News from The London Speaker Bureau
Newsletter October 2005

NEW FROM OUR SPEAKERS

	Congratulations to motivational speaker Sebastian Coe on securing the 2012 Olympic Games for London, achieving a surprise victory over the favourite, Paris.
	Motivational speaker and adventurer Bear Grylls has presented his first series on Channel Four, Escape to the Legion. Along with 11 other volunteers, from ex-criminals to struggling businessmen, Bear put himself through a month's brutal training at an ex-Legion fort in the Western Sahara designed to replicate the rigours of the Legion's own basic training. Bear's job was to get them all through intact. The trainers had other ideas. It's a rude awakening for the new arrivals as they endured physical breakdown, mental exhaustion and torturous sleep deprivation.
	Ideas generator and management thinker Charles Leadbeater recently published an article in the Observer, entitled Design Your Own Revolution. He argues that innovation was once the work of an individual. Now - from weblogs to mountain bikes - we are inventing the things we want to use. If you want your company to be truly innovative, or if you want to interact better with your customers than your competitors do, here's how. Click here to read the article.
	Liz Jackson , founder of Great Guns Marketing, has been selected as one of Management Today magazine's 35 Women Under 35. Management Today described it as their list of young female high-flyers.
	Kinvara Balfour has launched the London edition of Daily Candy, a free daily email publication that gives the latest information on what is new and undiscovered in new products, design, retail and restaurants. There are already eight versions of Daily Candy in the United States. The Wall Street Journal described it as "An online Compendium of Hip", while the New York Times called it "The year's best fashion site".

NEW SPEAKERS

	Nando Parrado recounts the extraordinary tale of how he and 15 of his teammates survived for 72 brutal days after their plane crashed into the frozen Andes Mountains over 30 years ago. It remains one of the most extraordinary survival stories of all time. Nando worked with Piers Paul Read, to write the best selling book Alive. Twenty years later, Nando served as technical advisor to the Hollywood production of the film of the same name, starring Ethan Hawke as Nando.
	Steve Cram is one of the World's most successful middle distance athletes of all time in a career spanning three decades since appearing as a 17 year old at the Commonwealth Games in 1978. In a remarkable career, Steve achieved six Gold medals at Commonwealth, European and World Championships and a Silver medal at the 1984 Olympics.

RECENT EVENTS

	Bob Geldof spoke to 600 employees from Turner Broadcasting two days before the Live8 concert in Hyde Park. Bob's attendance was a surprise to the audience, and he spoke about Live Aid from concept to execution. Bob is well known as a passionate and persuasive speaker, so it was no surprise that he received a standing ovation from the delegates.
	Niki Lauda, the former Formula One champion racing driver and founder of Lauda Air airline spoke to 1000 customers and prospects of Teradata, a division of NCR, in Salzburg. Having flown himself to the event, Niki spoke about the importance of customer service in the airline industry.
	Former Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, spoke for the Russian bank Renaissance Capital in Moscow. He spoke about the moon landing and the Space Race from an American viewpoint. Another speaker at the dinner was the former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
	2005 has been a busy year so far for Chris Patten, the former Governor of Hong Kong and EU Commissioner. In April he spoke at the AB summit, the annual meeting of the European Securitisation Industry in Nice. That evening, thanks to the efficiency of The London Speaker Bureau logistics team he was flown straight to Barcelona to address 500 delegates at the Hay Group management conference on the European economy and trends in China. In May he spoke to the Boersen Club in Copenhagen, a gathering of the Danish business elite.
	We note with regret the death of Wim Duisenberg. In regular demand as a speaker on economics and the Euro, Mr Duisenberg was the first President of the European Central Bank and oversaw the introduction of the Euro. He died at his family home in the south of France.

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