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| 21 Jun 2018 | Hitchhiking with a fridge with Tony Hawks | 00:23:45 | |
This week Maria’s guest on the show is Tony Hawks, who is a British author and comedian and best known for his appearances on shows like "QI", "Just a Minute", and "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue". His bestselling books include "Round Ireland with a Fridge" which has sold nearly a million copies worldwide. He is not to be mixed up with Tony Hawk, the American skateboarder, who is not as funny as Tony. Recorded on: 5th April 2018 Show Notes: In this week’s show Tony Hawks tells us about his big hit with his band Morris Minor and the Majors and how through his music, his career in comedy began. He talks about the reason why he hitch-hiked round Ireland with a fridge and how that motivated him to write a bestselling book about it. Also, how he was able to open a care centre for kids with cerebral palsy in Moldova due to a silly bet and how he incorporates some of the lessons from his adventures into his corporate talks. Links: Morris Minor and The Majors – Stutter Rap video Tony Hawks Centre Maldova Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook Significant quotes: “Ireland's the one place in the world where you could hitch with a fridge and get all the way around.” Next Week: Join us next week when Maria’s guest will be one of the country’s leading experts on sales motivation, Phil Hesketh.
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| 09 May 2019 | Digital Acceleration with Inma Martinez | 00:28:28 | |
My guest this week is an industry acclaimed A.I. Scientist, Tech Pioneer and Venture Partner at Deep Science Ventures, a venture-focused science institute where audacious entrepreneurial scientists explore solutions to the world’s challenges. She is an advisor to both the UK Parliament and the EU Technology Commission in matters of digitalisation and Big Data. Fortune and TIME have described her as one of Europe’s top talents in social engagement through technology, and FastCompany labelled her a “firestarter”. Please welcome Inma Martinez. Bio Both governments and private corporations seek her advisory on how to address the digital challenges – she is currently an advisor to the board at the All Parliamentary Party Group on A.I. at the House of Lords, and has provided evidence at the EU Commission on A.I. and the misuse of citizen data in light of new GDPR policies. In parallel, Inma continues to commit her time to education at Imperial College London where she is is a guest lecturer at the MSc Management program, the MSc in Economics and the MSc Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, and to the mentorship of innovative technologies at Deep Science Ventures, a venture-focused science institute where audacious entrepreneurial scientists explore solutions to world’s challenges. Fortune and TIME have described Inma as one of Europe’s top talents in social engagement through technology, and FastCompany labelled her a “firestarter”. She has appeared in the international media as a tech commentator and written articles for a variety of media outlets. In 2018 she was listed at #1 amongst “The Top 10 Women Changing The Landscape Of Data In 2018” by Enterprise Management 360 and one of the top “50 A.I. Influencers To Follow On Twitter” by Cognilytica, an A.I. and Cognitive Sciences Research agency. Inma Martinez’s most requested keynotes focus on the digital acceleration affecting Life, Work and Play, and how businesses should reorganise within to leverage from this transformational forces and be more innovative. In addition, she often presents new approaches to emerging sectors such as IoT, Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence deployed to create products and services. Recorded: 25th April 2019 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here
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| 12 Jan 2021 | Find the Possible in the Impossible with Sophie Sabbage | 00:29:15 | |
Businesses are rising and falling faster than ever before, and crisis is the new normal. For over 25 years, my guest today has equipped many thousands of people and many leading brands to tap their full creative and psychological powers in response to challenges, crises and threats. Personally, she has turned a six month ’terminal’ cancer prognosis into the most creative six years of her life (so far) by finding solutions she was told did not exist and becoming a Sunday Times bestselling author of three crisis-resolving books. Please welcome author and activist Sophie Sabbage. Bio Businesses are rising and falling faster than ever before, and crisis is the new normal. Sophie Sabbage is a Sunday Times bestselling author who has worked in the fields of human psychology and corporate change for nearly thirty years. She has equipped hundreds of thousands of individuals as well as leading brands to unlock opportunities for growth that they didn’t think possible. Personally, she has turned a six month ‘terminal’ cancer prognosis into the most creative six years of her life (so far) by finding solutions she was told did not exist. This put her on a global stage as an authority on how to tap inner powers and life-saving creativity in response to challenges, crises and threats. She is now focused on helping leaders and change agents explode their difference-making powers by learning one thing that radically improves the quality of many things when we know how to activate it. Sunday Times bestselling author of The Cancer Whisperer (which has revolutionised the cancer community), Lifeshocks and Awakenings in the Time of Coronavirus. The Cancer Whisperer, which placed Sophie on a global stage as a virtuoso on how to thrive in adversity. She has since made numerous media appearances, become an internationally recognised author, created a new narrative about cancer and built a speaking business. She has also been to the north and south poles of her humanity in order to stay alive. Winner of the Gold Award for Business Culture Change in 2008. Winner of the 2019 and 2020 Global Lung Cancer Alliance awards for Excellence in Journalism. Winner of the Nautilus Gold Award for Personal Growth Books in 2018. Winner of the International Speaker Slam 2020. B.C. (before cancer) Sophie ran a leadership and culture change business consultancy, which delivered practical psychological tools back when this was still at the cutting edge of business practices and considered quite weird. Her mentor and business partner, Dr. K Bradford Brown, was a direct student of the Auschwitz survivor, Viktor Frankl, the founder of humanistic psychology, Carl Rogers, and the British philosopher, Alan Watts. She stands on the shoulders of giants in this field. Sophie Sabbage has also been delivering life-changing courses for a global educational charity since 1994. She is a multi-award-winning talent – among them Best Culture Change Programme, Excellence in Journalism and the prestigious Gold Nautilus Book award. Her academic background is in English literature, psychology and organisational change. She brings all this experience to her speaking clients. Her audiences leave wiser and braver than when they arrived. Eloquent, discerning and boldly truthful, Sophie touches hearts, challenges minds and delivers deep shifts in remarkably short periods of time. She is gifted at reading people, cultures and the roots of issues. Soulful, feisty and highly creative, she also has a reputation for expressing what other people experience but are unable or too afraid to say. Recorded on: 5th November 2020 Links: More about The London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook Listen here: | |||
| 17 Sep 2019 | Making Great Music with your Teams with Rainer Hersch | 00:23:00 | |
My guest this week is rare beast – a stand-up comedian who for 20 years performed at some of the most famous comedy clubs and a trained conductor who now enjoys a career conducting world-class orchestras from St Petersburg to Australia. For corporate audiences he uses these incomparable skills to discuss that most vexed of questions, ‘what does a conductor actually do?’. And, having clarified us on that, he goes on to explain what the symphony orchestra can tell us about other complex organizations. It’s an analogy that is amazingly rich and, as he tells it, an awful lot of fun. With his virtuoso musicians he also runs musical team building for groups from 6 to 600 people. It’s an experience so amazing, it has led some participants to going off to form their own choir…. Please welcome conductor and comedian Rainer Hersch. Bio Rainer started his working life in concert agencies, managing some of the greatest artists of the world. At the same time he developed a hobby – performing stand-up comedy on the London circuit. Short, unpaid slots led to longer, paid appearances and gradually developed into a parallel career. In time, Rainer realised that this was his true vocation and gave up his last straight musical job, Touring Manager of the London Festival Orchestra, to enter the world of professional comedy. Twenty-four years later, this unique training has kept him in constant demand – combining laughter with music. In addition, he has built up a considerable reputation as a broadcaster and presenter for the BBC and Classic FM. He has also been consistently delighting corporate audiences with entertainments that are witty, interactive and fun. These range from classical themed sets with his mini orchestra, corrupting well known works with hilarious effect, to pop singalongs based on classic rock hits. Rainer Hersch will entertain and engage your audience with presentations that are sophisticated, novel, appeal across nationalities, are clean and above all funny. As a keynote speaker Rainer Hersch uses his experience conducting some of the great orchestras of the world to provide fascinating insights into leadership, teamwork and motivation. Recorded: 5th September 2019 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here:
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| 13 Aug 2019 | Turning relationships into results! with Nick Saunders | 00:21:50 | |
My guest this week helps individuals transform the way they work with others. He specialises in communication, collaboration and conflict resolution, enabling people to work together more effectively. He is the author of the bestselling book “You can choose your friends…” and is known as “The Family Man” - for his unique comparison methods. Put simply, he is a Collaboration and Practical Communications Specialist who helps turn relationships into results. My guest is Nick Saunders. Bio Nick Saunders has a 25-year track record as a keynote speaker, trainer and bestselling author. 4 out of 10 of us report being involved in some kind of interpersonal conflict at work, with managers spending at least 20% of their time dealing with conflict issues (CIPD Survey Report). The CBI estimates that conflict in the workplace costs UK businesses £33 billion per year. Nick Saunders has helped over 150,000 individuals transform the way they work with others. He specialises in communication, collaboration and conflict resolution – by getting people to work together more effectively, function more professionally, collaborate more successfully, all of which leads to improved performance. He turns relationships into results. Nick does this by demonstrating that organisations/businesses are like families (he’s known as “The Family Man”). You can choose your friends, but families and work colleagues you are stuck with. However, you can still work with them more effectively, and he demonstrates how by following 6 easy steps that you can start to use immediately. Success in any organisation is down to people communicating, cooperating and collaborating with colleagues, clients and customers. Nick’s clients include: Bank of Tokyo, Barclays, BP, BUPA, Care UK, The Economist, Marie Curie, NSPCC, Pfizer, Sainsbury’s, Schroders. Recorded: 18th July 2019 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here:
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| 14 Dec 2021 | Get out of the Content Creation Hell with Jen Liddy | 00:27:59 | |
In this episode of #SpeakingBusinessPodcast, I talk to Jen Liddy. Jen Liddy left her teaching career to avoid a life doomed by grading 9th grade essays. In 2013, she made a terrifying leap into entrepreneurship & learned everything the hard way! Now, as a Content Creation Specialist, she helps people create realistic, sustainable systems to get their content out there - helping them know exactly what to say, how to say it - in a way that’s personalised in their voice! She helps personal brands get out of content marketing hell by teaching strategies that ease-ify, simplify, and actually make content FUN! As one client said, “she takes the ‘ugh’ out of content creation!” Jen shares how important content really is for growing your business, the myths and misconceptions around content marketing, how to simplify content creation and what to consider every single time you create content. Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on Facebook Listen here: This podcast was created using Alitu. Powerfully simple recording and editing tools for podcasters. Record your show, edit it in minutes, and publish directly to your host. Find out more and join here. | |||
| 26 May 2020 | How to use this time of crisis to be creative with Tim Reid | 00:35:13 | |
At this time, it strikes me that we have an opportunity to look at our lives and our businesses in a new way and maybe get creative about what the future can bring. So, I thought it would be good to talk about creativity and get some techniques and advice from my guest this week, BAFTA award-winning comedy writer and creativity expert, Tim Reid. Bio Tim Reid is a multiple award-winning comedy writer, best known for co-creating and co-writing the BAFTA winning sitcom, CAR SHARE. As well as winning the BAFTA for Best Scripted Comedy, CAR SHARE also won Best Original Programme at the Broadcast Awards, 2016; Most Popular Comedy Series at the National Television Awards, 2016; and Best TV Entertainment Programme at the Television and Radio Industries Club Awards. In addition to being a successful comedy writer, Tim is a world class innovation expert, and he’s passionate about combining these two skills to help businesses become as creative as comedians. Tim has worked for some of the worlds most creative organisations, including global ad agencies, innovation consultancies and the BBC. He’s helped clients from beer brands to broadcasters, confectioners to condom makers reimagine the future and re-invent their businesses. Tim is quite possibly unique in the world of advertising having worked in every discipline available in an ad agency. He started his career as an adman at J Walter Thompson as a Media Planner, before moving to McCann Erickson as an Account Director, then Strategic Planner, and finally as an award-winning Copywriter. Tim’s unwillingness to be boxed in by a job title or discipline reflects his approach to creativity, and his ethos in inspiring creative thinking in others. From his unique position as both a successful innovation consultant and comedy writer, Tim has drawn together a practical guide to applying the trade secrets used by top creative professionals, comedians and writers. During the process of writing, developing, and filming a major sitcom for BBC One, Tim learned first-hand how many of the same tools and techniques of creativity and idea generation are used by writers, comedians and commercial innovators alike. As well as sharing these ‘trade secrets’ through his keynote speeches, Tim continues to coach companies in innovation and is currently working on new sitcom formats and screenplay scripts. Tim is a master at keeping audiences actively engaged and positively energised. Whether it’s getting people on their feet and playfully interacting or switching on different parts of their brains through quick mental exercises, Tim can make sure your audience is alive, alert and full of energy throughout your event. Recorded on: 1st May 2020 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook
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| 05 Apr 2022 | Financial Wellness for Speakers with Caitriona Ellis | 00:36:10 | |
In this episode of #SpeakingBusiness Podcast, I talk to Caitriona Ellis. As speakers there is potential to make a lot of money and the more you have, the more you spend. But we also should be thinking about the future when maybe we don’t want to work quite as hard as we are now and how we should be using our speaking fees to their best. Caitriona Ellis is a fully qualified Financial Advisor with an honours Commerce degree. She empowers people to master their money affairs for peace of mind now & in the future. She shares why financial wellness is crucial for speakers along with some tips and tools on how speakers can increase their financial wellness. Connect with Caitriona on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen here: This podcast was created using Alitu. Powerfully simple recording and editing tools for podcasters. Record your show, edit it in minutes, and publish directly to your host. Find out more and join here. | |||
| 30 Jun 2020 | Speak to Grow Your Business with Elliot Kay | 00:22:09 | |
My guest this week is the Co-Founder of the public speaking training company - Speaker Express. He knows what it takes to build great stage presence and how to use speaking as a transformative business growth tool. He has used speaking to help build 3 successful businesses himself. He is passionate about stretching speakers to their full potential, enabling aspiring speakers and business owners to quickly get the results they are looking for in an authentic and empowering way. He is the author of 3 books including the best-selling Power to Succeed. Please welcome, speaker coach, entrepreneur and best-selling author Elliot Kay. NB: Since recording the title of Elliot's latest book has changed to 'Speaking Influence Sell' and will be released on 20th August 2020. Bio As Co-Founder of Speaker Express, Elliot not only knows what it takes to build great stage presence but is also a master at teaching business owners how to transform their messages into a powerful growth tool. Using his love of speaking to help build 3 successful businesses, Elliot has spent more than 6000 hours on stage, speaking to audiences across Europe, Africa, the US, and the Middle East. With a passion for stretching speakers to their full potential, Elliot’s down-to-earth and charismatic approach enables aspiring speakers and business owners to quickly get the results they are looking for in an authentic and empowering way. Acting as a mentor and teacher, his success in helping hundreds of entrepreneurs use the stage to build heir business led to the creation of The Speakers’ Method, a proven formula to getting more growth and exposure exclusive to Speaker Express. Elliot is also the author of 3 books including the best-selling Power to Succeed and is the founder of the Thriving Entrepreneur Conference. When he’s not on stage, mentoring speakers, or building his business empire, you can find Elliot spending time with his beautiful wife and daughter or training for his next half marathon. Elliot provides great content that will educate and keep your audience entertained. He has a passion for the entrepreneurial journey and has a way of weaving valuable business lessons and insights into stories to keep the audience engaged throughout the entire presentation. Elliot makes time in his timetable to speak at Schools & Universities. Elliot’s inspiring keynotes come from his own hardships, dyslexic, being misunderstood, alcoholic father and living with my brother at the age of 17. Elliot gives advice on what tools and elements you need to succeed. How to truly be yourself as you grow through the years and get out in the real world. Elliot offer a number of different talks which I present to schools, colleges and universities. Elliot takes girls and boys on a story through his early school life from being a complete rebel and heading towards crime to achieving global award-winning success. Elliot hopes to inspire generations to build self-esteem, self-confidence and understand that strengths and flaws lie in us all. No one is prefect. Elliot wants to inspire the leaders of tomorrow today. Recorded on: 17th February 2020 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 24 Jan 2019 | Leadership without Ego with Isaac Getz | 00:37:09 | |
Each week I invite one of my speakers to talk about their life, work, passions and leisure so that you can get to know the person who is the speaker behind the mic. This week we talk about letting go of the old command and control style of running organisations in order to transform them. We talk about how leaders' egos can get in their way. And my guest who is ranked 4th most influential living management thinker in the world by The French National Foundation for the Management and Business Education) reveals that he will coach CEOs for free provided they have paid him to speak and bought him lunch. My guest this week is Isaac Getz. Isaac is a Professor at the top-ranked ESCP Europe Business School and is former Visiting Professor at Cornell and Stanford. Dr. Getz’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Strategy+Business, Financial Times, Le Monde, CNBC, Fox and other leading media on four continents. He is a columnist in Le Monde and won the best Op-Ed 2017 award. Bio A 2016 study by FNEGE (The French National Foundation for the Management and Business Education) on the world 50 most influential living management thinkers ranked Isaac at N°4. Dr. Getz studied over 300 companies in 30 countries and published research on diverse topics related to innovation, leadership, corporate transformation, employee engagement, and freedom and responsibility culture. He is a co-author of the award-winning and best-selling business book Freedom, Inc., translated to a dozen of languages. Isaac’s latest book Leadership with Ego, was released in December 2018. Isaac Getz’s work and action have been instrumental in the rise of the corporate liberation movement in Europe. It includes Michelin, Airbus, Decathlon, several Belgian ministries, French Social Security, municipalities, and hundreds of other companies and institutions which have transformed their command-and-control organisations into freedom- and responsibility-based ones. He is currently carrying the research on the companies which put the interests of their clients, suppliers and local society first; and believe that by doing that they will also be economically successful. Isaac Getz is an active speaker on the topics of corporate transformation/liberation, post-managerial organisation, and radical leadership and he has spoken to hundreds of companies and institutes. His presentations are lively, illustrated by case studies he has observed in world-class companies, and always delivered with humour. Recorded: 25th October 2018 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here | |||
| 24 Mar 2020 | Competitiveness after Covid 19 with Stéphane Garelli | 00:21:21 | |
My guest this week has done so much that it would take the entire podcast episode just to read his CV, so I’ve picked a few highlights He is Emeritus Professor of World Competitiveness, at IMD business school and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the Founder, of the World Competitiveness Center, and publisher of the Annual World Competitiveness Yearbooks ranking the competitiveness of nations. Author of two bestselling books published in several languages:
He is the Former Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and the Davos Annual meetings. My guest is Professor Stéphane Garelli. BIO Stéphane Garelli – a world authority on competitiveness – has pioneered research and the theory in this field. Professor Emeritus at IMD (Institute of Management Development) Lausanne, where he has founded the World Competitiveness Center, he is also Professor Emeritus of World Competitiveness at the University of Lausanne. Professor Garelli is closely connected to the world of business. He was, among others, Chairman of the Board of Directors and shareholder of “Le Temps”, the leading French language Swiss newspaper, Chairman of the Board of the Sandoz Financial and Banking Holding, and Member of the board of the Banque Edouard Constant. Stéphane Garelli was the Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and of the Davos Annual meetings for many years. He was also permanent senior adviser to the European management of Hewlett-Packard. He is a member of a number of institutes, such as: China Enterprise Management Association, Board of the ‘Fondation Jean Monet pour l’Europe’, The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Mexican Council for Competitiveness, etc. and an advisory committee member of the Thai Management Association. He is also a member of the International Olympic Committee commission on Sustainability and Legacy. Stéphane Garelli is the author of numerous publications on competitiveness and global business He published his best-selling book “Top Class Competitors – How Nations, Firms and Individuals Succeed in the New World of Competitiveness” with Wiley. His latest book ” Are You a Tiger, a Cat or a Dinosaur?” is published in several languages. Stéphane Garelli was a member of the Constitutional Assembly of his local state – Vaud, Switzerland from 1999 to 2002. Stéphane is widely considered to be one of the top lecturers on economic and business matters. He has a unique ability to analyse and describe the world economic environment as it evolves, and to draw conclusions about what changes in the world economy actually mean for companies and individuals alike. He is reputed for his trademark graphics combining an attractive visual style with a simple illustration of ideas, and a limited use of numbers. His presentations are dynamic, fast moving, to the point, business like, forward and “so what” oriented. Recorded on: 5th March 2020 Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 25 Oct 2024 | Building a Career that Speaks Volumes: Lessons from Rikki Arundel | 00:29:19 | |
