Amin Rajan is Chief Executive of the Centre for Research in Employment and Technology in Europe (CREATE) – a pan-European network of prominent researchers undertaking high level advisory assignments for the UK government, City institutions, multinational companies and international bodies such as the EU, OECD and ILO. He is also a visiting professor at the Cass Business School, London Guildhall University and at the Centre for Leadership Studies at Exeter University, and also President of the Scientific Committee at Audencia-Nantes, Ecole de Management.

“ Amin’s work has proved so influential that he now provides leadership coaching to top executives and investment specialists”

In detail

Amin Rajin was formerly an economic advisor at the National Economic Development Office, Cabinet Office and HM Treasury. He has also carried out numerous studies for the UK Government and international bodies, and acted as a consultant to companies such as BP, British Telecom, IBM, ICL, Legal & General, Motorola, Merrill Lynch, National Westminster Bank, Fiat, Rolls Royce, SunAlliance and Shell.

What he offers you

As a prominent researcher Amin Rajan offers audiences valuable insights into the business benefits of and practical challenges involved in the promotion of workforce diversity. Amin Rajan also uses his experience to coach decision makers and offer essential advice on leadership and emerging business strategies.

How he presents

Appearing regularly on business television as well as at numerous events around the world, Amin Rajan’s high content presentations are filled with invaluable information from his research perfectly tailored to suit individual client’s needs.

Global Investment Management

Developing Tomorrow’s Visionary Leaders

Managing Knowledge and Talent

Understanding Key Industrial Trends to 2010

The Future of Europe

2006
Comply and Prosper: Managing People Risk Arising from Regulation

2004
Building Capability for the 21st Century

2003
Revolutionary Shifts, Evolutionary Responses: Global Investment Management in the 2000’s

2001
Harnessing Creativity to Improve the Bottom Line (2001)

2001
Tomorrow’s Organisation: New Mindsets, New Skills (2001)

2000
Fund Management: New Skills for a New Age (2000)

1999
Good Practices in Knowledge Creation and Exchange

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Nigel Barlow has a reputation as one of the world’s most dynamic business speakers. He is also a strategic coach, consultant and author, working with large organisations in over 20 countries. Nigel is founding director of an international consultancy company and was also a founding director of the Tom Peters Group consulting business in the UK.

The master of applying creative thinking to customer service.

In detail

Nigel’s skill is to convey a serious message in a highly entertaining and interactive way. His latest book is ‘Re-think: How to think differently’ and in his speeches he helps his audience to “Open their mind to creative re-thinking”. Creative re-thinking can be applied to topics as diverse as Leadership, People Development, Individual and Corporate Innovation, Strategic Development and the Customer Experience.

What he offers you

Nigel Barlow improves organisational focus by stimulating attitudes and developing leadership capabilities. Concentrating on continuous development, he works with organisations around the world as a speaker, coach, mentor and consultant.

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Winning in Turbulent Times

Rethink – Innovative Approaches To Change

Batteries Included – Creating Legendary Customer Experiences

Creating Legendary Customer Experiences

Inventing the Future

Becoming a Talent Factory

Business Rocks – Waking Up To Creativity

Disruptive Innovation

A Question of Style

Compelling Presentations

2006
Re-think – How To Think Differently

2000
Batteries Included! – Creating Legendary Service

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Professor Eddie Obeng is Founder Director of Pentacle the world’s first virtual business school and the first organisation to offer an integrated management approach specifically designed to meet the challenges of our fast changing, complex 21st century. He was previously an Executive Director at Ashridge Management College, having begun his career with Shell. Professor Obeng pioneered the concept of the ‘New World’ throughout the 1990′s.

‘Agent provocateur’ and a ‘…leading revolutionary’ Financial Times

In detail

Eddie and his team have spent the best part of a decade re-writing the fundamentals of business management to create their own coherent, joined up New World approach. They have challenged all the established thinking from strategy as environmental fit to ‘hero’ leaders and re-interpreted the needs for the 21st century of complexity and fast change. Eddie brings genuinely new concepts, materials and practice. He has written up some of his work in over 12 books.

