Scamp News

James Poulter is the former Head of Lego Group’s Emerging Platform team and a leading thought leader and keynote speaker on the future of work, voice technology, conversational artificial intelligence, and social media. He is also the founder of Vixen Labs, one of the leading Voice Technology Companies in the UK. As we continue in lockdown and working from home, James has pulled together a number of short videos looking at Innovation Culture.

Primarily celebrated in the USA, but in some other countries too, the 4th May to 10th May 2020 marks Children’s Book Week. With a lot of us working from home and with children not in school, many people are having to juggle home schooling and work, so we just wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some of the children’s books that have been published by a couple of the speakers we work with (and a couple of films too!)

This is a roundup of some speaker news from April including some more details on speakers offering virtual keynotes, some update biographies and feedback from some recent online events. Updates included from Nick Saunders, James Poulter, and Adam Kingl to name a few.

Motivational Speaker (known to many as the SUMO Guy) Paul McGee has kindly allowed us to share his article on “How to Cope In A Crisis OR Here’s What to do When the unexpected HAPPENS” – which includes a link to a free downloadable version of his book “How Not to Worry”.

Derrick Evans, commonly known as Mr Motivator, started in the fitness business as an instructor in North West London, and went on to provide One-to-One training to many well known Celebrities with his very big TV break coming along in August 1993. In the current crisis, Derrick has been in demand to deliver some personal fitness and workout sessions for organisations to keep them physically fit and mentally fit, when many of us are now having to work from home.

Phil Olley is a sought after inspirational speaker and author of the Nexus Code. Phil kindly took some time out to answer some questions about his speaking work, his books and how he can help clients in this very difficult time.

With many people working from home at the moment, rather than have our usual Book of the Month feature, we have decided to highlight a number of books by some of the speakers we work with, that we would recommend reading – including books by Richard McCann, Jim Lawless and Perry McCarthy.

Whilst Virtual events and webinars have been around for some time now, with physical events being restricted by the current virus situation, you might be thinking about moving your event online. Whilst we believe nothing will ever replace face to face meetings, if you are considering an event online or looking for a speaker to speak to your team remotely, these are just a few of the speakers we work with that have offered some virtual keynotes.