Kevin Allen

Chairman & Founder at Planet Jockey, Inc. & re:kap

Former Vice Chairman, Lowe Worldwide

SVP, Chief Growth Officer, Interpublic Group

EVP, McCann Worldgroup

Kevin Allen is Founder & Chairman of employee engagement company Planet Jockey (www.planetjockey.com), which specializes in gamified learning and collaborative mentorship platforms, and re:kap (www.rekapltd.com), a business transformation company which counts Burberry, Google, Smythson, Swedbank and Verizon among its global clients. He is recognized as one of the world’s most accomplished growth professionals.

He is the bestselling author of The Hidden Agenda: A Proven Way to Business and Create a Following, and the recently released The Case of the Missing Cutlery: A Leadership Course for the Rising Star, which has been featured on BBC Radio’s Four Thought leadership series.

With decades at the top of advertising giants McCann-WorldGroup, the Interpublic Group and Lowe and Partners Worldwide, Kevin worked with such brands as MasterCard—developing the globally famous “Priceless” campaign—Microsoft, Marriott, Smith Barney, Nestle, L’Oreal, Lufthansa and Johnson & Johnson, and was an early part of Rudy Giuliani’s team that prepared the way for the successful Mayoral election and turnaround strategies for the City of New York.

During his highly successful 25-year career he pitched and won in some of the toughest environments and was credited with three industry turnarounds, including McCann Erikson, IPG and Lowe where he brought over $1 billion in revenues and helped his companies become number one in new business performance.

An academy instructor at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and Eurobest Festival, and a visiting lecturer at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and the European Business School at Regents College London, Kevin is a featured speaker at companies like Google, Microsoft and has appeared on BBC.

Follow Kevin on Twitter: @KevinAllenEI