The Business Show Guide November

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
One of the world’s foremost business thinkers, Paul Dunn specialises in
implementing breakthrough processes and ideas that revolutionise the way
business works. Find out why he celebrates SMEs everywhere and how you can
adopt his latest strategies to redefine the way you work.
Paul Dunn started his career as one of
the first 10 people in Hewlett Packard in
Australia. Then came the founding of one
of Australia’s first Computer Companies,
followed by the Results Corporation - a
consultancy that served 23,000 SME clients.
Paul then turned his attention to professional
knowledge firms and created the breakthrough
Accountants’ Boot Camp process,
enabling over 3,500 accounting firms and
17,000 accountants worldwide to work
with their clients in new ways. Right now,
156,000 businesses around the world use
Paul’s programs. He has always been at
the leading edge of thinking and of actual
implementation of breakthrough processes
and ideas.
Paul ‘lit up’ - if not shook up - the profession
with both his presentation style and (at the
time) radical ideas on how to create and
run better firms. These ideas are regarded
very much as standard practice now. Paul
continues to push the envelope of what’s
possible and is still at the leading edge of
thinking and the actual implementation of
those thoughts. He now serves as Chairman
of the revolutionary Buy1GIVE1 (or B1G1
as it’s better known), a company that’s
already created over 25 million giving
activities around the world by creating a new
‘platform’ to enable habitual, impactful and
‘connecting’ giving for SMEs.
Paul was recently honoured with a Lifetime
Service Award to the Accounting Profession in
the UK and as a Social Innovation (SIP) Fellow
in his new home of Singapore. He clocks up
1.2 Million air miles each year… and he tells
us his baggage does 2.4 Million!
psychology from the University of California,
Doug is uniquely qualified to create and
deliver effective training in how to start and
run a profitable business. He was the
founder and Vice-Chairman of the
Cambridge Angels and Chairman of the Conservative
Party Small Business Task Force.
Doug was an Honorary Recipient of The
Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion in
2006 and became a fellow of the RSA the
following year. He founded the School For
Startups in 2008, helping people start more
profitable businesses by teaching thousands
of business people face-to-face and through
online classes. This work gained him the
Enterprise Educator Of The Year award
from the National Council on Graduate Employment
in 2010.
KEYNOTE
HALL 2
Thursday
16.15 - 16.45
The Power Of Small
Small. Nimble. Quick. Able to work miracles.
Focussed. Entrepreneurs and small business
owners just like you are making a staggering
impact. They are punching way, way above
their weight. And central to it is the magic
of what Paul calls ‘moments of connection;’
moments that completely redefine how you
do business. You’ll see business-building
example after example, insight after insight.
What’s more, you’ll discover precisely how to
add the ideas into your business at zero cost
as you magnify the power of small.
The impact is truly profound.
MARTYN DAWES
Martyn is an award-winning entrepreneur, CEO and founder of Coffee
Nation Ltd, the brand that successfully created an entirely new market
category of branded self-serve coffee bars selling gourmet coffee-to-go
in high footfall retail locations.
Martyn led Coffee Nation as CEO from start-up
in 1997 through to 2007 and remained on the
board until the business was sold in 2008, at
which point the company operated from some
560 locations across the UK in premium quality
retail outlets. Long term contracts include Tesco,
Welcome Break, Moto, Esso, Sainsbury and
Somerfield.
The company was sold to Milestone Capital
Partners for £23m in March 2008 and on to
Whitbread/Costa for £59.5m in 2011. Coffee
Nation won the Sunday Times/Virgin Atlantic
Fast Track Award for Innovation in 2006 and
Martyn was recognised as Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year, South Region,
Consumer Products & Services in 2005. Coffee
Nation was ranked as one of the UK’s top
100 fastest growing privately owned companies
in 2005 and 2006. Martyn was Chairman of
the London Westminster Chapter of Young
Presidents Organisation for 2011/12.
Martyn’s book, ‘Wake Up and Sell the Coffee’
published by Harriman House, is on sale this
November. It’s an indispensable read for all
ambitious entrepreneurs who want to build a
high growth business.
Martyn is now working on a new venture.
How To Start, Build
And Sell A High
Growth Business
Martyn Dawes founded Coffee
Nation in 1996 and sold it for
£23m in 2008. He will share
the story of how he recovered
from almost certain failure in
the early days to creating one
of the UK’s fastest growing
consumer brands of the last
decade. This is an absolute
must-attend seminar for
any ambitious entrepreneur
determined to build a high
growth company.
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