DAVID HALL
Former North Region Entrepreneur of the Year
David Hall is
is a successful entrepreneur and one of Europe's leading facilitators of innovation
and entrepreneurship. He helps large organisations to revitalise and
reinvent themselves by providing achievement orientated entrepreneurial solutions to their business issues.
He started, grew and sold his £6 million consulting business with over a hundred employees and fourteen centres around the UK.
He is the author of three top selling business books, Hallmarks for Successful Business, In the Company of Heroes and Doing the Business
He is the writer and presenter of the BAFTA award-winning BBC1 business series 'Winning'.
He won the UK Premier Business Award for Television for the BBC2 programme 'Get Better or Get Beaten'
and he recently won the coveted Ernst & Young North Region
Entrepreneur of the Year 2000 Award for supporting entrepreneurs.
He is a humorous and entertaining conference speaker and encourages businesses to work 'on' as well as 'in' the business.
David is a Fellow of Durham University Business School and a Visiting Fellow of the University of York.
Entrepreneurs Do It Differently
- how to boost your business
Achieve Your Goals
- develop a winning strategy using our 6 step strategic development approach
Change Management
- leading change from the rear
Doing The Business
- revitalise and reinvent your business
Producing Results Beyond Expectations
- leadership for the 21st century
Customer Delight
- the most effective way to stay ahead
Speaking Engagements
Breakthrough Thinking
Academy for Chief Executives
Entrepreneurs Do It Differently - PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Revitalising The Business - Institute of Directors
Winning 7 - ICI Synetix
9th International Conference - Management Centre Europe, Brussels
The Innovative Organisation: Cultivating The Climate For Change- HR Forum
, Richmond Events
Annual Conference - BBC
6th World Entrepreneurship Conference - Los Angeles
Strategies For Success In Growing Your Business - Curtin Business School, Perth,
Australia
Making Change Work - EADP, Venice
Practical Business Strategies - Pannell Kerr Forster
Get Better Or Get Beaten British Vita Plc
Successful Business Development Conference- EWS Railway
Recognising, Understanding And Supporting Entrepreneurs- Coutts Bank
Give Your Business An MOT And Boost Its Success - London Chamber of Commerce and
Industry
Entrepreneurship- Nemo Limited
Revitalising Your Business Barclays Centre for Entrepreneurship, Durham
University Business School
Leading Change - Aon Private Clients
Delighting Your Customers - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Developing Customer Service Excellence - Marshalls
Rethinking Construction - Institute of Clay Technology
Strategic Management Development - LaFarge/Redland
Supporting Entrepreneurs - nexusxo
Doing The Business- Keepmoat Plc
Succeeding, Winning and Excelling - Unlimited
Delighting Customers Independent Tribunal Service - Irwin Mitchell
Understanding Entrepreneurs - 8th World ENDEC Entrepreneurs Conference, Los
Angeles
Leading Change - Cabinet Office
Strategic Management Builders Merchant Federation, Barcelona
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
"Hall was a WOW! You did a superb job of motivating and inspiring our international delegates,
I am in your debt."
Fred Kiesner, Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles
"Many thanks for your contribution to our Management Conference last week. I suspect from the positive comments I have received so far that you may not have seen the last of us!"
David Campbell, Chief Executive, British Vita Plc
"Thank you for the excellent keynote address you provided at the Small Business Service conference. Feedback from the event has been very positive with regards to your address."
Sally Edmundson, Event Manager, nexusxo
"Thank you very much for your usual magnificent input at our strategy presentation. I'm not sure how we would manage without your up-lifting enthusiasm, knowledge and wit! Keeps us all going!"
Dick Watson, CEO, Keepmoat Plc
"Many thanks for your excellent presentation, I know our members found the event of great interest and benefit and we should certainly consider another event in the future."
Ian Weatherhead, Event Manager, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry
"Thank you again for your outstanding performance at our Roadshows, your talk was inspiring, motivating and very entertaining. Thank you for making our event such a success."
Keith Bennett, Director, Unlimited
"I would like to thank you for your brilliant contribution to our 9th International Training and Development Conference. We really do want to say a big thank you."
Ronny Vansteenkiste, Management Centre Europe, Brussels
"It was apparent during your presentation that the delegates were enthralled by your delivery of what was a very relevant and motivational subject. The post conference evaluation and the action plans formulated to be put into action is a direct result of the conference confirms the impact you had."
Hilary Lane, Independent Tribunal Services
"Your contribution was excellent and I am very grateful for all the effort you put in both preparation for the session and your superb presentation on the day. Fantastic."
Rosemary Wood, Head of Customer Service,Institute of Maintenance Building Management
"Your contribution to our conference was really appreciated and very highly marked by the conference participants on the evaluation forms."
