- Conference Speakers
Topics:
- Business
- Entrepreneurs/Innovation
Tim Drake
Tim’s first hand experience of building a retail business gives him added authority as an inspirational and motivational speaker and chairman/facilitator. His insights into the new role of work in society, and how and why consumers feel and behave as they do could change your approach to your business. He also gives tools to benefit from it.
Combining personal, with leading edge business, experience, Tim delivers both insights and motivation. He changes thinking, which changes behaviour, which produces results.
Advertising and Entrepreneurship
Tim spent more than a decade in Fast Moving Consumer Goods, ending up as Client Services Director of a global advertising agency. He then became an entrepreneur, and co-founded the first store specialising in sports shoes in the UK– Cobra Sports. Over the next fourteen years Cobra grew to over forty stores, and achieved a turnover of £17 million. 3i’s called it “a gem of a company.”
Selling the business in 1992, Tim has built up a portfolio of interests. He set up, and Chairs, two Think Tanks for Chief Executives in sectors of the Sports and Leisure Industry, including CEO’s from brands such as Nike, Reebok, and Adidas.
His central message is that human changes are more important than technological changes. Customers and staff are looking for different things to what they were ten years ago. Tim believes, like you do, that most of the staff in your organisation are bringing only a small part of themselves to work. But they want to use more of their energies, and to feel pride in their work. As you’ll see, Tim helps them to do so.
His personal development book Wearing the Coat of Change is five star rated by Amazon, because it helps individuals be more proactive in generating income, and to be more fulfilled as human beings. Tim’s book I Want to Make a Difference is an uplifting and practical guide to understanding your values and purpose, and turning the energy released into transforming value for other people.
TOPICS
- Creating Great Customer Service
- Making Brands Sing
- Leadership, Vision and Values
- Business Strategy in a Tactical World
- Innovation
- Corporate Social Responsibility as a Brand Builder
- Motivation
- Daily Development of Value
Creating a High Energy, High Performance Culture
Tim explains the new position work is coming to occupy in people’s lives. His insights into the impacts of social change show why staff are now looking for meaning and significance in what they do. They want to bring more of themselves to work, and to invest their time and talent productively. Tim provides plenty of practical advice on how to create a company that is a magnet for innovative, high energy, enthusiastic people.
Brands – a Basic Requirement for success in the 21st Century
In a world in which consumers and customers have infinite choices, it is almost impossible to compete without a compelling brand. Creating and sustaining a good brand – be it Internal, Business to Business, or Consumer – is a most complex task. Tim lays out the principles that connect value creation, loyalty, growth and profits, and shows how companies can create genuine new value in the most challenging of circumstances.
Creating Genuine Customer Service
Consumers today can smell at fifty paces whether customer service is genuine, or is being read from a script. There have been profound changes in society over the past decade or so, and because beliefs, attitudes and behaviours are moving on, a new sense of pride needs to be created. Tim’s message – that all your people can become heroes – will impact positively on your bottom line as well as your front line.
“Tim’s contribution was excellent. Feedback from customers was very positive reflecting the content and style of his presentation.”
MD ZURICH FINANCIAL RISK SERVICES
“Many thanks for your input off-site. The whole group found your input both stimulating and thought provoking … the group were still talking about IBG’s the next day!”
DELL TOP MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE, IRELAND
“Tim was great. His piece was exactly as he said. We achieved our goals, which in this session was to try and understand how a great brand is made and what were the potential barriers to us becoming a great brand.”
MANAGING DIRECTOR, LAKELAND
“As a seasoned conference goer I am seldom very impressed but I found the session by Tim Drake truly inspirational.”
PERSONNEL DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER.
“Tim is an interesting, knowledgeable, and motivating speaker. He kept the audience’s attention throughout the session, and managed to successfully combine his keen sense of humour with his in depth knowledge of business; and throughout he illustrated the points he was making with examples from his successful career. He was genuinely interested in his audience and keen to tailor his subject to their needs and interests.”
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT, THE OXFORD GROUP.
