Seminar Hall One at the Northern Business Exhibition is hosting an array of fantastic, inspirational speakers, and all of them are all completely free to attend. Why not hear from one of our keynote speakers and find some inspiration to grow or start your business?
Caprice
From Supermodel to Super Businesswoman
As many will know, world-renowned supermodel, television personality and actress Caprice was hugely successful in the late 90s and early noughties, and now is a very successful businesswoman.
Caprice first put her name to a lingerie range in one of the UK's largest department stores in 2000. Now currently living in London, Caprice runs her own company, By Caprice Lingerie Ltd, selling internationally to retailers and department stores.
She fully finances, designs, models and markets her own hugely successful line and has created the success of By Caprice entirely on her own. The brand now includes lingerie, swimwear, sleepwear and bedding.
Jo Fairley
Co-Founder of Green & Blacks Chocolate, and Co-Author of The Beauty Bible
In 1991, Jo Fairley co-founded the pioneering organic chocolate company Green & Black’s which has now gone on to be ‘bigger than Marmite’ (in sales terms) and ‘cooler than Prada’ (Coolbrands 2007/2008); in the Coolbrands Survey 2009, Green & Black’s was the only food brand in the top 20.
In 2005, the brand was sold to Cadbury’s, but Jo remains in an ambassadorial role, travelling the world as the brand grows internationally in countries including the US and Australia.
Jo now runs Judges Bakery - an organic one-stop shop - and The Wellington Centre, an 11-room ‘boutique’ wellbeing centre, in her home town of Hastings. She continues to juggle this with her writing career: although she left school at 16 (with six ‘O’ Levels), by the age of 23 Jo was the youngest-ever magazine editor in the UK, editing first Look Now and then Honey Magazine. She is a Contributing Editor to the Mail on Sunday’s YOU Magazine, as well as to a very wide range of publications including the new National Geographic Green. In May 2014 Jo launched The Perfume Society (www.perfumesociety.org), turning a life-long passion into a website which embraces the world's first appreciation society for fragrance-lovers.
She is the co-author (with Sarah Stacey) of the bestselling Beauty Bible series of books, the world’s bestselling beauty books, including: The Beauty Bible, Feel Fab Forever: The Anti-Ageing Health & Beauty Bible, The 21st Century Beauty Bible, The Handbag Beauty Bible and most recently The Green Beauty Bible, which combines her ‘green’ expertise with her insights into the beauty world. She is also author of The Ultimate Natural Beauty Book.
For eight years Jo chaired the Soil Association’s Health Products Standards Committee, helping to set the standards for organic and natural bodycare in the UK. She is a ‘matron’ of the Women’s Environmental Network, runs makeover workshops for young women at Centrepoint and sits on the Human Rights Watch Film Festival committee.
Paul Fletcher MBE
Teamwork and Motivation - What's the secret?
After 16 years as a professional footballer with Bolton and Burnley, a knee injury forced Paul into retirement and launched an incredibly successful commercial career. He has enjoyed prosperous chief executive spells at Huddersfield Town, Bolton Wanderers, Coventry and in 2008 he oversaw Burnley’s promotion to the premiership.
Today his company, StadiArena, have offices in London, New York, Sydney, Dubai, Capetown, Moscow, Beijing and Coventry.
He still lives, with his wife and family, in Lancashire, close to Turf Moor.
Hear how great teamwork, learned from his playing days, is at the heart of everything he has achieved.
Dr Liz Jackson MBE
Marketing Director - BCMS
Liz Jackson is an inspirational figure with an extraordinary story, as many would have discovered when she was featured in Channel 4’s ‘Secret Millionaire’. Honoured by Her Majesty the Queen, Liz was awarded an MBE in the 2007 for services to business, and in 2012 she was bestowed with an honorary doctorate by Staffordshire University for her business achievements and for inspiring others.
After running her own company, Great Guns Marketing, for 17 years – a business which she launched the year she lost her eyesight – Liz is now the Marketing Director for BCMS. BCMS is a specialist lead advisor to shareholders of private companies, having completed over 500 deals in the last decade, and is the world’s leading advisor to privately owned companies by deal volume (according to data disclosed to Bureau van Dijk’s Zephyr database).
Reed Paget
Sustainable Business is the future
Reed is an eco-entrepreneur, a former journalist, documentry maker, and UK Cabinet Office Social Enterprise Ambassador. Founder of Ecocap, the recyclable bottle cap, and Belu Water, the world's first carbon neutral botled water, he now runs One Earth Innovation, formed to create a new generation of sustainable products.
Tell Your Story Online
Lewis Husbands,Digital Garage from Google
The first step towards making the most of the internet is to show off the best of your business online. Make your website shine, on computers and mobile devices, develop rich content, and learn about the importance of measuring success with analytics.
Stand Out and Win – Organizational Resilience
British Standards Institution
To stand out and win, every business, regardless of its size, sector or location, must develop an approach to resilience that is right for it – underpinned by its values and defining its brand.
At BSI, we are wholly focused on ‘making excellence a habit’ – we can guide you through Organizational Resilience at a top level, or stimulate best practice thinking for its component parts.
Whatever the future holds for your company, BSI’s approach to Organizational Resilience will help you harness your experience, embrace your opportunities – and pass the test of time.
Reach New Customers Online
Gori Yahaya, Head of Training, Digital Garage from Google
Take the next step and make your business more visible online so that new customers can find you. Understand the cornerstones of digital marketing, and learn how to use online marketing tools to reach prospective customers.
The Backbone of British Growth & Improvement
Toni Allen; British Standards Institution
Small businesses are often referred to as the backbone of the economy but how do those businesses support themselves to grow and become resilient in today’s challenging and competitive environment? Certification is not just about tendering for new business; it’s about providing your business with the backbone for growth and performance that will not only help increase your bottom line, but also keep your staff and your customers happy.
“Without Sales You’re Dead!”
Ben Kench
An entertaining and energised presentation full of ideas specifically highlighting how critical ‘selling success’ is to the overall ‘business success’.
If you have a smaller business that could use more cash flow…
If you have a business that is always looking for more margin and more repeat clients…
If you have a members of your team in sales and you wish that they would sell more!
Then this is for YOU!
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