In this episode of the Speaking Business Podcast, host Maria Franzoni sits down with award-winning speaker and Professional Speakers Association founder, Rikki Arundel. Rikki shares their inspiring journey, from early beginnings to receiving the Speaker Awards' Lifetime Achievement Award, revealing valuable lessons for speakers at all stages. They discuss the power of finding your niche, the importance of resilience through career shifts, and what it takes to craft a message that truly resonates. Tune in for Rikki's insights on building a brand, making an unforgettable impact, and navigating the challenges of a speaking career that speaks volumes. | |||
| 06 Dec 2022 | Owning your own story with Lesley Woods | 00:17:40 | |
Owning your own story. With a background in Public Relations, Lesley Woods has 20 years’ experience of curating and creating compelling stories. Her career has taken her around the world, working with international partners to shine a light on the work of her military colleagues, from celebrating Christmas in Kandahar to delivering humanitarian aid to the Central African Republic. As a current serving senior Royal Air Force Reserve Media Officer, she shares unique perspectives gained from her operational experience. Her mission is to get you out of the (communication) trenches and into new territory, to get you thinking differently about how you can emotionally engage your audiences. In her civilian ‘day job’ role she leads campaigns in the UK Ministry of Defence Communications Directorate, a team that aims to ‘give a voice to the men and women who serve so that their stories can be heard’. To help the UK Armed Forces reach new audiences she has led collaborations with films, TV series and documentaries, from influencer events with Disney to a PR partnership with the producers of James Bond. She once lost half an eyebrow evacuating a TV documentary crew from a burning toilet tent in Afghanistan....whilst wearing ballistic pants. Lesley shares the importance of using your OWN story along with tips on the concept of bullet-proof storytelling. For those speakers that are interviewed, Lesley has lots of advice from her media training background. And if you ever fancied climbing a tree for Tom Cruise, well Lesley can tell you how. Links Connect with Lesley on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen Here | |||
| 08 Sep 2020 | Nature, Nurture and Toaster Moments with Jez Rose | 00:29:37 | |
My guest this week is a broadcaster, honeybee farmer, award-winning author and Behaviour Expert. He is known for his energy, humour and passion. Growing up in the countryside, he discovered his love for nature and the environment early in life. In 2017, he moved to a small decommissioned farm, turning it into the world’s first certified Carbon Neutral honey farm, home to the native British honeybee. He is a regular on television and radio, including his own show for ITV1. He works with businesses worldwide as a Behaviour Insight Advisor and has carved a reputation for delivering keynote presentations and workshops at conferences for some of the world’s most recognisable brands. Please welcome Jez Rose. Bio Jez Rose is a broadcaster, honeybee farmer, award-winning writer and keynote speaker, known for his energy, humour and passion. Growing up in the countryside, Jez Rose discovered his passion for nature and the environment early in life. In 2017, he moved to a small decommissioned farm on the Cambridgeshire/Lincolnshire border, turning it into a multi-award-winning, organic farm – and the world’s first certified Carbon Neutral honey farm, home to the native British honeybee. It might be the moustache that you recognise but Jez is a regular on television and radio, including his own show for ITV1; guest presenting on QVC and when not in the studio with ITV’s James Martin’s Saturday Morning, can be seen traveling the country with BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen. He has been the public ambassador for national campaigns for the likes of LateRooms.com; Honest Organic and The Happy Egg Company. Jez spent ten years working with businesses worldwide as a Behaviour Insight Advisor, carving a formidable reputation delivering keynote presentations and workshops at conferences for some of the world’s most recognisable brands. He has been invited to speak at the world-renowned TEDx conferences in both the UK and USA, which can be viewed online. An award-winning writer, his books include Flip the Switch and two books written for children: Zooster McFlooster & the Very Big Sneeze and The Sock Thief. His articles and features have appeared in titles as diverse as The Daily Telegraph, CNN, Liz Earle Wellbeing and BBC Countryfile magazines. A unique presenter and keynote speaker with the rare ability to genuinely inspire audiences, he’s been invited to speak in more than 14 countries and at TEDx events in both the UK and USA. His message is a simple yet powerful one: ever since humans stepped foot onto soil, nature had important lessons for us, but for centuries we’ve ignored them. It’s resulted in disengaged leaders and workforces; cultures without passion – and an environment ignored. The overwhelmingly positive, scientifically evidenced impact of nature on human health, wellbeing and behaviour will surprise you; how simply it changes human behaviour will astonish. Gavin has given over 2,000 paid talks to over 250,000 delegates, spoken all over the world and has appeared on US TV networks ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox on the Brian Tracy TV Show. He have judged the British Excellence in Sales and Marketing Awards (BESMA), keynoted three times at the prestigious National Sales Conference, is a TEDx speaker and a Fellow of the ISM. Recorded on: 9th July 2020 Links: More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 01 Sep 2020 | Be More, Do More, Have More with Gavin Ingham | 00:23:36 | |
My guest this week has been obsessed with high performance for over twenty years. He’s been looking for answers to questions such as: What differentiates high performers from good performers? What helps one person to achieve great results when another is merely average? What skyrockets one team to be more motivated, more productive and make more sales when another wallows in mediocrity? The answers to these questions inspired him to create his #IAM10 methodology for high performance and today I’m going to be asking him to share those answers and some insights and strategies that we can all use to be more, do more and have more. My guest is IAM10 creator Gavin Ingham. Bio What differentiates high performers from good performers? For the last two decades, this is the question that has driven Gavin Ingham to develop the #IAM10 high performance methodology for helping leaders to build high performing teams that fulfil their potential, improve motivation and focus, increase productivity, embrace change and grow sales. The world is changing faster than ever. There is more competition than ever before. The global economy, AI, automation all mean that you and your people need to work with conviction, embrace change, maximise productivity and add more value to every situation. Good enough is not good enough anymore. You need to be the best. You need to be a 10. Why can one person have it all and achieve nothing and another can achieve extraordinary results despite the most severe of challenges? The surprising truth of #IAM10 is that there is little correlation between high performance and education, background, intelligence or career. Instead, high performance is directly related to persistent habits. This means that anyone can be a high performer and it can be taught. High performers have three core traits…
Gavin has worked with CEOs, leadership teams and high performers in companies like Jaguar, UBS, Microsoft and Spotify delivering talks, masterclasses and programmes. All of his sessions are highly interactive, engaging, humorous and full of proven strategies for high performance that can be used to achieve more right away. Whilst inspirational and motivational, Gavin is a business speaker and tailors his messages to you, your audience and your business so that you get maximum engagement, measurable change and positive results. Gavin has given over 2,000 paid talks to over 250,000 delegates, spoken all over the world and has appeared on US TV networks ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox on the Brian Tracy TV Show. He have judged the British Excellence in Sales and Marketing Awards (BESMA), keynoted three times at the prestigious National Sales Conference, is a TEDx speaker and a Fellow of the ISM. Recorded on: 2nd July 2020 Links: More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 08 Dec 2020 | Success in the face of Adversity with Anna Hemmings MBE | 00:23:58 | |
My guest today has a staggering 11 World and European Championship medals, she’s a 2 times Olympian, an MBE, an Executive Coach and an Entrepreneur. She is a woman who persevered and succeeded despite the odds, who achieved when others said she couldn’t. When she talks to us today about overcoming adversity, leadership and high performance, she’s doing it from personal experience. She draws on the lessons she has learnt along her journey as an Olympian, world champion and expert in the field of resilience and leadership and is on a mission to infuse the business world with the secrets of sporting success. Please welcome my guest this week – Marathon Kayaker Anna Hemmings MBE Bio Anna Hemmings is Britain’s most successful female marathon kayaker with a staggering eleven World and European Championship medals, 9 of them gold. By the age of 24 she had been World Champion 3 times and competed at the Olympic Games. In 2010 she was awarded an MBE for her services to sport. Anna achieved this success against all the odds. She was told by the British head coach that she was not big enough or strong enough to be a great kayaker. She proved him wrong. At the peak of her career, Anna was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and was told by medical experts she might never race again. She battled her way to full recovery and went on to win a further 3 world titles and compete at her second Olympic Games in Beijing 2008. Anna has become an expert in the field of resilience and high performance. She is now an Executive coach and founded Beyond the Barriers high performance training consultancy and works globally with leaders and teams giving them practical tools and strategies to enable them to thrive under pressure, build resilience, be mentally tough in challenging environments and deliver world class performance. Anna’s unique combination of experience in elite sport combined with 12 years leading a successful business and working alongside senior leaders, gives her a broad understanding of the challenges that leaders and teams face and how to overcome them to deliver outstanding results. Whether its building confidence, engaging teams or developing resilient leaders, she is passionate about helping others succeed at the highest level. Her most popular speeches are: ‘Staying Ahead of the Game – the Resilient Leader’s toolkit’, ‘Winning against all odds’ and ‘Getting the Competitive Edge’. Anna’s speeches and masterclasses have been enjoyed and valued by senior leaders through to middle managers across different industries from banking and telecoms, to healthcare and retail. These global brands have trusted Anna to inspire their people to achieve more: IBM, Unilever, Vodafone, Balfour Beatty, UCB Pharmaceuticals, British Airways, Deloitte LLP, RBS and many more. Key insights from Anna’s engaging and thought-provoking speeches are brought to life through entertaining anecdotes from her journey in sport and business. She has a proven track record as an accomplished, inspiring and humble speaker. She makes sure that she has a clear understanding of the audience, the company and their industry; ensuring that each presentation is relevant and designed specifically for the client. Anna’s sporting achievements were recognised at the Sunday Times Sports Woman of the Year Awards, where she won the 2005 Champions Award and then again in 2007 when she was voted BBC London Sports Personality of the Year. Anna Hemmings will support you on your journey to high performance with speeches, masterclasses and 1:1 coaching. Recorded on: 22nd October 2020 Links: More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here. Listen here: | |||
| 30 Mar 2021 | Humour Connects Us with Tim Gard | 00:27:11 | |
My guest this week is a pioneer in humour-based training. He has spoken at over 2500 main stage events from Texas to Tasmania. He is also the author of 4 books and markets his own line of stress buster products worldwide. He is a tears-in-your-eyes, laugh out loud speaker. He teaches people to be more resilient and resourceful and coaches businesses on how to enhance productivity and employee enthusiasm through the use of humour. Please welcome to our virtual stage, from his intergalactic headquarters in Portland Oregon, Tim Gard. Bio Tim Gard, CSP, CPAE is a tears-in-your-eyes-laugh-out-loud speaker who teaches people to be more resilient and resourceful and coaches businesses on how to enhance productivity and employee enthusiasm. Talented, innovative and memorable, Tim provides amazing take-home value delivered with his one-of-a-kind presentation style Tim "walks his talk" as a successful business owner himself for more than 20 years. Before starting his business, he worked in the Sales Industry, as well as State and Federal Government in Human Services, as a fraud investigator and is a navy veteran. Recognised as a pioneer in humour-based training. Tim is a certified speaking professional (CSP) & a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame, an elite honour held by fewer than 150 speakers worldwide. The author or co-author of Just Plane Funny, My Policy Manual, Motivational Leaders, and Humour Me, Tim humorously delivers messages as universal as his audiences are diverse. Recorded on: 14th December 2020 Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on FaceBook More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with London Speaker Bureau on LinkedIn To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 09 Jun 2020 | The Future will be an Empathy Economy with Jacqui Taylor | 00:20:06 | |
In an increasingly chaotic and disruptive world of technology our guest today is one of 2019’s 100 Global Leaders and a Top 10 Global Internet of Things innovator. She doesn’t just predict the future she engineers it. She has positively impacted the lives of over 1/3 of the world’s population. 34 million citizens globally collaborate in her cutting-edge research. She is also appointed to the G20 as an expert advisor and has created a new plan for the Global Digital Economy please welcome web scientist and “cyberpreneur” Dr Jacqui Taylor. Bio Dr Jacqui Taylor one of 100 Global Leaders for 2019, as a top 10 Global Internet of Things innovator she doesn’t just predict the future she engineers it using cutting edge web science research. She will clarify and demystify the future for you and spotlight the mega trends inspiring you to align your organisation to profit from the Internet of Things. As one of the original 250 Founders of the UK’s Tech City it became clear to her In December 2016 that the combination of the Internet of Things, which is changing our society globally and the decision of the UK to exit from the European Union required a new approach for businesses to survive the impact. She pivoted her company FlyingBinary to meet this challenge with spectacular results. Jacqui is an international Web Scientist whose early career in aerospace engineering was abruptly halted on graduation when she was transferred to the Computer Services department to lay the foundation for the Software Engineering industry. She was headhunted at 24 to create the first distributed technology solution in the energy industry. She set up her first company at 26 and has been unemployable ever since. She is the only technologist to deploy technology across the whole of the UK’s health service and has architected transformational change at the Bank of England and across the European banking industry, twice. Jacqui is known globally as the world’s first Smart City Tzar, smart cities are the future hubs of business in an IoT world. She is a Strategic Advisor to the UK Government on Smart Cities, Cities lead on Digital Built Britain and a Principal UK Expert lead for the British Standards Institute (BSI) international team for Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence. She is one of 16 International Smart City experts advising the Chinese Government on their Smart City Programme and one of 4 experts advising the European Commission on improving outcomes for citizens in an IoT world. As a Cyberpreneur she travels the world explaining how the technology she builds to defend Europe against terrorism can be used to make organisations, nations and continents CyberSmart. She explains how to build a community response to one of the largest threats we face globally today. At Davos she announced how the UK is partnering with nations to deploy this technology to defeat global corruption, overseen by the OECD. As a UK Science Diplomat her work has underpinned a new future for 90 nations and has positively impacted over one third of the world’s population. This work is now a foundation for future trade UK relationships in a post Brexit world. As a co-founder of the data journalism industry she shares her recent web science research which connects 34 million citizens globally to unlock the secrets of building a future IoT workforce. Recorded on: 23rd April 2020 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here:
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| 31 May 2022 | Founder of Covered Speakers Bureau Adam Levitt in conversation with Maria Franzoni | 00:27:21 | |
Founder of Covered Speakers Bureau Adam Levitt in conversation with Maria Franzoni Adam Levitt is the Founder of Covered Speakers Bureau. Covered Speakers Bureau are experts in matching corporate organisations and professional associations with the very best keynote speakers, hosts, presenters, moderators and entertainment for your virtual and in person events and conferences. He offers his clients (corporate companies and associations) a truly personalised consultation and booking service. Drawing on years of experience working in the events sector and carefully listening to briefs, he matches his clientele with the right keynote speakers based on their individual briefs and he ensures that the client's event is truly memorable for your audience. We take a look inside Covered Speakers Bureau, what Adam looks for in a Speaker, what his bureau offers clients and speakers and so much more. Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen here: This podcast was created using Alitu. Powerfully simple recording and editing tools for podcasters. Record your show, edit it in minutes, and publish directly to your host. Find out more and join here. | |||
| 21 Jul 2020 | How to be a Future Ready Innovator with Jennifer Vessels | 00:25:19 | |
My guest this week is a Future-Ready Innovator. She has led transformation for Adobe, Autodesk, LiveNation as well as founding two Silicon Valley companies. Today she is building the Executive Growth Alliance, a global community of open curious and brave leaders collaborating to drive change in environment, transportation, health and consumer services. She is here to share her journey to future-readiness and what it takes for leaders to succeed in today’s fast paced world of change. Please give a warm speaking business welcome to Jennifer Vessels. Bio As a Silicon Valley entrepreneur; leader of transformation for Adobe, Cisco, LiveNation; and Chief Innovator for Next Step, Jennifer Vessels is an acknowledged expert in understanding what really works to drive change, leverage digitalisation, avoid disruption and gain tangible returns on innovation. Her real – world examples and practical leadership, business growth and transformation techniques are proven to deliver increased productivity, speed up change, increase customer engagement and revenue growth. Future-readiness, i.e. adaptability, openness to global perspectives, willingness to explore and collaboration are natural to Jennifer. Through her career in Technology Sales and Leadership with UB Networks and Tandberg, Jennifer built and led global teams consistently exceeding targets – across 3 continents in 6 years. After launching Tandberg USA, Jennifer founded Next Step in Silicon Valley to maximise results for companies committed to growth. Her vision and practical approach were instrumental in Next Step’s leadership of global expansion of Google, Netflix, Palo Alto Networks and business transformation for Adobe, AutoDesk, Avinor, Goodwill, LiveNation. As a natural connector, Jennifer knows the importance of human collaboration to address challenges, explore new ideas and drive success. In 2017, she established the Executive Growth Alliance (EGA), a worldwide community of Open, Curious Brave leaders who collaborate locally and globally to become future-ready. Using proven power of peers methodology, EGA members collaborate to co-create new solutions and share learning as they address common innovation challenges. The result is growth for the members and their organizations, while impacting global challenges in agriculture, environment, health, industry and mobility. Jennifer is well-recognised as a high-impact speaker, conference moderator and workshop facilitator for Leadership Conferences, Corporate Events, Sales Meetings, Industry Association Meetings, Gartner Group Conferences, Vistage Events +. Her contributions to leadership and futurist blogs, publications, podcasts and LinkedIn demonstrate her commitment to global future-readiness, new leadership approaches, business transformation and team diversity. If you want real results, learning and action, Jennifer is guaranteed to deliver. Recorded on: 26th February 2020 Links: More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here:
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| 18 Oct 2022 | How to beat stress and avoid burnout with Carole Spiers | 00:17:45 | |
How to beat stress and avoid burnout. Carole Spiers is a leading international Business Stress Consultant who shows senior executives how to thrive under pressure. She has published books such as "Managing Stress in the Workplace" and "Show Stress Who's Boss!" Carole is also frequently invited to comment on stress-related issues on TV and radio As an international Motivational Speaker, she has provided keynote addresses at international conferences in the UK, Europe, and Middle East. Learn the difference between stress and pressure, the causes of stress, the signs and symptoms of stress and how to live and work in stressful environments. Connect with Carole on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen Here | |||
| 30 Aug 2018 | Becoming a productivity ninja with Graham Allcott | 00:30:22 | |
This week, Maria’s guest is Graham Allcott. Graham is the author of the global bestseller How to Be A Productivity Ninja. He is the founder of Think Productive, a leading provider of personal productivity training and consultancy. His podcast, Beyond Busy, explores the issues of productivity, work life balance, and how people define happiness in their lives. Previous roles include chief executive of Student Volunteering England, head of volunteering at the University of Birmingham and advisor to the UK Government on youth volunteering policy. Recorded on: 21st June 2018 In this week’s show Graham Allcott shares how we too can become Productivity Ninjas with a zero inbox whilst working only a four-day week. Graham also explains how he got into volunteering and all the wonderful charities he has worked with over the years as well as explaining what our second brain is and why we shouldn’t manage our time. All this and more… Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook
Significant quotes: “It’s an incredibly freeing place to be, to be able to just capture a new idea, put it in your second brain and you don’t need to think about if for the rest of the day.” Next Week: Join us next week when Maria’s guest will be Board Director, Investor and mentor with innovation and high growth experience, Tony Fish.
