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- 1/27/2012: VALUES and how they impact our achievement with guest Jo Simpson Listen Now
- 1/20/2012: LOW RISK STARTUP - Removing creativity and risk from entrepreneurship with guest Jim Beach Listen Now
- 1/13/2012: AMAZING MARKETING - Stand out in 2012 Listen Now
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Marianne Abib-Pech
Marianne Abib-Pech. is the Founder of AWDS a boutique advising/fund raising firm focusing on alternative investments in Europe and Asia. As such, she serves on the board of several venture capital funds and start-ups in both regions.She started her career as an auditor with Arthur Andersen in Luxembourg, then moved to Motorola in London, followed by General Electric where she held several finance and strategy positions in various European countries. Her most recent corporate positions were as Global CFO for Shell Aviation and Head of Finance and Commercial for EMEA Operation of BHP Billiton Iron Ore division. Marianne currently writes a book for the Financial Times on corporate leadership and is a regular columnist for Global Corporate Venturing,The Independent and the Huffington Post. View Guest page
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Joe Adams
Joe Adams Born in the USA, Joe has lived and worked in the UK since 1970. His insight into the sales process, from lead generation to order, was gained as a top sales professional in the USA, Canada and UK. He became renowned for rescuing and establishing new operations. Joe had a long, sales career with Encyclopaedia Britannica becoming MD of UK and Eire operations for 20 years. A period of consistent growth and record profits. Joe then set up Adams & Associates, improving direct to consumer sales functions. In 1997, he also became MD of Success Dynamics International Ltd, a provider of recruiting tools and services, whose well known disc methodology assists HR Managers to make the right recruitment decisions. Joe was a Regional Chairman for the Academy for Chief Executives for 10 years. Is a widely recognized expert on sales management, training and has presented to corporations all over the world. He speaks, coaches, mentors,lectures on marketing,sales,motivation, and strategic management. View Guest page
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Derek Arden
Derek Arden is a negotiator, an author and President of the Professional Speaking Association of the United Kingdom. Formerly a senior executive in financial services where he negotiated the financing of many of the UK takeovers. He has spoken at 6 business schools, studied at the Harvard Business School and is a business practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He uses psychology, sensory acuity to benefit all the negotiation situations he gets involved in. Derek is author of Power Negotiating, presenting phenomenally and Negotiating Success. He has a bi-weekly executive briefing which is free and read globally. This month, he has given his expert advice to and featured in the Financial Times. View Guest page
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Jim Beach
Jim Beach’s first book, School for Startups, was published by McGraw-Hill in June 2011. Jim has started businesses and has taught entrepreneurship around the world. At the age of 25, Jim founded American Computer Experience. From 1993 to 2000, Jim grew the company with no capital infusion to $12 million in annual revenue and to over 60 permanent and 700 temporary employees, operating in 39 states and in three countries. Jim taught entrepreneurship at Georgia State University for nine years and in 2009, Jim founded the School for Startups, www.SchoolforStartups.com/, a web resource devoted to teaching his philosophy of low risk entrepreneurship. Jim has presented in Japan, Korea, India, Dubai, and Egypt and for or on behalf of Wells Fargo, Toshiba, UPS, SunTrust and others on topics as diverse as the “Future of Oil Scarcity,” “How to Export in a Down Economy,” and “Getting to Number One on Google.” View Guest page
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Mette Bloch
Mette Bloch an entrepreneur from Denmark became famous for winning two World Championship gold medals in single sculls rowing in one year, progressing from eighth in the world to first. The mental and physical toughness required to be a world champion led Mette into a study of psychotherapy and cognitive behaviour and into the field of business and individual motivation. Mette is also a well known television presenter, speaker, the author of four books – her latest is ‘The Winning Mentality’ – also a writer for magazines and newspapers. She loves a challenge and in November 2010 wrote, produced and performed a solo comedy show in front of an audience of 1600 to rave reviews. Mette’s greatest personal challenge came in 2005 when she was diagnosed with chronic arthritis, a devastating blow for a former elite athlete. Her mental and physical strength was tested to the limit but now in 2011 she is fully recovered without the use of conventional medicine. View Guest page
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Max Bolka
Max Bolka, is a 30-year veteran of the financial services industry, who formed a very successful nationwide financial planning and investment consulting firm. Along the way, he learned many important lessons which apply to every aspect of life. In his personal life, Max became a 30-year practitioner, student and teacher of Ayurveda ,a 5,000-year old holistic “Science of Life” from India. Applying what he has learned from these two fields, Max Bolka has helped thousands of people with his down to Earth, practical approach to personal growth as a basis for professional success. His advice applies to everyday life, business and investing. Max appears in the book, “Success Is A State Of Mind” along with Les Brown, Mark Victor Hansen and Deepak Chopra. Max is also one of the stars of the new film, “The Keeper of The Keys.” He joins Jack Canfield, Marci Shimoff and Dr. John Gray, and a host of other experts in this entertaining and inspiring film. Visit his website: www.maxbolka.com. View Guest page
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Seán Brickell
Seán Brickell is an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, trainer and author of the acclaimed Don’t Shoot – I’m Not Well! Confidence for when you really need it. He applies psychological techniques, used in war zones, undercover work and successful businesses, to improve your confidence, communication and personal impact skills to make a profitable difference to you and your business. He is in demand by an impressive international client list. Seán, is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, been a network TV newsreader and the UK’s youngest ever network TV news correspondent, aged 21. He’s been an undercover investigative journalist for national newspapers, exposed multi-million pound frauds and even infiltrated a swingers’orgy group! He’s been held at gunpoint, met and interviewed world leaders, film stars and some of the world’s more bizarre, beastly and beguiling people. He applies these skills to help you benefit in your personal and professional life. View Guest page
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Terry L. Brock
Terry L. Brock MBA, CSP, CPAE is a professional speaker and marketing coach. He has written about technology, marketing and the Internet as a journalist since 1995 and been in business since 1983 helping business leaders and professionals to achieve success in industries such as banking, distribution, sales, marketing, real estate and finance. His sessions are entertaining and packed with useful, “put-it-to-work-right-now” information. With an MBA in Marketing he has a background in radio and newspapers and brings excitement and zest to the platform as he speaks. Clients include AT&T where he is Editor in Chief for their blog, Microsoft and also a key communicator for Skype. He brings a fresh, real-world perspective and has spoken in 25 countries. His audiences laugh and learn as they experience this dynamo present powerful, usable ideas designed to solve real-world problems. View Guest page
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Brad Burton
Meet Brad Burton. From a humble start in Manchester to MD of 4Networking, the fastest growing social business network in the UK, the UK’s No 1 motivational speaker and bestselling author of the highest rated business book on Amazon, Get Off Your Arse and its sequel, Get Off Your Arse Too. 6 years ago, Brad was delivering pizzas to keep his start-up business afloat. He used the incentive of £25k personal debt to build a multi-million pound business network and now he is delivering inspiring, hilarious and provocative speaking events on life, business and motivation. Don't let the jeans and t-shirt fool you.... View Guest page
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Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll is the author of Awake at Work, The Mindful Leader and Fearless at Work and over his 30 year business career held executive positions with Shearson Lehman/American Express, Simon & Schuster and The Walt Disney Company. Michael is presently COO of Global Coaching Alliance and has worked with clients such as Procter & Gamble, Google, AstraZeneca, Starbucks, RED, National Geographic Expeditions, Merck, Gilbane, Inc. and others. Michael has been studying Tibetan Buddhism since 1976, graduated from Buddhist seminary in 1980 and is an authorized teacher in Kagyu-Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Michael has a bachelor’s degree in theology and philosophy from the University of Dayton and master’s degree in adult education from Hunter College. He has lectured and taught at many leading educational establishments including Wharton Business School, Columbia, Yale, Sydney and Toronto Universities, and many practice centers throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Australia. View Guest page
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Michelle Clarke
