Membership

The In-House Agency Leaders Club brings the In-House Agency community together to learn from, support and inspire each other, share best practice and problems, ask and answer questions. Think of it as a mutual self-help group for In-House Agency Leaders.

Through events, articles, research and training, IHALC helps In-House Agencies to work better and do better work. It was created in 2020 by ex-Creative Review Editor and D&AD Trustee and CEO, Patrick Burgoyne and founding partner, WDC.

IHALC membership is limited to In-House Agencies only. When you come to one of our events, you will be meeting your peers, whose challenges and ambitions mirror your own.

Typically, our members are Agency Leads, Creative Directors, Directors of Operations, Heads of Production, Strategy Directors, Brand Leads and Directors of Content. Please do not apply if you do not work for, or manage, an IHA. Our Membership Terms and Conditions can be found here.

The core of IHALC’s membership offering is our in-person events and dinners, held in London. In order to get full value from your membership, you should have access to those.

However, IHALC has now also developed an Amsterdam community with its own event programme. Amsterdam Membership will be available shortly.

And in November 2025 we ran our first event in Manchester. We will be sharing news of forthcoming Manchester events soon.

Any member can access any IHALC event, no matter which city it is hosted in.

We host many online sessions during the year which are open to all, as well as helpful content for In-House Agency Leaders on our website.

Team Membership is the best value IHALC Membership option. We want to give Members maximum flexibility to be able to get the most out of the core of Membership – our in-person events.

Every year, we will run a minimum of two One-Day Summits, five Breakfast Briefings and two Leaders Dinners. With Team Membership, you have three places at each one – who you send is up to you, though we would encourage you to send senior leaders as they will derive the most benefit from the discussions that are central to all our events.

Before each event, we will contact the person who administers your Team Membership (ie the person who set up the account) with details of the event, a link to the event page and a Members’ Promo Code. Register attendees using the Promo Code in order to secure places for free. You will be able to purchase additional places at a discount. All specified in-person events are in London. Tickets to additional events will be offered at a discount to Members.

Team Membership also gives you access to The Sessions, our exclusive resource of interviews, insights and advice from In-House Agency Leaders. When you take out Team Membership, you can give access to all team members simply by adding them to your account. You can add or remove members at any time: members can be added by the administrator of the account by sending a unique link to colleagues. To do this, go to the Subscriptions area of your account, then click ‘Manage members’. You will have received an email via Memberful with a link to log-in to manage your account.

You can also log-in to manage your account via this link at any time

Or access the log-in to manage your account and details on how your membership works on our Welcome page here.

With Team Membership you also qualify for £1000 off each of the workshops and training courses listed in our Learn & Grow section. The courses are delivered in-person and can be tailored to suit your specific needs, including allowing In-House Agencies and stakeholders to train together. Simply email patrick.burgoyne@ihalc.com for details. Terms and Conditions for our Training courses are available here.

Membership Terms and Conditions can be found here.

We use Memberful to manage our memberships. You will have received an email via Memberful with a link to log-in to manage your account.

You can also access the log-in to manage your account and details on how your membership works on our Welcome page here

Or log-in to manage your account via this link at any time

Here you can add members of your team to give them access to our member-only content and update your details

Yes. We would prefer payments by card, but if that is impossible for your organisation, we can arrange payment by invoice. Just email fiona.unsworth@ihalc.com to arrange the details

Absolutely! As an Individual Member, you can purchase any of our workshops or courses for your team at a £1000 discount per course.

You also receive one ticket to each of IHALC’s One-Day Summits, Breakfast Briefings and Leaders Dinners. Tickets to additional events will be offered at a discount.

And you receive access to The Sessions, our unique collection of insights and advice from your fellow In-House Agency Leaders.

Yes! IHALC Individual Membership is open to anyone in a senior role with management responsibility for an In-House Agency. You may be a CMO, Marketing Director, Brand or Content Lead, or similar.

If you have any other questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Fiona Unsworth on fiona.unsworth@ihalc.com