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With the USA Presidential elections, taking place this week it is appropriate that our book of the month is Allyson Stewart-Allen’s and Lanie Denslow’ book “Working with Americans”. In this new, extensively updated second edition, authors Allyson Stewart-Allen and Lanie Denslow accurately capture the current US business environment and its changes since their best-selling 1st edition published in 2002

Welcome to our October Speaker News update. With many organisations unable to plan future live events, virtual events seem to be the way forward still for the time being, and this month we have updates from a number of speakers on their virtual talks, including from Neil Mullarkey and Katie Piper, as well as recent feedback on events featuring Matt Ellison, Anthony Bennett, and Dame Kelly Holmes.

Launched on the 13th October 2020, James and his team at Vixen Labs launched the “The Vixen Labs Voice Commerce Report 2020”. 2020 has been a big year for voice assistants and the voice technology industry at large. James and his team have taken a deep look into the impact COVID has had on the voice industry and in particular what that has done for voice users researching products and services, searching for them, and buying them via voice.

When people contact us about looking for a speaker on Innovation they are either looking for a speaker who can talk on creating an innovation culture within a business, or they looking for a speaker who can talk on the technological changes that we can expect to impact on business in the immediate future and beyond. In this piece we focus on one speaker Cris Beswick who is a global thought leader and strategic advisor on innovation and the bestselling author of ‘Building a Culture of Innovation’

Thank you to everyone who has booked with us in the past 6 months. We just wanted to take the opportunity to share some of the feedback we have received from some of the online events that have taken place over this period.

One of our most popular and frequently booked speakers is inspirational speaker Anthony Bennett. After contracting three virus infections at the same time, Anthony was given only a 10% chance of survival. What many would consider being a miracle, Anthony made a full recovery after having to learn to walk, talk and speak again and is now inspiring businesses, schools, and organisations with his optimism and bubbly personality. This is his new showreel.

World Mental Health Day takes place this year on Saturday 10th October 2020. The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) theme for this year is: Mental Health for All – Greater Investment – Greater Access. If you planning an event around Mental Health Day these are some of the speakers we work with that could be suitable for the event.

According to the Euromillions website, the odds of winning the jackpot stand at 1:139,838,160, and whilst it is such a long shot many of us from time to time buy a ticket in the hope we might just luck out and win. One of the great privileges of this job is that you get to work with inspirational speakers that have often defied the odds to achieve something great or overcome unbelievable adversity and survived to tell their compelling story.