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Mike Harris Biography
Founder and former CEO of First Direct and Egg, Mike Harris is a renowned conference speaker on leadership, innovation, customer service, technology and strategy. He is currently Chairman and co-founder of digital identity experts Garlik and a founding partner of the Difference Engine(UK) - a business accelerator and incubator for SME's.
Business Conference Speaker
Mike Harris is a regular speaker and seminar leader on entrepreneurial approaches to leadership, customer engagement, building brands, marketing, culture change, innovation and growth aimed at all sizes and types of organisations. Mike also covers speciality topics from the world of finance, technology and identity.
Mike offers individually customised speeches and will tailor a keynote both in content and length to a client’s exact specifications. He is also more than happy to participate in extended Q&A sessions - in fact, the more challenging the better!
He was a regular speaker at the mid career MBA course at the Sloan School of management at MIT where he supervised a number of student research projects.
Entrepreneur
Mike Harris spent the first 15 years of his career in IT at Midland bank. He was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and has been creating big businesses ever since.
He was a founding CEO of the world’s first major telephone bank Firstdirect, Chief Executive of Mercury Communications (a Cable and Wireless Company) and Chairman of the mobile operator –One to One, (now operating as T-Mobile).
In 1995 he moved on to the position of founding CEO of Prudential Banking plc and then the CEO of its successor, Egg – which he took from concept to a billion pound public company in just 2 years.
Author - Find your Lightbulb
In 2007, Mike Harris set out to explore and define the intrinsic principles behind some of the world’s most successful new businesses.
As well as drawing on his own wisdom, he conducted countless in-depth interviews with some of the world’s most esteemed and accomplished entrepreneurs on both sides of the Atlantic.
Find Your Lightbulb: How to Make Millions from Apparently Impossible Ideas emerged as the result – a step-by-step guide to building billion dollar businesses from nothing more than a simple idea.
Early Years
Mike Harris was born in 1949 in Dudley, an industrial town in the heart of the UK and graduated in 1970 with a degree in chemistry from London University.
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Mike Harris News
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Entrepreneurs’ Forum Boasts Speakers Corner's Best
20th May 2011
The North East of England is the venue for the Entrepreneurs’ Forum, where a handful of Speakers Corner’s top talent take the stage to inspire business leaders and aspirational executives from all over the UK. Hamish McRae, Sarah Willingham, Tim Smit, James Timpson, James Cracknell, and Simon Calver are all on the programme, as are Kanya King, Douglas McWilliams, Karen Mattison, John Timpson and Richard Huntingford – all inspiration and charismatic public speakers.
Simon Calver Becomes an Author
28th February 2013
After dinner speaker and current CEO of Mothercare, Simon Calver, has decided to write a book about his time working as the head of Lovefilm, the movie rental service.
Mary Perkins Wins Director of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award
2nd November 2011
Director Magazine has awarded Dame Mary Perkins, Specsavers queen, entrepreneur, and retail keynote speaker, the Director of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award.
Ian Livingstone, Ajaz Ahmed, and other Speakers Corner Talent in Wired Top 100
3rd May 2011
Speakers Corner’s top talent is elevated to the technology elite as Wired Magazine publishes its second annual survey of the UK’s digital power brokers. Featured as leaders in the field are Ian Livingstone , Ajaz Ahmed, Brent Hoberman, Bruno Giussani, Jamie Murray Wells and Stephen Fry.
Bill Gates Amongst Hosts at TED 2011
3rd March 2011
Bill Gates, technology pioneer, businessman and philanthropist, is amongst the acclaimed hosts at this year’s TED Conference in California.
Sir Terry Leahy Adjusts to Life After Tesco
11th April 2013
Business speaker and former CEO of Tesco, Sir Terry Leahy stepped down from his position at Tesco in 2011 at the age of 55, he has since started working with several charities, invested in small businesses and written a book.
Top 10 Speakers for 2012
27th December 2011
As the year draws to a close, Speakers Corner looks forward to the promise of the intriguing and opportune months ahead. 2012 is set to be a year of economic optimism, business innovation and a host of rising stars on the corporate circuit – all primed to motivate, educate, stimulate and entertain.
Richard Reed Tells of Innocent Success
19th December 2011
Innocent co-founder Richard Reed tells Director Magazine how his company kept control after breaking corporate tradition by selling a ÂŁ30m stake to Coca-Cola in 2009. Innocent has maintained its position as arguably the most successful UK brand of the new millennium, and Speakers Corner proudly presents a host of Innocent speakers, all ideally placed to motivate and entertain on the corporate circuit. Joe McEwan, Dan Germain and Jessica Sansom, as well as Reed himself are all in high demand for corporate events.
Steve Jobs Biography Tops Amazon’s Bestsellers
15th December 2011
Walter Isaacson's authorised biography of Steve Jobs has topped Amazon's bestseller chart for 2011.
Thinkers50 Nominees Announced
29th July 2011
As the 2011 Thinkers50 Summit approaches, Speakers Corner proudly presents a varied catalogue of the highest caliber corporate speakers shortlisted for the prestigious accolade. Amongst the crème de la crème of management personalities are conductor Benjamin Zander, economics expert Kjell Nordstrom and entrepreneur Lucy Marcus.
Mike Harris Reviews
Mike Harris has spoken and appeared at a number of recent corporate events. Please find some client speaker testimonials and reviews for Mike Harris for a number of these events and conferences. If you would like some additional information as to how to book Mike Harris for your corporate event, then please contact one of the Speakers Corner booking agents on +44 (0)20 7607 7070 or email info@speakerscorner.co.uk
Inspiring words on customer insight, leadership, innovation and culture and directly relevant whether you are starting a new business or transforming an existing organisation. My leadership team are still talking about it.
Mike Harris helped us to set the scene of the conference and brought a great contribution to the event. His double hat (start up & board membership in big companies innovation committee) makes him a very good speaker about innovation.
I thought the presentation was outstanding, inspiring our delegates and clearly communicating the key messages around market change and how to address it that I have been impressing upon our customers and my team for the past 12 months.
Mike is one of the most intelligent, sensitive and diligent innovators and original thinkers I have the privilege and good fortune of knowing. Where we have participated in roundtables together, I was awestruck by the attention to detail, depth and breadth of analysis and thinking Mike displayed in regard to complex banking challenges ranging from eBusiness and eCommerce product development, identity management through to marketing and sales across the demographic strata. We share a common love for Bob Dylan! All round an excellent person.
Just want to say thank you for a fantastic session yesterday. The O2 guys found it very, very inspiring and are having a Mike Harris feedback slot at their mega work shop today.
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