Management & Strategy Speakers
We have sub-divided out our Management and Strategy speakers to make them easier to find within the Business speakers category. They are high level business speakers, like James Caan, Julie Meyer, Luke Johnson, Roger Flynn and Prof. Colin Coulson Thomas. These are speakers who know how businesses work from Top to Bottom and vice versa.
Whether you are looking to re-organise the structure of a department / division, change the vision and focus of the company, merge or acquire another business, or fundamentally alter the way your company does business, then these speakers are a must have at your next meeting, event or conference.
Caspar Berry
Caspar Berry started his career as the lead in the first series of Byker Grove on BBC1 alongside Ant and Dec. He went on to read Economics and Anthropology at Cambridge and – after setting his sights on being a professional film writer – had his first screenplay produced by Film Four while still in his third year of university. By the time he was 23 he was writing for Miramax and Columbia Tri Star.
Colin Coulson-Thomas
Prof. Colin Coulson Thomas is a Professor of Corporate Transformation. He is a leader and co-ordinator and has served on the boards of publishing and trading companies. He has worked with over 100 boards on various activities to improve board and corporate performance and has also reviewed the processes and practices for winning business of over 100 companies.
David Bryon
David Bryon is an outstanding and highly entertaining after-dinner speaker who is building an excellent reputation on the speaking circuit. David is the former Managing Director of bmibaby, one of Europe’s largest low cost airlines. His knowledge and experience provides a wealth of stories and tales from the aviation industry, and he weaves these into a hilarious and captivating routine which involves extensive audience participation!
David Buisson
David Buisson has over 25 years experience of successfully managing large scale and complex projects and programmes throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East. His most recent project, the refurbishment of Terminal 1 at London Heathrow Airport, was one of the three finalists selected by the Project Management Institute for their prestigious global project of the year award for 2009.
Dominic Alldis
Dominic Alldis is a musician, conductor and business speaker. He has been using music to create powerful learning experiences for people in business. Dominic introduces a dynamic new vocabulary for thinking about business practice. Dominic describes how musicians think and operate, and explains why the world of music and the arts in general provide an excellent metaphor for today’s business climate.
James Caan
James Caan began in business working out of a room the size of a shoebox on Pall Mall and has been creating, building, and selling businesses ever since.
James has been building and selling businesses for over 20 years. In 1985, he set up the Alexander Mann Group, one of the UK's leading HR outsourcing companies, and achieved a turnover of £130 million before selling it to a private equity firm in 2002.
Julie Meyer
Julie Meyer is one of the leading champions for entrepreneurship in Europe. Julie has over 20 years of investment and advisory experience, helping start-up businesses and industry standards to emerge and become established. Through these intertwining roles of entrepreneur, advisor, investor and industry commentator, Julie has set her mission to build a growth story for the UK and Europe.
Luke Johnson
Luke was Chairman of Channel 4 Television Corporation from January 2004 to January 2010. In that time he appointed a new CEO, restructured the board and saw the organisation enjoy record ratings, revenues and surplus. He also served as Chairman of the trustees of the £150m Channel 4 staff pension plan.
In May 2010 Luke became a strategic investor in Beer & Partners, the UK's largest business investment agency.
Michael Portillo
Michael Portillo was born in North London in 1953 and was educated at Cambridge University.
He left Cambridge in 1975, and for a year worked for a shipping company. He moved to the Conservative Research Department in 1976, where he spent three years. At the General Election in 1979 he was responsible for briefing Margaret Thatcher before her press conferences. For the next two years he was special adviser to the Secretary of State for Energy.
Philip Cox-Hynd
Philip Cox-Hynd is an author, leading coach and change management ‘gladiator'. Philip specialises in transforming culture; the attitudes & behaviours that determine success, as well as refining processes, systems & structures, which together, deliver tough commercial goals.
A professional actor for 10 years till 1986, some say that he has based his look on Blofeld, James Bond's archenemy, and that he was once shortlisted for the role of Bond himself.


