Disruption Speakers
One of the definitions of disruption is – “….. radical change to an existing industry or market due to technological innovation”
We live in an era of disruption and if you are looking for a speaker on disruptive new ways of working, creating a culture of innovation, or how they have disrupted the industry they work in – these are a few of the speakers we work with.
Terence Mauri is a keynote speaker and the Mind Behind the Movement Transforming The Future of Leadership, AI, and Disruption. Terence Mauri, one of the world’s leading experts and keynote speakers on Leadership, AI, and Disruption, inspires and motivates teams to thrive in ever-changing contexts. Thinkers50 has described Terence as “an influential and outspoken thinker on the future of leadership.”
Terence Mauri is the founder of Future Insights think tank Hack Future Lab, a best-selling author, and one of the world’s most popular headline keynote speakers who inspire leaders to sharpen their future readiness muscle.
Tony Anderson is best known for his roles as Sales & Marketing Director at Easyjet, and director at Egg Online, and is a keynote speaker on Marketing and branding.
Tony was only the 3rd employee of Easyjet having worked for Thomas Cook and BA previously. As Sales and Marketing Director, he worked with Stelios Haji-Ioannou to launch and build the company that became an internet revelation, a household name, and a dominant force in European aviation.
He was made easyGroup Marketing Director, working across the Easy portfolio, and taking them into new business arenas such as internet cafes, cinemas, and car rental.
Lucy Adams was the HR Director on the Executive Board at the BBC during one of that organisation’s most turbulent periods and is a respected speaker on disruption.
In just five years the BBC had four CEOs, opened the new BBC in the North of England and the largest multi-media newsroom in Europe, became ever more digital across its news and television output, delivered significant financial reductions, and managed numerous crises. Lucy was at the heart of all of these and led many more.
During her time at the BBC, Lucy grew frustrated with the lack of innovation in the HR profession and wanted to find new ways of tackling old problems, so she created Disruptive HR, and the agency that helps HR Directors and business leaders to do things differently.
James Poulter is the founder and CEO of Vixen Labs (part of House 337) one of the UK’s leading Voice Technology companies and is a thought leader and speaker on Innovation Culture, the Future of Work, and Emerging Technologies including the Metaverse.
James runs Vixen Labs one of Europe’s leading strategy consultancy and app development studio for voice assistants and conversational AI. Starting with a team of two people, in the space of three years, even during a pandemic, the team has now grown into over 20 staff and continues to grow from strength to strength. In December 2023, Vixen Labs was acquired by House 337.
Martin McCourt has spent over 40 years working at the heart of British-based manufacturing, design, and marketing for quality brands such as Dyson, Mars, Duracell, Toshiba, and Pelikan.
Martin McCourt was the CEO of Dyson for 15 years, the ideas to market-leading consumer products maker. As CEO, he devised and implemented a strategy that transformed the company from a single-product, single-market producer into one where 80% of the business came from over 60 markets around the world. In that time he increased UK skilled jobs, grew profits to over £300m, and enabled James Dyson to keep on inventing. In 2011 Dyson hit £1 bn revenue for the first time. Martin was directly responsible for the establishment of Dyson subsidiaries in the USA, Japan, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. In total he took Dyson into over 60 markets, achieving market leadership in the majority including the USA.
Ellis Watson is a business leader whose varied career from Celador, Syco, and the Mirror Group to name a few, make him a respected and thought-provoking business and leadership speaker. Ellis was most recently the Chairman and CEO of DC Thomson, the Scottish media group, but stepped down in 2020 after 10 years with the organisation.
At the First Group, he turned around the fortunes of Greyhound across the Americas, bringing in better service, and changing the culture of low morale. As CEO of Simon Cowell’s Syco Corporation, he took an array of record labels and programme formats, including the X Factor and Got Talent formats, to international success, while at DC Thomson he steered the business into a more resilient organisation by transforming the group’s business models, brands and commercial direction.
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