What he offers you

If you’re after the ‘same old – same old’ Eddie is not the speaker for you. Using his extensive experience and insights he will challenge your perceptions and help you to see the new reality. But more than just ‘talking concepts’ he will use examples from real life client assignments to illustrate and explain, proving, in his words that “The future is now because most of us are already late!”. Eddie is a genuine leader. He has the ability to bring a presentation to life, engage and involve the audience often on a tough thinking journey. Eddie’s legendary reputation for injecting energy means he is often offered the tough post-lunch ‘graveyard slot’ at many conferences.

How he presents

Eddie is an exciting, energising, thought provoking, rigorous and humorous speaker. His presentations are incredibly energetic and he is renowned as a powerful presenter and a wonderful speaker.

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Inventing Tomorrow:
Innovation/ Building a Culture, Creativity, Visioning

Delivering Tomorrow:
Change, Programme and Project Management, Risk Removal

Leading Organised Talent:
Leadership in Complexity, Virtual Organisations

Emotional Resilience and Personal
Resilience in Difficult Times

THE NEW WORLD SERIES 2007
Who Killed the Spark?

2007
Evolve Dominate or Die

2006
Cybersense Organisational Magic

2002
Money Making Machine Perfect Projects

2001
Never Re-organise Again

1999
SoundBytes

1997
New Rules for the New World

1996
Putting Strategy to Work

1995
All Change!

1994
Making Re-engineering Happen

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Geoff Hurst is the only soccer player ever to score a hat-trick in a World Cup Final. Geoff played for England 49 times and scored 24 goals. After 16 years he retired from top flight soccer, and started his own motor warranty business with fellow team mate Martin Peters. However, since 1995 he has been busy with speaking engagements and personal endorsements. As Director of Football for McDonalds UK, he has helped create 10,000 new football coaches, coaching children across the UK.

The only player ever to score a hat-trick in a world cup final

In detail

Geoff Hurst was born in 1941. His distinguished career started in April 1959 with West Ham United at Upton Park. He made 411 league appearances, 88 cup appearances, and in a grand total of 499 appearances scored a massive 248 goals. Geoff was awarded an MBE in 1977 and in November 1998 was knighted for 30 years of service and contribution to football.

What he offers you

Most recently Sir Geoff has turned his hand to public relation activities which include after dinner and motivational speaking. He is able to draw on the similarities that exist between sport and business to motivate and inspire.

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Teamwork

Motivation

Leadership

After Dinner

Host

Awards

2001
My Autobiography 1966 and All That

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Colin Turner is an extraordinary entrepreneur with a flair for unlocking business and personal success in others. He is presently the President of Futuremedia Learning, the UK’s leading learning and brand communications company as well as Vice President of Business Bureau liaising with the UK Government on improving business practise. The author of 15 books published in 38 languages, he shares remarkable knowledge on all aspects of successful entrepreneurial thinking.

“A leading authority on business, lifestyle and management” Time

In detail

Colin Turner is Professor Emeritus of Entrepreneurship, referred to by Business Age as ‘Europe’s foremost teacher for business success’. He is also the Patron of Determined to Succeed; providing personal development learning tools for Schools in Scotland. He is consistently in demand with some of the world’s most recognised global corporations; Pfizer appointed him as their external change agent to attain leading market position. He was also instrumental in developing BT’s global customer service strategy.

What he offers you

Concentrating on the entrepreneurial characteristics that are essential for growth, he shows audiences how to increase focus, performance and productivity. In his presentations, he propels both teams and individuals to develop their personal and career paths to success. As an internationally respected keynote speaker, Colin Turner has the very real ability to inform and inspire people while igniting within them a fresh approach to business and life.

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Entrepreneurial Leadership

Innovation: Out of the Box Creativity

The Customer: Delivering Better Than Excellent Service

T.E.A.M. Building: Together Everyone Achieves More

Recreating the Spirit of Entrepreneurial Leadership

Harnessing Entrepreneurial Leadership in Turbulent Times

Being in the Right Place at the Right Time – Innovation in Action

Secret Service – Licence to Thrill Your Customer

Your Future is Not What it Used to be – Personal and Organizational Change

To be published in September 2009
To Make a Difference Secret Service

2006
European Business

2004
The Teachings of Billionaire Yen Tzu: Infinite Patience; Immediate Results v. 1

Passion V Pension: Developing Corporate Entrepreneurship

Swimming with Piranha Makes You Hungry

Made for Life

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Colin Coulson-Thomas is the UK’s first Professor of Competitiveness.