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| 15 Jun 2021 | Prosperity ahead - or not? with Todd Buchholz | 00:29:20 | |
My guest this week is an internationally known commentator on the world economy, technology and financial markets.He has served as a director for economic policy at The White House and advised such investment firms as the Soros Fund, Goldman Sachs, and Tiger Management, where he served as a managing director of the 15-billion-dollar investment fund. He is the author of the acclaimed New Ideas from Dead Economists. His latest book The Price of Prosperty: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them, was called a “must-read by The Wall Street Journal. He is a co-producer of the Broadway hit musical Jersey Boys. The Associated Press has said that “he lights up economics with a wickedly sparkling wit." Let’s see if he can do that for us today … Joining me all the way from sunny California, please welcome Todd Buchholz. Bio Todd Buchholz is an international economist, hedge fund manager, winner of Harvard’s annual teaching prize and frequent TV and radio commentator. He has written several bestselling books on the economy, including New Ideas from Dead Economists, New Ideas from Dead CEOs and Market Shock. He is a widely sought after keynote speaker addressing a variety of topics, from the U.S. financial markets to geopolitical debates to economic policies that impact business strategies around the globe. With an incisive wit and entertaining style, Buchholz’s keynote presentations reveal the economic challenges and opportunities faced by our changing society and propose important strategies for success. Todd Buchholz is routinely called upon to provide perspective on the headlines and trends that affect the financial markets. He has appeared as commentator on a wide variety of television and radio programs, including ABC News, PBS, NPR, and CBS. He hosted his on CNBC special, “Open Exchange with Todd Buchholz.” In 2012, he sat in the hot seat on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” He has jousted with James Carville and Ben Stein, and he has sat in debate with economists Lester Thurow and Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics. In his keynote speeches, Todd Buchholz draws on years of research into financial topics ranging from housing finance to fast-food lawsuits to the influence of competition on our lives as working members of society (Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race). His work in historical economics (New Ideas from Dead Economists, New Ideas from Dead CEOs) brings to light past influences and trends that affect today’s economic landscapes. From Here to Economy is a trusted guide to economic literacy, simply and clearly explained. In Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office, through “compelling and fast-reading narratives” (Booklist), Buchholz examines the great ideas, and some of the failures, of several CEOs and entrepreneurs whose businesses grew to become household names. Recorded on: 1st June 2021 Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on FaceBook More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with London Speaker Bureau on LinkedIn To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 05 Jul 2022 | Paul Spiers talks about his consultancy and speaking with Maria Franzoni | 00:22:12 | |
How to take a topic and make it unique to stand out as a speaker In this episode of #SpeakingBusiness Podcast, I talk to Paul Spiers. Paul Spiers is Founder of The New P&L® Brand Purpose Institute and host of the internationally respected global business podcast series, ‘The New P&L® – Principles & Leadership in Business’. He is focussed on helping leaders to solve one of today’s big business challenges: how to rediscover and re-engage Purpose in their business, then use it to underpin and drive its commercial, strategic and operational arteries - the critical cornerstones of any successful business. A respected thought leader and advocate for a ‘New P&L’ for Business – one based on Principles & Leadership not just Profit and Loss, Paul is on a global mission to rid businesses of their ‘vinyl values’ – empty slogans, propositions and statements that are as thin as the office walls they so often reside on, and replace them with an intentional commitment to authentic and principled leadership and purpose-led business; to inspire leaders, engage employees and ignite innovation and growth. Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen here: This podcast was created using Alitu. Powerfully simple recording and editing tools for podcasters. Record your show, edit it in minutes, and publish directly to your host. Find out more and join here. | |||
| 16 Mar 2021 | How to be a Business Chameleon with Gerald Ratner | 00:23:27 | |
My guest this week is a British household name, he took over his family’s jewellery business in 1984. By 1990 he had grown it from 130 stores to 2500. But everything changed overnight in 1991 when, during a speech for the Institute of Directors, he described a Ratner’s sherry decanter as ‘total crap’. In December 2020, he published his latest book called Reinvent Yourself co-authored with Rob Moore. It shows you how to embrace change, take the unpopular path and become a business chameleon. Voted as one of the top 10 best public speakers, Gerald Ratner will share his story and the rollercoaster ride that he experienced when he had nothing else to lose. Bio Gerald Ratner is best known as the former millionaire chief executive of the major British jewellery chain Ratners Jewellery, when he achieved notoriety after making a speech which caused the company’s bankruptcy. Gerald Ratner based his philosophy of business on his experiences as a boy in Petticoat Lane Market. He observed that “the people who shouted the loudest and appeared to give the best offers sold the most”. On this basis he built up an extremely successful chain of jewellers during the 1980s, Ratners Jewellery, of which he was chief executive. The shops shocked the formerly staid jewellery industry by displaying fluorescent orange posters advertising cut price bargains, and by offering low price ranges. Gerald Ratner took over the family jewellery chain in the mid 80s, becoming one of Britain’s best known businessmen. He transformed it from 130 stores with sales of £13m to a public company with 2,500 stores and sales of over £1.2bn. By 1990, Ratner’s was the world’s largest jewellery retailer with profits in excess of £120m. Following a widely reported gaffe in which he compared his products to M&S prawn sandwiches, Gerald was forced to sell the business. Reduced to virtually nothing and shunned by banks and prospective employers, he eventually picked himself up and clawed his way back. The internet jewellery business is now the largest in the sector, perhaps presaging a return to the high street. Subsequently Ratner has set up new, much smaller businesses including a health club and an on-line jewellery store collaboration called Gerald Online. After turning around his fortunes, Gerald talks with typical candour and a great deal of humour about the rollercoaster journey. He even raises a smile when he produces The Sun’s list of the ’50 biggest mistakes of all time’ – in which his is ranked top! He now runs, the UK’s largest online jewellery business Gerald Online. Recorded on: 28th January 2021 Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on FaceBook More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with London Speaker Bureau on LinkedIn To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 22 Mar 2018 | Championing Project Management with Antonio Nieto Rodriguez | 00:19:02 | |
This week Maria's guest on the show is Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, the world's leading champion of Project Management and Strategy Implementation. Antonio is the creator of concepts such as the Hierarchy of Purpose featured by Harvard Business Review, and the Project Revolution; which argues that Projects are the lingua franca of business and personal worlds from the C-suite to managing your career and relationships. Antonio's research and global impact in modern management have been recognized by Thinkers50 with the prestigious award "Ideas into Practice". He is also part of MG100 - Marshall Goldsmith's 100 coaches. Recorded on 20th December 2017 Show Notes: In this week's show we will find out how a Spaniard has ended up living in Belgium. Why Antonio doesn't consider technology, AI or big data to be the biggest disruptions in business today and all about Antonio's recent award from Thinkers50. All this and more … Significant quotes: "The most successful leaders are the ones who are able to say we're going to do these three things next year." Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on Facebook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: Next Week: Join us next week when Maria's guest will be world car rally racing champion, Penny Mallory | |||
| 16 Jun 2020 | The Importance of Being Significant and having a Legacy - Sylvia Baldock | 00:25:09 | |
My guest this week works with Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs to help them to recognise the unique value they bring to the workplace and to lead with confidence and purpose. Tapping into her experience as a Theatre Sister in Open Heart Surgery where team engagement and collaboration were paramount to life changing outcomes, she is quick to spot dysfunctions in leaders and teams and to address the issues that are blocking their collaboration, engagement and productivity. She brings her 30+ years of experience working with hundreds of business leaders, entrepreneurs and teams, transforming, motivating and inspiring everyone she works with to greater productivity, engagement and ongoing success. Today she is going to talk about why becoming more significant as a leader and indeed as a business is more important than ever. Please welcome author, consultant and Executive coach Sylvia Baldock. Bio Sylvia Baldock enables Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs to recognise the unique value they bring to the workplace and to lead with confidence and purpose. Tapping into her experience as a Theatre Sister in Open Heart Surgery where team engagement and collaboration were paramount to life changing outcomes, Sylvia is quick to spot dysfunctions in leaders and teams and to address the issues that are blocking their collaboration, engagement and productivity. Sylvia brings her 30+ years of experience working with hundreds of business leaders, entrepreneurs and teams, transforming, motivating and inspiring everyone she works with to greater productivity, engagement and ongoing success. Sylvia specialises in identifying your inherent strengths and challenges and working with you to ensure you are playing to those strengths 70-80% of your working time. When you are utilising your natural skill set, you consistently deliver at a very high standard, you become increasingly creative in your specialist area and you solve problems like never before. You are recognised as a trusted ‘expert’ and the ‘go to’ person and in your field. Sylvia also utilises impactful profiling to identify how to harness the real value each team member has to offer. This generates frank and open discussion and results in a collaborative culture where your people value their differences, tap into each other’s strengths and become more collaborative, motivated, productive and profitable. Sylvia has extensive experience working with Business leaders, CEO groups, Senior Managers, Senior Women, Entrepreneurs, Charities and Social Enterprises, SMEs, CIMA, AAT and NHS supply teams. Sylvia regularly MCs events as well as speaking and running workshops on various topics She is high energy, very authentic and engaging and never fails to delight her audiences. Recorded on: 12th May 2020 Links: More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 17 May 2022 | From speaking for free to opening for Tony Robbins with Phil M Jones | 00:38:52 | |
From speaking for free to opening for Tony Robbins Phil M Jones is the best-selling author of Exactly What To Say, Exactly How To Sell, and Exactly Where To Start. He had his first business at just 14 years of age and is the youngest recipient of the “British Excellence in Sales and Marketing” award. To date, over two million people, across 57 different countries have benefitted from his lessons. And as a result, they now know exactly what to say, when to say it AND... EXACTLY how to make more of their conversations count. Phil talks candidly about his speaking business, how it started, what it consists of today, the strategy behind it, working with speaker bureaus, the trends he is seeing in the speaking industry, staying relevant and so much more. Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen here: This podcast was created using Alitu. Powerfully simple recording and editing tools for podcasters. Record your show, edit it in minutes, and publish directly to your host. Find out more and join here. | |||
| 21 Apr 2020 | Resilience in times of crisis with Charlie Cannon | 00:19:50 | |
My guest this week is a performance coach who specialises in supporting leaders to build personal resilience. Bio Charlie Cannon – Helping leaders, teams and organisations build resilience so that they can embrace change and sustain performance in a disruptive and uncertain world. Charlie is a much sought after performance enhancement coach who has helped leaders, teams and global organisations build resilience thus enabling them not only to embrace change in an uncertain disruptive world, but able to sustain high levels of performance and thrive no matter what the world throws at them. For the last fifteen years he has worked as a leadership development consultant and coach with some of the most well known brands in the world, including, HSBC, PepsiCo, Tesco, BP, Roche, Ebay, Airbus, The Metropolitan Police, Deloitte, Allen & Overy, Mars, Unilever, Uber, Manchester City Football club, The Soho House Group, Santander, Marks & Spencer and Amazon. In Charlie’s live events and trainings he draws upon his rich life experience and combines this with cutting edge research from science and psychology to give them tools and techniques that they can act upon immediately that will catalyse their performance and well-being. Prior to working in business Charlie was a successful health and fitness coach, where at one point he was training an Oscar winning actor and actress. What he observed, was that most of his clients were busy, time poor, stressed and burnt out executives who wanted to increase their energy and manage stress better. This concerned him. His passion for helping people build resilience stems from not just working with all these stressed out executives, but also his own story in not becoming the professional sportsman he had dreamed of being, due to struggling to be at his best when it counted.And, perhaps more tellingly, he knows first-hand what it takes to recover from a near death experience that left him hospitalised and his sister moments away from dying. At 21 he was involved in a traumatic car accident with his sister who almost died. This incident eventually inspired his research into resilience and overcoming adversity. Charlie played rugby for England, West of England hockey and county cricket as a school-boy, but he struggled to perform under pressure, which has showed him the importance of developing a growth mindset and building mental toughness. Recorded on: 7th April 2020 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here:
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| 06 Jul 2021 | The Rumours are True with Maria Franzoni | 00:09:05 | |
My guest this week is me, Maria Franzoni, I’m talking to myself. Well, I hope I’m not talking to myself. Why am I here talking to you? Well, I wanted to talk to you about what has been going on, there have been a lot of changes in the last year and a half and I wanted to share where I’ve come from and where we are going to next. You may have heard the rumours; I’ve closed my speaker bureau and I am moving on to new things. In fact, I’m going to be sharing a lot of knowledge that I have from my speaker bureau in forthcoming podcasts. Bio Maria Franzoni is Founder and Chief Enthusiast of Speaking Business Academy. As one of the most experienced speaker bookers in Europe and recognised as a speaking industry expert, Maria supports speakers (established and new) to enter into new markets, develop content, make strategic decisions about their speaking business, develop longer relationships with clients and maximise their income. Maria has held senior positions with 2 leading speaker bureaus: CSA Celebrity Speakers and London Speaker Bureau. In 2007 she founded her own multi-million pound bureau, Maria Franzoni Ltd. She is founding member and former co-chair of the European Association of Speaker Bureaus, Director of Operations at We Do Things Differently cultural change consultancy and host of the Speaking Business Podcast. Prior to working with speakers Maria worked in retail management, management consultancy, educational travel and as an entrepreneur. Her experience in other industries has given her an excellent foundation and hands-on understanding of how to run and grow profitable businesses. Recorded on: 5th July 2021 Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 14 Jun 2022 | You don't make a sale, you build a sale with Shelley Walters | 00:42:48 | |
You don't make a sale, you build a sale with Shelley Walters Shelley Walters believes in the ability of the individual. In people being able to surprise themselves and those around them. And this is what she aims to unlock with everything that she does. Raised in a difficult environment, she quickly realised her background needn’t dictate where she went in life. That lesson, and many others along the way, helped her to see that we all have the potential to achieve more if we simply put the right steps in place to get there. As the founder and CEO of The Sales Counsel, she established a first-of-its-kind on the African continent: a remote sales education platform that empowers sales teams to deliver better results. As the host of The Shift Show podcast, she shares her experience and lively personality with an ever-growing audience. And as she continues to take on ever more interesting projects, she always remains true to her guiding principles and the belief that we can shed our self-doubt to achieve and surpass our potential. Shelley gives us a whistle stop tour of Sales, the highs and lows, the risk of technology on sales, tools to use in your sales process, sales cycles, how to build a sale and so much more. Connect with Shelley on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen here: | |||
| 20 Dec 2022 | How every speaker could benefit from having a manager with QJ | 00:30:55 | |
How every speaker could benefit from having a manager. Who better to be looking after your speaking career, than a manager used to dealing with bookers, promoters, and agents in one of the toughest of all businesses – the music business? QJ is very familiar with the notorious rogues, the dodgy dealings and the pitfalls that we come across in the speaking business – to this day. When he started out in the business, he was an artist, songwriter and producer signed to a couple of major record labels himself, but eventually ran his own record label, signing other artists, and dealing with the likes of record pluggers, radio DJs, in order to get publicity, exposure, and radio play for those he signed. He says, ‘You really have to be pretty ruthless in the music business to get anywhere. So having honed my skills in that industry, I find that the challenges of making progress in speaking are not dissimilar, but a lot easier.’ QJ shares his passion for ‘other people’s talent’ and why he believes that a good manager can take your speaking career to the next level. Links Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen Here | |||
| 07 Jan 2020 | Harnessing the Power of Ideas with David J Harkin | 00:27:09 | |
My guest this dedicates his life to connecting people with their own ideas. He does this via his award-winning ideas company 7billionideas, which he founded in 2012 and which operates in both the education and the corporate sector. He made the leap from the corporate world to become an entrepreneur after spending the best part of a decade working for the technology giant IBM. He truly believes that every single person on this planet has an amazing imagination and can change the world. Please welcome my guest this week, entrepreneur, author and speaker, David Harkin. Recorded on: 12th December 2019 Bio David J Harkin inspires organisations in adopting a mindset of relentless innovation and intrapreneurship through a people centric bottoms-up approach for radical in-house innovation and growth. David has had the privilege of speaking globally to audiences for the last 5 years. He is an entrepreneur, proud Tedx speaker and author who dedicates his life to connecting people with their own ideas. He does this through his talks and via his ideas company 7billionideas, which was founded in 2012 and operates in both the education and the corporate sector. 7billionideas has become an award-winning company in both industries and David was a finalist at the UK Business Awards 2018 in the category of ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’. David J Harkin made the leap from the corporate world to become an entrepreneur after spending the best part of a decade working for the technology giant IBM. At the age of 24, he was responsible for a multi-million dollar business. At 26, he decided to leave and live and breathe his passion of connecting people with their own ideas. David truly believes that every single person on this planet is an idea generator and endeavours to do all he can to help these ideas be heard. The education arm has worked with over 75,000 students and their corporate arm works with organisations all over of the world. In his spare time, he works for the charity ‘Action for Children’ as an independent visitor, supporting children and young people with their parents or families. David enjoys running having completed the London Marathon and often races in half-marathons. He is also an active member of a premier league cricket club where he is club captain, junior coach and committee member. He is also a playing member for the MCC and still hopes one day to play for England. Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook More about Maria Franzoni Ltd - https://mfl.global Connect with Maria on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-franzoni/ Connect with Maria on FaceBook - https://www.facebook.com/speakingbusiness.co To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here:
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| 07 Sep 2021 | LinkedIn Company Pages Work with Michelle Raymond | 00:34:18 | |
LinkedIn Company Pages Work In this episode of #SpeakingBusinessPodcast, I talk to Michelle Raymond. Michelle is a LinkedIn Pages specialist who is passionate about helping businesses build brand awareness to attract business opportunities using LinkedIn. She is known in LinkedIn circles for her advocacy for LinkedIn Company Pages. With 20+ years Sales and Key Account Management experience, she has generated over $3M in revenue for the companies she represented. In this fascinating episode, Michelle shares her tips and tools for using LinkedIn and in particular creating and using LinkedIn Company pages. Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on Facebook Listen here: This podcast was created using Alitu. Powerfully simple recording and editing tools for podcasters. Record your show, edit it in minutes, and publish directly to your host. Find out more and join here. | |||
| 13 Sep 2018 | Transformational Leadership with Chris Roebuck | 00:33:02 | |
Today Maria’s guest is Chris Roebuck. Chris has vast experience as a leader. He was Global Head of Leadership at UBS during the implementation of one of the most successful corporate transformations. This period now forms a Harvard Business School case study on transforming organisational performance. Chris has also worked in government and public sector on major change and leadership projects, from UK National Health Service and local government to London Underground PFI partnership. Chris is currently visiting professor of transformational leadership at Cass Business School in London. In addition, he has served as a military officer and now works as an executive coach and mentor across a range of different sectors, helping senior executives to be more successful. Recorded on: 5th July 2018 In this week’s show, Chris Roebuck shares how you can start your career managing catering services, including the bars for about 8000 undergraduates to being in the Army, to then becoming Global Head of Leadership at UBS. Can everyone be a Leader? Chris believes they can and shares just what it takes to be a great leader in today’s fast changing world. All this and more… Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook Significant quotes: “70% of the leaders out there have not been taught how to delegate effectively day to day, when that's exactly what they're supposed to do for their job.” Next Week: Join us next week when Maria’s guest will be Sports Presenter and Communications Trainer, James Pearce. | |||
| 15 Nov 2022 | Ditch perfection and create connection with Lisa Braithwaite | 00:28:59 | |
Ditch perfection and create connection with Lisa Braithwaite Do you seek a more human connection with your in-person and remote audiences? When she’s not working with her coaching and training clients, she can be found cooking, eating, reading about cooking and eating, or managing her cats’ Instagram account. (See show notes!) Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen Here | |||
