The Leading Speakers Bureau

One of Britain’s Foremost Business Leaders

Sir John Banham is the Chairman designate of Johnson Matthey PLC, Cyclacel Limited (the UK-based cancer therapeutics company) and Spacelabs Inc. (a world leader in heart monitoring equipment, based in Seattle, USA). He is also the senior independent director of AMVESCAP PLC and a non executive director of Merchants Trust PLC.

“Sir John was definitely the right speaker”

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Former Wal-Mart Executive

Michael Bergdahl is a full-time motivational speaker, author and writer. Bergdahl worked in Bentonville, Arkansas for Wal-Mart, as the Director of “People” for the headquarters office, where he worked directly with Sam Walton. It was Sam Walton who gave Bergdahl the nickname, “Bird Dawg”! He has recent experience as a turnaround specialist, successfully working with American Eagle Outfitters & Waste Management & is considered an authority on Wal-Mart.

“A storyteller who weaves entertainment into his motivational business messages”
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Shipping Analyst

Martin Stopford joined Clarkson’s in 1990 and was previously a Vice President at Chase Manhattan Bank and a Director of British Shipbuilders. He was appointed to the Board of Clarkson’s in September 2004. Clarkson’s, the world’s leading shipping services provider, is a dynamic organisation at the forefront of change within the industry, an industry estimated to be worth in excess of $100 billion p.a.

“The UK’s leading expert on the Shipping Industry”
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Director of Global Logistics for Amazon.com

Girish Lakshman has been a part of the Amazon.com e-logistics strategy since July 1999, he has been instrumental in shaping the logistics strategy of the company and is now a recognised leader in this field. He has thirteen years experience in the manufacturing and automotive industry, and has provided corporate strategy advice in the biotech industry in India.

Through his presentations he explains how to develop prototypical decision support systems to demonstrate the benefits of using IT for creating an optimal level of core inventory. Girish also uses his expertise to enable business leaders to design and implement systems to project production at cost for different manufacturing facilities to level load production and reduce manpower requirements.
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Author

Alistair McAlpine has conducted a lifelong love affair with Australia – he’s bought large chunks of it, developed some and turned others into a zoo and nature parks, and has travelled much of the length and breadth of the Continent.

Arriving in Australia in his early twenties as a junior member of the English family building conglomerate McAlpines, he soon became involved in building Perth’s first luxury hotel, the famous Parmelia, and other projects followed. He was a pioneer of ‘eco-tourism’ with his development of Broome, creating the world-famous Cable Beach Club and also a remarkable zoo, which rapidly became known for the success of its breeding programs for the world’s endangered species.
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Founder and Director of the Lean Enterprise Academy

Daniel Jones is Founder and Director of The Lean Enterprise Academy where the main thrust of his work has been to develop and help to implement the ’Lean Business System’. Based on ‘Lean Thinking’ principles learnt from Toyota, this starts by defining customer value, which then leads to the reorganisation of every step required to design, order, build, deliver and maintain this value across all the organisations involved.
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Legendary Business Growth Strategist and Executive Advisor

Chet Holmes has worked with over 60 of the Fortune 500 companies as America’s top marketing executive, trainer, strategic consultant and business growth expert.
Industry Week named him “one of the top change experts in the country.” He has also been written about in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and more than 50 other publications.

“Perhaps one of the most prolific creative machines of our time.”
Jay Conrad Levinson
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British Politician and Renowned Businessman

From 1991 until 2000, Archie Norman was Chief Executive and then Chairman of Asda, the large supermarket chain, and was credited with turning it around and making it the second largest in the UK, before its sale to Walmart in June 1999. He helped form the think tank Policy Exchange. In 2002 he joined Energis as Chairman having led a consortium of banks in the purchase and refinance of the UK arm from the administrators of Energis Plc.

“Archie is without doubt one of the UK’s most respected retail executives”
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Editor-at-Large & Principal Economic Commentator of The Times of London

Anatole Kaletsky is Editor-at-Large and principal economic commentator of The Times of London, where he writes a weekly column on politics, economics and international relations. He is also a founding partner of GaveKal Capital, a Hong Kong-based economic advisory and asset management company, which provides economic analysis and asset allocation advice to 500 financial institutions around the world and also manages $500m of client funds.

“Columnist of the Year”
British Press Awards 2006

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Trend Spotter Extraordinaire

Magnus Lindkvist is a futurologist and lecturer within business intelligence and trends. He has a MSc. in Business and Economics from The Stockholm School of Economics and studied at The School of Film, Television and Theatre at UCLA. Before founding Pattern Recognition, Magnus Lindkvist worked as a brand strategist at Differ and as a planner/account director and management group member at brand strategy agency, Grow.

“Where the day takes you, that’s where you’re going”
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