Michelle is a former Head of Leadership Development at Marks & Spencer, responsible for their move into Germany and developing the national leadership team for future expansion. She then built her own business, combining speaking, writing and performance consulting: using Wealth Dynamics to facilitate team and individual success for her clients. Michelle became head of an international social entrepreneurs network building global teams and developing leaders in 22 countries and 55 cities. She launched a global transition project transforming and launching XL Nation, the world’s leading network of its kind. She launched the charity, StepUP Foundation, into the UK to give local teenager’s access to inspiring speakers and mentors. She won XL Nation Directors’ choice for Leadership in 2010 and runner-up, out of 3,000 people, in the Global XL Extraordinary Lives Awards 09. Michelle has been nominated for the Inspiring Women Award and is the UK’s leading expert on Talent Dynamics Pathway. View Guest page
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Steve Clarke
Steve Clarke is one of the UK's leading experts on grassroots sales & marketing strategies. He left school at 16 with no qualifications. At 18 became engrossed in personal development. At 19 found his niche in sales and quickly became a company director. Since then has owned and operated businesses in the UK and USA. He helped grow his last company from zero to £30m in 8 years, becoming one of the “Times Top 100″ fasted growing and profitable SME’s. In 2005 he sold up and was able to retire at 45. Using his first hand experience he now runs his own very successful business coaching and mentoring programs for entrepreneurs. He’s also a member of an elite team of business mentors chosen by The Entrepreneurs’ Business Academy led by James Caan formerly from BBC TV’s Dragon’s Den. Steve, is a business columnist, author of “How To Thrive Not Just Survive”, runs Sales Mentoring Programs and Master Classes, has lectured at University and is a much sought after business speaker internationally. View Guest page
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Phil Clothier
Phil Clothier: Phil is the CEO of Barrett Values Centre, an international organisation working through a consulting network in over 75 countries. He works with leaders to bring about ethical, sustainable transformation. Phil's core values are Trust, Humour/Fun & Love. He specialises in the study of love, values and consciousness within business and society. The core products of the organisation are the Cultural Transformation Tools. These tools have been used in over 5000 organisations to support leaders in understanding people and culture to create new conversations that have a positive impact on employee fulfilment, customer satisfaction and overall organisational success and sustainability. Phil has worked with corporations, governments and NGOs around the worldand been an advisor on National Values Assessments in over 20 countries. In Latvia and Iceland the results of the values assessments have been instrumental in reorienting public policies. Phil is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. View Guest page
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Dr. Graeme Codrington
Dr Graeme Codrington is an expert on the changing world of work. As a researcher, author, futurist and presenter, he speaks to more than 100,000 people in over 25 countries every year, with a client list including some of the world’s top companies. He is the co-founder of TomorrowToday, a global firm of futurists and business strategists. A guest lecturer at 4 top business schools and has 5 degrees, including a Doctorate in Business Admin. With 4 best-selling books published by Penguin, including the award winning, “Mind the Gap”, he also writes for the NewWorldofWork.co.uk blog and is a regular commentator on future trends in the media. Graeme’s breadth of knowledge and expertise make him highly relevant in today’s rapidly evolving business world. Along with his formal qualifications and research credentials, he has a wide range of business experience: Chartered Accountancy articles at KPMG, IT startup, professional musician, strategy consultant and now a full-time speaker and author. View Guest page
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Chris Cook
Chris represented Great Britain for almost 10 years, reaching Olympic, World Commonwealth and European finals. His defining moment came in 2006 at the Commonwealth Games, Melbourne Australia, as Chris defied the odds and became Double Commonwealth Champion. The dedication and hard work that went into his average week involved 4.30am starts, 60,000+ meters of swimming and training in excess of 30 hours. Now retired from International Swimming, Chris reflects over a career which started late, showing no signs of success as a teenager but with hard work, determination and focus, resulted in international medals, national records and personal pride. Chris working with young people in schools, swimming clubs and sports clubs, raising their aspirations and helping them to harness the skills needed to achieve their goals and dreams. Chris also works in with businesses, organisations and councils to assist with their goals and targets whilst creating an impact that develops a team ethos. View Guest page
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Paul Cook
Paul Cook, Managing Director of Planet Planit, is passionate about the events and production industries. He is keen to raise the importance and awareness of effective events planning. Paul also runs a successful business providing insurance for special events (Clarity Event Insurance) and is a leading events industry figure. Paul is International Strategic Advisor to Meeting Professionals International UK Chapter (MPI) the leading professional development and networking body for the events industry, and served as President during 2007/08. He also currently serves on the International Chapter Advisory Council of MPI's global body. In 2008 he was voted Number 15 in the Power 50 of people making their mark in the events industry by Haymarket's leading publication - Conference and Incentive Travel. Paul frequently guest lectures at Universities and Trade Shows and writes for a number of trade journals. His opinions are frequently published by magazines and online industry professionals. View Guest page
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Terry Cooper
Terry Cooper is the Development Director of 4 Networking Ltd and has led the development of the business both in the UK and Australia. It has over 300 business networking groups running five days a week. He is Chairman of a Cloud Computing company based in Bristol and has his own Consultancy company. Terry describes himself as "Passionate about Sales". He started selling at 19 and worked in the printing industry for 34 years, spending his last 10 years in corporate on the main board of a multinational PLC. Terry was a director of several businesses in the UK and Europe during the 90's and has had business connections with the USA for many years. View Guest page
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Matt Crabtree
Matt Crabtree grew up on a farm, studied Agriculture and then turned his back on rural life and entered the world of business, moving very fast and becoming a main board director of a $500mn telecoms company by age 28 and then the youngest senior executive of Barclays Bank by 31. Since leaving corporate life under a cloud in 2003 he did what any lack of self respecting ex-executive does and became a consultant! Since establishing Positive Momentum he and his colleagues travel the world sharing their outspoken, no-nonsense business philosophy with businesses large and small, including major organisations like Microsoft, Red Bull, Citizens and Kraft. Matt says he has come to realise that success in business is in fact very like success in farming - those who are unafraid of getting their hands dirty, going out in all weathers and above all possess a strong pair of boots, seem to do the best View Guest page
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John Cremer
John Cremer has over twenty years of experience with Reading People, uses it daily in his training work and has added many of his own observations to the process. As a highly experienced improvisational performer he is able to engage and enthrall an audience using humour, stagecraft and role play. By “walking the talk” and interacting freely with delegates throughout the presentation John delivers a profound message in a fast paced and light hearted manner. He is the author of “Reading People” and “Improv” John is in demand as a keynote speaker and trainer, his clients include: HTC, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Lloyds TSB, Deloitte, PwC, Logica, EDF, Mouchel, EADS, GSK, HP, Business Design Centre, Vistage and T-Mobile. Speaker of the Decade: The Academy for Chief Executives View Guest page
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Jonathan Davey
Born in the UK Jonathan was educated in Lincolnshire, Hong Kong and Wales and had an early career as an Inspector in the police in Hong Kong. Returning to the UK in 1987 he began a management career spanning retail, marketing, IT and financial services before joining IT Company 'Policy Master' in 1994. He also launched MediQuote and helped develop and launch Eurosure another insurance schemes marketing business. In 2001 he founded Primary Broker Services (latterly Primary General) growing it from zero to 225 staff with a premium income of nearly £100 million. He left as CEO in 2008 to form, Keychoice Underwriting to support c800 Keychoice member companies with a compelling, service led underwriting proposition. An experienced and well known professional in the media, he is vociferous and passionate about the interests of insurance brokers and small business in general. Married with 4 children he lives in North Yorkshire. View Guest page
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Tim Dingle BSc (Hons), PGCE, MIBiol, MBA
