2018 Speakers.
Bridget Supple
What our gut bacteria can teach us about a healthy business.
A huge amount of human health is connected to the health of our trillions of microbes, or our microbiome; just as ‘it’s not business as usual’ for businesses it’s not in our gut microbes either and it is making us ill. In this talk we will find out how we can learn about a healthy business from the lessons of a healthy gut; this talk will challenge you to look at the interrelationships in your business, how healthy is your business gut? How diverse is your staff in age, outlook and background, what are you missing and who is dominating? What does your business ‘gut’ need to be successful?
Fran Boorman
The New World of Connection.
Fran is an entrepreneur who has built multi-million pound enterprises, all with a strong social agenda. She is a big advocate and spokesperson of using business to help solve social problems. As well as continuing to grow her own businesses she is also dedicated to supporting other individuals and corporates to make a significant impact. About her talk: We all know the world has changed but Fran is going to demystify what is really happening. Yes, technology has had a part to play but the real difference lies in the way we feel and see the world around us. Understanding Fran’s ‘LOGIC Shift’ model will empower you to engage in the new world that we find ourselves.
Hannah Adjepong
OLENSO Poems and Memories of an African Village Girl.
Hannah loved to memorise and recite poetry when she was at school. She writes narrative poetry that expresses deep emotions. She has been writing poetry as a hobby until entered one of the poems in a competition nineteen years ago and won an award.
Jackie Handy
The exclusive nature of inclusion.
Diversity & Inclusion is a hot topic in business right now. Organisations are investing heavily in ‘unconscious bias’ workshops and ensuring in-company support for their minority staff members. But is this enough? Is this really how to be truly inclusive? This talk aims to highlight that there is so much more we can all do to shape the workforces of the future and how what is happening now could actually serve to perpetuate the problem of discrimination. Through candid and personal insights as well as her extensive professional experience, Jackie shares her thoughts on how to truly make a difference to the workforce of both today and, perhaps more importantly, tomorrow.
Jenny Thomas
Putting Emotion Back in Business.
20 years in the corporate space trained me to ‘take emotion out of business’ and leave my personal life outside the office; taught me how not to be human…with emotion, which I then taught to others. We need to put emotion back in business and cultivate positive emotions like love, kindness & compassion in order for businesses to put their people first. It’s only when people are the priority over profit and are treated as human beings, rather than numbers on a spreadsheet, that businesses can become profitable again.
Julian Madeley
How HOPE arrived in the shape of an egg.
This talk is not about inventing something new itself, the innovation in this talk is about taking something that has been around for millennia and using it in a new way to solve a very modern problem. I want to tell the real life stories of three groups of people who have all survived horrific globally known events, who all individually came to the same conclusion to dedicate their lives to supporting children in Africa, through improved nutrition, education and the adoption of technology. Their collective stories have inspired a group of leaders in the global food industry to come together and create a foundation with the aim of using the simplest and humblest of foods, the egg, to support multi -billion dollar medical campaigns.
Lindsey Sharratt
Leadership and Identity: Solving the People Problem.
Psychology has traditionally focused on leaders themselves in an attempt to understand what makes for really great leadership. In reality, great leadership comes from the interaction between the leader and the group. Understanding how to develop your leadership identity, position yourself as group leader, and bring out the best in your group members, is where you find your transformational results.
Margaret Shenken
What if I don’t know what my passion is?
Have you ever sat at your desk on a Monday morning and googled “What is the right job for me?”, or wondered why some people seem to be so passionate about what they do? I have. I thought there was something wrong with me for not knowing what my passion was. I will take you through a story of multiple careers and how I finally found passion in my work. My hope is that you will find passion earlier in your career than I did.
Michael Don Smith
From Elevator Pitch to Signature Speech and Beyond.
Crafting your signature speech is about understanding how you can; leverage timeless, universal human archetypes to communicate and anchor the call to action of your presentation, and make that ‘killer pitch’, effortlessly time and time again while keeping it fresh and relevant with every delivery.
Paul McGillivray
Bringing purpose to work for global impact.
Advances in technology are changing everything about how we work, where we work, and why we work. In his inspiring talk, Paul McGillivray shares how the organisations that will survive and thrive in the new age of enterprise, will be those who put Purpose before Profit. He walks us through the story of what happened when he lost sight of meaning in his own life, how his discoveries have changed the way he approaches his own business, and how we can implement these ideas to make a positive impact on the world.
Rhea Freeman
Killing it with creativity and collaboration.
Do you think social media is making business harder and you’re losing your connections with people in real life? I’m here to help you make social media work for you. I’ll be talking about how you can collaborate with people online so everyone wins, and how you can creatively use the platforms available today to stand out from the crowd.
Sara Moseley
Embrace ‘new ways’ to do business, do what others won’t & reap the benefits.
Sara describes how ‘being in business’ has evolved and how entrepreneurs today have never had it so good. Embracing change & taking action breeds success. So why aren’t all entrepreneurs doing it? In this talk Sara shares how to make the most of change, ‘get over your-self’ and boost your business using today’s opportunities
Sidra Jafri
How does understanding the consciousness of your business affect your success?
Years of facilitating business professionals has led me to understand the importance of applying a consciousness model to a business. Businesses aren’t just legal entities, bank accounts, policies, etc,; they also have beliefs, values and a consciousness that drives the business forwards based on the consciousness of the people within the business. Its education around the best practices in business consciousness that will open up awareness and enable businesses to survive in today’s difficult economic climate.
Sunita Passi
How might we be healed in the future?
