Great business speakers can have a profound effect on a conference.audience. With an outstanding record as a business leader or academic, a business speaker can show the audience how to appreciate the changes to the business environment and to apply them to their own industry. The audience will then understand how they can be more competitive and anticipate future trends. A successful business speaker is experienced in the art of inspiring people and helping them address business issues with a new found belief and enthusiasm.
A business speaker can connect with their audience and share their best practices, experiences and lessons. Many business speakers regard speaking as an opportunity to learn about other businesses and industries. A business speaker can give people the courage and enthusiasm either to make change in their own particular role or industry, start their own business, or to approach their job with renewed vigour, creativity and enthusiasm.
SIR TIM BERNERS-LEE
Business speaker Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web. In 1989, he proposed a global hypertext project, to be known as the World Wide Web. It was designed to allow people to work together by combining their knowledge in a web of hypertext documents. This work was started in October 1990, and the program "WorldWideWeb" first made available within CERN in December, and on the Internet at large in the summer of 1991
MUHAMMAD YUNUS
Muhammad Yunus is the founder and Managing Director of Grameen Bank which provides micro-credit to millions of poor people in Bangladesh. In 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. As founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus pioneered microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides the poor — mainly women — with small loans they use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty. Business speaker Muhammad Yunus’s vision is the total eradication of poverty from the world.
CHARLES LEADBEATER
Charlie Leadbeater is a business speaker, leading authority on innovation and strategy, and is one of the most influential creative people in the world. He has advised companies, cities and governments, and is former Prime Minister Tony Blair's favourite corporate thinker. His most recent book, We-think, charts the rise of mass, participative approaches to innovation.
ANDREW NEIL
Andrew Neil is a publisher, editor, writer, broadcaster, business speaker and business consultant on media matters. Andrew Neil has presented both The Daily Politics on BBC Two and This Week on BBC One since January 2003.
DAVID REID
Business speaker David Reid was appointed Finance Director of Tesco PLC in November 1985 and subsequently also took responsibility for IT, Distribution and Business Development. From June 1996 to December 2003, David was Deputy Chairman with responsibility for Business Development, Strategic Planning and the International Operations in Central Europe, Asia and the Republic of Ireland. David became Chairman of Tesco PLC in April 2004.
MARTHA LANE-FOX
Business speaker Martha Lane Fox co-founded Lastminute.com, where she and her business partner, Brent Hoberman, came to epitomise the new breed of internet entrepreneurs in London. In November 2003 Martha stood down as Managing Director of Lastminute.com to explore other opportunities. She remains a non-executive director of the company. She is now a non-executive director at Marks & Spencer and Channel 4, and runs Lucky Voice, a private karaoke bar group.
JOHN PEARSON
Former CEO and Co–Founder of Virgin Radio, business speaker John Pearson has worked closely with Richard Branson and the Virgin Brand throughout some of Virgin’s most spectacular growth years. John is in a unique position to give a personal inside view of the values and behaviours that make Virgin one of the most successful and respected brands in the world.
HAMISH MCRAE
Hamish McRae is one of Europe's foremost speaker on future trends in economics, business and society. He is the Economic Editor of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday newspapers. He is also the author of the acclaimed work on the future, The World in 2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity.
WILL HUTTON
Will Hutton is a journalist, author, commentatot and business speaker. He is the former editor of the Observer and one of the most influential voice on the economy, work, organisation issues in the UK. Will Hutton's best-known book is probably The State We’re In. Since then he has published The State to Come, The Stakeholding Society and (with Anthony Giddens) On The Edge, a groundbreaking analysis of globalisation. His most recent book is The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century.
SAHAR HASHEMI
Business speaker Sahar Hashemi founded Coffee Republic, the UK’s first US style coffee bar chain with her brother and built it into one of the UK’s most recognised high street brands with a turnover of £30m. Sahar Hashemi has been named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Britain 2003 by the Daily Mail. Sahar has made the cover of Management Today, Director and Business 550 magazines. In 2005 Sahar Hashemi launched Skinny Candy, a high profile brand of sugar free sweets.
ANDREW KEEN
Business speaker Andrew Keen is author of Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture, and is widely regarded as the leading contemporary critic of the Internet. The San Francisco Chronicle recently wrote that "every good movement needs a contrarian. Web 2.0 has Andrew Keen."
SIR GERRY ROBINSON
Business speaker Sir Gerry Robinson joined Granada in October 1991 as Chief Executive and became Chairman in 1996. He retired in February 2001. He has also been Chairman of BSkyB PLC, ITN, Arts Council England and Allied Domecq PLC. He has led a business series for the BBC, I’ll Show Them Who’s Boss and written a book of the same title on business leadership. He is also the presenter of "Gerry's Big Decision" on Channel 4.
ARCHIE NORMAN
Archie Norman is one of Britain’s leading businessmen with a long term track record of business change and value creation. He has led transformations of major British businesses, served on the Boards of several others, and built over time very strong management teams who are now in leading positions in several major British companies. In 1991 he moved to Asda to lead the turnaround as Chief Executive. Over the subsequent eight years the business was transformed into the second largest supermarket group before being sold to Wal-Mart for an eight times multiple of the starting share price.
DIGBY JONES
Buiness speaker Digby Jones (Lord Jones of Birmingham) served as Director-General of the CBI, the Confederation of British Industry, the UK’s ‘Voice of Business’, from 1 January 2000 to 30 June 2006 where he regularly visited businesses in the UK and worldwide
SIR CHRISTOPHER BLAND
As Chairman, business speaker Sir Christopher Bland has been responsible for the transformation of two of the UK's best-known organisations, BT and the BBC. Sir Christopher is a Non-Executive Director of Land Securities, the UK's largest property company, and is the Chairman of Land Securities property outsourcing business, Trillium.
ANIL GUPTA
Business speaker Anil K. Gupta is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and globalisation. He is the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Strategy and Organisation at the Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland. Professor Gupta is the author of over seventy papers and four books: The Quest for Global Dominance, Smart Globalization, and Global Strategy and Organisation. His latest book on Getting China and India Right was published in February 2009. He was ranked by Management International Review as one of the “Top 20 North American Superstars” for research in strategy and organization. One of his papers was recognized as one of the ten most-often cited articles in the entire 40-year history of Academy of Management Journal.
HAMISH TAYLOR
With a CV that the Times described as "takes some beating" business speaker Hamish Taylor was Head of Brand Management at British Airways; he subsequently became Managing Director of Eurostar (UK) Ltd; Hamish Taylor then became CEO of Sainsbury's Bank.
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