| 17 Jan 2019 | Decision Making with Data with Maneesh Juneja | 00:32:15 | |
Each week I invite one of my speakers to talk about their life, work, passions and leisure so that you can get to know the person who is the speaker behind the mic. My guest this week is Maneesh Juneja, Digital Health Futurist, or as we call him MJ. In this episode we talk all things technology but with some talk of gadgets too, which I absolutely love. Maneesh also tells us why all business and organisation are going to be in the business of health. Bio Maneesh Juneja is a Digital Health Futurist who explores the convergence of emerging technologies to see how they can make the world a healthier and happier place. He looks at these technologies in the context of socio-cultural, political and economic trends, helping organisations to think differently about the future. In 2016, he was ranked 7th most influential in Digital Health, and at the beginning of 2015, Maneesh Juneja was ranked 10th most influential in Wearable Technology. In 2012, he left the security of his career at GlaxoSmithKline, to immerse himself in the new world of Digital Health. In 2012, Maneesh also founded the Health 2.0 London Chapter, which has become the UK’s largest grassroots health tech community. In a career spanning 20 years, Maneesh has worked with data to improve decision-making across a number of industries. From supporting the Whitehall study at University College London, managing the Tesco database at DunnHumby, and most recently, working with the world’s largest U.S. & European patient databases at GlaxoSmithKline R&D. Recorded:13th December 2018 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here | |||
| 29 Sep 2020 | Effective Virtual Leadership with Penny Pullan | 00:14:46 | |
My guest this week has been called a world authority on remote teams. She is an expert in Virtual and Hybrid Leadership and is the author of the best-selling book ‘Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams’. Her experience of virtual and hybrid teams began when 9/11 forced her to run a major programme virtually. More recently she set up her consultancy, Making Projects Work supporting leaders grappling with the challenges of our virtual and hybrid world, to enhance collaboration across dispersed teams. My guest this week literally wrote the book on virtual, please welcome Doctor Penny Pullan. Bio Dr Penny Pullan is a thought leader in the field of virtual leadership, specialising in complex change projects involving virtual teams. She is a director of Making Projects Work. She works with people in multinational organisations who are grappling with tricky projects: uncertain, with ambiguous requirements, stakeholders who need to be engaged and virtual teams dispersed around the world. When they work with Penny, clients notice that communication, collaboration, clarity, commitment, connection and confidence grow, and change doesn't seem quite as tricky as before! Her clients include: Rolls Royce, UK Government, Skandia, PWC, Novo Nordisk, AstraZeneca, Abbott Laboratories, Cummins, Capital One, National Grid, Open University, CAFOD, Save the Children and Christian Aid. Penny is the author of several books including 'Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams' (Kogan Page, 2016). She's bemused that her formerly niche topic of virtual leadership is suddenly something which makes sense to everyone, when people used to scratch their heads and wonder what on earth it was that she did! Recorded on: 21st July 2020 Links: More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 10 Jan 2019 | Master your voice today and the world will listen with Jimmy Cannon | 00:26:09 | |
This week we are doing something a little bit different, going a bit off piste, because my guest this week isn't one of my speakers, he's actually a voice coach. You would think that people who use their voice as an instrument for their work would actually have voice coaches but many speakers don't look after their voices and end up struggling, straining and not using their voices to their full potential. So my guest is jazz singer and voice coach, Jimmy Cannon. Bio Jazz singer and vocal coach Jimmy Cannon teaches techniques to sustain and protect the most important instrument in speaking; your voice. Jimmy has toured and recorded with Sir Tom Jones, The Commitments, Rodriguez, Roger Taylor, and has appeared on ‘The One Show’ and ‘This Morning’. Recorded: 13th December 2018 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here | |||
| 02 Jun 2020 | Reset - How we will shop, live, work and play in the future with Kate Ancketill | 00:35:10 | |
Drawing upon 20 years’ experience consulting on innovation pathways for billion-dollar blue chips, my guest this week provides road-tested insights on the technological and human innovations that will change the shape of business over the next five years. As founder and CEO, she is the chief storyteller at GDR Creative Intelligence, a business futurist and strategy consultancy working with an impressive roster of brands - including Microsoft, P&G, The BBC, Tesco, Waitrose and Danone. She fuses big picture context with carefully curated case studies from the world's leading technologists, designers, marketeers, architects and thought leaders to illustrate how new technologies and consumer behaviours will impact physical and digital commerce. She says that “Innovation almost always starts with cross fertilisation.” “Looking outside of your sector and geography at non-competitors is far more likely to lead to greater disruptive breakthroughs than can be achieved by chasing your competitors.” Please welcome my guest today, Business Futurist Kate Ancketill. Bio: Kate Ancketill is the driving force behind GDR Creative Intelligence, a globally recognised consultancy focused on innovation and emerging trends in retail, leisure and hospitality around the world. She has worked with an impressive roster of major global brands, including: Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Under Armour, LVMH, Lego, Tesco and P&G. In eye-opening, informative and inspirational multi-media presentations, Kate shares insights on the technological, human and spatial innovations that will change the face of retail and hospitality over the next two to five years. She uses carefully selected case studies to illustrate how new technologies and consumer behaviours will impact physical and digital commerce globally; case studies discovered by GDR’s expert research team, or drawn from her global network – honed over 22 years – of leading engineers, programmers, designers, architects, marketers, scientists, academics and other specialist practitioners. “Meaningful innovation often starts with inspiration from unexpected places,” says Kate Ancketill. “I love to show how taking a concept from one sector, tweaking it and applying it to another can lead to world-beating bottom line success.” Kate works closely with clients when planning her presentation and each is bespoke. Kate’s presentations combine the inspirational with the practical. Her audiences take away concrete action points for future-proofing their business, a broad perspective on priorities for investment and a mind fizzing with cutting-edge, stimulating and challenging concepts and possibilities. Recorded on: 14th May 2020 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here
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| 16 Aug 2022 | How to move your audience to action with Sarah Archer | 00:28:27 | |
How to move your audience to action. Sarah Archer is on a mission to show coaches, experts, leaders business owners and aspiring change makers how to create talks with passion, personality and purpose that also get results. She teaches you how to combine storytelling, humour, performance and marketing principles so that you don’t just engage, entertain and inspire your audience but also move them to action, whether that’s buying your book, product or service, or booking you for another gig. Sarah is a speaking and marketing coach, playwright, performer, ex-HR Director, and host of The Speaking Club Podcast, (which is in the top 1% of podcasts and in over 180 countries). This mix means she is uniquely qualified to share how to create content that makes your audience stop, engage and fall in love with your message. Connect with Sarah on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen Here | |||
| 25 Feb 2020 | The Future is a Portal Inward with Gray Scott | 00:31:15 | |
My guest is a futurist, philosopher, and a leading expert in futurism and emerging technologies. He is a populariser, commentator, and influencer of all things futuristic. He is the host of the techno-philosophy YouTube series FUTURISTIC NOW and is listed in the top twenty must-watch futurism shows on YouTube. He has spoken at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre, Boston University, The London Business School, and 2016 International Judicial Symposium in Korea held by the Supreme Court of Korea. My guest is Gray Scott. Bio Gray Scott is a futurist, techno-philosopher and one of the world’s leading experts in the field of emerging technology. Gray has appeared on Discovery Channel Canada, History Channel, CBS This Morning, FOX News, Cheddar News, Yahoo News, as well as in several documentaries including The Future of Work and Death. Gray’s future insights have been frequently quoted in Forbes, Vanity Fair, Yahoo News, VICE MOTHERBOARD, Fast Company, The Washington Post, Psychology Today, Business News Daily, Verizon News, New York Post, The Star, San Francisco Magazine and SingularityHub. Gray has advised advertising agencies, think tanks and corporations in the area of foresight, including AT&T’s recent 25th anniversary YOU WIL campaign. He has spoken at conferences around the world, including NASA Johnson Space Center, Boston University, London Business School and the International Judicial Symposium of the Supreme Court of Korea. Recorded on: 24th January 2020 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook
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| 15 Oct 2019 | Turning Ambition into Achievement with Jamil Qureshi - Repeated | 00:22:36 | |
This week I’ve delved into the archives and I’ve pulled out an episode from the very early days in case you missed it, in case you’ve only just started listening recently and if you’ve heard it before it’s actually worth listening to again. My guest is one of today's foremost practitioners of performance enhancing psychology and is an expert in high performing teams. He’s ranked amongst the most influential figures in British sport as well as a powerful figure in the business community where he has worked with business leaders and companies helping them to fulfil their full potential by delivering change and performance programmes. In sport, he’s worked with 5 Ryder Cup captains, Premier League footballers, Formula 1 racing drivers and the Ashes winning England Cricket team. My guest is Jamil Qureshi. Bio Jamil Qureshi is one of today’s foremost practitioners of performance enhancing psychology and is an expert in high performing teams. As the co-founder of change agencies, We Do Things Differently, Loudhouse and JQED, Jamil has enjoyed working with a rich diversity of the most talented business and sports people and teams globally. He’s ranked among the most influential figures in British sport and has worked successfully with three English Premiership football clubs and the Ashes winning England Cricket team. He is a legendary figure in golf becoming the first-ever official psychologist with the European Ryder Cup team as well as working with 22 golfers inside the World’s Top 50. Jamil was voted in the top 100 most powerful men in golf 2008 by his international peers. Jamil has written a book with The Secret Footballer about the psychology of football released in December 2016. In business and industry Jamil has worked from CEO and board level to middle management in a variety of sectors. He has worked with business leaders and companies in over 24 different countries last year alone helping teams to fulfil their potential by orchestrating change and performance programmes. He has developed and delivered management and leadership programmes at board level for Coca Cola, Hewlett Packard, Emirates Airlines, Serco, Orange, and Royal Bank of Scotland. He has worked across Lloyds Banking Group on the ‘Journey to World Class’. He has led teams responsible for change management in several high-profile areas; Lloyds Banking Group as part of their substantial integration strategy, and Post Office to create The Post Office Way as they separate from Royal Mail. Jamil also lectures on the prestigious WorldProgram, in the US, UK and China through Ashridge and Fordham Business Schools and Qing Dao University. Interestingly, he is one of only a few external psychologists ever to be allowed to study astronauts on the NASA Space Programme. Jamil’s versatility is illustrated by the fact he has talked at NASDAQ in Times Square where he shared a stage with General Peter Pace, Head of Joint Chief of Staff, the highest ranking military officer in the US armed forces, and next day did stand up in front of a celebrity audience at the Groucho Club! Having spent many years working with the world’s elite, he is in a genuinely unique position to define ‘what makes the difference’. An expert in the psychology of leadership, leadership communication, improving people performance, Jamil Qureshi specialises in purposeful and meaningful change techniques. Jamil’s sessions are carried out using a flip chart rather than a powerpoint and he does love to doodle!! There is always laughter from the stories he shares to get his messages across. Whether its engagement, collaboration, performance or any of the other topics he covers, he is always lively, interactive and engaging and the audience always leave full of renewed enthusiasm and the will to change. Recorded: 18th January 2018 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here:
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| 17 May 2018 | Harnessing emerging science and technology with Rohit Talwar | 00:19:51 | |
This week Maria’s guest on the show is Rohit Talwar a global futurist and award-winning speaker, who works with corporations and governments to help them explore, understand, and respond to the forces shaping our world. He has a particular focus on how we can harness emerging science and technology to ensure that these advances are used to unleash individual potential, and enable a very human future. Recorded on 23rd February 2018 Show Notes: In this week’s show, we will find out what a futurist actually is, why Rohit would like to have coffee with the oddly named drug dealer “the Penguin” and what could happen if machines took over the world. All this and more …. And yes Maria did say The Exterminator instead of The Terminator, don't write in! NB This was recorded before Stephen Hawking sadly passed away in March this year. Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook Significant quotes: “A great futurist really helps people get insights into the emerging future” Next Week: Join us next week when Maria’s guest will be former professional poker player turned business advisor, Caspar Berry.
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| 01 Oct 2019 | Recovering Shazam entrepreneur, aspiring Tech do-gooder with Dhiraj Mukherjee | 00:16:50 | |
This week’s guest founded Shazam Entertainment, the world’s first mobile phone-based music recognition service which was acquired by Apple in 2018 for a reported $400 million. In 2015 the Financial Times named him one of Europe’s Top 50 technology entrepreneurs. Previously he was Head of Banking Innovation at Virgin Money, responsible for developing new digital services for students in the UK. He has also worked in media, entertainment, technology and in charity at Save the Children. Now he is an angel investor in “Tech for Good” start-ups and a regular speaker on innovation, entrepreneurship and emerging technology. My guest is Dhiraj Mukherjee. Bio Dhiraj Mukherjee is co-founder of Shazam and an experienced digital business executive and entrepreneur, with a proven track record in both corporate and start-up environments. Recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe’s Top 50 technology entrepreneurs in 2015, Dhiraj Mukherjee was previously Head of Banking Innovation at Virgin Money, where he was responsible for developing and implementing disruptive new digital banking products, propositions and partnerships. Recent projects include leading the team responsible for creating Virgin Money Digital Bank’s next-generation product, aimed at serving 2.2 million students in the UK. Over the course of his career, Dhiraj has held directorial roles across a range of sectors including media & entertainment, consulting and the charity sector. In 2000, Dhiraj co-founded Shazam Entertainment, the world’s first mobile phone-based music recognition service. He was a Director of Shazam from 2000-2003, and raised £600,000 in seed funding and over £10m in venture capital investment over three rounds. Dhiraj has been a Board observer for Shazam since 2004, and is actively engaged in shaping overall product and corporate strategy. Shazam was acquired by Apple in 2017 for a reported $400 million. He is now an active angel investor focused on emerging technologies and “Tech for Good,” including several start-ups leveraging AI to help create a better society. Dhiraj has a degree in Mathematical Economics from Dartmouth College, USA and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He speaks regularly at conferences on innovation, entrepreneurship and emerging technology. Recorded: 19th September 2019 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here:
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| 22 Oct 2019 | What's your language revealing about you? with Ben Afia | 00:21:35 | |
This week we are talking about language, but first let me give you a little bit of context. Most organisations don't connect with their customers and staff half as well as they could and as a result, they're losing customers and employees at a shocking rate. My guest is the Language Strategist, he's helped companies like Vodafone, Allianz and Google to be more human and make that connection. He's going to reveal how language is the key that'll unlock the door to a more authentic brand and happier customers. My guest is Ben Afia. Bio Ben Afia is a consultant, writer and speaker, specialising in brand strategy and language. His claim to fame is helping Ronseal work out what to say on the tin. He’s helped companies manage their brand and tone of voice longer than most, starting in 2001 at Boots, when managing language was only just becoming a thing. He created a new tone and went on to help people across the business to get better results from agencies and freelancers. In 2005, with a first baby on the way and a week from exchanging contracts on a new house, Boots made Ben redundant. Which seemed like the perfect moment to set up Afia. Afia is turning the world of “corporate speak” on its head by helping companies to be more human. He is always looking for the easiest way to get something done. It’s the same thinking he’s brought to successfully changing the culture of companies like Aviva, E.ON, Legal & General and Boots. ‘If we make this easy for anyone to grasp, they’re far more likely to adopt it.’ Hence the straightforward, memorable tone of voice structure. Afia’s tone of voice structure uses a language format the same as people do when they’re talking to each other face to face. Of course the tone will vary depending on who you’re talking to and what you want to say, but Afia has found it helps organisations to build stronger relationships with their customers and for the people who work there to get on better with each other. Through his work at Afia he has helped companies like Allianz Insurance win more customers, BP to develop their employer brand and Google to help people understand digital marketing better. In the travel sector he’s helped BCD get in touch with what their customers need, and companies like Haven Holidays create a wonderful customer experience that starts the minute they open a brochure. He’s also helped Twinings to harmonise their packaging around the world, Vodafone build better relationships with their customers, and AirBP to get in touch with their heartbeat. That work was so effective they were still using Ben Afia’s words 5 years later. Recorded: 8th October 2019 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 22 Sep 2020 | Radical Resilience with Eileen McDargh | 00:25:31 | |
Even before this global disruption wreaked havoc on all our lives, my guest this week had been studying, writing and speaking on the topic of resiliency … a topic area that has fascinated her for decades. Since 1980, she has helped organisations and individuals transform the life of their business and the business of their life through conversations that matter and connections that count. She believes that resiliency is a critical life skill and one that requires the energy of connections. She has been selected to be part of the Thought Leaders Network, in the company of Sheryl Sandberg, Brene Brown and Marshall Goldsmith. Please welcome Chief Energy Officer and founder of the consulting firm, McDargh Communications and The Resiliency Group. Eileen McDargh. Bio Eileen McDargh is energy without hype. A Connector who joins head and heart to create action. Instead of giving lectures Eileen teaches and tells stories. She speaks with humility and humour in place of pride and pretence. Eileen McDargh is founder and CEO of the consulting firm, The Resiliency Group (a division of McDargh Communications). Organizations like Cisco, Novartis, Oracle, and Procter & Gamble hire her firm to teach them ways of building resilient leadership teams and workplaces. Leadership Excellence magazine, which ranks top thought leaders in management and leadership, continually names Eileen to its top 50 Leadership list. Following a survey of 22,000 business professionals, the research firm, Global Gurus, named her to its list of the World’s Top 30 Leadership Professionals. Along with her work as an organisational resiliency consultant, Eileen speaks and writes about resiliency in business, in life, and in relationships. As a platform speaker, she has given thousands of keynotes for organizations and associations in dozens of fields, including aerospace, education, finance, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, public agencies, real estate, retail, technology, utilities, and women’s leadership. She is a member of the National Speakers Association (and has served on its Board of Directors), was awarded by Speakers Platform a Top 5 Speaker designation in Teamwork / Leadership two years in a row, was elected into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame, and was given by her peers the Legend of the Platform Award. As an author, Eileen has written seven books, including The Resilient Spirit: Heart Talk for Surviving in An Upside Down World and Work for a Living and Still be Free to Live! In 2008, the Independent Book Publishers Association awarded her book, Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truth’s for Life’s Complexities, a Benjamin Franklin Gold Award. Her other books include My Get Up and Go… Got Up and Went, 40 Tips For Speaking Up, Speaking Out, And Being Heard and Talk Ain't Cheap... It's Priceless. Her latest is Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Resilience to Refuel, Recharge, and Reclaim What Matters. Her articles are found in thousands of publications both on-line and off-line. Eileen is also a member of the University of Pennsylvania’s Sloan Work and Family Researcher Network, an organisation of interdisciplinary researchers and scholars studying work-life issues. Before starting her own consultancy, Eileen was the Director of Communications for a national healthcare company, served as senior manager on a U.S. Navy installation project, and taught school in Nassau County, Florida, where she was elected “Educator of the Year.” Recorded on: 21st July 2020 Links: More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 01 Jun 2021 | The Business of Excellence with Justin Hughes | 00:38:44 | |
My guest this week works as an adviser to senior leadership teams on strategy, risk and performance. As a former Red Arrows pilot, management consultant and senior manager in a global corporate, he is not a speaker who pontificates from the side lines, but has spent significant time on the pitch, in some of the most demanding of high-performance environments. He has masters’ degrees from Cambridge and London Business School, and is the author of The Business of Excellence. Currently he helping to launch a green technology company. Please welcome my guest, Justin Hughes. Bio As a former fighter pilot and Executive Officer of the Red Arrows, Justin Hughes know exactly how you plan, execute and adapt in situations characterised by ambiguity, imperfect information, speed of change and pressure to deliver. Justin Hughes has worked as a consultant on organisational performance to clients including Microsoft, the United Nations and Mercedes F1. And he has walked his own talk during the Covid-19 crisis, in a corporate role as L3Harris’ Director Integrated Airline Services. In one of the hardest hit sectors, Justin managed a major change programme in a fast-moving environment, while also sitting on the global business continuity team. Prior to his current roles, Justin Hughes was an RAF fighter pilot. He graduated as top cadet of his officer training and went on to fly the Tornado F3 air defence fighter. He subsequently served for 3 years on the Red Arrows performing over 250 displays worldwide including 3 international tours. Justin has an MBA with Distinction from London Business School and is currently studying International Relations at the University of Cambridge. Justin Hughes is the author of The Business of Excellence (Bloomsbury, 2016), has been profiled in the London Standard, Director and the Daily Telegraph), and interviewed for BBC World ‘Talking Business’ and BBC Breakfast. During 2020, he has conducted a range of virtual deliveries: from a ‘traditional’ style keynote to a more interactive format to a fully participatory workshop and am very comfortable across different platforms (Zoom, Microsoft Teams). Recorded on: 18th May 2021 Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on FaceBook More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with London Speaker Bureau on LinkedIn To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 10 Mar 2020 | Harnessing the power of diversity in thinking with Shelley Bridgman | 00:20:47 | |