Tim Dingle BSc (Hons), PGCE, MIBiol, MBA has been involved in education, management and training for the last 30 years. A former Headmaster of a top school he gained an MBA with distinction and has a unique insight into teaching, leadership and management. He has written 24 books on a variety educational topics. His background in management includes being Chairman of England Schools Rugby and running a successful comedy venue. He is trained in NLP and other advanced brain strategies and lectures around the world. He is also on the Board of the Global Negotiation Insight Institute (formerly the Harvard Negotiation project). Tim was an officer in the Royal Navy Reserves for 20 years and is a Yachtmaster and sailor. He is a successful executive and business coach and appointed Chief Development Officer of The Academy of Vocational and Professional Training in May, a company set to change the face of education and training in learning in the UK. View Guest page
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Michael Dodd
Michael Dodd is a media and presentation coach, broadcast journalist and international speaker. He helps business leaders and other professionals to get their message across - through the media and face to face. Michael’s been awarded the "New Speaker of the Year" title from the Academy for Chief Executives. He has speaking and training engagements on six continents. Michael runs master classes boosting communications skills for diplomats from UK Trade and Investment in British embassies, consulates and high commissions around the world. He works with frontline United Nations officials to help them convey the right messages when being interviewed in the world’s trouble spots. He helps clients give great answers to nightmare questions - from customers, prospects, staff, shareholders and journalists. Michael draws upon his experience as a political reporter and foreign correspondent to ask "blowtorch-on-the-belly" questions - and to show clients what's needed to answer them with aplomb View Guest page
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Angi Egan
Angi is the founder of an award winning retail merchandising consultancy, set up to deliver knowledge and excellence for new and established businesses around the world. Consultancy work has involved working with clients such as Kerastase Paris, BMW Motorad, Rockliffe Hall, L’Occitane, Elemis, Age UK and Wentworth Golf & Spa With over 20 years operational and management experience in both the UK, USA & Asia Angi has worked for some of the most successful retailers such as The Body Shop, IKEA, ESPA and Gap, and in partnership with Liberty in London and Harvey Nichols throughout the UK As an author and professional speaker Angi has developed the refreshingly different Romancing the Customer™ business books which continue to inspire, entertain and communicate how to achieve brand loyalty and lasting differential. This cheeky metaphor has also helped to address the challenge of getting the service message to ‘stick’ in transient, multi-generational sectors like retail and hospitality. View Guest page
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Lesley Everett
Lesley Everett is an internationally acclaimed professional speaker & expert on personal branding & perception management & has presented her Walking TALL Methodology in 20 countries across 4 continents. She is a regular contributor to worldwide media, a published author & Executive Coach. Her clients include several FTSE 100 companies. Lesley is often asked to comment on people in the public eye on their personal brand & image. She has been on UK TV on BBC News and Sky Business & in the US on CNBC, CNN, CBS & Fox Business News. Lesley has had over 150 articles published around the world. Lesley is the founder of Walking TALL Int. She has created a methodology for Personal Branding that has inspired audiences since 1999. Her materials are continually developed via interactive research she carries out and is quoted by other business professionals. She is a Board Member & Fellow of the Professional Speakers Association UK & President of the Global Speakers Federation for 2013–2014 View Guest page
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Derek Findlayson
Derek is a highly experienced business leader with over 25 years of creating and managing major change and transforming small, medium and large organizational performance. He has led many business teams including building a market leading marketing consultancy focused on helping professional services companies (including Insurance Brokers) profitably grow their businesses. His particular strengths include Strategy, Sales, Marketing and Distribution. Today Derek is Commercial, Strategy & Proposition Director for SSP Pure & Keychoice. A pivotal change role in a successful growing business that provides a range of services to the insurance industry. View Guest page
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Frank Furness
Frank Furness is a motivational and after dinner speaker working in 52 countries. A specialist in sales, technology, social media and goal setting. A Past President of the Professional Speakers Association of Europe and Chair of the International PEG for the National Speakers Association USA. Accolades include Toastmasters 'top five humorous' speaker in the UK. Listing in the USA "Meetings & Conventions" magazine as one of the ten most sought after speakers and in 2011 induction into the ‘Speaker Hall of Fame.’ A guest on many TV and radio shows, his YouTube channel is watched by millions. Frank coaches top sports people on public speaking and delegates have attended his ‘Speakers Bootcamp’ on five continents. Clients include the British Olympic Team. He has an Internet Marketing business with 72 websites marketing various products. ‘Walking with Tigers – Success Secrets of the World’s Top Business Leaders’ and ‘How to Find New Business and Clients’ are International best sellers. View Guest page
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Kevin Gaskell
Appointed MD of Porsche GB at the age of 32. His team rebuilt a business close to bankruptcy and created the UK’s most profitable car company. Moved to BMW as UK MD and led the company to 4 years of record growth and a 500% increase in profitability. He was recognised as one of the ‘top 40 leaders under 40’ in the UK.In 2000 founded a dotcom which quickly become the market leader for automotive e-commerce. Concurrently CEO of EurotaxGlass’s where his team integrated 30 businesses to create a world leader in electronic data before leading a €500 million sale of the company. Now Chairman to a number of companies, one of which won the ‘UK FastTrack Award’ as the best investment of 2011. Has played international cricket, celebrated his 40th birthday climbing on Mount Everest, has walked to both the North and South Poles and climbed some of the world’s highest mountains in aid of cancer research. View Guest page
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Mindy Gibbins-Klein
Mindy Gibbins-Klein is an International Speaker & Executive Coach specializing in turning experts into thought leaders and published authors. Mindy has authored and co-authored six books, and her latest book, 24 Carat BOLD has been called ‘practical and inspiring’ by leading business thinkers. A native New Yorker, Mindy resides in the UK where she operates two businesses. She is Founder & CEO of The Book Midwife® and Anoma Press, a cooperative publishing house for business authors. She has a list of more than 500 published clients who have become real thought leaders and successful authors. Mindy has an MBA in International Business and has taught the post-graduate diploma course for the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK. She has been an international speaker for more than 15 years and has presented to over 10,000 business executives and entrepreneurs. As a regular media contributor, Mindy has been featured in national and specialist press over the past 10 years. View Guest page
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Jane Gunn
Jane Gunn is a former London solicitor, now a full time mediator with more than 15 years of mediating commercial cases. She is frequently chosen to mediate complex and emotive cases and business disputes. Accredited in 1996 (CEDR) she is a Mediator Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and member of IMI (The International Mediation Institute). She is a Founder Member of MATA (Mediation and Training Alternatives), specialising in advanced mediator training. Jane provides valuable insight and wisdom into how to identify and manage unhappiness and conflict at an early stage before it escalates and becomes both damaging and costly. She saves high profile organisations and busy executives both money and heartache. Her growing international reputation has led to her speaking in 14 countries including at both the White House and United Nations. She is also the author of a published book on conflict management “How to Beat Bedlam in the Boardroom and Boredom in the Bedroom”. View Guest page
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Roger Harrop
Roger Harrop, the CEO Expert spent over 25 years leading international businesses at the highest level. An award winning international business growth speaker he has inspired transformational change for over 10,000 leaders through his programs including Staying in the Helicopter®. Roger is ranked in the top 10 management and strategy speakers worldwide (Speaker wiki) and was Voted best speaker of the year by Members of The Academy of Chief Executive speakers on two occasions. He is also an author, accredited SME business advisor, mentor, consultant and independent director with extensive multi sector exerience. Roger spent 7 years as Group CEO of a FTSE, high tech industrial instrumentation group operating over four continents. He has run businesses for major multi-nationals and been a tutor with a leading leadership and teambuilding program for over 25 years. He is one of only 6 people worldwide to be awarded the prestigeous 'professional speaking award of excellence'. View Guest page
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Simon Hartley
Simon Hartley is a sport psychologist and performance coach at Be World Class. He helps athletes and business people to get their mental game right. During the last 15 years, Simon has worked with gold medallists, world record holders, Olympians and championship winning teams. He has worked at the highest level of sport, from Premiership football and rugby union to Olympic sport, golf, tennis and even motor sport.Since 2005, Simon has also applied the principles of world class sport psychology to business, education, the charity sector and healthcare. His first book, Peak Performance Every Time (was published by Routledge in 2011) and his second, entitled How to Shine was published in 2012. View Guest page
