Jim Lawless

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Topics:

• Motivation & Teamwork
• Peak Performance

At 36 years old, how do you go from an 11½ stone non-riding smoker in a suit to a 9 ½ stone jockey sharing a weighing room with Frankie Dettori and making an impact on one of the world’s most dangerous sports?  In order to prove his theories on motivation, achieving the daunting and change, motivational speaker Jim Lawless did just that and achieved his ultimate goal.

Motivational Speaker of Exceptional Talent

Jim's keynote speeches inspire action, provide insight into change and deliver solid practical routes to achieving peak performance. His presentations are peppered with personal experience and numerous anecdotes and pictures from the colourful, fast and dangerous world of horseracing - guaranteed to fire up the team for the changes ahead!

He speaks about personal and team peak performance, leadership, communication and change and his presentations are liberally illustrated with energy, humour and anecdotes. Jim has the ability to delight any audience because he talks common sense and explores how simple changes in mindsets and behaviours can influence our chances of success.

As a one of the country’s top motivational speakers - with a successful background in industry and consultancy - Jim has made his name by listening to and understanding your key messages and facts and blending them with hard hitting truths, hilarious anecdotes and practical tools and tips that are remembered long after the event, even by the most cynical!

Jim's Journey to Become a Leading Jockey

After starting life as a City lawyer, he moved in-house to become International Legal Counsel at ICL (now Fujitsu) before founding the cultural change consultancy Optimise (now Taming Tigers Group) in the late 90’s. His clients have included Apple, Legal and General, BT, AstraZeneca, Barclaycard and the NHS.

In 2003, an audience member bet Jim £1 that he could not prove the power of his Ten Rules for Taming Tigers  -  by becoming a jockey and riding in his first televised race within 12 months. It was a good challenge as he was 3 stone too heavy to be a jockey and couldn’t ride a horse.

Jim's presentation will share the experience of this extraordinary journey, and show you how you can face your own challenges with renewed confidence.  Jim Lawless is one the best motivational speakers on the circuit today and he will leave you with an inspiring sense of your own capacity for achievement and change and practical tools to make your own goals highly achievable.

Best Selling Author

Jim has written a best selling book called "Taming Tigers: Do Things You Never Thought You Could"

Clients

Clients Include
• Apple
• BT
• Ernst & Young
• Legal & General
• Accenture
• BOC
• Apple
• Vodafone
• Travelex
• KPMG
• BBC

Client Feedback

"I have worked with Jim on stage at three high-profile Barclaycard leaders' conferences. Not only is he engaging, challenging, inspiring and very funny but he delivers a practical, compelling model for achieving results which he has risked his life on the racecourse to prove."
Barclays Bank plc.

"This was a very important event for my department. Your challenging and inspiring presentation and professional (but hilarious) hosting made the day for us. One of the delegates went straight back and ran a 'Taming Tigers' training session for his own team! No racehorses where involved, thank heavens. "
Marks and Spencer plc

"You did an outstanding job closing our European Sales Kickoff in Barcelona, you delivered a faultless  performance, capturing our imagination with your racing analogies and using humour to engage with a pan-European audience. The '10 rules for taming tigers' resonated with our people”
Sun MicroSystems/StorageTek

For further information or to book Jim Lawless, call us at Speakers Corner on +44 (0) 20 8365 3200 or email info@speakerscorner.co.uk