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How to get booked to speak in the US with Gail Davis

Speaking Business podcast

05/03/22 • 33 min

How to get booked to speak in the US

Gail Davis' decades of experience in corporate marketing and event management served as the launch pad for GDA Speakers. Before establishing the company in 1999, she spent 20 years managing the events of the Dallas-based global technology conglomerate - Electronic Data Systems (EDS) - founded by Ross Perot.

While at EDS she discovered Nando Parrado, a heroic survivor of the 1972 Andes plane crash. Parrado presented an unforgettable speech at EDS’ marquee event. Shortly after his successful keynote, Parrado signed an exclusive agreement with our guest as it was her efforts that convinced him to share his story after so many years. It was this partnership with Parrado which eventually anchored the creation of GDA Speakers. She continues to discover new talent and under her passionate leadership, GDA Speakers has vetted and curated many highly qualified speakers who they deliver to clients with confidence.

Gail shares insights into the US speaker market, what she looks for in an international speaker and any tips she can share for a non-US speaker to get listed with a US bureau. If you’d like to take your speaking business international then this podcast is a must listen.

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Harnessing Serendipity to Navigate Uncertainty with Dr Christian Busch

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05/18/21 • 24 min

My guest this week is a world-leading expert on innovation, purpose-driven leadership, and cultivating serendipity. He teaches at New York University, where he directs the CGA Global Economy Program, as well as at the London School of Economics. Previously, he co-directed the LSE's Innovation and Co-Creation Lab.

He is co-founder of Sandbox Network, a global community of young innovators; and co-founder of Leaders on Purpose, an organisation convening leading CEOs and empowering them to integrate profit and purpose.

His latest book, The Serendipity Mindset, has been highlighted as a "wise, exciting, and life-changing book" and a "bracing and hopeful antidote to a world addicted to efficiency and control".

Please welcome my guest, Dr Christian Busch

Bio

Dr. Christian Busch is a world-leading expert on innovation, purpose-driven leadership, and cultivating serendipity. He teaches at New York University (NYU), where he directs the CGA Global Economy Program, as well as at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Previously, he co-directed the LSE’s Innovation and Co-Creation Lab. Christian is co-founder of Sandbox Network, a global community of young innovators; and co-founder of Leaders on Purpose, an organisation convening leading CEOs and empowering them to integrate profit and purpose.

He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Expert Forum, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and among Diplomatic Courier’s “Top 99 Influencers”, JCI London’s “Ten Outstanding Persons of the World”, and the Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 management thinkers “most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.”

Christian’s new book, The Serendipity Mindset (Penguin Random House), has been highlighted as a “wise, exciting, and life-changing book” (Arianna Huffington, Founder, Huffington Post); a “bracing and hopeful antidote to a world addicted to efficiency and control” (Daniel Pink, Bestselling author of Drive); “highly recommended” (Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder, LinkedIn); and offering “excellent practical guidance for all” (Paul Polman, former CEO, Unilever).

His work has been published in world-leading journals such as the Strategic Management Journal and was featured in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Forbes, BBC, among others. He regularly speaks at conferences such as TEDx, World Economic Forum, and Financial Times Sustainability Summit. Christian received his PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE).

Recorded on: 4th May 2021

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Everyone's a Leader Now with Jeremy Schwartz

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05/04/21 • 26 min

My guest this week is a multinational CEO having led The Body Shop, Pandora and Conival PLC. He is also the former Managing Director for L’Oréal UK and Marketing Director for Coca-Cola and Sainsbury’s supermarkets. With experience covering diverse cultures, channels and products he has a unique perspective and insight on leadership.

He gives business leaders concrete tools to make the extraordinary happen with new ways to lead individuals and teams and create consumer first companies that make more money and most importantly Save Tomorrow’s Planet.

Please welcome my guest, Jeremy Schwartz.

Bio

Jeremy Schwartz is a multinational CEO having led The Body Shop, Pandora and Conival PLC, been Managing Director for L’Oréal UK and Marketing Director for Coca-Cola and Sainsbury’s supermarkets.

His experience covers a diversity of cultures, channels and products which gives him a unique perspective and insight on leadership for C Suite, country leadership teams and investors worldwide.

Specifically, Jeremy has overseen operations in North and South America, throughout China and Asia, Greater Europe and the Middle East. He has driven e-commerce and omnichannel global expansion and overseen, owned and franchised direct-to-consumer retailing across 3500 stores in 90 countries. Jeremy has overseen a number of multi-million dollar product and business transformations and is a senior advisor to McKinsey in this field.

Jeremy is an expert speaker and consultant on the “New Rules of Leadership for a Post Pandemic World.” These give business leaders concrete tools to make the extraordinary happen and to create and operationalise: An inspiring purpose, a transformation in e-commerce & sustainability, new ways to lead individuals and teams and be a consumer first company. All to make more money every day and at the same time Save Tomorrows Planet.

