Upcoming Training Courses
Strategy Director Excellence Programme
Next course starts 19th January 2026
This new APG course is for Strategy Directors. You may have been promoted relatively recently or you’re about to take the step up. Either way you’re a highly capable strategist with plenty of experience but you now need to embrace a different mindset and start leading the business and the team.
Business Strategy for Creative Strategists
Next course: In-person
17th & 18th November 2025
The course will equip you with the tools to see beyond the client brief and get to the ‘question behind the question’. You will develop more powerful and robust strategies as a result that demonstrate to clients the value creative strategy can bring to their business.
The APG A-Z
Next course: Online, in your own time
The APG A-Z is a series of 26 short and inspiring videos that are designed to give you all the basics for a proper understanding of the practice of planning and strategy. Whether you’re just starting out in an agency - be it in advertising, media, social, design, whatever - and have planner or strategist in your title, or you work for a client or research company and have a professional interest in strategy, this course is for you to do in your own time.
Answer Your Briefs Brilliantly With AI
Next workshop: 19th November 2025
This extended training session, led by Christina Lemieux and Ruairi Curran, is for young planners and strategists. It will build your expertise in answering briefs by making the most of the incredible creative and strategic stimulation that AI brings to the task.
*Dates subject to change
APG Training in association with Tracksuit
Tracksuit is the beautiful, affordable and accessible brand tracking tool to measure and communicate the value of brand-building.
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Built from best-in-class methodology, Tracksuit is accessible and easy to understand for everyone from CMOs to CFOs, brand marketing specialists and agencies to founders.
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Trusted by agencies and over 650 modern consumer brands around the world, Tracksuit surveys thousands of people each week to track consumer awareness, consideration, usage, preference and perceptions of a brand. The data is collected from different markets and demographics, while also being used to benchmark each brand against its competitors.