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Smith & Williamson Entrepreneur adviser aims to break the trans-Atlantic rowing age record.
Guy Rigby is the Head of Entrepreneurship at Smith & Williamson. It was the summer of 2019 and Guy had just turned 66. He was ready for a new challenge. With no desire (or capability) to climb a mountain or run multiple marathons, Guy settled on the idea of water-based activity.
Guy and David will set off to row the 3,000 miles from La Gomera to Antigua in December 2021. They hope to arrive in February 2022. If they are successful, as records currently stand, they will be the oldest pair ever to row any ocean.
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March 17th: Julia Muir on “How To Build a Gender-Balanced Business. It’s Time for Deeds Not Words”
Our Guest on Episode 32 of Business Breakfast TV is Julia Muir, founder of the Automotive 30% Club.
In this talk, Julia Muir will urge you to find your purpose and leave a lasting positive legacy by building a winning inclusive, gender-balanced business. You will learn:the business benefits of gender- balance
• how to inspire, reform and inform
• how to find your purpose and reason for being
• the six steps to success
• why you must act now to be a game changer
• the impact on the future generation
Julia is the award-winning founder of the Automotive 30% Club, CEO of Gaia Innovation Ltd, and author of Change the Game: the Leader’s route Map to a Winning Gender-Balanced Business. She founded the Club in 2016; a network of over 40 automotive CEOs, with the aim of filling at least 30% of key leadership roles with diverse women by 2030.
Many members have now achieved this in their top teams and are building gender-balanced pipelines. She leads networks of volunteers to engage with youngsters in schools to inspire them to break stereotypes, and broaden career horizons, and organises awards to celebrate and recognize women in the sector.
She has also created the Inspiring Super Network of people working in automotive who wish to help women to progress and publishes an eZine with motivational and supportive content.
A veteran of the automotive industry, she is a VP of the Automotive Fellowship International, a member of the Silverstone Technology Cluster Gender Equality and Diversity Committee, and is also a member of the steering committee of the global 30% Club.
March 24th: Denis Oakley on “How Small Businesses can See Things Differently and Change the World.”
Our Guest on Episode 33 of Business Breakfast TV is Denis Oakley, Explorer, Bringer of Clarity & Innovator.
Denis started off as a philosopher interested in the History of Ideas before becoming a systems engineer with Mott MacDonald. Since 2003 he has been an innovator helping people create new business models as well as creating his own startups
Denis focuses on business model innovation. When done right this can take a sleepy industry and create a company that is 1,000 times more valuable than the whole industry. Whilst this involves some luck and skill the key criteria is something simple that every entrepreneur and business leader has accessible to them – seeing the world differently. It sounds easy. It isn’t, but there are ways to make it easier.
He is Head of Innovation at Denis Oakley & Co, his own consultancy, proudly a ‘company of one’ and works with governments, corporations (of all sizes), and entrepreneurs to see the future different and create new business models that create more value than ever before.
One of Denis’s clients said that ‘Denis doesn’t just think outside the box, he’s never even in the box at all!’