My guest this week is Psychotherapist, Hypnotherapist, award-winning comedian and author. She survived the hedonistic sixties with the inevitable round of clubbing, fashion and drugs; then she made the most of the seventies, travelling to over sixty countries whilst running a travel business. But it was the eighties that tested her to her limits. Battling depression, bankruptcy, addiction and suicide attempts, She found the strength to confront her need to change gender and achieve harmony with herself. Today she is on a mission to create transformational change for leaders by developing a Fearless Mindset. My guest is Shelley Bridgman. Bio There are speakers who have led a conventional life then there are those with a hinterland and Shelley Bridgman is certainly is among the latter. Shelley is a Transformational Change & Thought Diversity expert, Psychotherapist, Hypnotherapist, Trainer, & Author. She has become a media commentator specialising in psychotherapy & psychology, with appearances on BBC Television, Sky and Channels 4 and 5 as well Radio 4’s “Woman’ Hour” “Midweek” and the “Jeremy Vine Show”. She has also featured in “Psychologies,” and “Therapy Today” magazines. As a Speaker, Shelley’s topics are Developing a fearless mindset, Transformational Change, Diversity & Thought Leadership. Although speaking has taken over from performing comedy on the Stand-up comedy circuit where she performed five one-woman shows at the Edinburgh Festival and completed a seven-night run Off-Broadway in New York, she still MC’s nights in comedy clubs as it makes for being a better speaker. Recorded on: 16th January 2020 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 23 Jun 2020 | How Neuroscience can help you deal with uncertainty with Lynda Shaw | 00:20:39 | |
My guest this week is a cognitive neuroscientist, specialising in the unconscious processing of emotion and behavioural change. She is also an experienced entrepreneur having owned 3 businesses. She works with senior leaders and their teams helping them to better understand the science of change and development and harness this power through heightened awareness of how their brain works. She is founder of the Neuroscience Professional Development Programme designed to help professional people use applied neuroscience in their work. Like her, her work is always informative, fun and extremely practical. Please welcome my guest this week Dr. Lynda Shaw Bio Dr Lynda Shaw is a cognitive neuroscientist who holds a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience, specialising in unconscious processing of emotion and behavioural change. She is a registered chartered psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a Fellow of the Professional Speakers Association, holder of the prestigious Professional Speaker Association award for Excellence, a Forbes contributor as well as an entrepreneur and author of adult and children’s books. She is founder of the Neuroscience Professional Development Programme designed to help professional people use applied neuroscience in their work. Lynda works with senior leaders and their teams who want to better understand the science of change and development and harness this power through heightened awareness of how their brain works, limiting beliefs and how to take charge of one’s behaviour for the better in this fast changing world. Lynda’s work is always informative, fun and extremely practical. Recorded on: 18th May 2020 Links: More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here:
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| 07 Jul 2020 | You Are Good Enough with Harriet Waley-Cohen | 00:28:01 | |
My speaker this week has been helping people for the last 16 years to believe in themselves and their potential. She has been through multiple transformations herself and knows what it takes to make deep rooted changes that stick, and to get through tough times and emerge stronger and wiser. She helps people to leave behind self-doubt, disempowering patterns and overwhelm in favour of new ways of thinking, feeling and acting that create confidence, wellbeing and success. Exactly what many of us will be needing right now. Please welcome my guest this week Harriet Waley-Cohen Please be aware that there are some swear words used in this recording. Bio Harriet Waley-Cohen has empowered thousands of people over the last 15 years to believe in themselves and their potential. She has been through multiple transformations herself and knows what it takes to make deep rooted changes that stick, and to get through tough times and come out the other side stronger and wiser than ever. Harriet is 16 years in recovery from addictions, left an unhappy marriage and went on to thrive, shifted from a 10-year banking career into motherhood and entrepreneurship, lives with a permanent pain condition after being driven into on the motorway in 2016, and is a recent breast cancer survivor. Harriet Waley-Cohen’s mission is to make sure people know their true value. She empowers her clients and audiences to leave behind self-doubt, disempowering patterns and overwhelm in favour of new ways of thinking, feeling and acting that create confidence, wellbeing and success. She is described by Vanessa Vallely OBE, MD of WeAreThe City as ‘a real superwoman who empowers others wherever she goes.’ Harriet’s style is authentic, engaging and interactive, leaving her audiences with practical tools and processes they can use right away for maximum impact and transformation. Her topics sit especially well under the diversity and inclusion framework: mental health & emotional wellbeing, empowering women, and confidence building. Recorded on: 5th May 2020 Links: More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here
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| 29 Oct 2019 | From Stammer to Stage with Alex Staniforth | 00:34:32 | |
We’re doing something a bit different on this week’s podcast. You know I like to shake things up, just to make sure you’re paying attention. So, in addition to finding out more about my guest and getting a bit of an insight into his speeches we dissect his speaking business. We find out how he got started as a speaker, how he started charging, where his paid gigs come from plus lots more. We go deep stopping just short of asking him for his bank balance. So, let’s roll the podcast …. My guest this week is a young adventurer, author and fundraiser from Chester. At just 24 he’s already delivered over 170 talks to businesses, schools and events around the UK and Europe, and he’s also done a TEDx. He’s made two attempts to climb Mount Everest, both ended in disaster. He shares his unique experiences of redefining failure, embracing change and staying resilient through adversity. He has just released his second book Another Peak and has set up a social enterprise supporting mental health through outdoors called Mind over Mountains: www.mindovermountains.org.uk. All this and he is still only 24 years old. Please welcome Alex Staniforth. Bio Alex Staniforth is a record-breaking adventurer, keynote speaker, published author, brand ambassador and charity fundraiser from Cheshire. At the age of 24 he has already attempted Mount Everest twice and is dedicated to inspiring others to achieve their own ‘Everest’ in life. Alex is not your typical Everest speaker. After single-handedly raising over £35,000 in corporate sponsorship whilst still at school, his first attempt to climb to the summit of Mount Everest in 2014 was abandoned following a tragic avalanche that took sixteen lives. Aged just 19, he returned to Everest a year later and survived an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall, triggered by the Nepal earthquake, which trapped his team on the mountain for two days. He is no stranger to adversity: overcoming epilepsy, bullying – and a stammer in early life. These experiences have re-defined his view of success and failure to develop a humbling realisation that success lies not just in reaching the top but our journey to get there. Alex understands first-hand how our circle of control is sometimes no bigger than two metres below our feet and that so-called ‘failure’ is just another opportunity to win. In 2016 he returned to the Himalayas and reached 7,125 metres on Cho Oyu, the sixth highest peak in the world. In 2017 he became the fastest person ever to climb all 100 UK county tops by bicycle, foot and kayak, covering over 5,000 miles in 72 days to encourage conversations around mental well-being. In 2018 he ran two sub three-hour marathons and has completed numerous other endurance challenges, developing resilience and mental strategies, presented in a way that we can apply to our own daily stresses. Outdoor adventure and endurance challenges have not only been a tool to overcome adversity but a vehicle for doing good and leading others. Alex has raised over £85,000 for charity, carried the London 2012 Olympic Torch through Chester, won a Pride of Britain Regional Fundraiser of the Year award and is an ambassador for the YHA (Youth Hostel Association) England & Wales. With an unassuming and approachable style, Alex has already presented to over 16,000 people internationally and is one of the youngest ever Gold Award Presenters for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award at Buckingham Palace. He published his first book Icefall in 2016, endorsed by Bear Grylls, and his second title Another Peak was published in July 2019, endorsed by Mark Beaumont. Alex speaks openly about his struggles with depression, anxiety and eating disorders, to spread the message that mental illness is not a weakness or barrier to achievement. He is also a founding director of Mind Over Mountains C.I.C, a social enterprise providing outdoor experiences to improve and maintain positive mental wellbeing. Recorded: 9th October 2019 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here:
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| 26 Apr 2018 | Developing courage and leadership with Patrick Marriott | 00:19:14 | |
This week Maria's guest on the show is Major General Patrick Marriott, who was a regular soldier for 36 years. During this time he served in approximately 30 countries and deployed in operations to Northern Ireland, Egypt and Israel, Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Among other appointments, he commanded his regiment, the Queen's Royal Lancers, on operations in Bosnia and the 7th Armoured Brigade known as the Desert Rats in Iraq. He was Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst before retiring in 2012. Patrick now serves as a Reservist Major General, sharing the highest level of Service Complaints Board for the Army. Recorded on: 7th February 2018 Show Notes: In this week’s show, Major General Patrick Marriott talks to us about his career in the military and how he learned his leadership skills. Good leadership is still highly important to Patrick and this inspired him along with his love of the countryside to lead a trek for children coast to coast. He also talks about the book he is writing for his children and why on special occasions he likes to fire his cannon!! All this and more… Significant quotes: “You can develop courage in people and that's hugely important. It's the great virtue that enables businesses and everything else to succeed.” Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook Next Week: Join us next week when Maria’s guest will be World Cup-winning Head Coach who led England’s rugby players to World Cup glory in Australia in 2003, Sir Clive Woodward. | |||
| 03 Nov 2020 | Setting the Stage for Greater Success with Diana Theodores | 00:24:40 | |
My guest this week says that “If all the world’s a stage” the greatest role you ever get to play is yourself. She applies the principles of ‘Great Performance’ from her 25 years’ experience in the world of theatre to ‘Great Performance’ on the business stage. She connects leaders with the energy of inspiration that great performances give us - to feel more alive, more courageous, more optimistic and more galvanised. Using key principles from her book about performing greatly as yourself she ignites leaders to pull back the safety curtain of corporate conformity and step into the spotlight of their fullest authentic presence and unique voice. Her global clients describe her as a transformational energy conductor who offers an irresistible invitation to shine in every role they play. I’m very much looking forward to chatting to International presence coach, speaker and bestselling author of Performing As YOU, Diana Theodores Bio Dr Diana Theodores is a Presence and Performance Specialist, high energy speaker and bestselling author who inspires leaders to step into their biggest selves. At the heart of her book, Performing As YOU and in her uniquely dynamic work with leaders worldwide, her message is that “If all the world’s a stage, the greatest role you ever get to play is yourself. Yet your fullest, boldest, authentic self is often left outside the door of your organisation.” Applying her 25 years of experience from the theatre stage to the business stage, Diana connects leaders with the energy of inspiration that great performances ignite – to feel more alive, aligned and purposeful – and invites them into their own personal rehearsal room to step into the spotlight of their fullest leadership presence and visibility. Diana’s global clients, from Finance to Formula 1, Energy to Entertainment, Technology to Retail describe her as a transformational energy conductor who offers an irresistible invitation to shine in all the roles they play. The result is greater influence, engagement and fulfilment. Diana serves on the faculties of the Cranfield School of Management, The Banff Centre and Mobius Executive Leadership. She’s published widely in New Business, Forbes, Business Life, We Are the City, The Smart Manager and many others and can be heard interviewed on radio, television and leadership podcasts. A native New Yorker, residing in London, Diana is Director of Theatre 4 Business Ltd. and offers immersive live and online expertise for her clients, including speaking, performance coaching, and masterclasses. Recorded on: 30th July 2020 Links: More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 25 Jun 2019 | The Power of Moonshot Thinking with Dean van Leeuwan | 00:26:32 | |
My guest this week is Moonshot Futurist, Chief eXploration Officer and co-founder of the business consultancy TomorrowToday Global. He is also cancer slayer and a lover of all things cycling.
He’s a TEDx speaker, author and internationally renowned for his insights on business impact, innovation and future trends. He is a guest lecturer at bothOxford and Henley business schools where he talks about disruptive forces and the power of innovation as a force for good. He works with clients to deliver 10 times the impact and is on a quest to create a better working world. My guest is Dean van Leeuwen.
Bio Dean van Leeuwen believes in challenging people to use the power of business to innovate and do remarkable things. He believes that the most amazing innovations of the 21st century are yet to be invented. But a remarkable century will not just happen, we have to create it. So, Dean is on a quest to challenge audiences to unlearn and relearn, mobilising them to forge innovative solutions for the new Age of Discovery.
Dean is a cancer slayer, TEDx speaker, futurist and moonshot provocateur working with leading businesses such as John Lewis Partnership, GSK, M&S and Deloitte. He is also an associate fellow at the Säid Oxford, Henley Business Schools and the Centre for European Executive Leadership Development at Fontainebleau Paris. He is the author of the book Quest: Competitive Advantage and the Art of Leadership in the 21st Century.
Dean is co-founder and chief exploration officer of TomorrowToday International, explores how the world is changing and how leaders can innovate and adapt.
Dean van Leeuwen is a regular guest lecturer at Säid Oxford Business School, Henley Business School and the prestigious Centre for European Leadership Development located on the INSEAD campus near Paris.
In his book Quest: Competitive Advantage and the Art of Leadership in the 21st Century, Dean van Leeuwen asks; how do organisations achieve more productivity, more innovation, more growth and more competitive advantage? These are good questions, aren’t they? Quest answers these important questions by placing organisations and leaders who have achieved. Dean is releasing two new books in 2018 – Achieve Remarkable Things & Megaquests of the 21st Century. His deeply researched insights, engaging style and powerful combination of storytelling, multimedia and gentle parody, move audiences to look at a disrupted world differently, embrace change, innovate and do mighty things.
Recorded: 14th June 2019
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| 03 May 2022 | How to get booked to speak in the US with Gail Davis | 00:33:23 | |
How to get booked to speak in the US Gail Davis' decades of experience in corporate marketing and event management served as the launch pad for GDA Speakers. Before establishing the company in 1999, she spent 20 years managing the events of the Dallas-based global technology conglomerate - Electronic Data Systems (EDS) - founded by Ross Perot. While at EDS she discovered Nando Parrado, a heroic survivor of the 1972 Andes plane crash. Parrado presented an unforgettable speech at EDS’ marquee event. Shortly after his successful keynote, Parrado signed an exclusive agreement with our guest as it was her efforts that convinced him to share his story after so many years. It was this partnership with Parrado which eventually anchored the creation of GDA Speakers. She continues to discover new talent and under her passionate leadership, GDA Speakers has vetted and curated many highly qualified speakers who they deliver to clients with confidence. Gail shares insights into the US speaker market, what she looks for in an international speaker and any tips she can share for a non-US speaker to get listed with a US bureau. If you’d like to take your speaking business international then this podcast is a must listen. Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen here: This podcast was created using Alitu. Powerfully simple recording and editing tools for podcasters. Record your show, edit it in minutes, and publish directly to your host. Find out more and join here. | |||
| 05 Apr 2018 | Turning ambition into achievement with Jamil Qureshi | 00:19:43 | |
This week Maria’s guest on the show is Jamil Qureshi one of today's foremost practitioners of performance psychology and an expert in high performing teams and cultural change. Jamil has worked with a rich diversity of the most talented business and sports teams. In business, he has delivered management and leadership programmes at board level for Coca-Cola, Hewlett Packard, Emirates Airlines, SAP, and Cisco. In sport, he has helped six people get to number one in the world. In 2006, he was appointed as the first ever official psychologist to work with the European Ryder Cup team. They made history in winning by a record-equalling margin. He has also worked successfully with three English Premiership football clubs and the 2009 Ashes-winning cricketers. Jamil is one of the few external psychologists ever to have been allowed access to study astronauts in the 2008 NASA space programme. Recorded on: 18th January 2018 Show Notes: In this week’s show, Jamil explains how cricket got him into his passion, psychology. How he learned hypnosis and mind reading from Derren Brown. How he fell on hard times in the corporate world and decided that he should chase his passion which propelled him into running a very successful business. Significant quotes: “I think the smart leader doesn't work on people's actions but works on their thinking. It's the difference between compliance and commitment” Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on Facebook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: Next Week: Join us next week when Maria’s guest will be adventurer and entrepreneur, Caspar Craven. | |||
| 27 Dec 2022 | Intentional Storytelling with Steve Ashton | 00:19:53 | |
Intentional Storytelling Steve Ashton is an expert in Executive Presence and Storytelling. He became an expert in both of these disciplines through personal experience of being the sales and marketing director of a business that grew from £7m turnover to £68m in 3 years, through thousands of hours of live tv, radio, theatre acting, stand-up comedy and podcasting as well as more than 30 years working in Learning and Development. He recently left a role as Chief Leaming officer for an international Division of American Express and has set up his own practice focussing his efforts on helping people increase their presence and ability to engage, connect and inspire people with storytelling. Steve shares why storytelling is such a popular subject these days, why it's important to be a good storyteller and some top tips and tools to use for storytelling. Links Connect with Steve on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen Here | |||
| 19 Jan 2021 | Sales Through Service with Steve Catchick | 00:25:06 | |
My guest this week is the founder of the Secret Salesforce programme. He believes that customer experience is the biggest differentiator over which you have total control and that the human touch can have massive positive impact. He works with leaders and teams primarily in technology and professional services companies to unleash and utilise their hidden resources. He has worked with various organisations including IBM, Capita, and KPMG helping them to create great customer experience, turn difficult customers into loyal customers and to improve overall communications. Today we’re going to focus on the customer experience and how you too can harness your resources into a Secret Salesforce. Please welcome Steve Catchick. Bio Steve Catchick is the founder of The Secret Salesforce Programme and equips businesses to develop a Secret Salesforce of Brand Ambassadors in order to drive engagement, reduce churn and win more business. He has been at the front line of customer service for over 25 years, mostly with technology companies. His award- winning customer service programme at IBM, contributed to a substantial increase in sales, customer satisfaction scores and a record high employee morale. Member of the Professional Speaking Association, Steve shows managers and leaders how to convert and sustain their teams as Brand Ambassadors, whether that service is delivered to customers virtually or face to face. Every interaction is a moment of truth which creates a positive or negative emotional customer experience. The quality and greatest impact of that experience is largely determined by the people delivering it, the human interaction. As consumers we all know that often it only takes one bad experience to cause us to switch brands. Selling is not just the preserve of the Sales Team. Everyone in an organisation is in some way, in sales, in service and in leadership. The Secret Salesforce help develop loyalty, retention and attract new customers Steve is a military veteran, having served 11 years in HM Forces. Fun, friendly and engaging, when he’s not working, he can be found listening or dancing to Rock’n’Roll and Swing bands. In 2004 he took a gap year to backpack alone through SE Asia, and his catchphrase is “Gap years are far too good for kids.” Recorded on: 26th November 2020 Links: More about The London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 06 Sep 2018 | Differentiating a high growth business with Tony Fish | 00:27:18 | |
This week, Maria’s guest is Tony Fish. Tony is an author investor, serial entrepreneur, and maverick. He's a visiting fellow at Henley Business School for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and an EC expert for big data. He is entrepreneur in residence at Bradford School of Management and Law, lecturer in innovation and entrepreneurship at the London Business School, and lecturer in AI and future of disruptive technology at the London School of Economics. Recorded on: 28th June 2018 In this week’s show, Tony Fish shares how he defeated the University system and got a place with no prior qualifications, why he is a maverick and how he has never been employed. Tony explains how to differentiate a high growth business from a non-high growth business and how diversity of thinking is the key to an exceptional team. All this and more… Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook Significant quotes: “Diversity in the ability to think differently is how you bring together the teams who actually make things happen.” Next Week: Join us next week when Maria’s guest will be Business Leader and expert on Transformational & Entrepreneurial Leadership for Success, Chris Roebuck.
