Unlock Moment with Christopher Kenna

A fireside chat with Christopher Kenna exploring entrepreneurship, inclusive media, commercial growth, leadership and the lessons learned from building businesses in fast-moving and highly visible markets. 

This fireside chat with Christopher Kenna will explore the founder journey behind building businesses at the intersection of media, creativity, diversity, technology and commercial growth. 

Christopher is known for founding Brand Advance, a business created to help brands and agencies reach diverse audiences more effectively. He has been described as CEO and Co-Founder of Brand Advance, a company connecting brands with diverse audiences globally, and has also held a diversity and inclusion leadership role with OUTvertising.  

The conversation will look at what it takes to build a business with a strong mission, how inclusive media and audience understanding are changing the way brands grow, and what founders learn when scaling quickly in a competitive market. 

It will also explore the more human side of entrepreneurship: leadership, pressure, judgement, resilience, visibility and the personal lessons that come from building through both opportunity and challenge. 

Who should attend

This session is for founders, CEOs, marketers, media leaders, investors, creative businesses, agency leaders and anyone interested in entrepreneurship, inclusive growth and audience-led business building. 

It will be especially relevant for people building mission-led companies, scaling creative or media businesses, working with diverse audiences, or trying to understand how purpose, commercial performance and leadership come together in practice. 

Why it’s relevant

The best founder stories are rarely linear. They involve ambition, growth, pressure, learning, difficult decisions and moments of reinvention. 

Christopher’s experience offers a valuable lens on how founders build in markets where audience trust, cultural understanding and commercial credibility all matter. His work has sat at the intersection of brand, media, inclusion and entrepreneurship, areas that are increasingly important for businesses trying to grow in more diverse, fragmented and competitive markets. 

This session is relevant because it will move beyond polished success stories and explore what founders can learn from the real experience of building, leading and adapting as the business, market and founder all evolve. 

What you’ll take away

You will hear honest insight into the realities of building and scaling a business with a strong mission and a clear commercial proposition. 

The conversation will offer lessons on founder leadership, inclusive media, brand credibility, audience understanding, growth, resilience and decision-making under pressure. 

You will leave with a stronger understanding of how founders can build businesses that connect with communities, create commercial value and stay adaptable through change.