Recorded on: 13th April 2021

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Unstoppable Momentum with Mark Schaefer

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04/27/21 • 26 min

My guest is a globally recognised author, speaker, podcaster, and business consultant. He is a prolific writer and speaker whose work sits at the intersection of marketing, technology, and humanity. He has advanced degrees in marketing and organisational development ... holds seven patents ... and is a faculty member of the graduate studies program at Rutgers University.

He is the best-selling author of nine popular books ... including the very first book on influence marketing.

His blog, GROW, and podcast “The Marketing Companion” are ranked among the top rated publications in the marketing field.

All the way from Tennessee... where his very own bees make honey that wins blue ribbons at the State Fair... Please welcome... Mark Schaefer!

Bio

Mark Schaefer is a globally-recognised keynote speaker, educator, business consultant, and author. His blog {grow} is hailed as one of the top marketing blogs in the world.

Mark has worked in global sales, PR, and marketing positions for more than 30 years and provides consulting services as Executive Director of Schaefer Marketing Solutions.

He has advanced degrees in marketing and organisational development; holds seven patents; and is a faculty member of the graduate studies program at Rutgers University. For three years, Mark studied under the late Peter Drucker (a world-renowned consultant and author, hailed as the founder of modern management).

Customised for every audience, Mark’s programs specialise in marketing strategies for content marketing, digital marketing, social media, and personal branding. His clients range from successful start-ups to global brands such as Adidas, Johnson & Johnson, Dell, Pfizer, The U.S. Air Force, and the UK Government.

Mark is the author of six best-selling marketing books: KNOWN, Social Media Explained, Return on Influence, Born to Blog, The Content Code, and The Tao of Twitter – named the best-selling book on Twitter in the world. Return on Influence was named to the elite list of top academic titles of the year by the American Library Association, which declared it an “essential” and “pathfinding” book. The Content Code was named one of the top five marketing books of 2015 by INC. Magazine. Mark’s books are used as textbooks at more than 50 universities, have been translated into 12 languages, and can be found in more than 750 libraries worldwide.

He is the co-host of The Marketing Companion, one of the top 10 marketing podcasts on iTunes.

Mark is also a popular and entertaining commentator and has appeared on many national television shows and periodicals including the Wall Street Journal, Wired, The New York Times, CNN, National Public Radio, CNBC, the BBC and the CBS NEWS. He is a regular contributing columnist to The Harvard Business Review.

Recorded on: 23rd March 2021

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Becoming the 1st Female Film Director in the UAE - Nayla Al Khaja

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04/20/21 • 21 min

My guest is the first female film Director/Producer in the United Arab Emirates. She has written and directed both for film and television.

As a working professional, her accolades include being ranked among the Top 50 most powerful personalities in Arab Cinema, and 100 most powerful Arabs under 40 by Arabian Business Magazine. She’s been awarded the Visionary of the Year Award at the Arabian Business Awards and has been Brand Ambassador for Canon Middle East since 2011. She was recently received the Black Swan Award for Women Empowerment - Asia One 2019, and Businesswoman of the Year Award – in the Gulf Business Awards 2020.

Please welcome, film producer Nayla Al Khaja.

Bio

Nayla Al Khaja is the first female film Director/Producer in the United Arab Emirates and is CEO of Nayla Al Khaja Films (previously D-Seven Motion Pictures). In 2007 Nayla also founded The Scene Club, Dubai’s first film club, which now counts over 22,000 registered members. She has written and directed several films, all presented and awarded in international film festivals. She is currently developing her first feature film, Animal.

In 2006, she was awarded the title of Best Emirati Filmmaker during the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF). She then shot three short films: Once (2009), Malal (2010) and The Neighbor (2013). Malal received the Muhr Emirati Award at DIFF 2010 and The Neighbor was awarded Best Emirati Film at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Film Festival. In 2016, she shot the pilot of her first feature film, Animal, nominated for the Muhr Emirati Awards at DIFF 2016. The short film received the Jury’s Special Prize for Best Short Fiction at the Italian Movie Award in Pompeii, Italy, in September 2017.

Al Khaja’s accolades include being ranked among the Top 50 most powerful personalities in Arab Cinema, and 100 most powerful Arabs under 40 by Arabian Business Magazine. She’s also been awarded the Visionary of the Year Award at the Arabian Business Awards, and she is Brand Ambassador for Canon Middle East since 2011. She was recently declared Entrepreneur of the Year during the Gulf Business Awards 2017.

Her topics range from Women Empowerment in the Middle East to Women Entrepreneurs. She can also discuss how to combat fear and chase one’s dreams, based on her extraordinary true-life story being the first female filmmaker in the UAE. She has also tackled taboo topics, such as breaking down the Arab Woman stereotype and how to stand out in a male dominated industry.