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- How to Shine - From Good to World Class with Sports Psychologist Simon Hartley and Ultra Marathon World Record Holder Andy McMenemy
- World Class - How focus, discipline and keeping things simple leads to world class performance with former Olympic swimmer Chris Cook and Sports Psychologist Simon Hartley
Jack Higginbotham
Jack Higginbotham is President of Paul Reed Smith Guitars, Limited Partnership, a manufacturer of high-end musical instruments and equipment in Stevensville, Maryland. Jack has worked in a variety of positions since its inception in 1985 including Guitar Builder, Project Manager, Purchasing Manager, Sales, Production Manager, and VP of Manufacturing. In his current position as President, held since 2002, Jack has managed significant growth. PRS Guitars employs about 230 people who skillfully produce around 1,000 electric guitars each month. In early 2009, PRS officially added both acoustic guitar and amplifier production lines, both have received industry accolades at major trade shows. Jack serves as a Commissioner for the Maryland Advisory Commission on Manufacturing Competitiveness, a commission charged with advising the Secretary of Business and Economic Development with regards to manufacturing. He resides in Centreville, Maryland with his wife and six children. View Guest page
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Ant Hodges
John Hotowka
John Hotowka – Speaker, Humorist, Magician , aka the ‘Laughter Dinner Speaker®’ is one of the rare breed of speakers who can either deliver a powerful message or just entertain. He’s an after dinner, business and event speaker who has an engaging, energising and unique delivery of his ‘The Strength Of One. The Power For All’ message. His presentations are hilariously funny, insightful and experiential which all add to the learning experience. Having suffered a crisis in confidence in 2002 he realised somehow he had to dig himself out of the hole he created himself. A bigger problem than you might think, as he always worked alone. His breakthrough came when he realised mindset is the key to success in everything, leadership, working as a team, dealing with change… everything. His success as a speaker is due to three things; his ability to simplify a complex message, his approach appeals to all learning styles and his hilarious sense of humour is so clean… he makes detergent look dirty. View Guest page
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David Hyner
David Hyner is a researcher of top achievers for some 14+ yrs now, and in that time as he has shared his findings, become a speaker, author, broadcaster, adventurer, father and husband. “We have to get out of our own way” says David and stop living a life driven by others agendas and their assumptions of what we are capable of achieving, and WHY we should achieve those things. Most famed for his inspiring keynotes and The MASSIVE Goal Principle audio CD which gives people the confidence to set and achieve massive goals. BBC radio show host, mastermind facilitator and more. David Hyner is passionate about living how you wished to be remembered long after you have gone. His work in Africa and for charity has raised much needed funds and proves that anyone can make a difference if they “really” want to. View Guest page
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Ayd Instone
Ayd is a speaker, author, creative director, graphic artist and publisher (as well as a songwriter, writing nearly 500 songs) with 18 years experience of design and marketing in print and multimedia, including working on the design of Microsoft’s intranet. He has designed global campaigns for major publishers including Oxford University Press and Macmillan as well as setting up his own publishing company, Sunmakers, for experts and entrepreneurs in 2009 which has published over 30 books. He has run his own branding and design business since 2001 and has designed around 300 logos and identities. He has also worked as university lecturer on business and entrepreneurship and as an international speaker on creativity and innovation. Ayd has a degree in Physics and Physical Science from Oxford Brookes University and is the author of four published books including 'Don't tell the Dinosaurs (the Secrets of the Future)' and 'Ding! How to Have a Great Idea'. View Guest page
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Lee Jackson
Lee is a speaker, but he isn’t a “celebrity” speaker. He’s never bungee jumped from the summit of Everest, he doesn’t have a world record – in fact he doesn’t even like camping very much! But he is a great speaker with life-changing content that, if people put into practice, can make a big difference to their lives and their workplace. Born in the North East of England, and now residing in Leeds. ‘Lee from Leeds’ has years of experience working in prisons, schools, a cruise ship (once!), organisations and businesses. A lot of his work is still with and about the world of young people. He is also the author of six books, loves circuit training, and playing/watching basketball and lives with his wife and twin daughters. View Guest page
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Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson has over 25 years of strategic business, marketing and communications experience. Born in Britain, he trained in business strategy development and communication and has worked personally with Richard Branson, as well as directors of many leading global businesses such as Microsoft, Nike and HP. Michael moved to South Africa to work in international advertising, developing strategies for companies establishing a presence or expanding into Africa. Today he is a full time global professional speaker, Master of Ceremonies, writer and specialist in business change, speaking at around 150 conferences and seminars a year; to audiences ranging from factory workers to Heads of State. Consistently rated as ‘simply outstanding’ he weaves personal company and industry messages into his powerful materials. He also, accurately predicts detailed changing market performances, trends and consumer behaviour - while motivating his business audiences to higher personal standards. View Guest page
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Nick James
Nick James is one of the UK’s leading experts on copywriting, webinars and online product launches. Not only has Nick built a multiple six figure business of his own, but also helped many well-known experts to successfully launch their products, seminars and coaching programmes, including: Bob Proctor, Rick Otton, Topher Morrison, Jairek Robbins, Dan Bradbury, Mindy Gibbins-Klein, Andy Harrington, and many others. Nick has also trained thousands of business owners worldwide to use more effective sales and marketing techniques to grow their lists, reach more people, and ultimately get more paying clients. View Guest page
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Graham Jones
As a web psychologist Graham Jones focuses on how people behave online and in particular how your customers use the internet. As a result, he can help you understand their behaviour so that you can engage with them better and make more money as a result. Graham achieves this with consultancy, seminars, workshops, webinars, mastermind groups, masterclasses and through the various books he has written. He is an award winning writer having written 29 books since he started his own business 27 years ago. He also writes his daily blog at www.grahamjones.co.uk.Graham is a qualified psychologist and a member of the British Psychological Society. He is a part-time academic lecturing for the University of Buckingham and the Open University. Graham is a Fellow of the Professional Speaking Association for which he was President in 2011. Oh, by the way, he has also sung on a Top 30 record and literally bumped into Kate Winslett. View Guest page
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Will Kintish
Will Kintish qualified as a chartered accountant in 1971, and practiced for the next 30 years. He ended his accountancy career as a senior partner to show people in the professional and financial sectors how to attract more business. Since then he has presented to over 70,000 people helping them become more confident and effective networkers. He is an advisor, trainer and consultant to many major financial and professional organisations. He trained and graduated with the Dale Carnegie Organisation and is a Former senior National Board member of the Professional Speaking Association. Since 2009 he has become widely recognized as a leading exponent and advisor on the professional social networking site LinkedIn. Will never changes his message “There is nothing to beat face-to face networking”. But when you use Linkedin in conjunction with traditional networking it is a powerful cocktail for developing your career and building your business. View Guest page
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Darrell Knoch
Darrell Knoch—Entrepreneur, investor, real estate authority, coach, financier, author. At age 24 he founded Miracle Heat Inc., designed/manufactured reclaimer for wood stoves/earned two patents. His products sold nationally in major retailers - Home Depot, Lowes, Wal-Mart. Developed/marketed internationally-successful software for the orthodontic/oral surgery industry (distribution in 30 countries). Major Account Executive for telecom industry giant WorldCom/Sales Person of the Year Mid-Atlantic Region, 1997. Licensed contractor, involved in new subdivision development; owned several real estate businesses, including a ReMax franchise, 2 insurance agencies, 2 title companies, and largest mortgage company in Chattanooga TN (USA). Author of Mastering a Healthy Self-Image: The Guidebook to Real Happiness and Enormous Success—an inspirational yet practical blueprint for overcoming adversity, achieving unstoppable self-confidence, and attaining goals for personal and professional success. View Guest page
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Dr. Meryl Koslow
