We’ve had a three-year hiatus from the blog, three years off Instagram (save for the odd story) and until recently our website hadn’t been updated since 2021. You’d be forgiven for thinking we’d fallen off the face of the earth. Thankfully we haven’t and we’ve been here, beavering away, working through a pandemic, diversifying, adapting and overcoming.
The last three years have seen us take on some huge new challenges and some big clients, including Global Financing Facility (a subsidiary of World Bank), Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and Women Political Leaders.
Like everyone else, when the pandemic hit, we wondered if we’d survive. Live events, our bread and butter, were wiped out overnight. Before long though, in September 2020, we were back to it but in a totally new format for us. The Reykjavik Global Forum for Women Political Leaders was a virtual event, with nearly 1,000 delegates and millions of viewers via our partners, CBS News. Running an event of this size and scale on a relatively new event platform was certainly a test of our nerves! On the plus side, this new way of running events opened up many doors for us, including a leap into the world of streaming, which has allowed us to run hybrid events with physical and virtual audiences from around the globe.
As was the case for many of our industry colleagues, we didn’t know if live events would return. We wondered what our business would look like when the pandemic was over. Would The Mammoths still exist? Had everything we had worked towards gone up in a puff of smoke? But we needn’t have worried. Here we are now, at the end of 2022 (how?!) and our business is as strong as it ever was.
That’s not to say the last 2 years haven’t been tough. We’ve aged a lot and we’ve had some sleepless nights but ultimately, being forced to diversify our offering has been beneficial to The Mammoths, allowing us to grow our client base and work on some exciting new projects.
You’ll be hearing a lot more from us in 2023 so we’ll see you very soon!