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| 20 Jun 2024 | Get started using AI in your Speaking Business with Ben Gold | 00:36:14 | |
In the latest episode of my Speaking Business podcast, I interview AI expert Ben Gold, delving into his extensive experience in technology and AI. Ben shares insights from his 20-year career in tech sales, particularly focusing on the transformative impact of generative AI. He discusses practical applications of AI, emphasizing how speakers and businesses can harness these tools to enhance productivity and engagement. Our conversation touches on the ethical considerations of AI, the future of AI in professional speaking, and the innovative ways Ben uses AI to streamline his own speaking business. This episode provides valuable perspectives for anyone looking to integrate AI into their professional toolkit. | |||
| 22 Jun 2021 | ROI - Return on Innovation with Maher Mezher | 00:18:45 | |
My guest this week is an Innovation Expert, he is the creator of the Innovators Tool, the first engaging innovation app that guides users to spot ideas worth pursuing and transforms them into successful innovations. He is the Founder of the leading consultancy firm, Innovators League, based in Geneva, Doha & Lebanon. Amongst his own many inventions are the Fertility Loan and Stem Cells Loan. He shares his expertise through his patented Become an INNOVATOR® Methodology. On top of all of this he is also a talented musician. He’s an opera singer, a tenor, plays the piano, the flute and the drums, there is no end to this man’s talent. My guest is Maher Mezher. Bio Maher Mezher is the Founder of the Innovators League®, a regional consulting and training firm that has been built on his theory that innovation is a science and can therefore be taught. He is an innovation expert and internationally recognised speaker who has delivered speeches in more than 25 countries. As a professional consultant and trainer with more than 20 years of experience, he has served more than 130 clients from a variety of industries including Telecom, Banking, Education, Oil and Gas, Retail and Pharmaceuticals, among many others. As a well-known public figure, he has been interviewed by more that 150 international media outlets including CNN, BBC, Russia Today, Kyodo, and Reuters regarding his cutting edge innovations. He is the creator of many inventions including the Innovators Tool®, the first innovation App built on Music, Sound effects, 3D animated images, Dynamic quotes and Startigec tailored questions that guides innovators to transform their ideas into profitable innovations, the Innovators Process®, Innovators Habits© and The Become an INNOVATOR® Methodology, as well as the Fertility Loan and Stem Cell Loan. His ideas are so notably ground breaking that they were mentioned as a case study in Professor Philip Kotler’s university textbook, Principles of Marketing. In addition to his professional work, he has 15 years of university teaching experience where he strives to spread the culture of everyday simplified innovation. On a personal level, Maher is an accomplished musical artist who plays the piano flute and drums, in addition to performing as a classical Tenor Opera singer. Recorded on: 10th June 2021 Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on FaceBook More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with London Speaker Bureau on LinkedIn To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 14 Jun 2018 | Developing courage to take risks with Mark Pollock | 00:23:13 | |
This week Maria’s guest on the show is Mark Pollock, an explorer, innovator, and collaborator. Even though he went blind in 1998, Mark has competed in ultra-endurance races and was the first blind person to race to the South Pole. He also won silver and bronze medals for rowing at the Commonwealth Games. In 2010, Mark was left paralyzed after falling from a second story window. He is now exploring the frontiers of spinal cord injury recovery and is walking daily using bionic robotic legs. Through the Mark Pollock Trust he's on a mission to find a cure for paralysis. Mark is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Unbreakable. He's a Davos, Wired, EG and TED speaker and is the co-founder of the global running series called Run in the Dark. Recorded on: 4th April 2018 Show Notes: In this week’s show Mark talks about his incredible mission to find a cure for paralysis and why his drive for adventure took him to the South Pole and across the Gobi Desert. Mark shares his work with robotics is probably the most exciting thing he’s done since going to the South Pole. Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on Facebook Significant quotes: “I had a great desire, not simply to accept the status quo and the best practice, and the reality that there is no cure but rather to accept that life was worth living in a wheelchair and get on with life.” Next Week: Join us next week when Maria’s guest is TV and radio comedian and bestselling author, Tony Hawks.
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| 04 Apr 2019 | Technological Waves with Nicklas Bergman | 00:28:29 | |
My guest this week has 25 years as a technology entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Nowadays he also advises large corporations, the European Commissions and various non-profits. He’s a founder, a funder and a futurist. For me he’s an interpreter of trends and we find out all sorts of amazing things that are going to be happening in our future and that are happening already plus we get to meet Ripley! Please enjoy, Nicklas Bergman. Bio Nicklas is the strategic advisor to European Commissioner Carlos Moedas and the European Innovation Council, working on a new innovation strategy for Europe. He is also Scandinavian representative of the TechCast Technology Think Tank in Washington and member of both the World Future Society and the Long Now Foundation. Nicklas is a futurist and is optimistic about the promises emerging from new technologies but is equally concerned that society isn’t ready for the upcoming techstorm. We’re entering an era in which technology will redefine who we are, and it’s no longer a question of what it can do for us, but what we should allow technology to do. Technology in itself is pointless, it’s the applications and ability to improve people’s lives that’s important. Digitisation is highly relevant but only the warm-up. True disruption will come from a combination of new digital technologies such as AI, blockchain and the Internet of Things in combination with a deeper understanding of nanotechnology, neuro technology as well as biotechnology and genetics. In a couple of decades, this will create a world that’s totally different from the one we’re living in today… In 2016 Bergman published a book on how to deal with new technologies from a business perspective: Surviving the Tech Storm – Strategy in Times of Technological Uncertainty. With the conviction that technology is probably the strongest driver of change today, it’s obvious that anyone in a management position, or aspirations to eventually be in that position, must understand how technology is changing business from the ground up. Nicklas Bergman is also part of Nordic Ways, the 2016 project at the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C., USA. The final result is a compilation of essays on how Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden are facing economic and social challenges through what has been known as the “Nordic Model”. Authored by people from the Nordic countries with backgrounds in politics, academia, design, arts, business, technology, and civil society, the book was released in the US in October 2016. Nicklas is co-founder and investor in several companies including the Volvo trucks and buses distribution network in Romania, that grew into a E300 million business and was acquired by Volvo in 2006, and an electron microscopy company with a unique patented technology for movement and interaction on the atomic scale. With close to 150 high-profile customers in more than 30 countries worldwide, the technology was acquired by FEI in 2013. Nicklas Bergman’s keynotes are technology and innovation focussed, sometimes with a specific industry perspective and based on his 25 years as an entrepreneur and start up investor. As a futurist, Nicklas is not telling you what will happen, he is observing, providing tools, drawing conclusions and changing mindsets. Recorded: 28th March 2019 Links: To obtain Nicklas’ top ten list of technologies Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here | |||
| 10 Nov 2020 | Lessons from the Premier League with Paul McVeigh | 00:25:52 | |
My guest was a professional footballer for nearly 20 years playing for clubs such as Tottenham Hotspur, Burnley and Norwich City, whilst gaining 40 Caps internationally for Northern Ireland. He made over 300 appearances and was a key member of 2 Championship winning teams and rose to the pinnacle of English football. He is also a published Author and recently finished his studies which means he is the first person in history to play in the Premier League and qualify with a Masters in Sport Psychology. My guest this week will share what you can learn from the most ruthless and competitive industry on the planet! Please welcome, Paul McVeigh. Bio Paul McVeigh is a Premier League football player and an expert in elite performance. Paul’s credibility comes from the unique combination of reaching the pinnacle of elite sport as well as being the first Premier League footballer to qualify with a Master’s degree in Psychology. Paul McVeigh specialises in implementing the psychology required to elevate the performance of leaders and teams from the financial services’ industry. He has recently worked with PWC, Grant Thornton, Aviva, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Nat West, Cisco, Microsoft, and many more. These lessons are even more applicable today in our remote and virtual workplaces in order to empower individuals to understand that our thinking unlocks the required behaviours that are necessary for elite performance. Paul McVeigh shares his psychological framework from growing up in war-torn Belfast, Ireland alongside the strategies he implemented performing under the intense scrutiny of 75,000 fans across the world. He is also an established broadcaster on TV and radio with BBC, Sky Sports, BT Sport, and a published author. The insights Paul shared as a Sports Psychologist for Premier League clubs have helped many players compete in, what is considered, the most prestigious and ruthless sports league in the world. Recorded on: 4th September 2020 Links: More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 11 Apr 2019 | Imagining the Future with Monika Bielskyte | 00:35:33 | |
My guest this week is a futurist, with an artist’s eye and an inventor’s mind. She prototypes future world designs for the entertainment industry, technology companies and cities. A large part of her time is devoted to research and strategy in the immersive media technology space. Her work consists in connecting bleeding edge technological innovation with some of the world’s most original creative visions. She is co-founder of ALLFUTUREEVERYTHING, an agency & a platform for prototyping futures. In her talks, she leads audiences on a journey through what could be. She takes the most cutting-edge digital concepts and places them squarely in our material world, opening our eyes to a future where we live with, in, and around technology much more deeply than we do today. My guest is Monika Bielskyte Bio
Monika Bielskyte’s clients include technology leaders (Google, Reliance JIO, CERN, Intel, Telefonica), iconic media brands (Universal, Lionsgate, BBC), major Hollywood & entertainment figures (Ridley Scott Associates, Alex McDowell, Sam Esmail, Guy Laliberte), design companies (Rick Owens, Aston Martin) and governments (UAE, Mexico City). She is also a co-founder of ALLFUTUREEVERYTHING, an agency & a platform for prototyping futures. In mind-bending talks, Monika leads audiences on a journey through what could be. She takes the most cutting-edge digital concepts and places them squarely in our material world, opening our eyes to a future where we live with, in, and around technology much more deeply than we do today. Recorded: 2nd April 2019 Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on Facebook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here:
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| 30 May 2019 | Selling from Stage with Simone Vincenzi | 00:31:40 | |
My guest is serial entrepreneur and author Simone Vincenzi. Simone has helped launch more than 500 profitable businesses all before the age of 30. He is the go-to expert in selling from stage and in this episode, we talk about the differences and indeed the many similarities of speaking to sell and being paid to speak. Two Italians chatting about speaking, this is an episode not to be missed. Simone also shares his “Selling from stage check list” and “15 ways to get speaking gigs” which you can pick up in the show notes. NB: This was originally recorded as a video and it was an interview in my Speaking Business group on Facebook so there are some references about how we both look. If you want to check out Simone’s amazing hair you can follow the link in the show notes. Bio One hundred million new businesses start every year, and 90% of them fail within three years. How do we create sustainable companies? This is the question Simone Vincenzi answers every day. Simone is a multi-award-winning serial entrepreneur and author who had helped people to launch more than 500 profitable businesses before he reached the age of 30. He writes for Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Huffington Post and regularly features on tv and radio talking about entrepreneurship and the current small business landscape. Simone Vincenzi speaks at more than 200 events every year, impacting thousands of entrepreneurs, start-ups, small businesses as well as large corporations. He has spoken at conferences featuring Les Brown, Tony Robbins, Gary Vee, Simon Sinek, John. C. Maxwell, Dr John Demartini and many more brilliant minds in the entrepreneurial field. In 2016 he was nominated in the Houses of Parliament as one of the most influential migrant entrepreneurs in the UK by the Institute of Directors and won the award of Best Speaker in the UK by the ACPTC. In 2018 he featured in magazines alongside the royal family and won the Maximise Man Of The Year Award. Simone Vincenzi works with startup entrepreneurs and experts who want to grow their existing business as well as multi-millionaires who want to launch new ventures, bringing ideas to fruition at lightning speed. He also supports numerous charities in the entrepreneurial space as well as working with young people to help them launch successful social projects. Simone is an incredibly entertaining, practical and unpredictable speaker, bringing music, magic and basketball together during his talks and seminars to teach while making sure everyone has a blast. Recorded: 15th April 2019 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook 15 ways of finding speaking gigs Selling from the stage checklist To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here:
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| 29 Mar 2018 | World Class Thinking - World Class Behaviour with Penny Mallory | 00:14:09 | |
This week Maria’s guest on the show is Penny Mallory who is one of the most successful women rally drivers, and was the first woman in the world to compete in a world rally car, the Formula 1 of rallying. As a motoring expert, she has presented many high-profile TV shows, including the hugely successful Channel 4 show, Driven, World Rally Championship, the Used Car Roadshow, Accident Black Spots, Discovery's Classic Car Club and The Roadshow. Penny is a qualified performance coach and is the author of the book Take Control of Your Life, where she uses her driving successes as analogies of how you can transform your life. Penny is also the creator of the innovative Malory Band, helping wearers to lose weight and keep it off forever. Recorded on: 12th January 2018 Show Notes: In this week’s show Penny tells us how from an early age she wanted to become a rally driver, how this lead her into presenting and why speaking is such a passion. She talks about her love for boxing and how techniques used by Muhammad Ali inspired her to get into the boxing ring at the age of 42. Penny also admits to how many points she has on her driving license!! Significant quotes: “I'm not very good at having an idea and doing nothing about it” Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook Next Week: Join us next week when Maria’s guest will be Performance Psychologist, Jamil Qureshi. | |||
| 20 Sep 2023 | What is a Speaker Manager and what do they do? With Diana Stoney | 00:28:35 | |
My guest today is the Founder and Director of Behind The Mic, a speaker management and consulting agency in London. With over 15 years experience in the speaking industry, she has worked in both the US and UK markets. She has made a career out of helping inspirational, thought-leaders share their expertise on stages across the globe."
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| 03 May 2018 | One Team with Sir Clive Woodward | 00:22:21 | |
This week Maria’s guest on the show is Sir Clive Woodward, the World Cup winning head coach who led England's rugby players to World Cup glory in Australia in 2003. He himself is a former England international and British and Irish Lion. During Clive's tenure as head coach, England moved from number 6 in the world to be the number 1 ranked team, winning every trophy an England team could win. Clive was GB’s Director of Sport for the British Olympic Association. He worked in close partnership with key stakeholders to support the national coaches and athletes at the Beijing and Vancouver Olympics. As well as to deliver team Britain's most successful Olympic Games at London 2012. Recorded on: 8th February 2018 Show Notes: In this week’s show Sir Clive Woodward talks to us about his career as England Rugby Coach, the Olympic Games, his international ski academy in France and about how he started his path of delivering speeches to businesses. He also talks about why he won’t be doing Strictly Come Dancing anytime soon! All this and more… Significant quotes: “I do believe that great teams are made of great individuals” Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on Facebook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: Next Week: Join us next week when Maria’s guest will be comedy director, Jack Milner
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| 16 May 2019 | Revolutionising Data with Roger Fisk | 00:23:19 | |
My guest this week worked both Obama campaigns, starting in January 2007 as Director of Special Events, a position that would take him through 30 states with Barack Obama. Along the way he helped revolutionise how data is gathered and used, how old tools like TV and radio are harmonised for maximum effect with social media, and went on to serve in both Inaugurations, both Administrations, and the President’s re-election. He says “The Obama campaigns are like 10 years of a corporation distilled into 18 months. In those few months the campaign is born, learns how to walk then gallop, then blossoms into a billion-dollar corporation that must reach out to 130 million people all in less than 2 years. It is marketing, social media, communications and branding all happening at once and all happening at light speed.” He is the Principal at New Day Strategy, bringing these skills to clients in the business world. Please welcome Roger Fisk. Bio Roger Fisk is the political campaign, marketing and media strategist widely credited with playing a key behind-the-scenes role in the back-to-back electoral victories of US President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. He was heavily involved in these game-changing campaigns which are regarded as the best run presidential campaigns in the history of US politics. Roger has a deep understanding of 21st-century presidential politics, political campaigning and the unprecedented power of information, relationships and marketing. He successfully engaged millions of people in long, sustained marketing and promotional strategies, using the internet and social media networks to great effect. Roger Fisk was hired by the Obama Team as the National Director of Special Events in what would become a history-making Finance Department. Here he managed a nationwide grass-roots fundraising team that revolutionised modern political fundraising, totalling US$100 million in 11 months while building the largest donor base in American history. During the campaign, Roger served as principal liaison with US Secret Service and local law enforcement and was directly responsible for coordinating and managing the media’s coverage of over 150 events across the country. He was in charge of some key Obama media appearances including 60 Minutes, The Daily Show, Good Morning America, Saturday Night Live, and the historic Race Speech in Philadelphia in March 2008. Roger supervised teams in 27 states with direct managerial responsibility for event and advertising budgets, site selection, appropriation of staff resources, cultivation of targeted free media, coordination of web outreach, and collaboration with local, state and national elected officials. Following President Obama’s first campaign he served as Cabinet Liaison for the 2009 Inauguration, then became a political appointee in the Obama Administration. In the Spring of 2012 Fisk joined President Obama’s re-election team, leading teams as a White House Lead Advance in critical states like Virginia, Iowa and Ohio, all of which the President won. Roger Fisk lectures on these revolutionary campaigning techniques while also offering high-impact seminars designed to enhance Executive Communications and Leadership Skills. Prior to his work for President Obama, Roger worked for Deval Patrick’s successful campaign for Governor of Massachusetts. All of this experience came from his work for Senator John Kerry, where he served as his Senior Aide in the US Senate for Communication and Policy. He advised Senator Kerry on a wide range of politically sensitive issues, including Medicare, AIDS, community health, and child nutrition. He worked for the Kerry Presidential campaign from its very first day to its last. His Presidential appointment in the Commerce Department requires him to coordinate diplomatic and trade missions for the Cabinet and President. He has served as Lead USG Coordinator on trade missions to India and China and co-ordinated the Cabinet’s role in both the 2009 COP-15 Global Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen and the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. He served as President Obama’s point person at the 2011 G8 Summit in Deauville, France. These experiences provide Roger with a deep understanding of 21st-century Presidential politics, how America’s political system impacts the rest of the world and the rapidly shifting cultural landscape they play out on. Recorded: 2nd May 2019 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here | |||
| 04 Oct 2022 | How to grow your (speaking) business with Donnie Boivin | 00:30:28 | |
How to grow your (speaking) business Donnie Boivin is an entrepreneur and serves as CEO and Founder of Success Champions and Success Champion Networking. He is considered one of the leading global minds on sales, business development and business growth. He is described as the first person to make sales and business development relatable and human. A community builder at heart — he builds champions. Today he helps small business owners leverage sales and business development to grow then scale their businesses. In addition to running multiple businesses, he runs a full working farm with goats, chickens ,ducks, turkeys and geese. His podcast ‘Growth Mode’ ranks among the top podcasts globally. He is a five-time Best Selling Author and a highly sought-after public speaker. Learn more about Donnie Boivin Connect with Donnie on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen Here | |||
| 29 Nov 2022 | How Santa, chocolate, questions and acronyms help you be a better speaker with George Nagle | 00:22:24 | |
How Santa, chocolate, questions and acronyms help you be a better speaker George Nagle might be best described as a breakthrough thinker. He is a former executive director for multi-billion-dollar organisations and launched 19 products in 14 months at one point. George is also a bit of a nerd with a MS and MBA but also multiple certifications in different innovations. Currently he is a leading creative innovator as a consultant but also as a speaker. We are going to get a peek into how his creative approaches. Links Connect with George on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen Here | |||
| 15 Nov 2018 | Step Beyond with Chris Moon | 00:22:35 | |