He is the principal author of a widely used methodology for designing and re-engineering board and management processes.

An authority on board and director development, he has worked with the boards of over 70 commercial and public sector organisations.

Expert strategic reviewer and developer of board and director performance.

In detail

He has facilitated many strategic reviews, such as the session of G10 chairmen that established the vision and mission of the TEC movement and the role of the TEC secretariat.

Currently, he delivers a programme of bespoke and in-house master classes for board members and senior management teams.

What he offers you

Focusing on the board’s role in corporate transformation, he shows you how to improve board performance and that of the directors within it.

His unparalleled expertise on corporate change and creating entrepreneurial drive are not to be missed.

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Competitiveness

Entrepreneurial Drive

Director Development

Corporate Transformation

Performance Improvement

Government-Business Relations

Knowledge & Process Management

Project Management & Relationship Building

2007
Developing Directors

2006
Winning Companies – Winning People

2003
The Knowledge Entrepreneur

2001
Transforming the Company – Manage Change, Compete and Win Shaping Things to Come

2000
The Information Entrepreneur

1999
Individuals and Enterprise Developing a Corporate Learning Strategy

1997 and 1998
The Future of the Organisation

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Judith Leary-Joyce is a best-selling author and a regular presenter at conferences on the subjects of Great Company Culture, Employer of Choice; Inspirational Managers and the Psychology of Success. Her passion for excellence makes her an exciting speaker who uses stories and examples to help people understand and buy in to the concepts. Her fascination with helping companies become employers of choice began when she worked on the 2002 ’100 Best Companies to Work For’ list for the UK Sunday Times.

“Behind every excited and dedicated employee, you find an inspirational manager”

In detail

Prior to founding GCC in 2002, Judith worked for 20 years as a psychotherapist, while founding and leading a psychotherapy training centre in London. She then moved into the business arena and spent 10 years as a consultant in leadership and management development, working with global companies. She has facilitated and coached a wide range of senior leaders in a variety of business settings. She is known for providing strong, rigorous support that includes giving tough messages. Using her experience of psychology she is able to do this in a way that maintains self-esteem and allows the person to move forward in a positive way.

What she offers you

A motivational speaker, Judith can speak about the opportunities provided by the present recession, particularly in the area of Employer of Choice. A positive company culture and motivated employees will make the difference between success and failure in challenging economic conditions. Judith will help companies see how they can create a culture that invites opportunity and embraces the change in a positive and highly productive way.

How she presents

Judith is an engaging and accessible speaker, who can help you and your audience understand what it takes to become an Employer of Choice, including the business benefits this brings; the value of Inspirational Managers and the support they provide in tough times, plus how to manage and retain your high achievers.

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Great Company Culture

Becoming an Employer of Choice

The Psychology of Success

Retaining your Talented People

The Role of Inspirational Managers

June 2009
The Psychology of Success

2007
Inspirational Manager

2004
Becoming and Employer of Choice

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Danah Zohar is best known for her ground-breaking work on the existence of spiritual intelligence, SQ.

She examines how SQ creates integrity, morality and individuality and the difference between competitors and winners.

Working in management education and consultancy, she was instrumental in Shell’s highly successful transformation in the United States.

Is spiritual intelligence the difference between winners and losers?

In detail

A visiting Fellow at the Cranfield School of Management, she also teaches in the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme at Oxford University.

Applying her extensive knowledge of the new sciences to practical, hands-on techniques that businesses can use, she has lectured widely throughout the world. She has worked with numerous prestigious organisations.

What she offers you

Applying her philosophy and experience of the workings of the human mind she shows you how to embrace rapid social and technological changes and use them for personal and organisational benefit.

Grasp SQ and see what underlies your values and beliefs, your sense of perception and ultimately the reasons behind your actions.