Dr. Meryl Koslow challenges and changes how people think about growing their businesses. With perspectives often contradicting conventional wisdom, Meryl is known for straight talk, honesty and results. At 12, she knew she wanted to become a self-made woman, a millionaire through her own initiative. From a modest and loving background, she seized on a core success essential — education. A bookworm, Meryl poured through library stacks as much as assigned textbooks, initiating a passion for inspired life-long writing and communication. Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill was her bible, and active reading a cornerstone of her approach to a Self-Made life. She has over twenty years experience as a trusted advisor. She is a real estate investor & motivational speaker. Her mantra: Everyone deserves to be a millionaire! Meryl has her doctorate from New York Chiropractic College & is CEO of Timeline Consulting LLC. She is the co-author of 'Self Made Millionaire'. View Guest page
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Neil Laughton
Neil served in the Royal Marines and Special Air Service Regiment (21 SAS) before founding a group of companies in the construction industry. He grew the organisation to £40m turnover and then sold the business to Balfour Beatty Plc. Neil holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Studies, a Certificate in Direction from the Institute of Directors and is a recipient of the Ness Award for “Inspirational leadership” from the Royal Geographical Society. In his spare time Neil leads adventurous expeditions all over the world. He has completed the Explorers Grand Slam – climbing the highest mountain on each continent including Mt. Everest and skiing to both the Geographic North and South Poles. He has also made twelve first ascents in Greenland, circumnavigated the UK on a jet-ski and piloted the world’s first road legal bio-fuelled flying car across the Sahara Desert. View Guest page
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Jim Leighton
Jim Leighton is the President of Perdue Foods, the third largest poultry company in the United States. With over thirty-five years of experience in the consumer packaged goods food and beverage industry, Jim held senior management and executive positions with ConAgra Foods, The Hain-Celestial Group, Celestial Seasonings and Nabisco. Jim was founder and CEO of National Health Management Inc. and a graduate of University of Iowa. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and has taught Leadership and Organizational Behavior as a Senior Faculty Member at Keller Graduate School of Business. Jim serves on the Board of Directors at Smart Balance Inc., multiple trade association boards and Atlantic General Hospital Corporation and Foundation Boards. He lives with his wife, Fritzi, in Berlin, Maryland. View Guest page
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Steve Levinson
Dr. Steve Levinson, is a clinical psychologist, inventor and entrepreneur who has devoted much of his career to understanding why people often fail to follow through on their own good intentions. He is the inventor of an ingeniously simple electronic device called the MotivAider that has helped thousands of people in over 40 countries follow through on making desired changes in their behavior and habits. He is president of Behavioral Dynamics, Inc., a company he co-founded in 1987 to develop, manufacture and market the MotivAider. Steve is also author of the critically-acclaimed book,'Following Through' (co-written by Pete Greider). A popular speaker and consultant who combines expertise in psychology with a passion for helping organizations and individuals follow through, he has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs including ABC's 20/20. Steve is currently working with Chris Cooper on a book to help entrepreneurs transform their good business intentions into great results. View Guest page
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Deri Llewellyn-Davies
When it comes to Deri Llewellyn-Davies, the phrase ‘suited and booted’ takes on a new meaning. As the UK’s leading authority on bringing strategy alive, Deri spends his days in a pinstriped three-piece and his spare time climbing the highest summits in the world. Deri loves business and adventure in equal measure and the same motivation underpins both: a fascination with life and a curiosity that always leads him to ask, “Why?” or more importantly, “Why not,” as he believes anything is possible. That questioning is key in his role as CEO of Business Growth International, as he helps leaders in both FTSE 500 and entrepreneurial companies take their businesses (and themselves) to the next level. With over 15 years’ experience of the commercial markets, Deri knows that whatever issues businesses are facing – from funding shortages to management fall-outs, redundancy to bankruptcy – he’s personally been there and got the T-shirt. View Guest page
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Andy Lopata
Andy Lopata is, in the words of The Financial Times, "One of Europe's Leading Business Networking Strategists". Andy works with companies on how to use networking strategies to develop their businesses. "Networking is not just about sales. Whether for lead generation, breaking down silos internally, recruitment and retention of top staff or developing future leaders, networks and collaboration have a key role to play". Andy works with clients to recognise that role and put the strategy and skills in place to leverage it. Andy has a regular blog in The Huffington Post and been quoted in quality business press around the world. He has co-authored two books on networking, with his third published by Financial Times Prentice Hall in August 2011.For eight years, Andy was Managing Director of Business Referral Exchange, one of the UK's leading referral-focused networking groups with over 2,000 member companies. He supports Charlton Athletic football club. View Guest page
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Carroll Macey
Carroll Macey is a people development consultant, coach and facilitator. Initially working in sales to board level, she retrained as a psychotherapist before moving into corporate learning and development and then establishing CM2 Consulting UK Ltd. Her purpose is to inspire change, success and growth in individuals to enable them to play their best game. View Guest page
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Lesley Matile
Lesley Matile’s passion enables others to find and sustain high levels of motivation so that they do their best - always. Her career began unusually with 15 years as a probation officer, working with those at high risk of reoffending, many of whom had committed serious sexual and violent offences. Here, Lesley faced huge challenges helping them find the determination and commitment needed to change their harmful entrenched behaviour. In 2000, she found this combination of coaching and motivation in very tough situations was in high demand as she transferred into the corporate world. Under her wisdom, over 10,000 coaches and mentors were professionally trained while she was Managing Director of a major coaching brand. Today, as founder of Peak Performance Coaching Ltd she acts as an executive coach and coach supervisor, trainer, speaker and coaching thought leader. Lesley promises her long overdue book, sharing her unique perspectives on motivational coaching will be completed in 2012. View Guest page
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Brian Mayne
Brian Mayne is an inspirational speaker, author and teacher, and creator of the world-leading achievement system ‘Goal Mapping’. Born into a nomadic fun-fair family he left school with no qualifications and a poor education. At 29 years old his family business failed and he was a million pounds in debt. At this low point he discovered you can change your life by changing how you think about it. Now an international speaker, he empowers hundreds of thousands of people globally with his unique success systems. Author of four books, he is getting close to achieving his core goal of helping to lift seven million lives with his work. View Guest page
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Richard McCann
Richard McCann is a Sunday Times No1 Bestselling author. His first book, ‘Just a Boy’, sold almost half a million copies and has been translated around the world. The BBC made a film about his extraordinary life story. Brought up on the ‘At Risk’ register until his mother was murdered by the notorious Yorkshire Ripper, Richard went on a downward spiral. Foster homes, childrens home and then a violent upbringing by his estranged father. He left school with no qualifications, was kicked out of the army before turning to drugs. After a prison sentence for a drugs offence, and his home about to be possessed, Richard hit rock bottom and considered taking his life. At this point, he found the determination to turn his life around and fight for a better future. Now married with a family of his own, author of three books, and a much sought after inspirational speaker, Richard puts his now significant life success down to his ‘iCan’ attitude. View Guest page
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Andy McMenemy
Andy McMenemy would tell you he is as ordinary as the next guy, but he does admit to having done some extraordinary things. From climbing the heights of the corporate career ladder holding senior management roles in £500 million and £1.3 billion organisations and jumping off it, Andy constantly pushes outside of his comfort zone. Having completed some of the toughest foot races on earth, including the infamous Marathon des Sables, he is best known when, in 2011, he completed a World Record bid to run 66 Ultra Marathons in 66 consecutive days in the 66 official cities of the UK. Despite crippling injuries, including a damaged Achilles tendon on day 2 and strong medical advice to abandon his attempt, he carried on – and succeeded against the odds. He also proudly carried the Olympic torch in 2012. He is an inspirational speaker and performance development coach inspiring audiences to strive for their potential, and to compete in our ever demanding world, how to develop mental toughness. View Guest page
