About the Legacy
13th October 26 | Leeds | 50 places available
The Inspiration Behind The Legacy
Mike and Clare Dodds
The Dodds Legacy is inspired by two remarkable people who spent their lives quietly doing one thing extraordinarily well: helping others believe in themselves.
Mike and Clare both passed away shortly after their 60th birthdays.
The Dodds Legacy exists so that what they stood for didn’t end with them.
This is not a memorial. It’s a continuation.
Every participant, conversation, and moment of confidence built through this programme carries forward their belief that encouragement changes lives.
They were special people who inspired special things in others – that continues.
Mike Dodds
Mike spent his career at the highest levels of global marketing, including leadership roles within Ogilvy and Omnicom.
Respected for his calm authority and strategic clarity, Mike was just as well known for something rarer: his generosity with time, attention, and encouragement.
Later in life, he founded a mentoring practice focused not on tactics, but on clarity, confidence, and purposeful growth – helping people think better so they could go further.
Clare Dodds
Clare began her career as a teacher in inner-city London, where her empathy, warmth, and belief in young people left a lasting impression.
Later, she worked supporting survivors of domestic abuse – offering reassurance, strength, and practical guidance at moments when confidence mattered most.
Where Mike helped people think clearly, Clare helped them feel capable again.
Together, they had a gift for seeing potential – often before others did.
A clip of Mike Dodds
The Dodds legacy
Putting Confidence into Young Professionals. A belief passed on. An opportunity unlocked. The Dodds Legacy is supported by Ogilvy, Rapp and The Marketing Skills Trust