Just One Thing is presented by Mel Noakes and Max Fellows and is a brand new event industry podcast brought to you by Elevate, providing mentoring and building community within the events industry.
In this podcast we invite industry leaders to write a letter to their younger self and consider what wise advice they would give themselves now if they only could. Our discussion is based on this letter. Be prepared for refreshingly, honest and sincere conversations, wise words of wisdom and insider secrets. We’ve interviewed some incredible people and we’re excited to share them all with you.
Our sound and mix engineer is Matteo Magariello and our producer is Peter Kerwood.
About Elevate - Elevate is a pioneering free mentoring programme that has been designed with a specific goal in mind – to inspire, inform and empower people within the event industry.
Elevate operates, thanks to the generosity of our partners and supporters. Our partners are: Cvent, Jack Morton Worldwide, Live Union, Powwow Events, Protein STUDIOS (venue partner), PSP, The Production Department, We Are Collider and CastleBell Ltd, SPECIAL SAUCE TRAINING LTD (training partner), Times Ten Coaching, Nic Neal (people and culture partners). Our Supporters include; Trivandi, TRO, Xquisite Productions. Together, we’re changing lives, careers and the events industry for the better.
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Just One Thing is presented by Mel Noakes and Max Fellows and is a brand new event industry podcast brought to you by Elevate, providing mentoring and building community within the events industry.
In this podcast we invite industry leaders to write a letter to their younger self and consider what wise advice they would give themselves now if they only could. Our discussion is based on this letter. Be prepared for refreshingly, honest and sincere conversations, wise words of wisdom and insider secrets. We’ve interviewed some incredible people and we’re excited to share them all with you.
Our sound and mix engineer is Matteo Magariello and our producer is Peter Kerwood.
About Elevate - Elevate is a pioneering free mentoring programme that has been designed with a specific goal in mind – to inspire, inform and empower people within the event industry.
Elevate operates, thanks to the generosity of our partners and supporters. Our partners are: Cvent, Jack Morton Worldwide, Live Union, Powwow Events, Protein STUDIOS (venue partner), PSP, The Production Department, We Are Collider and CastleBell Ltd, SPECIAL SAUCE TRAINING LTD (training partner), Times Ten Coaching, Nic Neal (people and culture partners). Our Supporters include; Trivandi, TRO, Xquisite Productions. Together, we’re changing lives, careers and the events industry for the better.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we have the privilege of talking to Michael Gietzen, the CEO of the independent global live events agency, Identity. He started his career as a chartered accountant and now heads up one of the fastest growing companies in Europe.
Michael leads a growing team delivering live events for global brands that include Google, Netflix and Apple and has worked on public contracts clients that include the Foreign, Commonwealth &
Development Office and the Ministry of Defence. Michael is currently leading the expansion of the business into the Middle East with the opening of offices in the UAE.
His agency is renowned for their meticulous management of big-ticket, high stakes events, most recently they helped deliver the Coronation of King Charles III. With a global audience of 2.5 billion, events don’t get a lot more high-stakes than that!
This podcast was powered by Wonder, an independent specialist creative events agency reimagining what’s possible across business experiences. They do this by helping businesses think differently about how they connect with the people that matter to them. We hugely appreciate their support in bringing this podcast series to life.
Our sound and mix engineer is Matteo Magariello and our producer is Peter Kerwood.
About Elevate
Elevate is a pioneering free mentoring programme that has been designed with a specific goal in mind – to inspire, inform and empower people within the event industry.
Elevate operates thanks to the generosity of our partners and supporters; We Are Collider, Owl Live, Special Sauce, The Hoxton, ABPCO, CastleBell, event:decision, TIMES x10, TRO and PSP. Together, we're changing lives, careers and the events industry for the better.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.