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Sustainability

Innovation

Spirituality/Ethics in the Workplace

Leadership

Science and Spiritual Innovation

Re-Wiring the Corporate Brain

Quantum Thinking and the Three Intelligences of Leadership

SQ for Personal Development and Self Management

2004
Spiritual Capital

The Quantum Soul

2000
SQ – Connecting with our Spiritual Intelligence

1997
Who’s Afraid of Schrödinger’s Cat? A Dictionary of the New Scientific Ideas

Rewiring the Corporate Brain: Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organisations

1993
The Quantum Society: Mind, Physics

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Dr Brian Bates is currently the Research Director of the Christensen Foundation (Palo Alto) project on recovering the nature-based knowledge of ancient England, he is also Senior Adviser to the Ford Foundation funded project on worldwide indigenous wisdom – ‘The Council of Elders’ – working closely with tribal elders and medicine people to protect and document their knowledge. Brian was recently honored by these elders, who designated him a ‘wizard’ in recognition of his work in reconstructing the shamanic traditions of the Anglo-Saxons for application to life today.

Creative strategies are fast becoming the key to success in business

In detail

Brian Bates is the author of six international best-selling books, including ‘The Real Middle-earth’, ‘The Way of Wyrd’, ‘The Human Face’, and ‘The Way of the Actor’. He is leading the movement to recover imagination as a powerful tool in our personal and working life, and to bring it to the forefront of 21st century inspiration. Brian is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Brighton, the University of Sussex, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His work on imagination includes his directing at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. There he trained future Academy Award winners and stars including Kenneth Branagh, Ralph Fiennes, Jane Horrocks, Sean Bean and Timothy Spall.

What she offers you

His presentations focus on ways to release our full potential in seeing new and effective solutions to business issues, based on the latest research in the world of psychology and biology. Brian has developed ways to teach imagination and performance in business settings. He lectures internationally to business, arts and general audiences.

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Personal Development

Change

Leadership

Creative Strategies

Warrior Strategies

Innovation

2003
The Real Middle Earth

2001
The Human Face

2000
How to Manage Your Mother

1996
The Wisdom of the Wyrd

The Way of Wyrd

1987
The Way of the Actor: A Path to Knowledge and Power

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Ray Hammond is Europe’s most experienced and most widely published Futurologist. For over 25 years he has researched, written and spoken about how future trends will affect society and business. As Global Warming and the threat to the Environment continues to occupy a priority position in the World’s agenda. Ray is one of a few commentators who are equipped to communicate how these massive challenges will affect our futures, the way we do business and the far reaching implications both socially, economically and politically.

A futurologist proved accurate by a quarter-century of predictions

In detail

efore becoming a futurologist, Ray founded and led highly successful magazine publishing and advertising businesses in the UK, Europe and the USA before selling them advantageously. He is now a globally published novelist (Macmillan) whose three recent high-tech futuristic novels have won world-wide critical acclaim. Ray is a visiting lecturer at the Institute For The Future of Humanity, University of Oxford, a visiting lecturer at the London Business School and a contributing editor to the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, U.S.A. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (F.R.S.A.).

What Ray offers
Ray will project an inspirational and breathtaking vision of the future to help your audiences navigate the hyper-competitive virtual economy. This vision will be interpreted from a business, climate, social, political, and economic perspective providing a rounded view of how best to prepare your organization for what the future holds.

How Ray presents
Ray is a stunningly gifted free-form speaker who requires no slides, notes or AV props to enthral an audience! He projects real warmth and dynamism and, using plain language he cuts through complex technical issues, new innovations and business concepts. A natural inspirational orator, Ray steps down into his audiences around the world to motivate and personally inspire them.

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How to Grow a Business in a Recession

The Future of Energy and the Social, Economic and Political Impact of Global Warming

The Seven Key Drivers for the Future

Innovative Management for an Ever Changing Future

Future Trends in Networks and IT

The Future of Money

Future-proof Marketing

Travel (Industry) Into the Future

2007
His latest non-fiction book, ‘The World In 2030′, describes the challenges facing business and society over the next twenty-five years.

2006
The Cloud – fiction, set in 2065
‘The Cloud’ is a dazzling vision of life set in the year 2065.

2005
Extinction – fiction, set in 2056

2002
Emergence – fiction, set in 2015

2000
Robots for Kids Contributing editor

1996
Digital Business – Surviving and Thriving in an On-Line World