Michael Farmer has been a strategy consultant since his graduation from Harvard Business School, where he earned an MBA with highest honors and was named a George F. Baker Scholar. He first worked with The Boston Consulting Group in Boston and Rio de Janeiro, and later became a Director of Bain & Company, working in Boston and Europe, where he headed Bain’s Munich, Paris and London offices during Bain’s period of European expansion in the ’80s. Farmer founded Farmer & Company in London in 1990, and shortly after its founding, he worked with his first advertising agency client to solve a chronic profit problem. This first experience was encouraging, and Farmer & Company decided to specialize in the strategic problems facing ad agencies and their clients. Farmer & Company moved to New York in 2001 and continues to serve global advertisers and ad agencies from this base. In 2015, Farmer published the first edition of Madison Avenue Manslaughter (in hardback); a second edition, with updated data and charts was published in 2017 in paperback.
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Speaking Engagements
September 19, 2017
Association of American Advertising Agencies (4A’s) Kansas City Council Meeting, Kansas City
June 20, 2017
Association of National Advertisers (ANA) “Unplugged” Event
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May 8, 2017
Educators’ Summit, New York
March 31, 2017
Mexican Association of Advertising Agencies (AMAP) Annual Conference, Mérida, Mexico
March 13, 2017
Ogilvy & Mather, Book Launch for Madison Avenue Manslaughter 2nd Edition, New York
January 27, 2017
Magnet Global Network Winter Conference, Miami
December 9, 2016
TBWA/Chiat/Day Leadership School, New York
November 22, 2016
Zulu Alpha Kilo Management Conference, Toronto
October 15, 2016
Mumbrella Secrets of Agency Excellence (SAGE) Conference, Sydney
September 19, 2016
MRA Services, Management Conference, Cincinnati
September 11, 2016
The Beancast Podcast
July 8, 2016
Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI), Conference, Dublin
July 6, 2016
Institute of Practitioners of Advertising (IPA) Commercial Conference, London
June 8, 2016
Tongal Chief Marketing Officer Conference, New York
May 18, 2016
Institute of Communication Agencies (ICA) Future Flash Conference, Minett, Ontario, Canada
May 4, 2016
Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Financial Management Conference, Boca Raton
March 13, 2016
The Beancast Podcast
March 2, 2016
Ad Age / Deltek Webcast
January 19, 2016
Media Village Conference, Washington D.C.
December 17, 2015
Content Convergence Podcast
December 15, 2015
Six Pixels of Separation Podcast
December 1, 2015
Edelman Management Conference New York