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"It was a real privilege to host an event with you as our keynote speaker and feedback has been extremely positive. Changing old paradigms is never easy but progress was never achieved without it."

              Bev Garside, Empower SVS

"If you are looking for a great presenter at a Conference or event then talk to Robert. He is a prolific author of running a business and has published some best sellers. He adds value to a Conference or event and get people thinking outside the box. He came out to the Elite Travel Group Conference in Lanzarote and gave delegates lots of info and ideas to think about. His costs were reasonable and content real value for money."

              Peter Buckell, Elite Travel Group

"Many thanks for your thought provoking and inspiring presentation yesterday. It clearly went down well with the audience, and has been the subject of much discussion back at the office."

              Mark Powell Davies, Chief Executive, Colne Housing

"I just wanted to say a huge thank you, on behalf of all of us here at Empower, for your wonderful contribution to yesterday’s conference. The response we had from the delegates and exhibitors to your talk was fantastic, and I think you gave a lot of people food for thought to take back to their organisations. All of us here at Empower truly hope that we get to work with you again in the near future."

              Lexi Spencer, Conference and Events Officer, Empower

"Robert has an engaging and relaxed style that compels you to listen. Delivered is short soundbites of many of his thoughts, communicated succinctly and without froth, going right to the crux of the subject. A great communicator."

              Murray Laidlaw, The Monday Picture

"I hired Robert to deliver a thought provoking, challenging and mildly risqué session on social entrepreneurship in the third sector; I got exactly this and more.
              Robert delivered a session so tantalisingly creative and inventive (there was no death by PowerPoint, no intense theory, just innovative and inclusive conversation with his audience) that people left the event asking when they could access more."

              Clayton Anderson

"Robert speaks with confidence and insight about Big Society, and really put the cat among the pigeons at our academic conference. A real topic of conversation for the rest of the day. Thank you again, it was really good having you provoke so much discussion."

              Alun Edwards, Manager of RunCoCo, University of Oxford

"A huge thank you for your help and support at our Funding East event. Several attendees cited you as the 'most useful' aspect, indeed 'thought provoking'!"

              Jonathon Clarke, Regional Manager, Big Lottery Fund East of England

"Thanks Robert for today's session. I really feel things are starting to click for people & you have a wonderful way of engaging a group of people who have been for many years operating from the margins, thought the homework was clear & concise too & actually potentially really enjoyable! You are fantastic in helping turn vision into reality."

              Leon Herbert, SISO Project Manager, Leicester

"Your session was very stimulating, thought provoking and indeed life changing. The feed back was exceptional and really set the theme for the day. I wish you every success with your new venture, sounds really exciting."

               Richard Limb, Capita Symonds

"Many thanks for contributing to the success of yesterday's conference. The feedback was universally excellent - particularly for your session."

               Geoffrey Bowden, Association of Translation Companies

"I like Robert - he's a human-scale entrepreneur on a talk-circuit dominated by supposedly super-human entrepreneurs who most of us find it hard to relate to. He talks a lot of sense."

              Rob Greenland, Social Business Consulting

Below are some of the comments Robert received from a Business Link event when he presented "Why Social Enterprises are Tomorrow's Enterprises."
"I thought the presentation was very interesting, and Robert Ashton was forthright in his opinion, and concise in his answers."

"I was really moved by your drive, the information you provided the group last night and your extremely witty presentation. I sincerely wish you all the best in your personal quest of making the world a better place for Frank and for my 5 year old twin daughters and their grandchildren."

              Dr Mah Hussain-Gambles, British Female Innovator of the Year 2009

"Vernon and I both feel that the evening was very successful and the client feedback has been extremely positive. Please see below for an example of delegate comments.

'useful information - good positive energy'
'all brilliant, thank you!'
'very motivational'
'real life experience - 100% more useful and plausible than a "trainer"'

A number of delegates said they found the Q&A session the most useful and would have liked the event to be longer to include more."

Rose McAteer, Events Executive, Business Lin k Yorkshire

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