My guest this week is one of the most fortunate people you’re likely to meet. He should be dead many times over and his exploits have been covered in a Discovery documentary with the very cheerful title ‘I Shouldn’t Be Alive.’ My guest is Chris Moon. Chris knows exactly what it takes to overcome adversity and supposed limitations. He was blown up in Africa whilst clearing landmines for charity, losing his lower arm and leg. Less than a year after leaving hospital he completed the London Marathon and now runs the world’s toughest ultra-marathons. He’s also one of the few Westerners to have survived being taken prisoner by Khmer Rouge. In this week’s show, we find out why Chris was kidnapped by the Khmer Rouge and how he negotiated his release. How he defied all expectations to run the London Marathon after losing his lower right leg and arm in an explosion clearing land mines and why the biggest limits in life are those, we impose on ourselves often without even realising it. Bio Chris Moon is one of the most fortunate people to be alive you’re likely to meet. He should be dead many times over and his exploits have been covered in a Discovery documentary with the cheerful title I Shouldn’t Be Alive. Chris is a former British Army Officer with three years operational experience who left to work for a charity clearing landmines. He survived being taken prisoner in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge (one of the most brutal terror groups in history) and negotiated his release and that of two colleagues from threatened execution. In 1995 he was blown up in a supposedly safe area of a minefield in remote East Africa losing an arm and a leg. He survived initially because he treated himself. About fourteen hours after injury he arrived in South Africa where doctors said they’d never seen anyone live with such a small amount of blood. He recovered three or four times faster than was expected, was out of hospital in less than two months and within a year of leaving hospital ran the London Marathon, raised significant sums to help disabled people in the developing world and successfully completed a full time Masters Degree. Chris Moon taught himself to run and is the world’s first amputee ultra distance runner. In 1997 he completed the gruelling Marathon De Sables. Since then he’s run the world’s toughest ultra-marathons, including the Badwater Death Valley 135 mile ultra and the West Highland Way 95 mile Race which he recently completed, while trialling a new running leg. He’s run numerous ultra-distance events and several one thousand mile events. When it comes to challenging the concept of limitation, adapting to change and overcoming adversity he literally walks the talk. Chris helps people do what they do better. He draws on his unique experiences to illustrate principles people can use in their daily lives. As well as a practical understanding of human performance in the most extreme situations and overcoming adversity, Chris also holds a Master’s Degree in human behaviour and management theory. As a speaker Chris delivers humour, passion and inspiration. Topics include change, motivation, risk and safety, communication, improving sales and personal and strategic leadership. He runs short workshops to improve individual and team performance & coaches and mentors a wide variety of executives. Recorded: 23rd October 2018 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here
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| 05 Nov 2019 | Become a Bold Leader - Dare to Jump with Cedric Dumont | 00:30:49 | |
My guest this week is a leader in the world of base jumping and wingsuit flying and since 1999 he has been part of the Red Bull team. In addition to being an action sports athlete, he is a graduate of Applied Sports & High-Performance Psychology and a multi-linguist. For years he has been providing his fellow professional athletes with a mental advantage and skillset required to reach their goals and unleash their full potential. My guest is Cedric Dumont. Bio Cedric Dumont is a leader in the world of base jumping and wingsuit flying and since 1999 has been part of the Red Bull team. Cedric Dumont was born in Brussels, Belgium and from a very young age participated in action and adventure sports. In addition to his standing as an action sports athlete, Cedric is a graduate of Applied Sports & High-Performance Psychology, and a multi-linguist who began by providing his fellow professional athletes with a mental advantage and skillset required to reach their goals and unleash their full potential. Cedric presents an elite vision and inspirational perspective to High-Performance Psychology. In extreme conditions where you are expected to deliver and assess risks, hyper-awareness has been the basis of his reliable performance and survival, it’s flow or die! “It’s all about living a comprehensive lifestyle and being in the present moment. This includes energy management and feeding the mind with healthy insights and generating positive thoughts.” Cedric divides his days with expeditions, wingsuit flying, speaking engagements, writing and consulting with elite athletes and major companies across the globe. His key focus is highlighting that performance and productivity can only be achieved with a purpose-driven mindset, passion and presence. Recorded: 10th October 2019 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here:
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| 15 Feb 2022 | Speaker Website Essentials with Chris and Jude Wharton | 00:37:09 | |
How to create a speaker website that will get you booked. Jude and Chris Wharton are the co-founders of Ready Steady Websites® an off the shelf website and membership site template service. They launched Ready Steady Websites® in 2019 and they have been running a successful digital design company, 2nd Floor Designs Ltd since 2010. They are a husband and wife team. Before starting 2nd Floor, Chris had worked in the web industry for 10 years as a designer and front end developer and managing a studio. He’s successfully managed, consulted and worked on projects for bigname brands including RBS, Renault, Coutts Bank, IKEA, Mazda, Kia, WorldPay and Masterclass as well as some lesser-known but equally as amazing international and local brands and businesses. Before entering the world of web, Jude had a 10-year career in youth work, training and professional development. She has delivered workshops in Westminster and she has a degree in Education and Training and a Chartered Management Institute qualification in Management and Leadership. She brings all of her experience in these areas to the courses, challenges and tutorials that Ready Steady Websites® offers. In this podcast they share with us why speakers really do need a website, what the most common mistakes people make with their websites are and the key things a speaker should have on their website. For those looking to update or create a website, this is a podcast not to be missed. More about Chris & Jude Wharton Connect with Chris & Jude on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on Facebook Listen here: This podcast was created using Alitu. Powerfully simple recording and editing tools for podcasters. Record your show, edit it in minutes, and publish directly to your host. Find out more and join here. | |||
| 03 Sep 2019 | Be Future Ready not Future Proof with Shivvy Jervis | 00:28:09 | |
Shivvy Jervis is a four-time award winning Futurologist, headline speaker and broadcaster focusing on sustainable innovation. She reaches hundreds of thousands each month through her video editorial and global talks; and was recently voted one of Britain’s Influencers of the year for 2019. A documentary she just released for discovery channel “piloting the digital future” uncovers the future of our cities and how we will live in the future. Bio Voted one of Britain's 2019 Role Models of the Year and Europe’s most trailblazing women in digital, Shivvy Jervis is a four-time award-winning Innovation Futurist and Discovery channel Broadcaster. TED Global commend Jervis as having "a remarkable ability to analyse the socio-economic impact of new technologies", the World Economic Forum cite her as "a thought leader beyond compare" and Britain’s former Digital Minister finds Jervis to be "a true expert". Jervis' global talks and broadcasts on how to navigate the digital economy and the Fourth Industrial Revolution have earned an astonishing 24 pieces of industry recognition. This includes being named one of Britain's 10 most influential South Asian women and receiving a national Outstanding Achiever award at the House of Lords. More recently Jervis was nominated by public vote for both 'Influencer of the Year' and 'Woman of the Year' at two national awards for her thought leadership on future developments in AI, data, security and immersive reality, and how it will redefine our everyday lives and how we'll do business. A seasoned broadcaster, Shivvy has fronted a two-part documentary series for Discovery on the future of our cities in addition to a future of jobs short-form documentary. She hosts dialogue with tech pioneers on the NextTech Insider series, chairs live, debate broadcasts Ringside Sessions and is well-known as the former creator of video series' Digital Futures and The Trailblazers which drew a 13 million+ viewership. Both were backed by the world's third largest telco, for whom Shivvy was also Head of Digital for many years. Jervis contributes as an independent expert to IBM's Global C-Suite Study Advisory Board and is called on extensively by organisations to make sense of the dizzying pace of innovation and identify which advances are best suited to their needs. Shivvy Jervis is equally at home headlining an event, presenting a high-profile broadcast or chairing a demanding agenda. Her speaking style has been called ‘deeply persuasive’, ‘instantly relatable’ and above all, ‘uncompromisingly passionate’. Jervis is currently authoring 'Future, Now', an ambitious book for which she is scouring the globe for the most powerful advances and people meaningfully shaping the next decade. Recorded: 29th August 2019 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 02 Feb 2021 | Persuasive Visual Storytelling with John DeMato | 00:24:30 | |
My guest this week is a branded lifestyle portrait, virtual/live event photographer who collaborates with speakers, trainers, consultants and other expert-based business owners to create an emotional connection with their audiences through persuasive visual storytelling. He is a photographer who thinks like a marketeer. He sets clients up for success beyond the photo sessions by educating them on how to best leverage their image content for every touchpoint across their online presence. A former television producer, he has over 20 years of production experience, and has been featured as a portrait photographer expert on several NBC Universal daytime shows. Please welcome my guest this week, John DeMato. Bio John DeMato is a branded lifestyle portrait, virtual/live event photographer who collaborates with speakers, trainers, consultants and other expert-based business owners to create an emotional connection with their audiences through persuasive visual storytelling. John isn’t simply a photographer - he thinks like a marketer. He sets clients up for success beyond the photo sessions by educating them on how to best leverage their image content for every touchpoint across their online presence. A former television producer, John has over 20 years of production experience, and has been featured as a portrait photographer expert on several NBC Universal daytime shows. Recorded on: 26th January 2021 Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on FaceBook More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with London Speaker Bureau on LinkedIn To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 09 Nov 2021 | How to become a Referable Speaker with Andrew Davis | 00:44:32 | |
In this episode of #SpeakingBusinessPodcast, I talk to Andrew Davis. Andrew is a bestselling author and keynote speaker. Before building and selling a thriving digital marketing agency, he produced for NBC and worked for The Muppets. He's appeared in the New York Times and on the Today Show. He's crafted documentary films and award-winning content for tiny start-ups and Fortune 500 brands. Today, he teaches business leaders how to grow their businesses, transform their cities, and leave their legacy. He’s here to share some insights from the book he co-authored with Michael Port – The Referable Speaker. Links: Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on Facebook Listen here: This podcast was created using Alitu. Powerfully simple recording and editing tools for podcasters. Record your show, edit it in minutes, and publish directly to your host. Find out more and join here. | |||
| 09 Feb 2021 | New Mindsets for New Games with Gordon Hewitt | 00:27:55 | |
My guest this week has a global reputation for his leading edge thinking about how companies can out-perform in today's highly dynamic and complex business system. He has been a Visiting Distinguished Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan where he formed a powerful partnership with the late, great, CK Prahalad. He is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading authorities on "competitive disruption" and "game changing strategy". Please welcome my guest this week, Gordon Hewitt. Bio Dr Gordon Hewitt is one of the world’s top business school professors, with a truly global reputation for his leading edge thinking about how companies can out-perform in today’s highly dynamic and complex business system. He has been a Visiting Distinguished Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan where he formed a powerful partnership with the late CK Prahalad. Gordon is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading authorities on “competitive disruption” and “game changing strategy”. In his native city of Glasgow, he was appointed Honorary Professor of Strategy at the Adam Smith Business School in the University of Glasgow. As a consultant, he has extensive experience for over 25 years of working at CEO and Board level with many major corporations. He has been involved in business strategy advice and top leadership development programmes for corporations such as Pfizer, Time Warner, PwC, Zurich Financial, IBM, Sony, Honeywell, Shell, Verizon, Adobe, Diageo, Bosch, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Post/DHL, and Humana. Gordon is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading authorities on competitive disruption, and the challenge facing business leaders of competing and creating value in dynamic, complex markets. Recently he chaired meetings of European and American CEOs and Board Directors to discuss the future of corporate strategy and corporate governance. In the last year he has been a keynote speaker on these topics at major business conferences in the USA, Europe, Singapore, Indonesia, and Brazil. Born and educated in Glasgow, Gordon now works extensively throughout the USA, Asia and Europe. His principal home in still in Scotland, and he has been a member of the International Advisory Board of Scottish Enterprise. He also served as Chairman of Court, the Governing Board, at the University of Abertay Dundee from 2003 to 2010, and was a Global Business Adviser to Scotland’s First Minister. Gordon was given the 2007 International Distinguished Faculty Award for Best Global Educator by the Institute of Management Studies whose members comprise leading academics and consultants worldwide. His many academic awards include the title of Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, where he started his career. Gordon also holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Corporate Strategy at Duke Corporate Education. Gordon Hewitt was awarded the title of CBE (Commander of the British Empire) for services to international business in the Queen’s 2007 New Year’s Honours List. He has also been elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and letters. Gordon is a former Scottish international amateur golfer and supports charities for the theatre and journalism professions. Recorded on: 15th December 2020 Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on FaceBook More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with London Speaker Bureau on LinkedIn To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 26 Jan 2021 | Why Millennials don’t own a printer & Generation Z can’t even... with Henry Rose Lee | 00:25:08 | |
My guest today is one of the few experts in inter-generational diversity. This is the emerging science and management skill of maximising the engagement, collaboration and productivity within and across the five distinctive generations in today’s workplace. She shares ways to adapt leadership and management styles to get the best out of people. She provides usable insights and tools to increase collaboration and performance, whilst reducing attrition. And she busts some myths about the youngest talent in the workplace whilst providing practical ways to motivate and engage them. Please welcome my guest, Henry Rose Lee. Henry Rose Lee is one of very few inter-generational diversity experts helping organisations to improve the contribution and profitable performance of the youngest talent in the workplace today. Author of three books on maximising today’s young talent, (Generation Z and Millennials), Henry busts myths and gives practical hacks for attracting, recruiting, engaging, and retaining your youngest employees. Henry’s expertise comes from 15 years working in business development and sales, where performance and results were essential. This was followed by 17 years as a Human Resource qualified consultant and Master Coach, researching and developing diagnostic tools on human motivation, and generational attitudes and behaviours at work. This included a two-year stint at Pinewood Studios developing her talents as a voice over artist, and as a communications & learning specialist for business TV and online learning. Henry’s global clients, from technology to housing, from pharma to finance and from manufacturing to retail, describe her entertaining yet pragmatic style as the perfect balance of information and inspiration. Her outcomes are immediately usable tools and techniques for getting the best out of the most diverse talent we have ever seen. Any company today may have up to five generations: from The Silent Generation to Baby Boomers and from Generation X to Millennials and Gen Z. Henry delivers keynotes, diagnostics, consulting, masterclasses, workshops and coaching to ensure diversity and inclusion across all employee age-groups. Her work enhances communications, increases collaboration and inspires employees of all ages to give of their best, whether working from home or remotely, or working in a bricks & mortar, or hybrid setting. Whilst working at Pinewood Studios Henry once got told off by “Dracula” (Christopher Lee). She’s face-blind (prosopagnosia) but can tell if someone is lying just by listening to their voice or watching their body language. Recorded on: 10th December 2020 Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on FaceBook More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with London Speaker Bureau on LinkedIn To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 28 Jan 2020 | Psychologically-Powered Performance with Penny Mallory | 00:13:29 | |
I’ve delved back into the archives this week to bring you a very special lady. She is in fact the first and only woman to drive a world rally car. She’s got an amazing mindset and in today’s competitive world when only the best will do, she has perfected the art of Psychologically-Powered performance to bring out the very best in us. I’m bringing you again the wonderful Penny Mallory. Penny tells us how from an early age she wanted to become a rally driver, how this led her into presenting and why speaking is such a passion. She talks about her love for boxing and how techniques used by Muhammad Ali inspired her to get into the boxing ring at the age of 42. Penny also admits to how many points she has on her driving licence!! Bio Motorsport and TV fans know Penny Mallory as the first and only woman to drive a World Rally Car. Penny knows how to compete and beat the odds, but she also knows top performance requires even more than sacrifice and maximum commitment. It also takes heart, insight and the courage to keep going and the refusal to quit. She gets it, because she’s lived it. In today’s ever more competitive environment where only the best will do, Penny Mallory has perfected the art of Psychologically-Powered Performance to bring out the very best in us. No secret sauce or overused buzzwords, for championship teams to top organisations, from individuals and workshops to audiences throughout the UK, her engagingly authentic but wildly entertaining vision of optimised performance and positive change sets her apart. Penny’s expert understanding of how our thinking affects our behaviour is brought together in her Keynote ‘World Class Thinking World Class Behaviour’. Penny makes it real, accessible, and inspires life-changing and sustainable results. These aren’t hollow marketing words, her life attests to their human truth. As a child she saw alcoholism and mental illness destroy her family. Fleeing home at 14, homeless and fending for herself on the London streets, her life couldn’t have been more dangerous or bleak, yet an inner strength and self-belief enabled her to take control of her future. She made impossible possible and has since dedicated her life to helping others do the same. It is these experiences that have made her keynotes acclaimed international favourites for many of the world’s most powerful and storied brands, including Coca-Cola, Grand Vision, Waitrose, Tesco, Telefonica, Klesch, Sony, Volkswagen, HPI, Jaguar, Proctor & Gamble, Airbus and many more. Her life is a continuing series of doing what conventional thinking says she simply can’t – from competing in three marathons on three consecutive days to hell runs and triathlons; finding the courage to enter the boxing ring twice, and the physical resolve to conquer two of the world’s highest mountain. Little wonder that her interactive keynotes inspire taking action, and to believe you can because you can. With Penny in your corner, you can and will. The author of World Class Thinking, World Class Behaviour and Take Control of Your Life, Penny is a descendent of George Mallory, widely believed to be the first man to conquer Mt. Everest. If you’re ready to change, determined to move forward, committed to unleashing your best and realising all that you dream, Penny Mallory will partner in your success with coaching, keynotes and workshops igniting psychologically powered performance. Recorded on: 12th January 2018 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here:
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| 19 Jul 2022 | Advice from 35 year speaking veteran Orvel Ray Wilson | 00:32:50 | |
How to stay relevant and bookable as a speaker In this episode of #SpeakingBusiness Podcast, I talk to Orvel Ray Wilson. Orvel is a veteran of the profession. He is co-author of 6 books in the legendary Guerrilla Marketing series, which has been translated into 63 languages and more than 25 million books in print. He’s spoken in more than 1,000 cities, in 47 countries, on 6 continents. He received his CSP in 1997, and in 2001 was honoured as “Speaker of the Year” by Meeting Professionals International. In an international Internet poll, he’s has been voted one of the world’s “Top 5 Sales Speakers” a record five years straight. After 30 years on the international circuit, he now coaches other speakers on writing their books, and growing their business. Orvel shares with us the importance of writing a book to enhance your speaking business, the difference between writing a book and writing a book that sells you, what meeting planners look for when booking a speaker, how to set speaking fees and position yourself as an expert and some marketing and sales tips for speakers who need more bookings. | |||
| 08 Feb 2022 | Turn your Book or Keynote into Transformational Programmes with Mary Tillson | 00:22:03 | |
In this episode of #SpeakingBusinessPodcast I talk to Mary Tillson. Mary is Head of Speaker Coaching and Momentum at Speaking Business Academy. She helps speakers to develop their content and messaging, and to maximise their personal impact and delivery style. She co-facilitates many of the company's workshops with Maria and is lead tutor on content specific workshops. She is a highly experienced Management and Leadership Development Consultant who has spent over 20 years designing, developing, and securing projects for global Blue-Chip companies so she is well placed to help speakers. Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on Facebook Listen here: This podcast was created using Alitu. Powerfully simple recording and editing tools for podcasters. Record your show, edit it in minutes, and publish directly to your host. Find out more and join here. | |||
| 20 Sep 2022 | How to transition from low paid entertainer to highly paid keynote with Tim David | 00:33:54 | |
How to transition from low paid entertainer to highly paid keynote Tim David dropped out of university to become a professional magician. When 300 dates a year became too much, he turned his sights to the speaking world so he could work less, earn more, and help people in the process. His success in the speaking and publishing industries speaks for itself, which is why thousands of speakers from around the globe seek him out for advice on how to get speaking gigs and grow their following. He's the founder of GetSpeakingGigs.com and the host of the Next Stage Speaking Summit - at which I was a guest presenter this year. If you're looking to transition into the speaking world or just starting out with your speaking business, Tim has some great advice. Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Listen Here | |||
| 08 Jun 2021 | Making Beautiful Music with Boris Brott | 00:20:45 | |
Our guest this week is an internationally renowned Symphony and Opera Conductor. He has held posts as Principal Conductor of the BBC Welsh National Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, and the Royal Ballet Covent Garden in the UK. He has also held Music Director positions developing no less than seven orchestras in his native Canada and guest conducted principal orchestras throughout the world including concerts at the Vatican for two popes John Paul II and Pope Francis. He uses his experience as a builder of orchestras to create useful analogies for corporations. His main topics are creativity, teamwork and leadership. Please welcome my guest, Boris Brott. Bio Boris Brott is one of the most internationally recognised Canadian conductors. He holds major posts as music director in both Canada and the United States. Boris enjoys an international career as guest conductor, educator, motivational speaker and cultural ambassador. Currently, Boris is Conductor and Music Director of the New West Symphony in California, the McGill Chamber Orchestra in Montreal, Canada, the National Academy Orchestra of Canada and Principal Youth and Family Conductor of the National Arts Center of Canada. In addition to his conducting career, Boris is a motivational speaker, presenting more than 35 talks annually around the world for Fortune 500 companies. Besides numerous film and radio commitments, he has conducted, produced, and hosted over 100 television programs on both sides of the Atlantic. He has recorded for CBC, Septre-Mace, Mercury, Pro-Arte Records and Sony Classical where CDs with the late Glenn Gould have been released. In 1988, Boris was awarded the Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civic honour. That same year, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Law at McMaster University. Two years later, he was made a Knight of Malta. In 1992, he was selected International Man of the Year by the International Biographical Center in Cambridge, England. Later in 1996, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts of Great Britain. Then in 2006, he was appointed to the Order of Ontario. Recorded on: 25th May 2021 Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on FaceBook More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with London Speaker Bureau on LinkedIn To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 15 Mar 2022 | How to be more, do more, have more with Gavin Ingham | 00:31:47 | |
