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Simon Walker
Fee band from £ 4000 - 7000
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Background
Simon Walker is a powerful, dynamic and inspirational speaker and an expert in leadership and team dynamics. With great enthusiasm, he draws from his first-hand experiences in sport, adventure and business, having raced around the world twice, led expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic and led several high profile businesses.
He is also one of the UK’s leading experts on Generation Y - those born since 1980 - and how to better understand and lead them, creating winning high performance teams across all generations. He is co-author of ‘Generation Y: What they want from work’ (Triarchy Press 2008)
He speaks at many events worldwide and recent key themes include:
• The challenges of leading Generation Y
• Team leadership
• Leading in difficult situations
• Motivating and inspiring others.
As well as a being an experienced keynote and motivational speaker, he is also an accomplished event host, workshop leader and conference facilitator.
Areas of Expertise
With a background in technology, he has held leadership positions in several SMEs and has worked with a number of leading consultancies throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. He was featured as one of 16 business leaders in Fast Company magazine’s ‘Who’s fast in 2001’
As a highly-experienced professional yachtsman, he has raced around the world twice, the second time leading a widely-respected campaign as skipper of ‘Toshiba Wave Warrior’ in the BT Global Challenge 1996/7, the World’s Toughest Yacht Race. He finished second overall in July 1997, the youngest skipper in the event.
He has also led and participated in sailing expeditions to both the Arctic and Antarctica and draws from these many and varied experiences when working with clients.
As well as working with many blue chip organisations, Simon has also developed top flight teams in the sporting environment. This includes working with international yacht racing crews and with Sir Clive Woodward's England and British & Irish Lions Rugby Squads. He has recently worked with The English Institute of Sport and the British Paralympic Association.
Simon’s recent work focuses on the challenges of leadership in an ever changing world and particularly in inspiring performance across all generations, especially the incoming ‘Generation Y’.
He has delivered motivational presentations to international clients, including Microsoft, BT, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB, CSFB, Barclays, National Audit Office, Toshiba, Drivers Jonas, West Mercia Police, AWG plc and The Cabinet Office.
Client Comments
“A truly inspirational presentation, which clearly showed just what can be
learnt, often the hard way, in adventurous situations and more importantly
how you (and we) can apply this to our business lives…. The feedback has
been fantastic.”
Conference organiser
“Another fantastic presentation – the guys got so much out of it and could have kept asking more questions for the rest of the day! We are already changing the way we are doing things and have taken many of the things you talked about to heat.”
Managing Director
“Thank you so much for such a powerful and inspiring presentation. The feedback so far includes the following comments: ‘very inspiring’, ‘lovely stuff – an excellent case study’, ‘clearly passionate about his subject’, ’excellent parallels’.”
Conference organiser
“Your work with the Exec Committee has had a profound effect – you have a real gift in the way you handled some very sensitive areas, and enabled us to really move forwards without people taking things personally. I will certainly recommend you to others who want help releasing the potential from their Top Team.”
Managing Director, Pharma Organisation