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Andy Milligan
Andy is a leading international brand and business consultant. He advises CEOs, boards and senior managers, on strategies for developing brands and growing business. Andy’s experience includes hotels and hospitality, airlines, financial services, packaged goods, telecommunications, sports and pharmaceuticals. He has directed major programmes in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the USA and Europe. Clients worked with include Unilever, Thai Airways, Orange, IHG, Nissan, Barclays, FIFA, Sage, Arcadia and Roche. Andy is often on CNN, BBC, and CNBC and is a regular international conference speaker. He has published five best selling books: See, Feel, Think, Do exploring use of instinct in business; Brand It Like Beckham analysing David Beckham as a celebrity brand; Uncommon Practice examining the link between great brands and their corporate cultures and Don’t Mess With The Logo a guide to brand building. BOLD - how to be brave in business and win was awarded CMI’s Management ‘e-book of the year’ award for 2012 View Guest page
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Derek Mills
The son of Jamaican immigrants, Derek was born and grew up happily until when he was 13, his mother unexpectedly died. This plunged him into the world of a stutterer. After school and various menial jobs, Derek went into financial services. Throughout his young life Derek had great financial challenges and debt. His situation became dire, when his family home was moments away from being repossessed by the bank. Over the next four years he turned his life and business around and people began to ask him how he did it. As he began to refine his 10 Second Philosophy®, using the power of TrueSelf and the utilization of Standards instead of goals, he began to speak publicly and to coach and advise others. Derek is now an international speaker on his philosophy for success and a featured expert in the personal development movie “Keeper of the Keys” starring Jack Canfield, John Gray and Marci Shimoff. His first book, ‘The 10 Second Philosophy®’ is due to be published in September by Hay House. View Guest page
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Eilidh Milnes
Eilidh Milnes (pronounced Ay-lee) is a teacher turned motivational speaker, columnist and award winning author. Drawing on three decades of working as a programme presenter and facilitator, Eilidh is now an internationally acclaimed inspirational speaker and coach; well deserving her reputation as “The Confidence Coach”. Eilidh’s areas of specialist expertise include professional development, wellbeing and productivity. With a family of her own, Eilidh recognises the often conflicting priorities faced by those working in pressured and frequently stressful environments. Using her natural, empathic intuition combined with extensive proven expertise. Eilidh has achieved amazing results with people of all ages and levels of responsibility. She helps businesses, organisations and individuals develop ‘no-nonsense communication’. Her corporate clients include PWC, BAE Systems, Morgan Stanley, Barclays and Hochtief. She is married with two children. Her head office is in the UK. View Guest page
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Dr. Ivan Misner
Dr. Ivan Misner is the Founder & Chairman of BNI, the world's largest business networking organization. BNI has over 6,000 chapters worldwide. In 2012 BNI generated 7.1 million referrals resulting in $3.3 billion dollars worth of business for its members. Dr. Misner's Ph.D. is from the University of Southern California. He is a NY Times Bestselling author who has written 17 books - his latest bestseller is Business Networking and Sex. He is a columnist for Entrepreneur.com & Fox Small Business Center and the Senior Partner for the Referral Institute - a referral training company. Called the "Father of Modern Networking" by CNN & the "Networking Guru" by Entrepreneur magazine, Dr. Misner is one of the world's leading experts on business networking & has been a keynote speaker for major corporations & associations worldwide. He has been featured in the L.A. Times, Wall Street Journal, & NY Times, as well as numerous TV & radio shows including NBC’s Today Show, CNN, CNBC, & BBC in London View Guest page
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Bob Nicols, Jr.
Bob Nicols, Jr. has 34 years of experience in sales, sales management, executive management and sales force development. Founder of AXIOM Sales Force Development, Bob has managed and mentored thousands of sales people, sales managers and senior managers, and been responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. For 21+ years he has developed and delivered sales programs that have become the standard for many Fortune 100 companies, including AT&T, BellSouth, Alltel, Verizon Wireless and ESPN, with AXIOM programs now implemented in over 30 countries. Bob’s highly energetic and insightful lectures and workshops have resulted in feature presentations at dozens of national and international sales meetings and conferences. The original developer of AXIOM’s Selling Sciences ProgramTM, Bob’s new book, The Journey to Sales Transformation: 25 AXIOMS to Achieve Trusted Partner Status with your Customers, is available via all major online book retailers. View Guest page
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Cathy O'Dowd
Cathy O'Dowd is the first woman in the world to climb Everest from both sides. The South African climber, speaker and author has been on the mountain as the last minute ‘token woman’ team-member, and as an expedition leader. She has worked in partnership with a wide range of international teams, and has climbed on a team attempting a new route, the only expedition on the entire east face. She has survived the ‘worst storm in the history of Everest’ and she has faced warring team members as ego ran rampant. She has experienced both the thrill of the summit and the reality of failure, and has paid the ultimate price with the loss of fellow climbers. Cathy draws on this wide-ranging experience of teams under acute pressure attempting overwhelming challenges in her work with corporations. Her stories touch on themes of importance to anyone trying to get the best out of people. Cathy remains an active adventurer with two major expeditions coming up in 2012. http://cathyodowd.com View Guest page
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Mike Ogilvie
Mike Ogilvie is an experienced Chartered Accountant by training. However, although the major shareholder and managing director of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers OBC The Accountants, most of his time is focused on his work as one of the UK's leading Profit Coaches, with his company The Profit Team. Mike is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-linguistic programming, and was a founding Director of The Association of Profit Advisers.When he is not using his skills and experience to help his clients focus on increasing their profitability, he is an international motivational speaker talking at Conferences and Seminars in the UK and abroad where, among other things, he inspires his audience to adopt a Profit Culture in their businesses. View Guest page
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Mike Pagan
Mike is a professional inspirational and motivational MC and conference speaker. He is also a facilitator and Managing Director of 'Breaking Frontiers Ltd'. Mike talks on key business issues such as productivity,, Measuring Marketing Effectiveness and Clients are for Life not just for Profit. As one of Europe’s leading motivational speakers Mike delivers keynote speeches that are dynamic and inspiring - his keynote ‘Stop Faffing About’ inspired his first book 'FAFF' 'The False Art of Feeling Fulfilled'. Mike lives in Warwickshire, England after several years living in Australia and is married with three children. View Guest page
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Martin Palethorpe
Martin Palethorpe is a highly experienced Executive Coach and Culture Development Consultant, and founder of The Pragma Group. He's been working in the fields of human potential, leadership, team and culture for the last 16 years, from entrepreneurial start-ups to FTSE100 organisations. He has a deep-rooted passion for advising, challenging and inspiring leaders to develop themselves and their organisations to maximise long-term performance. He is co-founding leader of the UK Values Alliance, a movement committed to developing a values-driven UK society. Martin writes regularly for various business magazines. Martin is also a part-time adventurer. He's cycled the length of Britain twice, raced to the North Pole, and run across the Gobi and Sahara deserts. View Guest page
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Vinay Parmar
In the year 2000 Vinay Parmar's life was going to plan. He was enjoying a successful corporate career with Europe's largest online bank, he just purchased his first home and he was looking forward to marrying his soul mate on what was supposed to be the biggest day of his life…only he didn’t realise just how ‘big’ that day would be. In a cruel twist of fate, Vinay tragically lost his Mom on his wedding day to a lethal strain of meningitis. It was the first in a series of curveballs that life was to throw him. Today, inspired by his challenges, Vinay is a sought after inspirational speaker who draws on his experiences and life lessons to help people to deal with sudden change in life and business more effectively so that they can quickly move forward and turnaround their performance - what he calls “BounceBackAbility”. Vinay recently published his inspiring and moving story in his book “A Passage To India” of which 50% of the profits are being given to charity. View Guest page
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Louis Parsons
