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Jim Lawless is a fantastic motivational speaker. 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 and how to achieve a daunting change, motivational speaker Jim Lawless took on this challenge and achieved his ultimate goal.
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 experiences 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 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!
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.
Jim has written a best selling book called "Taming Tigers: Do Things You Never Thought You Could"
Clients Include
• Apple
• BT
• Ernst & Young
• Legal & General
• Accenture
• BOC
• Apple
• Vodafone
• Travelex
• KPMG
• BBC
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Jim Lawless has spoken and appeared at a number of recent corporate events. Please find some client speaker testimonials and reviews for Jim Lawless for a number of these events and conferences. If you would like some additional information as to how to book Jim Lawless for your corporate event, then please contact one of the Speakers Corner booking agents on +44 (0) 208 365 3200 or email info@speakerscorner.co.uk
"Exciting, Inspiring and extremely motivational."
"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."
"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. "
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Jim Lawless: A trusted mentor suggested that I could do it and, more importantly, he persuaded me that I had something worthy of sharing. I kept arguing that he was wrong – right up to the end of the second gig
Jim Lawless: It was unforgettable. I managed to fill thirty minutes of a one hour slot. I had carefully prepared it all at home, but in the room nerves won out. I was swinging wildly from one sturdy vine to another and forgetting to hang out with the flowers and the birds in between. If I hadn’t been invited by a member of that audience to speak at an imminent event for him, the speaking side of my career would have ended that day.
Jim Lawless: My last event is far in the future, in a far away land and I can’t remember it yet!
Jim Lawless: Every event where tired eyes start to twinkle with excitement again and the worldly wise person in the third row, who won’t even return my gaze at the start, slowly starts to smile or nod is a success. I guess riding around jockey-style, perched on the seat of a Harley with around 3,000 people in the audience at HP Software Universe in Nice sticks in the mind also.
Jim Lawless: My wedding. My path and that of my bride have yet to meet, however!
Jim Lawless: Jesus Christ, Mohandas Ghandi and Carl Jung. I’d settle for a seat in the crowd at that one and leave the speaking up to them.
Jim Lawless: About 68 -72
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Jim Lawless: I have a standard wording which I like to use which ties in with the DVD.
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Jim Lawless: Taming Tigers which can be tailored to meet specific requirements of the client.
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Jim Lawless: Citizen Kane. A reminder of how very wrong it can go if we don’t catch ourselves early enough.
Jim Lawless: My battered old copy of Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
Jim Lawless: Dahab on the Red Sea. I go there to reflect in the desert, write on the shore, freedive in the Blue Hole and laugh with friends.
Jim Lawless: Mint tea! I am completely teetotal these days.
Jim Lawless: Why choose? I enjoy motorbiking around London and tasting all that it has to offer. But I wouldn’t miss my time visiting the countryside.
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“Freerunning is the art of expressing yourself in your environment with no limitation." - Sebastian Foucan is the founder of the sport of freerunning
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