Hyundai and Tesco.
Having sold the business in 2018 he now offers consultancy advice to small and medium size businesses seeking help to grow.
Duncan Blake
Partner
Duncan has over 25 years senior marketing experience at BP. He brings unparalleled experience in building, creating, leveraging and understanding brands, as well as structuring and defining marketing depts.
As SVP Brand, Duncan led the brand function for BP globally and was responsible for brand reputation management, crisis communications, brand development and architecture, advertising, sponsorship, and sustainability strategy.
In his early career he launched BP Connect and the Wild Bean Café brands and ran Premier Points, the UK’s longest running customer loyalty campaign.
Latterly he was responsible for BP’s ‘Reimagining Energy’ campaign, designed and created a low carbon accreditation scheme and built the global Paralympic sponsorship campaign. He also led BP’s marketing effort for the 2012 Olympics.