For over 16 years, Louis has devoted himself to an understanding of the human spirit. This is reflected, not just in his art, but also in his writings, his talks and the “Art Of SoulScaping” workshops he has run for organisations such as Hilton Hotels, Mars, Ebay and Microsoft.Louis has become exceptionally skilled at showing high level business executives how to unleash the creative energy that lives within them and their company.His natural gifts as a communicator are enhanced by his qualification as a professional Insights Coach: a skill that allows him to put his clients at ease so that he can capture the essence of what is most precious to them.His art is collected worldwide. Recently made Artist in Residence for The Four Seasons Kuda Huraa, and Four Seasons London, Louis is on a quest to enable art to express the power and freedom that lives in all of us.Recently, one of Louis' SoulScapes was auctioned and raised £120,000 for charity. View Guest page
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Jonathan Pfahl
Jonathan Pfahl is the founder and Managing Director of the Rockstar Mentoring Group, part of the Rockstar Group of Companies. Jonathan set up The Rockstar Mentoring Group in 2007 wanting to create a model for ALL types of businesses to benefit from what he calls REAL MENTORING. His first experience was at Goldman Sachs where his mentor set him a financial goal to achieve within 6 months. The goal was achieved by month 4 and by month 6 it was 44% better than expected! Secondly was in London Property where his mentor helped him buy 26 properties in London in his first year! Rockstar now has companies in mentoring and property in 3 different parts of the world as well as vested interests in 9 different private companies that he has invested in. Whilst still only in his 30's, Jonathan is a driven and successful entrepreneur who is passionate about working with entrepreneurs who are determined to see their business grow. View Guest page
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Judy Piatkus
Judy Piatkus founded her independent publishing company Piatkus Books from her bedroom in the early 1980s. She was married and had three children. Her eldest daughter has cerebral palsy. Over the next 25 years she grew it into one of the leading independent book publishing companies in the English-speaking world. Piatkus Books was a pioneer of new ideas in personal development, and alternative health. Piatkus supported new novelists and licenced the rights to some of America’s greatest commercial novelists into the UK and abroad. Authors published by Piatkus include many famous storytellers, Nora Roberts, J D Robb, Linda Howard, Danielle Steel, Robert Crais. Judy sold her company to Little Brown before the credit crunch in 2007 and now works as a management consultant, investor and mentor. She is also a keynote speaker on entrepreneurship, future trends and building a great business. In 2009 the Times of London described Judy as ‘one of the world’s leading thinkers’. View Guest page
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Adrian Pike
Adrian Pike is co-founder and CEO of leading energy efficiency solutions company, Anesco. Anesco works with local authorities, businesses and homeowners looking to reduce their carbon emissions. The company manages many of the country’s largest and most complex energy efficiency projects. It has been recognised as one of the UK’s fastest growing private companies in the Sunday Times Fast Track and is one of the fastest growing renewable energy companies in Europe. Adrian is the driving force behind Anesco’s commitment to its people and their ongoing professional development. All employees are trained against company values and objectives and the company strives to ensure all employees reach their full potential. Anesco recently joined only 3.2% of organisations in the UK to ever achieve Investors in People gold accreditation, also becoming one of only a handful of organisations to achieve gold, without first having worked through the bronze and silver standards. View Guest page
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Stuart Powell
Stuart Powell is Managing Director of Inspiring Influence Ltd, an Ambassador for Young Enterprise UK, a business speaker and one of the UK's leading professional development trainers and coaches both of and for his generation. Having once been one of the UK's youngest professionally qualified coaches, Stuart's career has in many ways been back to front, unconventional and not without its' challenges. In 2009 however he was highlighted by the Yorkshire Post as being one of the top 100 people aged under 30 most likely to influence the region in the coming years. He has spoken to, trained and coached people at all stages of their career and at all levels of influence in a variety of industries both public and private sector, including professional services, FMCG, construction, healthcare and education to name but a few. View Guest page
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Geoff Ramm
Geoff Ramm is a multi-award winning professional marketing speaker based in the United Kingdom who has recently keynoted to rave business reviews throughout Europe, Southern Africa and the Middle East. Renowned as the ‘Billy Connolly of marketing’ Geoff inspires entrepreneurs and corporate audiences alike with his quick paced, highly interactive creativity. As the creator of ‘Observational Marketing’ he takes every audience on a journey of memorable real life marketing stories and ideas that not only enthral, enthuse and inspire but will help ignite your business creativity, gain and retain more customers and completely stand out from the competition. He is a Fellow of the Professional Speaking Association in the UK and is a member of the Global Speakers Federation as well as being a UK Enterprise Ambassador. View Guest page
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John E Regan
John E Regan is a professional Actor, Director, Keynote speaker, Musician, Film maker and Screen acting coach. He is the author of 3 books.‘Yes you can’, a motivational book on life’s choices. ‘Presentation Tips’, a book on public speaking and a fast selling Internet e-book entitled ‘How to become an actor’. John is a graduate of the Stanislavski studio in London in the early sixties. Early film appearances included ‘The Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines’ and ‘Heroes of Telemark’; however, he has lived for most of his life in Australia where he worked professionally in films, theatre and television. He ran his own acting studio in Brisbane, and trained actors in the Stanislavski/Strasberg methods of naturalistic screen acting. John’s motivational keynote programs relate to breaking away from limiting beliefs and values and of taking responsibility for our life’s journey. John now lives in Galway in Ireland. View Guest page
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PETER ROPER
PETER ROPER FPSA International Speaker, Best Selling Author and Broadcaster For two decades Peter had a very successful corporate career with organisations such as Lombard North Central and Arval PHH. From 1996, Peter went on to establish four new businesses of his own; two of which he says have been fantastic failures - and fortunately two others which have been stunning successes! During his career he has spoken to over 400,000 people and in several countries. Known as the ‘Natural Presenter’, Peter became National President of the Professional Speaking Association (2009-2010) and remains on the PSA board and has been accredited with ‘Fellow’ status - the pinnacle of the profession. Peter is the author of several books including the best seller ‘… And Death Came Third!’ the definitive guide to networking and speaking in public, and his latest book ‘Running On Empty’ –How to gain success from failure in business. View Guest page
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Billy Schwer
Billy Schwer spent 20 years in arguably the most grueling and demanding sport there is – Boxing. During his career he won British, Commonwealth, European and IBO World Titles. Billy’s skills, courage, determination and grace in the ring attracted a huge fan base and his personality made him a favourite amongst other boxers, promoters and the media. Using lessons learned in pursuing the world championship, life experiences after retirement, and guided by his passion for living, Billy has built a successful business as an Inspirational & Motivational Speaker and Performance Coach. Billy believes to produce world-class results requires a balance of mental, physical and nutritional fitness. Actively involved in many Charities, Billy set up The Billy Schwer Foundation and delivers speaking sessions and “The Mental Boxing” workshop in Schools, Youth Offending Institutes and organisations including Turning Point, The Princes Trust, Compass and others that support people to reach their potential. View Guest page
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David Shephard
David Shephard is one of the world’s leading personalities in personal development and a specialist in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Time Line Therapy® and Hypnosis. He has taught thousands of people to achieve their goals and realise their dreams through his London-based company, The Performance Partnership. In 1993, his career was flying high in the City but his personal life, was in turmoil. So he decided to achieve something more fulfilling and achieved the status of "Master Trainer" of NLP, involving over 2,000 hours of study and practice. Since then, he has taught NLP for over 30,000 hours. He is President of one of the biggest boards of NLP in the world and on the advisory committee of the UK's biggest association. He also works with the charity "The Warrior Programme" and is a much sought after therapist. Originally from Mansfield he lives in Richmond, London. He plays the guitar, is an avid watch and car collector, and his dream is to play a gig like Elvis! View Guest page
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Steve Siebold
Steve Siebold is a former professional athlete and national coach. Today he helps Fortune 500 companies increase sales through mental toughness training. His clients include Johnson & Johnson, Toyota, and Procter & Gamble. He’s written six books on mental toughness with over 200,000 copies in print. Steve has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, ABC News and hundreds of other TV shows around the world. He’s quoted regularly in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes and numerous other business publications. As a professional speaker, Steve ranks among the top 1% of income earners worldwide. In 2011, Steve was named Chairman of the National Speakers Association’s Million Dollar Speakers Group, which is a group of 39 speakers from around the world that earn at least one million dollars per year delivering speeches. View Guest page
