Jim Lawless

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Jim Lawless Biography

Jim Lawless - After dinner, conference and keynote speaker
Topics:
  • Motivation & Teamwork
  • Peak Performance

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 Lawless - Exceptional Motivational Speaker

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!

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.

Jim Lawless as 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

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

Jim Lawless Video

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Outside of appearing and speaking at live corporate and private events Jim Lawless has a number of retail products available that can be purchased through Speakers Corner. For upcoming new book and product launches related to Jim Lawless then please contact one of the Speakers Corner booking agents on +44 (0) 208 365 3200 or email info@speakerscorner.co.uk

Jim Lawless Books


Jim Lawless News

A selection of relevant news related to Jim Lawless and Motivation & Teamwork stories. For more information on Jim Lawless or details as to how to book Jim Lawless for your corporate event, then please contact one of the Speakers Corner booking agents on +44 (0) 20 8365 3200 or email info@speakerscorner.co.uk

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16th December 2009The Telegraph is conducting an online poll to discover what its readers think was the greatest sporting moment of the last decade. Some of Speakers Corner's favourite speakers appear in the top 20 including Sir Steve Redgrave wining a fifth Olympic Gold medal at a fifth consecutive Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, and when Dame Kelly Holmes won the 800 metres and 1,500 metres gold medals at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. You can vote on the Telegraph's website.
Happy 101st Birthday to the Father of Motivational Theory
18th September 2007September 16th would have been the 101st birthday of Douglas McGregor, the MIT psychology professor who, in 1960, authored “Theory X and Theory Y”.
Olympic rower & motivational speaker, Sir Steve Redgrave will cycle 3,000 miles in the Race Across America
4th May 2010The Race Across America is the toughest cycle race in the world - 3,000 mile from California to Maryland, in just over eight days. Five time gold Olympian winner, the talented rower and motivational speaker Sir Steve Redgrave will be joined by a team of friends and former rowers to conquer the ride across 14 states, climb 100,000 feet and experience every extreme of weather. They aim to raise £100,000 for the Steve Redgrave Fund and Sport Relief.
Motivational speakers Chris Hoy & Dave Brailsford are honoured for their services to cycling
16th June 2009Triple Olympic champion, Chris Hoy and Beijing cycling trainer, Dave Brailsford were honoured at Buckingham Palace last week . Both are superb motivational speakers, offering insights into the determination and drive required to reach the top
Three of Speakers Corner's most interesting motivational speakers talk about new BBC2 series
2nd April 2009Three of Speakers Corner's most interesting motivational speakers - Polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, solo yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson talk about their preparations and making the 3-part series 'Top Dogs: Adventures in War, Sea & Ice' where they put each other to the test - in Afghanistan, the Arctic and the stormy seas off Cape Horn.
Few Understand Howard Webb’s Situation Like Pierluigi Collina
13th July 2010World Cup final referee Howard Webb has been greeted with both praise and controversy and few understand the pressures he has experienced like speaker Pierluigi Collina – widely regarded as the best referee in the world.
Celebrities rally round to support veterans suffering from PTSD
22nd April 2008The ‘Once is enough’ campaign is supported by ‘King of the Jungle’ Christopher Biggins, ex SAS and TV personalities Bear Grylls and Major Ken Hames and Britain’s first female fast jet pilot Jo Salter.
'Blind Dave' completes marathon challenge in London
14th April 2008Dave' Heeley completed a remarkable feat on Sunday by becoming the third person to ever run seven marathons in seven days in seven continents.
Brydon a motivational guru
2nd October 2007In the new training movie, Pass it on: Coaching Skills for Managers, written by Armando Iannucci, Brydon and fellow comedian Will Smith attempt to show line managers the coaching skills they need to guide and encourage up and coming staff.

Jim Lawless Reviews

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."
NHS Coventry

"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

Q & A with Jim Lawless

Speakers Corner interviewed Jim Lawless to give you a bit more insight as to the type of performance and delivery you would expect from Jim Lawless However for more information on Jim Lawless or details 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

Speakers Corner: How did the corporate speaking all start?

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

Speakers Corner: Can you remember your first speaking engagement?

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.

Speakers Corner: And your last event?

Jim Lawless: My last event is far in the future, in a far away land and I can’t remember it yet!

Speakers Corner: Which event has been your favourite and why?

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.

Speakers Corner: If you could speak at any event, past or future, what would it be?

Jim Lawless: My wedding. My path and that of my bride have yet to meet, however!

Speakers Corner: Who would you most like to share a platform with?

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.

Speakers Corner: On average, how many times a year do you speak at corporate events?

Jim Lawless: About 68 -72

Speakers Corner: Do you use PowerPoint?

Jim Lawless: Yes as background slides

Speakers Corner: Are you as happy speaking to 50 as to 1,000 people?

Jim Lawless: Yes

Speakers Corner: How do you like to be introduced?

Jim Lawless: I have a standard wording which I like to use which ties in with the DVD.

Speakers Corner: Do you always like to do a briefing call before the event?

Jim Lawless: Yes

Speakers Corner: What are the most asked for topics?

Jim Lawless: Taming Tigers which can be tailored to meet specific requirements of the client.

Speakers Corner: Is your speech at all interactive with audience participation?

Jim Lawless: Yes

Speakers Corner: Your favourite film?

Jim Lawless: Citizen Kane. A reminder of how very wrong it can go if we don’t catch ourselves early enough.

Speakers Corner: Favourite book?

Jim Lawless: My battered old copy of Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.

Speakers Corner: Favourite holiday destination?

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.

Speakers Corner: What’s your tipple?

Jim Lawless: Mint tea! I am completely teetotal these days.

Speakers Corner: Country or townie?

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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