Over the years, Al Khaja’s dedication to develop the UAE’s film industry and her advocacy for Women in Cinema, helped her reputation of trustworthy professional grow. Today, she keeps supporting and mentoring local talents, and is considered a reference in the Middle East.

Recorded on: 16th March 2021

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Counter-intuitive Selling with Bill Caskey & Bryan Neale

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04/13/21 • 28 min

My guests today co-host a podcast called The Advanced Selling Podcast. They started this podcast 14 years ago and have over 800 episodes up — and boast a LinkedIn following of 12,000 group members. They each have their own sales coaching practice and team up every week to deliver tips strategies and attitudes for today’s professional salesperson.

Please welcome Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale.

Bio

Bill Caskey

Bill Caskey is a sales development leader and experimenter who has been improving B2B sales teams and executives since 1990. His philosophies and strategies have fuelled explosive growth in sales and profits for his clients. Bill is passionate about sharing his ideas about selling, business life, money and meaning.

But his work expands beyond business-to-business and individual training and coaching. He is the author of Same Game New Rules, Rewire The Sales Mind, The Sales Playbook and Email It!

He also co-hosts with Bryan Neale, The Advanced Selling Podcast (iTunes), a weekly podcast counselling sales forces and leaders all over the globe, who seek to improve their business. The program is the top sales podcasts with downloads of over 150,000/ month with 7,500,000 downloads in 13 years. He also blogs extensively at www.billcaskey.com.

Bryan Neale Bio

Bryan Neale grew up in a small town on the border of Indiana and Kentucky (He speaks fluent hillbilly). He went to Indiana University (he co-founded the IU Dance Marathon in 1991- now one of the largest student-led fund raisers in the country).

He sold, managed people, trained people at one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies headquartered in Cincinnati, OH that sounds like “Shocked Her and Ramble” (but shall remain nameless). He won a refrigerator on The Price is Right in 1995.

He’s a self-taught pianist, drummer and guitarist and writes movies for fun. He owned a Harley when he was 25. He hosts The Advanced Selling Podcast with my friend Bill Caskey.

Bryan trains, coaches and advises salespeople, sales managers and CEOs on anything to do with the sales function in their company. He has a passion for keynote speaking.

Recorded on: 1st March 2021

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Competitiveness after Covid 19 with Stéphane Garelli

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03/24/20 • 21 min

My guest this week has done so much that it would take the entire podcast episode just to read his CV, so I’ve picked a few highlights

He is Emeritus Professor of World Competitiveness, at IMD business school and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

He is the Founder, of the World Competitiveness Center, and publisher of the Annual World Competitiveness Yearbooks ranking the competitiveness of nations.

Author of two bestselling books published in several languages:

Top Class Competitors - How Nations, Firms, and Individuals Succeed in the New World of Competitiveness
Are you a Tiger, a Cat or a Dinosaur?

He is the Former Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and the Davos Annual meetings.

My guest is Professor Stéphane Garelli.

BIO

Stéphane Garelli – a world authority on competitiveness – has pioneered research and the theory in this field. Professor Emeritus at IMD (Institute of Management Development) Lausanne, where he has founded the World Competitiveness Center, he is also Professor Emeritus of World Competitiveness at the University of Lausanne.

Professor Garelli is closely connected to the world of business. He was, among others, Chairman of the Board of Directors and shareholder of “Le Temps”, the leading French language Swiss newspaper, Chairman of the Board of the Sandoz Financial and Banking Holding, and Member of the board of the Banque Edouard Constant.

Stéphane Garelli was the Managing Director of the World Economic Forum and of the Davos Annual meetings for many years. He was also permanent senior adviser to the European management of Hewlett-Packard.

He is a member of a number of institutes, such as: China Enterprise Management Association, Board of the ‘Fondation Jean Monet pour l’Europe’, The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Mexican Council for Competitiveness, etc. and an advisory committee member of the Thai Management Association.

He is also a member of the International Olympic Committee commission on Sustainability and Legacy.

Stéphane Garelli is the author of numerous publications on competitiveness and global business He published his best-selling book “Top Class Competitors – How Nations, Firms and Individuals Succeed in the New World of Competitiveness” with Wiley. His latest book ” Are You a Tiger, a Cat or a Dinosaur?” is published in several languages.

Stéphane Garelli was a member of the Constitutional Assembly of his local state – Vaud, Switzerland from 1999 to 2002.

Stéphane is widely considered to be one of the top lecturers on economic and business matters. He has a unique ability to analyse and describe the world economic environment as it evolves, and to draw conclusions about what changes in the world economy actually mean for companies and individuals alike. He is reputed for his trademark graphics combining an attractive visual style with a simple illustration of ideas, and a limited use of numbers. His presentations are dynamic, fast moving, to the point, business like, forward and “so what” oriented.

Recorded on: 5th March 2020

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