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Our February 2021 book of the month is Good Grief by bestselling author, journalist, speaker, and co-founder and President of the Women’s Equality Party Catherine Mayer and Anne Mayer Bird.

Throughout the year we sometimes get asked to help supply speakers who can talk about the economy and the current financial climate and what businesses can expect to affect them in the coming months. On Wednesday 23rd March 2022, the Spring 2022 forecast statement is due by the government, when we might get a bit more clearer picture of how things might affect businesses. If you are planning an event around March time or at some point in the year and looking for a speaker to talk on financial subjects or the economy, these are a few of the speakers we work with.

We are thrilled to welcome three news speakers to our website – conservation speaker Lucy Houliston, Author and Storytelling speaker Danny Scheinmann and high performance speaker, and founder of Made in the Mind, Matt Young.

Continuing our theme of a fresh start, we wanted to take this opportunity to provide a short case study into a series of events organised by a client we worked with over the past few years. Always looking to innovate, we have been very privileged to have worked with BigChange over the past 3 years on their wonderful Motivational Monday events

Our January book of the month is “FLEX: Reinventing Work for a Smart Happier Life” by Annie Auerbach. Annie Auerbach is an expert on the future of work, an author, and the founder of trends and cultural insight agency Starling, whose clients include Nike, Pepsico, and Unilever.

We hope everyone has been having a good January. This is our January 2022 speaker round-up and this month features updated speech topics from Andrew Pain and Alison Edgar; feedbacks on Winston Clements, Neil Mullarkey, and Linda Moir; new podcast with Helen Fospero and Mark Van Rijeminan and we are delighted to welcome former footballer Michael Duberry and explorer Alex Staniforth to the website.

Andrew McNeill spent 20 years in senior leadership, most recently as a Director in the UK Civil Service. He is also an accredited mindfulness teacher and speaker on mindfulness and brought these two worlds together in his book Organisational Mindfulness a How-to Guide in 2019, which has sold in 4 continents.  Currently Andrew offers leadership training to a wide range of organisations, helping individuals and teams improve their performance and their wellbeing. He has kindly allowed us to share this piece on Mindfulness – The Work-life balance with a Fresh Start to mark the start of the year.

With the impact of the pandemic meaning it is likely there will be some continued working from home in one capacity or another, how do you build an innovation culture in the new hybrid world? Founder and CEO of Vixen Labs, James Poulter is a thought-leader and speaker on Innovation Culture, the Future of Work and Emerging Technologies and speaks on his exact subject in his talk CTL-ALT-DEL.