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Laurie Taylor
Laurie Taylor is an academic, broadcaster, writer and brilliant speechmaker.
Speaker
Laurie Taylor has addressed well over five hundred major national and international companies with keynote and after dinner speeches. He is a charismatic, funny speaker, who is able to touch the hearts and minds of every memer of the audience with his huge intellect and incredible wit.
Speaking Topics
- Coping with Change
- Building Employee Motivaton
- Leadership & Teamwork
- Future Trends in Business & Leisure
- Improving Communication
- Selling & eCommerce
- Communication
- New Technology at Work & Home
- Understand Customers
- Risk taking
Academic
Laurie Taylor is visiting professor in the department of politics and sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was recently made a Fellow of Birkbeck College and also holds visiting professorships at the London Institute and Westminster University. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Leicester, Nottingham and Central England. His contributions to social science were recognised in 2003 by his election to the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. His contribution to business development was recognised last year by his appointment as an ambassador for Investors in People.
Early Career
Before entering academic life, he had eight years industrial and sales experience, worked as a librarian in Liverpool, taught in a London comprehensive school, and was a professional actor with Joan Littlewood's famous Theatre Workshop Company at Stratford East.
Writer
He is the author of fourteen books on motivation, change, communication, and personal identity, and is a regular contributor to the New Statesman, The Independent, and The Times. His weekly satirical column on university life has been appearing in the Times Higher Education Supplement for the last twenty years. His most recent book (written with his son, Matthew) was called What Are Children For?
Television & Radio
For the past twenty-five years he has been heard on BBC Radio 4 in such programmes as Stop the Week, The Radio Programme, News Quiz, Speaking as an Expert, Afternoon Shift, and Room for Improvement. He can currently be heard every Wednesday afternoon on R4 presenting Thinking Allowed, a programme devoted to society and social change. To listen to the latest edition, just click here.
He has made several major television documentaries on such topics as crime, drinking behaviour, and the purpose of education, the meaning of celebrity (Ch4 2003) and the inadequacies of palliative care in the UK (Ch4 2005).
Corporate Clients' Comments
“Laurie Taylor achieved a superb balance between humour and relevance … it’s not often in this day and age we see hardened sales consultants laughing until they cry.”
Sun Alliance
“Thank you for your stunning performance at the Media Society Awards.”
News International
“Laurie Taylor was terrific and simply brought the house down. We were all exhausted and our sides aching with laughter. He was brilliant.”
British Office Systems & Stationary Conference
'I do not think I have ever seen a speech delivered with such energy and enthusiasm - a truly inspirational experience'
National Council for Education and Training for Wales
'You don't need me to tell you that the reception to your presentation was first class and you struck exactly the right note to launch the Conference. The whole day has been very well received and a great deal of the credit for that must go to the stimulating tone you set'
Prime Focus Housing Association
'Laurie was very professional in his approach and went down fantastically well with both audiences. He is a great character and deserves a medal for talking for 55 minutes with nothing to drink and limited time for breath!!!'
Bradford and District TEC
'Feedback and reaction from our dealer colleagues was simply outstanding'
Toyota
'What can I say....thank you very much for your superb performance at the Fiat Dealer Conference'
Fiat
'Many thanks for your superb presentation last week for Securitas. The feedback has rated you as 11 out of 10, with some going even higher!'
Securitas
'Congratulations on a tremendously entertaining finale to the BOSS conference. You were terrific and simply brought the house down. We were all exhausted and our sides were aching from laughter. You were brilliant. Thanks once again'
BOSS Federation.
