Ken Wharfe MVO
After dinner speaker Ken Wharfe recently completed his first UK “One Man Show†entertaining with amusing anecdotes about his time in Scotland Yard’s elite Royalty Protection Department including his time looking after Princess Diana. Ken spent 35 years with the Metropolitan Police nearly half of which was looking after the Royal Family. His best selling book “Diana – Closely Guarded Secret†has now been published in several languages and is also now available in paperback and as a talking book read by Ken himself.
Ken is available for after-dinner speaking and also as a consultant on security issues. He is a regular contributor to the discussion of security issues with the BBC, ITN, Sky News, NBC, CBS and CNN.
David Lingham
Conference Moderator and facilitator David Lingham has a busy year lined up following on from supporting eleven major events internationally during 2004. The hiring of an experienced conference Moderator is not yet widely utilised but can be invaluable in ensuring that events rto time, providing links between sessions and speakers, carrying out interviews and panel sessions and generally keeping the audience involved and informed.
David has an ability to ensure an event is successful and has wide experience of dealing with multi-lingual conferences.
Jim Lawless
It does a motivational speaker good to be required to drink a large dose of their own medicine – and to prove that it is not snake oil! So when a client bet motivational speaker Jim Lawless, a non-rider, that he could not prove his “Ten Rules for Taming Tigers†by becoming a jockey in a year – he had to accept the challenge.
Jim won his bet, turning himself from being an 11 1/2 stone non-riding, overweight smoker to become a 9 1/2 stone leading licensed amateur jockey using his own principles for success, a feat according to any racing or riding expert that was, technically, impossible.
In the past 2 years Jim Lawless has become a welcome addition to the International speaking circuit. He speaks about personal and team peak performance, leadership, communication and change and his presentations are liberally illustrated with energy, humour and anecdotes. Jim has the ability to delight any audience because he talks common sense and explores how simple, achievable changes in mindsets and behaviours can radically influence our chances of success.
Sally Gunnell OBE
Congratulations to motivational speaker and broadcaster Sally Gunnell on the birth of her new baby boy – Marley Jayjay Bigg – who arrived on Wednesday 16th February. Both are happy and healthy and Sally’s back to work already having already fulfilled 2 speaking engagements since the birth – we don’t think there’s any doubt that she’s a working mum! Sally and her husband Jon now have 3 boys – and they joked about having one more to complete the full relay team!!!
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