Sunita’s aim has been to use her purpose to build an authentic successful business and mentor her students to develop their own businesses as alternative healthcare practitioners. Today Sunita is considered one of the brightest lights in the wellness industry! Hear her talk about how she created a business to make a real stride towards healing humanity by advocating holistic care for all citizens by developing practitioners for a career in this area and reinvented holistic education for therapists and meditation instructors by creating heartfelt programmes with marketing modules to enable students to build successful practices, helping them connect the material and the spiritual – the brain and consciousness – so that they have the power to know what a dream can actually do.
Teresa Heath-Wareing
How Social Media is changing the face of Marketing.
Social Media is dubbed on of the worlds fastest moving industries. For markers and businesses alike it has changed the way we market our products, the way we find our customers and the way we speak to them. Discover how businesses can use this innovative tool to their advantage.
Sponsors
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The University of Wolverhampton donated valuable time to cut out our TEDxTelford sign letters in wood using their FabLab equipment. They also sponsored us by paying for the venue. We are very grateful to the University for their support.
The University’s four Faculties offer courses in over 70 different subjects and over 4,000 students graduate from Wolverhampton each year. We invest in our students, staff, alumni and in the local and international community. We have invested more than £125 million
The mission of The Tribe Project is to increase social action, improving the quality of life for millions of vulnerable people. Through
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White Collar Consultants Limited are a small accountancy firm with big personalities. At WCC we do so much more than tax, by providing a range of services to support SMEs, micro-entities and individuals to achieve their dreams.
We have created relationships with different accommodation owners which means that we know we are getting amazing spaces for us to stay and to do our yoga, in the most beautiful parts of North Wales, so very lucky in that aspect.
At the moment we offer yoga and walking retreats, which suits a range of experience and abilities as we get an amazing mix of people who join us. What we are aiming to do is start providing slightly different activities to those who have perhaps been to us before, who would like to try something different that they would not necessarily do on their own. So this being said, in 2019 we are aiming to offer things such as bigger mountain accents, scrambling, wild swimming, as well as our walking and exploration weekends, all of which include morning and evening yoga classes.
Team
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Sam Warner
Licencee & Lead Organiser
Sam Warner has enjoyed organising events for decades. She uses her people skills and project management background to bring together groups of people for the betterment of human knowledge and experience. Putting on TEDxTelford is an extension of this desire to inform and entertain.Sam runs her own business training others to improve their communication skills and helps adults with Autism, and their family, co-workers and friends by offering an interpreting service.
Sagonia Pannu
Co-Organiser & Website Designer
As co-organiser, Sagonia has been responsible for maintaining the quality and consistency of the TEDx brand, helping Sam plan the itinerary and costings, and allocate responsibilities. She also created the website alongside the copywriter.
Sagonia is the director of VeroDesign, which was set up to provide an individual branding service for businesses. She uses branding to take businesses to the next level and helps them to reflect their experience and professionalism through her designs.
Claire Mckeown
Co-Organiser & Sponsorship Coordinator
Claire is a professional Mindset and Empowerment Coach, fully qualified Hypnotherapist, NLP expert, and LOA Trainer.
She runs a professional Hypnotherapy practice in Telford where she works across all areas of life whether it be social, personal, work or relationship related she has developed a unique programme using hypnotherapy, NLP, and coaching techniques to help people achieve results quickly and effectively.
Claire has spent most of her professional life working in education and management with many years devoted to training, mentoring, developing people and managing staff. She is a fully qualified trainer, coach, facilitator and mediator. She has also consulted at some of the top educational colleges and training providers across the UK.
Her advanced skills and knowledge in education have enabled her to become a great coach and mentor to her clients and other people in her field of expertise.
Her passion is helping people, many who have had traumatic experiences, to remove unwanted patterns of behaviour, let go of the past, overcome obstacles and move forward.
Her mission is to empower people to believe in themselves and take control to live their best life.
She now works across the globe with clients young and old, from all walks of life, to get them spectacular
Over the last seven
Claire also runs workshops and courses within schools and organisations teaching different strategies to manage stress in the workplace, communication skills, motivation and how to manage staff.
She often gets asked to do talks to many different business groups across the West Midlands.
She is fully a registered member of the General Hypnotherapy Register, (GHR) and the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC) and is therefore subject to their very strict code of ethics. She is also a member of the
Lindsay Andrews-Thorburn
Co-organiser - Operations
Lindsay joined the Military in 1999 and has spent his entire career to date specialising in Communication System Engineering. He has a firm grounding in RF, Satcom and Wide Area Networks, and has very recently moved into the world of Active Directory. His
Languages
English, Python, and Java.
Areas of Expertise
Networks, RF, Satellite Communications, Knowledge Management, Leadership.
Universities
Bournemouth University
Cranfield University
Talk to me about
Federation of complex communications networks across partner nations to achieve military effects. Cycling.
People don’t know I’m good at
Road cycling, mountain biking, running, horse riding, sailing, skiing, snowboarding, photography, map reading, hill walking, being under pressure, and taking on too many tasks at once!
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Abi Hopkins
Photographer
You will usually find me behind the camera as I love to take photographs of life as it unfolds before me. I love to take those natural shots of people when they are relaxed and unaware of the camera. I want to capture life as I see it, almost like capturing a memory in your
I love collaborations with others and celebrating the beauty of diversity by seeking out the very best in people so if you also like to collaborate and skill-swap / share experiences, please feel free to contact me.
I’m available for creative photo-shoots, family gatherings and parties, weddings and professional business pictures but would happily discuss other areas. To date, I have helped friends out with photos of their new products for their websites, captured christenings weddings and end of life blessings, fun fashion shoots and celebrated with sports clubs at their annual awards ceremonies.
http://www.abiphotography.co.uk