In this episode of #SpeakingBusiness Podcast I talk to Gavin Ingham. What differentiates high performers from good performers? What helps one person to achieve in 3 months what others do in 12? These are the questions that have inspired Gavin Ingham for the last 20 years and have led to his #IAM10 methodology for high performance. The world is changing faster than ever. There is more competition than ever before. The global economy, AI, automation all mean that you and your people need to work with conviction, embrace change, maximise productivity and add more value to every situation. Good enough is not good enough anymore. You need to be the best. You need to be a 10. Gavin shares what he thinks makes a bookable speaker, how this has changed over the past few years, why only a small percentage of speakers succeed and what speakers can do to make the difference. He’ll also share the three things he’d recommend to a speaker wanting more business. Links: Connect with Gavin on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Book your space on the Speaker Bureau Seminar Listen here: This podcast was created using Alitu. Powerfully simple recording and editing tools for podcasters. Record your show, edit it in minutes, and publish directly to your host. Find out more and join here. | |||
| 01 Feb 2022 | From working the room to working the Zoom with Will Kintish | 00:32:55 | |
In this episode of #SpeakingBusinessPodcast I talk to Will Kintish. Will was a Chartered Accountant for over 30 years. For the last 20 years, he has been showing us how to be more effective and confident networkers when attending physical events. Since Covid he has been teaching us how to do the same online. He is the author of the best-selling book “Business Networking -The Survival Guide”. Will shares how networking has changed since the Pandemic, but how it is still possible to successfully network online as well as face to face. He also shares the key skills needed to network and what mistakes people tend to make when networking. Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on Facebook Listen here: This podcast was created using Alitu. Powerfully simple recording and editing tools for podcasters. Record your show, edit it in minutes, and publish directly to your host. Find out more and join here. | |||
| 18 Oct 2018 | Building Sustainable Commercial Brands with Kubi Springer | 00:26:12 | |
Today Maria’s guest is international brand specialist, Kubi Springer. Kubi has 20 years’ experience in consumer brand marketing with some of the world’s top brands as her clients. Quite simply Kubi builds brands. She describes herself as a little girl with a big mouth and I’ll tell you what every word that comes out of that mouth is pure wisdom. Recorded: 2nd October 2018 In this week’s show, we do some serious celebrity name dropping. If you are a music fan like me you are going to love some of these names. We share a bit of tough love and we get some really top advice on how to truly connect with your customers for sustainable commercial growth. Let’s dive in…. Links: Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on Facebook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: Bio Since 1996 brand specialist Kubi Springer has been working with companies and high profile individuals to create, build and grow their brands for commercial success. With an impressive portfolio of global powerhouses, Kubi Springer’s name has become synonymous with three words - She Builds Brands. Renowned for her in-depth knowledge and understanding of industry trends, Kubi has created a reputation of being able to launch and grow brands to international markets, with a focus on the brands’ commercial development and sustainability. Celebrating over twenty years in consumer brand marketing, today Kubi Springer splits her time between delivering projects as an International Brand Specialist and travelling the world as a Brand Trainer & Speaker. When she is not doing that, she can be found hosting shows as a Business Media Personality & Contributor, as well as being an Author of her first book What Is Fabulous, a memoir for women overcoming fear and launching brands. Notable Brand Projects & Clients: Rolls Royce Motor Cars – LFW Campaign Nike – Midnight Madness L’Oreal – Colour Bar Campaign MTV – Lick Party Blackberry – See Me Campaign Diddy – Sean John Clothing Line Rio Ferdinand – Rio’s Worldcup Windups, on ITV MOBO Awards – 10th Anniversary, on the BBC Mercedes Benz – Fashion Week London Fashion Week. Launching her media career in 2007, Kubi been awarded the ‘Media Personality of the Year Award’ for the BEFFTA Awards. She has been a brand contributor on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Women’s Hour’, a presenter on the Sisterhood TV Show, broadcast on BEN TV, The Kubi Springer Show, broadcast on Sky Channel 199 and Business Editor for Totally UK Magazine (distributed on Virgin and BA Flights). Currently Kubi presents the weekly live radio show entitled The SheBuildsBrands Show on Channel Radio. Dynamic, informative, inspirational and blunt; these are the words that have been used to describe Kubi Springer’s speaking and brand training. Passionate about her subject matter, Kubi teaches on a range of brand related subjects from Personal Branding & Leadership Development, to Global Brand Strategies and her infamous talk Don’t Sell Me Pink. Leaving audiences inspired and motivated to take action to move their brands forward. | |||
| 14 Mar 2019 | Celebrity Service with Geoff Ramm | 00:34:34 | |
This week we are doing something a little different. As well as finding out about the speaker who is the person behind the mic we also find out a bit more about the actual presentation/keynote and we deconstruct the speaker's keynote and tell you bit by bit how he presents his content to the audience. My guest this week is the creator and author of Celebrity Service & OMG Marketing. He’s challenged and inspired audiences across six continents to create award-winning ideas to outperform the competition. Recently featured in Forbes…. they said Celebrity Service was ‘A Game Changer’. His clients include, Emirates, Specsavers, IHG and McDonalds. Bio
Implementing Geoff Ramm’s ideas really will make a difference to your business. A business to business Valentine Card achieved a record 70% response rate by the Bauer Media Group after implementing OMG Marketing. Indian giants TATA won two Direct Marketing Association awards following a two-day OMG masterclass. Tiger Brands, South Africa introduced a dozen new ideas after Geoff’s keynote and masterclass. Just one of these ideas increased sales by over 53%. So how do you create highly successful marketing ideas? And how can you design a customer experience that has you talked about for decades? In Geoff’s interactive keynotes, you will not only discover out-of-this-world ideas, you will come up with them and be excited to implement them too. Companies across six continents have outperformed their competitors by using Geoff’s unique insights on customer service and marketing. Laugh out loud at the greatest cabin crew member of all time. Get a lump in your throat at the sight of a sesame seed bun. Discover simple and cost-effective ideas that will have the world talking about your business. At the end of Geoff’s session, you will want to make massive changes tomorrow and become the brand of choice in the eyes of your customers. Recorded: 14th February 2019 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here
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| 11 Jan 2022 | What speakers can learn from online influencers with Gordon Glenister | 00:27:50 | |
What speakers can learn from online influencers Gordon is a membership and influencer marketing expert. Having led an industry body for 11 years in the promotional product sector, he launched his own consultancy to help trade associations and professional bodies with their strategy. Little did he know he would stumble on the influencer marketing sector. Since the launch of the Branded Content Marketing Association Influence division, Gordon has written a 300-page book on influencer marketing strategy, started his global influence podcast, interviewed some amazing brands and thought leaders and keynoted at conferences. He is also the founder of the top 100 most influential people index and Membership World a community of CE0s within the membership sector. Links: Connect with Gordon on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on LinkedIn Connect with Maria on Facebook Listen here: This podcast was created using Alitu. Powerfully simple recording and editing tools for podcasters. Record your show, edit it in minutes, and publish directly to your host. Find out more and join here. | |||
| 15 Sep 2020 | The Great Rewrite with Leonard Brody | 00:28:29 | |
My guest this week is a management thinker and a leader of the new world order. He is an award-winning entrepreneur, venture capitalist, best-selling author and a 2-time Emmy nominated media visionary. He has helped raise hundreds of millions in capital for start-up companies as well as taking a company to a 6 Billion market cap IPO. Currently, he is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Creative Labs, a joint venture with CAA (Creative Artists Agency in LA), the largest sports and entertainment agency in the world, often called “Hollywood’s Secret Society”. He oversees the building of new ventures for some of the most well-known celebrities and political leaders in the world. Please welcome my guest, Leonard Brody. Bio Leonard Brody was called “a controversial leader of the new world order”. He is an award winning entrepreneur, venture capitalist, best-selling author and a 2-time Emmy nominated media visionary. He has helped in raising millions of dollars for start-up companies, been through one of the largest internet IPOs in history and has been involved in the building, financing and/or sale of five companies to date. After selling his company in 2009, Leonard became the President of the Innovation and Digital Group for the Anschutz Company, one of the largest live sport and entertainment businesses in the world owning assets such as stadiums like the O2 Arena in London and Staples Center in LA; sports teams like the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Galaxy and the Los Angeles Kings, and today, one of the premiere concert promotion businesses in the world seating hundreds of millions of people a year. He is also one of the proud owners of Coventry City Football Club in England. Leonard also acts as principal in several venture capital funds throughout the world and is behind the financing and creation of 20-30 start-up companies a year. A highly sought-after public speaker, Leonard has lectured at institutions such as Stanford, the G8 and the United Nations. His insight has been requested by companies such as The Financial Times, Warner Music, Dell, Visa and Pepsi, as well as, the governments of countries such as India, Israel, Ireland, Russia and South Africa. His work has been featured in such publications as Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC and the New York Times. He is co-author of the best selling books, “Innovation Nation: Canadian Leadership from Jurassic Park to Java” and “Everything I Needed to Know About Business…I Learned from a Leonard holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from Queens University, a law degree from Osgoode Hall and is a graduate of the Private Equity Program at the Harvard Business Recorded on: 16th July 2020 Links: More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 12 Apr 2018 | Charting Success with Caspar Craven | 00:17:46 | |
This week Maria’s guest on the show is Caspar Craven, entrepreneur and adventurer. Caspar believes in challenging conventional thinking on how leaders and teams become truly effective to create extraordinary results. Caspar has 30 years of experience in building teams to make things happen. Starting as an entrepreneur at the age of 14, he has built and led teams in global corporations, start-ups, struggling and high growth businesses, and on a trophy-winning world racing yacht. But his toughest challenge by far was building his family team to sail around the world with his wife and three children, then aged 9, 7, and 2. Recorded on: 25th January 2018 Show Notes: In this week’s show, Casper tells us about his first business at the age of 14 selling crabs by the sea, his amazing adventure sailing around the world with his family. What he discovered about home schooling his children and sharing the lessons he learned on his adventure that apply to the business world. All this and more… NB – no books were thrown into the sea so please don’t write in to complain
Significant quotes: “What is it that you can do that really gets them engaged and passionate, and I'm going to give them the freedom to go and do that” Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook Next Week: Join me next week when Maria's guest will be Business Leader, Entrepreneur, Team Builder and Corporate Trailblazer, Kevin Gaskell
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| 21 Feb 2019 | Answering the biggest economic questions of our time with Linda Yueh | 00:33:09 | |
Each week I invite one of my speakers to talk about their life, work, passions and leisure so that you can get to know the person who is the speaker behind the mic. In this episode we are going to talk about economics and history with Dr Linda Yueh. Dr Linda Yueh is a leading economist, writer and broadcaster. Her latest book, The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today answers the biggest economic questions of our time by drawing on the ideas of the thinkers who have changed our world. It was selected as The Times’s Best Business Books of 2018 and also by Newsweek magazine in the U.S. as the Best Fiction and Non-Fiction of 2018. Bio Dr Linda Yueh is Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School, and Visiting Professor at LSE IDEAS. She is a broadcaster, including for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, and was the BBC’s Chief Business Correspondent and host of “Talking Business with Linda Yueh”, as well as Economics Editor at Bloomberg TV. Linda Yueh has served as a special advisor for the World Bank, the European Commission, Asian Development Bank, and World Economic Forum in Davos. She was Co-Chair of the Global Cities Business Alliance (GCBA) and sits on the supervisory Policy Committee of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, as well as serving on the Advisory Board of The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF). Linda has been a Non-Executive Director of several FTSE companies, an advisor to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), and Board member of London & Partners, the official promotional agency for London. Linda gave testimony before the Treasury Select Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons, UK Parliament, on the impact of China on the world and UK economy. Linda Yueh is widely published and is the Editor of the Economic Growth and Development book series at Routledge. Her latest book is The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today (What Would the Great Economists Do?) Linda’s expertise is in economic and business issues, particularly the global economic environment, including the Chinese economy and Brexit. Recorded: 22nd January 2019 Links: More about The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here
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| 23 Jul 2019 | Bring your event to life with Roy Sheppard | 00:22:05 | |
If you want to make your events and conferences more engaging and interactive, you’ll be interested to hear from my guest today Roy Sheppard. A delegate once wrote on their feedback form “Roy Sheppard breaks more ice than the Russian fishing fleet!” Roy has a background as a BBC news presenter and reporter – but for the past 25 years he has worked as a specialist conference facilitator and MC. Listen out for Oscar the rescue dog making his podcast debut. Bio Roy Sheppard is a specialist conference and international congress MC, facilitator and workshop speaker/trainer, in particular, corporate and association medical and technology events. He facilitates high-stakes advisory boards and ‘C’ level strategy meetings. Roy is particularly event-tech savvy and highly-experienced at delivering online, hybrid and multi-hub meetings. As a speaker, he is the acknowledged European expert on building profitable business relationships through networking and presentation skills coaching. He has spoken at conferences all over the world. Roy works on high-profile conferences for some of the world’s largest and most respected organisations. He has been asked back time and again to moderate ‘private’ conferences for the Olympic movement held in Lausanne, Beijing and Rio de Janeiro. He has moderated conferences for the world’s largest trade association – the ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers) in Rome, Dubai, Cape Town, Istanbul, New York and their flagship event RECON in Las Vegas (attended by 53,000 delegates). For many years, Roy Sheppard was a radio and television broadcaster, mainly with the BBC but also on LBC Radio in London and presented the Sony Award-winning “In the News” on BBC Radio 4. He is the author of eight business and personal relationship books and a former visiting lecturer at Cranfield, Henley and Bath Universities. Recorded: 4th July 2019 Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here
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| 18 Aug 2020 | The Emotional Pandemic Infecting Organisations with Susan Armstrong | 00:27:02 | |
My guest today is an International Talent Development expert, Speaker and Author, who specialises in Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace. Her programmes have won the ATD Gold Award for Excellence in Training, and, she has a Leadership programme listed as one of the top 5 Leadership Programmes in the world by HR.com. Currently she is a sought-after expert in leading and working in this new COVID reality. But she has a shocking past, which I am going to ask her to share with us today. It’s a story that could be the plot to a Tarantino movie, one that she has only just recently begun sharing with the world. Please welcome author and entrepreneur Susan Armstrong. Bio Inspiring, entertaining and educating, Susan Armstrong has been changing people’s lives for nearly 30 years, starting with her own. In the last 20+ years Susan has spoken in over 40 countries, developed and trained over 500 workshops and helped over 150,000 people around the world transform their personal and professional lives. Her clients include some of the largest companies in the world. She has designed global programs for such clients as Johnson & Johnson, Philip Morris International, GlaxoSmithKline, Philips, SABIC, and many other public and private sector clients. And, she has a secret… Homelessness, addiction, and abuse at the hands of a notorious motorcycle gang are not what you would expect to find behind a successful Talent Development Expert, but they are the circumstances that taught Susan that we are responsible for creating our own reality. While your story might be different, the way you feel and the way you behave – all in the name of what you believe to be the truth – are the same. In recovering from her self-destructive lifestyle, Susan quickly realised that what she had was a “thinking” problem. Everything she believed to be true about herself and how to get along in the world was wrong and she needed to re-wire her thought processes. She embarked on a mission to learn everything she could about how to effectively interact with the world around her. What she didn’t know is that she was developing her emotional intelligence – the secret weapon for success. It is emotional intelligence that took Susan from the streets to the boardroom, and it is the “red-thread” running through all of Susan’s speaking and training: how to become an effective leader; how to increase your success in sales; how to navigate through change; how to develop resilience, or how to deliver a powerful presentation. Susan is teaching the basics of emotional intelligence. It is what has made her such an in-demand speaker and trainer. Not only are attendees learning the business skills they need, they are also learning some extremely important life skills at the same time. Susan Armstrong inspires people to look past their own self-limiting beliefs and take action to achieve a level of professional success previously unattainable. Whether you are a leader, individual contributor, or entrepreneur, Susan is a powerful example of what is truly possible if we just set ourselves free of our own faulty thinking and beliefs. Recorded on: 18th June 2020 Links: More about London Speaker Bureau Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here Listen here: | |||
| 02 Aug 2018 | Disruptive Innovation with Jim Harris | 00:27:22 | |
This week Maria’s guest on the show is Jim Harris. Jim is one of North America's foremost thinkers on disruptive innovation. Jim is the bestselling author of The Learning Paradox, The 100 Best Companies to Work for in Canada, and Blindsided. Blindsided is published in 80 countries worldwide and is a number one international bestseller. The Miami Herald calls Blindsided "brilliant stuff". Jim is a catalyst for conversation and change. He excels at leading people to new ways of thinking, making productive, profitable change possible. Recorded on: 24th May 2018 Show Notes: In this week’s show Jim Harris talks to us about climate change, being a global social influencer, disruptive innovation and how driverless cars will disrupted us more than we realise. Jim also tells us how his great aunt influenced his passion for the environment and how by reading just one sentence from a book led him to being elected leader of the Green Party of Canada. Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook Significant quotes: “Scenario planning isn't about predicting the future, it's about being prepared for whatever does occur, engendering flexibility, resilience and fast response.” Next Week: Join us next week when Maria’s guest will be CEO & Co-Founder of Bridging Health & Community, Pritpal Tamber | |||
| 02 Aug 2022 | How to get started as a paid speaker with Liza Pavlakos | 00:24:00 | |
How to get started as a paid speaker A self-made, flourishing entrepreneur, Liza Pavlakos is a fast-rising motivational speaker and a powerful voice on successful entrepreneurship. At prestigious international events in Australia, Africa, Asia, and elsewhere she has energised thousands towards discovering their hidden potential and attaining their goals in the face of the toughest challenges. Her life-changing talks focus on the development of a winner's mindset and empowering entrepreneurs, business owners, and others to discover innovative strategies for transforming their hopes and ideas into phenomenal success stories. She has been featured on CNN as an influential thought leader from Australia, motivating and empowering aspiring women entrepreneurs. Winner of the prestigious Golden Gavel Honouree, please welcome my guest Liza Pavlakos. Liza shares how she transitioned into speaking from her tailoring business, the lessons she learnt starting out as a speaker, how she's learnt to deliver content when her story is so raw and how she debriefs and calms herself after delivery. | |||
| 11 Oct 2018 | Setting yourself up for success with Mary Tillson | 00:29:50 | |
Today Maria’s guest is Mary Tillson. Mary is the Head of Momentum and Executive Learning at MFL. Mary has worked internationally as a management and leadership development Principal Consultant. She has held leadership roles, both within the training industry, for OnTrack International, GBS Corporate Training, and for American Express where she jointly ran the UK 24-hour Authorisation Centre. As Head of Momentum and Executive Learning at MFL, Mary provides 90-minute Injections of Inspiration workshops as well as custom designed learning programmes and masterclasses. Most recently she has taken on the role of head of Learning at Speaking Business Academy, an organisation providing support, training and coaching to speakers at all stages of their speaking business. Recorded: 2nd October 2018 In this week’s episode, we are going to be talking about the cost of forgetting, how to set yourself up for a success when you book a speaker, how you get a better return on investment and we are also going to delve into Mary’s previous life when she was a 6ft 1” private investigator. So, let’s dive in…. Links: Connect with Maria on Linkedin Connect with Maria on FaceBook Read Mary’s article on the cost of not forgetting To book any of the speakers featured on the Speaking Business podcast, click here | |||
| 06 Aug 2024 | Building a Successful Speaking Business: Insights and Advice from Mark Denton | 00:33:39 | |
Join us in this exciting episode of the Speaking Business podcast as we dive deep into the world of leadership, resilience, and high-performance teamwork with multi-award-winning speaker Mark Denton. Mark shares his incredible journey from leading a team to victory in the world's most challenging yacht race to becoming a sought-after keynote speaker. Discover how Mark turned a standing ovation at a corporate conference into a thriving speaking career, captivating audiences across diverse sectors. Learn about the techniques he uses to make his speeches unforgettable, including the use of multimedia, gripping storytelling, and powerful music scores. Mark also opens up about the challenges he has faced in the speaking industry and how he stays adaptable in a constantly evolving market. He shares valuable strategies for securing consistent bookings and the importance of treating speaking as a business. Whether you're an aspiring speaker or an established professional looking to grow your business, Mark's insights and advice will inspire and equip you to navigate your own path to success. Don't miss this episode packed with practical tips, real-life examples, and the wisdom of an experienced speaker who has mastered the art of engaging and moving audiences. Tune in now and embark on a journey of learning and inspiration with Mark Denton | |||