News from The London Speaker Bureau
September 2004

NEWS FROM OUR SPEAKERS


MATTHEW PINSENT has achieved the remarkable feat of winning a gold medal in four consecutive Olympic Games. In one of the classic sporting moments of all time, he led the Great Britain coxless four to victory over the Canadian World Champions by only eight one hundredths of a second. The GB crew of Matthew, James Cracknell, ED COODE and Steve Williams competed for the lead with Canada throughout the 2000 metre race and with 200 to go the Canadians took the lead. However, in traditional fashion Matthew increased the stroke rate and the British boat clawed back the lead to win by inches. At the end neither crew knew who had won…until the roar of the British supporters confirmed victory.



 


The ANTHONY ROBBINS live show on October 16-18 at the ExCel Centre has almost sold out. The three lucky winners of our prize draw for a free ticket are : Lynette Farrall of Bank of Scotland. John Purcell of UBS and Alex Jagmetti of HSBC. Five runners up will receive a consolation prize of a copy of “Notes From a Friend” an uplifting guide to changing your life, by Anthony Robbins.
The winners are:- Annabel Miller of Freshfields, Ann Johnson of Novartis, Amanda Powlesland of McKinsey, Eden Brooks of Aegis and Ian Brocklesby of Continental Airlines.


Explorer and motivational speaker SIR RANULPH FIENNES will be speaking about his latest novel, a thriller entitled "The Secret Hunters" on Wednesday 13 October 2004 at the Friends' Hall, Euston, London.. Tickets, priced at £12.50. are obtainable from Jackie Baines on 020 7242 8300.

Hardback copies of “The Secret Hunters” will be available to purchase on the evening and have been signed by the author.






NEW SPEAKERS


LIZ JACKSON launched her own business, Great Guns Marketing over six years ago. Today, Great Guns Marketing, an outbound business-to-business appointment making agency is turning over nearly £2 million and growing at a rate of forty percent per annum. For Liz Jackson especially, this is an amazing achievement as she is totally blind and only thirty-one years of age. The year Liz started her business, she lost her sight completely. In June 2004, Great Guns Marketing won the Customer Focused Award (part of the National Business Awards – sponsored by Orange). The award was presented to the company that best demonstrated its ability to place the customer at the heart of its business and deploy and manage its resources to most effectively meet the needs of its customer base. These prestigious awards were described by Chancellor Gordon Brown as “The Business Oscars”.




MARTIN LINDSTROM is recognized as one of the world’s branding experts. A leading thinker in his field, a visionary and an educator, Martin has authored several best-selling books on the use of emerging techniques for building strong, international brands. Martin is sought-after as a speaker by companies and organizations throughout the world. He energizes audiences with his creative genius and dynamic, unpredictable style. His insights have been featured in The Times, Fortune, BBC Radio, BBC World, BBC 1, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, USA Today, The Australian and The Independent.

NEWS FROM THE LONDON SPEAKER BUREAU


In the words of Hamish McRae, Economics Editor of The Independent newspaper and one of Europe’s leading speakers on future trends:-
“China is the biggest boom on earth. It is not just the fastest-growing economy in the world at this moment; its boom is the greatest that has ever occurred in the history of humankind. The world has never seen economic growth on this scale before.” In response to the demand for speakers who are experts on the Chinese and Asian economies, The London Speaker Bureau has launched ASIAN SPEAKERS BUREAU. It is based in Singapore, and is run by our partner, David Wee.

The London Speaker Bureau is exhibiting at IT&CMA (The Incentive Travel & Conventions Meetings Asia exhibition) on October 12-14 in Bangkok. Come and visit us on Stand 808

RECENT EVENTS


DEBRA VEAL rowed the Atlantic alone when her husband, a 6 ft 5” experienced oarsman, left the boat on the eighth day after developing an uncontrollable fear of the ocean. Debra saw no reason to stop and rowed on, taking 112 days to become the youngest and only the third woman in the world to have rowed an ocean solo. Debra gave a motivational speech to Gillette, who said, “Debra proved to be a great success at the Gillette conference and her talk was viewed to be extremely motivational. I know a lot of people were strongly affected by her words. I will certainly not have any hesitation in recommending her for another event - she is both a pleasure to work with and inspirational to listen to.”



Britain’s funniest business guru, GEOFF BURCH spoke for Fujitsu on Customer Service. The client was delighted with Geoff’s talk: “Geoff was excellent…he brought humour and an uplift to the whole event, while delivering some key messages around Customer Service.” Geoff was a recent contestant on BBC TV’s Crisis Command, in which he played the role of one of three Cabinet Ministers dealing with a crisis which threatens to engulf the country.



NEW BOOKS



What makes America so different from the rest of the world? This is the question posed by JOHN MICKLETHWAIT in his new book The Right Nation", co-authored with Adrian Wooldridge. The Right Nation is the definitive portrait of a United States that few outsiders understand: the nation that votes for George Bush, that supports the death penalty and gun rights, that believes in minimal government and long prison sentences, that pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol. America, argue John Micklethawait and Adrian Wooldridge, award-winning journalists at the Economist, has always been has always been a conservative country, but over the past fifty years it has built up a radical conservative movement unlike any other. The Right Nation drives to the heart of a question that is relevant to us all: Why is America – increasingly and often frighteningly – different, and what does this mean for the world.

In their ground-breaking new book, DANAH ZOHAR and Ian Marshall, the authors of The Quantum Self and Spiritual Intelligence, envisage two strikingly different scenarios for the future. The first is business as we know it today - all self-interest , short-term gain, isolationist thinking, with the bottom line as king. It is a business approach based on narrow assumptions about human nature and motivation. It is interested in shareholder value at the expense of even its own long-term future. It has become a monster set to consume our ever-diminishing resources and before long itself. The second envisages a business culture driven by fundamental values and a deep sense of purpose in which wealth is accumulated to generate a decent profit while acting to raise the common good. The emphasis is on `stakeholder value', where stakeholders include the human race, present and future, and the planet itself. These are the values of Spiritual Capital.




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