Strategy Is Your Words
Strategy Masterclass with Mark Pollard in
Nairobi, Kenya

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Date and time:
Thursday, March 26, 2026​, 9am-1pm 
Light refreshments will be served mid-morning

Venue:
We’ll announce the venue after the early bird ticket phase (March 11). It will be central – think Westlands, Lavington.

Learn and practice the most fun parts of advertising strategy with Sweathead CEO and author of “Strategy Is Your Words” Mark Pollard. This event sold out in Nairobi in December, 2025.

If you have a team of 30+ and want to discuss a private event, talk to us about training your company.

Early bird tickets are USD$195 (approx KES 25,000) until March 10.
Then tickets are USD$245 (approx. KES 31,000).

The first 40 people will receive a copy of Mark’s book “Strategy Is Your Words.”

Group discounts:
Buy 3-4 tickets for a 10% discount.
Buy 5+ tickets for a 15% discount.
How are you going to help make an advertising campaign get inside people’s heads if you struggle to write words that get into your colleagues’ heads?
 
Words are a strategist’s currency but too many strategies are written in spite of their audience, not for their audience.

The Venue

The Great Room – Gaysorn Tower
Level 26 & 25, Gaysorn Tower, 127 Ratchadamri Rd, Lumphini, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

  • The Four Points framework,
  • Ideas–linear and lateral thinking,
  • Insights–how to have and write them,
  • Strategy–how to write it, and
  • Why brands need you to use words better.

You’ll run through over 10 exercises and make your own Four Points for a brand.

From 9am to 1pm on Thursday, March 26, 2026, Mark will get you hands-on with strategy. He’ll take you through the following:

How to work a problem into a creative brief,

How to write insights, and

How to write strategies that get into heads.

Mark Pollard (LinkedIn) runs Sweathead. He’s also run strategy teams at Big Spaceship, Edelman, and Leo Burnett. He was on the Account Planning Group (APG) committee in Australia 12 years ago. He’s spoken at Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, AIGA How Design, Google Firestarters, and more. He also once published Australasia’s first full-color hip hop magazine “Stealth”.

After the Masterclass, you’ll get a personalized certificate with your name, details about the session, and the date. It’s a great way to show your participation and the skills you’ve picked up in our time together.

Buy 3 or 4 tickets for a 10% discount or buy 5 or more tickets for a 15% discount. The discount will be applied as part of the usual checkout process.

Teams can benefit in these ways:

  • Get each other on the same page,
  • Speak the same strategy language,
  • Show your team you want them to win, and
  • Show your team you want them to stay.
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