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I am often invited to be a speaker at conferences and business events.
I do not have a range of ‘off the shelf’ slick presentations....
At the Norwich Stuff Stigma Empathy conference, March 2008, which launched a three-year campaign to combat prejudice against people with mental health problems My approach is to be open, straightforward, practical and amusing. It’s more important to understand the needs of the audience and prepare something that meets them.
Apart from speaking about my books, I am most often invited to work with audiences of young businesses and/or social entrepreneurs. I can get very passionate about the need for any organisation to be focused, enterprising, collaborative, receptive and fun. Having fallen in many of the small business pitfalls myself, I am amply qualified to help others avoid them.
I also read with great interest that management guru Charles Handy speaks at some events for nothing if in return, the organisers arrange for him to meet people from whom he can learn. (His autobiography, ‘My life and Other Important Matters’ describes how he has done this). He met Nelson Mandela by this route.
If the opportunity is big enough and your budget small, we can talk about it, but I make no promises!
A number of the better speaker bureaux list me on their websites although understandably, their focus is on the major events where I can form part of a programme they are hired to put together.
My fees for professional speaking vary according to the time, place, audience and budget of whoever is commissioning me. So an afternoon talk to 20 social entrepreneurs close to my home will cost a lot less than a keynote presentation at a major conference in a capital city.
Read about a talk I gave at a monthly "Inspirational Speakers" event:
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