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Jo Simpson
Jo Simpson is a leading authority in the arena of Values Based Leadership. Jo has lead countless corporate teams to greater success through the application of her innovative approach to leadership and executive management practices. It was Jo's journey to Dubai in 2005, that inspired her to establish her groundbreaking company and to pioneer coaching and mentoring in the Middle East, where she helped to transform the business and management culture of numerous international and locally based organizations. Companies that have entrusted Jo to work with their senior leaders include Credit Suisse, Barclays Bank, KPMG, Grant Thornton, Microsoft, Nokia, L’Oreal and Smith and Nephew. In 2009, Jo made an intuitive decision to return to the UK where she continues to be a leader in the world of executive coaching and values based leadership. Jo’s latest book ‘The Restless Executive’ - A values-driven journey of discovery and transformation will be published later this year. View Guest page
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Shaun Smith
Shaun is a leader in expanding management attention from the narrow focus on customer service to the wider, more strategic drive towards customer experience. He has developed some of the latest thinking around this subject helping many organisations within multiple industries, world-wide create compelling customer experiences that achieve brand differentiation and customer loyalty. He is co-author of four acclaimed business books. Shaun’s latest book “Bold - how to be brave in business and win” examines those brands that are transforming their markets through the use of innovative business practices and the use of digital marketing. The book was awarded CMI’s Management ‘e-book of the year’ award for 2012. Shaun has spoken to audiences across the world and in many sectors. He is a Fellow of the Professional Speakers Association and Member of the Global Speakers Federation. Shaun was recently presented with the Professional Speaking Award of Excellence. View Guest page
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Milos Stankovic
Born to Yugoslav and Scottish parents in Rhodesia, Milos Stankovic was raised in Britain speaking Serbo-Croatian and English. Educated in Latin and Greek, he went on to study Russian at Manchester University and in the USSR. From the outset he had a deep understanding of linguistics and of cultural differences between the West and East. During the Cold War he joined Britain’s elite Paras - 20 years active service in Northern Ireland, Central America, Southern Africa, the Gulf and the Balkans. A specialist in psychological operations, he spent 3 years in the Bosnian war in various covert roles - partly described in his acclaimed book, Trusted Mole. For this work he was both decorated by the Queen and arrested on suspicion of being a spy. He left the Army to clear his name. Working in the TV industry in the US and UK he retrained in depth psychology and coaching. He now applies his extensive expertise to branding individuals and businesses - a process he calls Full Spectrum Branding. View Guest page
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Alan Stevens
Alan Stevens is Past President of the Global Speakers Federation and director of MediaCoach Ltd. He is an author, journalist, been a TV presenter and expert interviewee. Involved in over 2,000 radio and TV interviews, he is uniquely placed to give insights about the media, and how to build and protect reputation. In 2012 he was named amongst the “Top social media experts to follow on Twitter”. His company, MediaCoach, provides coaching in broadcasting and social media skills and consultancy in reputation management to CEOs, politicians, celebrities and communication professionals. Clients include MPs, TV presenters, sports stars, Virgin, BP, The Dorchester, Sony Ericsson, BMW and Mumm Champagne. The Independent newspaper listed him as “one of the top 10 UK media experts”. He's the only person in Europe with the highest accreditation in public speaking (FPSA, PSAE) and public relations (MCIPR). His new book “The Exceptional Speaker”, co- authored with Paul du Toit, is due late 2012. View Guest page
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Paul du Toit
In 2008 in New York, Paul du Toit became Africa's first Certified Speaking Professional in 24 years. He is an acclaimed business speaker, coach and authority on great customer service and business presentations, and author of "You Can Present with Confidence". With a financial services background Paul earned the International Quality Award over 6 consecutive years. His experience in sales led to him founding the Congruence Group in Johannesburg during 1995. He's been changing mindsets all over Southern Africa ever since and during 2005 and 2006 was elected President of the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa, a sought after honour among the speaking fraternity. Paul has been invited to speak at numerous international speaker conventions. His humorous, entertaining and engaging presentation style and story telling ability have kept audiences riveted during his Winning Attitude, sell-out Mind Blowing Customer Service and Mindset Shift seminars. View Guest page
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Kathy Tracey
Kathy is a team player and a team leader. She is a world record holder who, along with 3 other teammates, are the first womens 4's crew to ever complete an entirely self sufficient ocean crossing in a rowing boat. They crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 67 days, 7 hours and 20 minutes. The crew were in the midst of gale force winds and treacherous seas, when they discovered their communication with the world beyond their horizon was gone. The team had to work together through storms and injury and illness to reach their goal. Kathy is an organisational team coach and trainer who runs her own highly successful business, providing organisations with management and leadership development. She is also an acclaimed speaker, who motivates and inspires others to push themselves past their self imposed limits and really reach for their goals. She has published a workbook that leads people through goal setting, planning and achievement. 'The ABC to Victory' has changed lives. View Guest page
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VALUES and how they impact our achievement with guest Jo Simpson
January 27, 2012
Hosted by Chris Cooper
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Your Core Values are at the heart of every decision you ever make, every relationship you encounter and every goal you achieve whether you are consciously aware of it or not. Jo Simpson is a leading authority and inspiration in Values Based Leadership and through the successes she has achieved in her international work with Leaders in Organisations, Business Owners and Individuals, Jo will share with you how living and leading from your core values (your personal motivators) is the key to success in all areas of your life. On this show, Jo will take you on a journey of discovery of why your core values are so vitally important and how when you are aligned with these, true transformation takes place. We will also be discussing what the common problems are when you and/or your company are not in line with your values and what the consequences are of businesses that only pay lip service to their values. To discover what drives your success (or lack of it), tune in, this show is a must.
Be More. Achieve More.
Friday at 8 AM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Business Channel
Be More. Achieve More. provides inspiration for people who would like to grow businesses that authentically add value to others. People who are prepared to put the effort in to learn and do things well succeed where less successful people fail.
Our show highlights the key principles in personal and business success that will help you increase your chances. It’s an energizing, warm and inspiring show that supports the roller coaster ride to entrepreneurial and personal achievement. Equally, if you wish to rise up the corporate ladder or become a better more authentic leader this show will help you to stand out from the crowd.
Our show will include very successful high achievers, entrepreneurs, speakers and subject experts from around the world - from a variety of interesting professions and backgrounds who now leverage their talents to inspire others to achieve more. Be More. Achieve More. airs live Fridays at 8 AM Pacific/4 PM GMT on VoiceAmerica Business.
Chris Cooper
Chris Cooper has a reputation for helping corporate and entrepreneurial leaders and teams transform their performance. He began his career working for large global branded companies such as Rank Xerox and Mars. Working in sales, marketing, HR, training, procurement and logistics progressing to board level.
Wanting greater personal freedom, Chris began setting up businesses. His first was a procurement consultancy that he set up with partners. By its second year it turned over two million pounds. However, the business was not in full alignment with his purpose, which is to inspire individuals and organizations to realize their true potential. Today, he achieves this through business mentoring, coaching, bespoke training, consultancy, writing, speaking and broadcasting
Through Be More.Achieve More, Chris helps those who have changed careers or are contemplating doing so to create and build their own businesses and also employees who wish to take responsibility for their own personal development. Chris provides the inspiration for these successful transitions.
Chris also has a corporate development consultancy, CC1 Consulting that helps leaders develop themselves and their people for greater results. He lives in Leicestershire, England with his wife Ruth and two young boys.
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