Leadership Speakers
What are the qualities that make someone a leader? Are people born with Leadership qualities or do they / can they learn them?
Leadership is often a misunderstood subject or quality. The best leader is not necessarily the person with the loudest voice or charming manner, but usually the person with the clearest vision of what needs to be achieved and how to communicate that vision to others, so that they can believe in the vision, and develop trust in the person who can guide them to achieve this.
A leader also understands the people that they work with. Leaders also do not necessarily have to be just the more senior figures within an organisation. Leaders can also be found at all levels within an organisation, as well as in the community.
Leadership speakers can bring a raft of new ideas in which to inspire the leaders within your organisation to do things differently to the past. They are all recognised experts in the field of leadership, and are constantly striving to add to their knowledge pool, through research in this area. They can make this emotive topic clear and easy to understand.
Arthur Denaro
Major General Arthur Denaro CBE DL was born in 1948 and raised in County Donegal. He was educated by Benedictine monks at Downside and commissioned from Sandhurst in 1968 into the Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars. Later, he became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst for three years where he trained international graduates in the art of leadership and the skills of management.
Clive Woodward
Sir Clive Woodward was the manager of the England Rugby team and is one the country's leading motivational speakers.
The son of a RAF pilot, Woodward was educated at HMS Conway School Ship where he played rugby at centre alongside a fly-half Iain Duncan Smith who would later become leader of the Conservative Party.
Colin Turner
Prof Colin Turner has been referred to by Business Age as ‘Europe’s foremost teacher for business success,’ Colin is the founder of 3 corporations & author of 15 books published in 30 languages, with over 1 million copies in print, including the Japan no 1: Born to Succeed. His Institute was ranked No. 1 worldwide for Internationality in Customised Executive Programs by the Financial Times; and he advises many leading organisations.
Conrad Humphreys
Conrad Humphreys is an inspirational team leader and world-class British yachtsman, as well as a renowned personality in the south-west and on the international sailing scene. At 35, Conrad has already crammed a lifetime of adventure and achievement into his life enduring some of the most hostile oceans of the world. Conrad has sailed around the world three times, competing in three different races.
David Powell
David Powell is a powerful, dynamic and inspirational speaker. He combines humour, energy and his passion for leadership - drawing on a wealth of personal experience and thorough research. David has worked with over 130 organisations on all five continents. He focuses on what he calls tapping The Hidden Advantage to unleash the power and source of all initiative, creativity, commitment, motivation, enthusiasm and persistence in management and staff.
Digby Jones
Digby Jones was born into business. Some of his earliest memories are of life in a busy corner shop where he lived. The shop was, he says, "within a spanner throw of the Austin factory". He remembers pressing his nose against the shop window watching the new Minis leave the factory destined for showrooms across the world. It was here he learnt the first rudiments of business - important values that were never to leave him.
Estienne de Beer
Motivational Speaker and Leadership Coach, Estienne de Beer, has inspired Corporations across seven different countries.. In addition to heading up Training and Leadership Development of South African Operations for a Fortune 100 Company, he also served as a leadership development resource for the Middle East operations. Estienne has authored Boosting Your Career - Tips from Top Executives, and is writing his second book, How to Survive Your Big Bad Boss.
Ian Thomas
Ian Thomas has been a professional speaker for 20 years. He has travelled internationally, and spoken in more than 25 countries. After completing a Bachelors degree in Business, he followed his calling and worked as a wildlife guide in Southern Africa, specializing in tracking lions.
Ian attained the highest tracking and guiding qualification possible, that of "Scout", awarded to him by "The Field Guides Association of South Africa'.
Jeff Grout
Jeff Grout was, until 2000, UK Managing Director of Robert Half International, the largest specialist recruitment consultancy in the world.
A graduate of the London School of Economics, he joined Robert Half International as a Recruiter at the age of 28, after an eclectic career as a van driver, passport office administrator, cleaner, world traveller and local government town planner.
John Bird
John Bird founded The Big Issue in the early 1990's. Since then he has spread the business all over the world.
John is one of the most inspiring speakers you will ever meet. "I have a lifetime of experience to draw upon. I was born into the underclass, made homeless at the age of seven, in prison by the time I was a teenager, slept rough on the streets of
London, and from there went on to buying and selling products and services, and building businesses".