Howard Culley, Managing Partner, Irwin Mitchell
"Many thanks for a brilliant presentation. I have already taken the actions you suggested to improve our
organisation."
Neil Brinkley, Office for National Statistics
"Many thanks for your talk at our annual conference. We had a most enthusiastic response from delegates, your contribution was invaluable."
Lucy Oulton, BBC Enterprises
"The event led to some real changes to our ways of doing business, innovation and marketing. We are delighted with the results and the positive improvement to our business."
Neil Whitley, Vice President, ICI Synetix
"He brought a new perspective to the process and forced us to question, debate and face up to some important challenges."
Des Curran, Innovation Project Leader, 3M
"David is a good speaker who makes people think. He also has the ability to inspire people."
Peter Hobbs, Development and Equal Opportunities, Cabinet Office
"David is an inspirational speaker who set our Barcelona conference on fire."
Peter Gill, Conference Organiser, Builders Merchants Federation.
David's Observations:
10% of people have entrepreneurial talents. If you can identify them they can really boost your business.
95% of all the radical innovations in new products during the last 100 years came from entrepreneurial firms employing less than 20 people. What does that tell us about large organisations' ability to innovate?
50% of fast growth businesses come from people who leave corporates and set up businesses for themselves. Yet this entrepreneurial talent can be harnessed for the benefit of the business.
Nothing needs to be a commodity; you can add value to anything and then increase your price.
Delighting customers is a fantastic way to compete. It leads to repeat business, referrals and price increases. Most businesspeople want these benefits.
David's Philosophy
David's philosophy is that the wisdom to make organisations work effectively resides within but you need entrepreneurial processes to find it. This is supported by Sir Richard Branson who acknowledges that David is an expert in his field and in the foreword to David's latest book says,
'One thing I've learned is that there's no right way to do things in life. There is no 'magic bullet' for success in business.'
David says, 'Entrepreneurs operate out of an achievement culture which values getting on with it and producing results. It is possible to create project teams who work on the business and produce outstanding results'.
David's approach is based upon using the experiences of successful entrepreneurs to transform large organisations. He says, 'I am not interested in people's theories of what works but only in what works. I help organisations with the three R's to competitive advantage - revitalisation, reinvention and renewal. Core to this whole process is the need to link the performance and development of individuals with the performance of the organisation. 10% of managers have entrepreneurial talent, the question is, 'who are they?'
David's Business Values
There is no magic formula for success
The wisdom to make your business work resides within, not with external 'experts'
Whatever you do should be based on the needs of the business now, not on the latest management fads
Managers value processes that help them to tap into the internal wisdom
New perspectives create new opportunities
Projects
Standard Life Investments
- Developing the Strategy to Grow the Business
3M
- Improving The Innovation Process
ICI Synetix
- Growing the Global Business
Northern Foods Plc
- Strategic Management
Curtin Business School, Australia
- Business Development
Keepmoat Plc
- Growing The Business
Yorkshire Post Newspapers Ltd
- Revitalising the Internal Efficiency of the Business
Ipswich Town Football Club
- Revitalising the Commercial Performance
LaFarge/Redland Plc
- Strategic Change Management
EWS Railway
- Revitalising The Business
Hanson Brick
- Business Development Via Key Account Management
David's clients include:
3i,
Standard Life Investments,
ICI,
Keepmoat Plc,
Northern Foods Plc,
BankWest (Australia),
Irwin Mitchell,
British Vita Plc,
RLA Polymers (Australia),
Yorkshire Forward,
EWS,
PriceWaterhouseCoopers,
Virgin,
Aon,
3M,
Curtin University Business School (Australia),
Hanson Brick,
Ipswich Town Football Club,
La Farge,
Yorkshire Post Newspapers,
Haslam Homes,
Bramall Construction,
BDO (Australia),
Birtley Building Products Ltd,
British Telecom,
Baldor UK Ltd,
Pearce Construction Group,
Welsh Development Agency,
Danisco,
Cleanaway Ltd,
South African Government,
Fleet Support Group,
D of E Planning Inspectorate,
Development Board for Rural Wales,
Solaglas,
CompuAdd Computer Group Ltd,
Office for National Statistics,
Croda Universal Limited,
Welsh Export Association,
Neat Ideas,
Redland Minerals,
NHS Yorkshire Region,
United Distillers,
G.U.S. Home Shopping,
National Westminster Bank,
Associated British Foods,
McAlpine,
Ross Foods,
Pertamina (The State Oil Company of Indonesia),
Academy for Chief Executives,
Coutts Bank,
London Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
Pannell Kerr Forster,
Northern Housing Consortium Ltd,
Institute of Directors,
Nemo Limited,
Barclays Centre for Entrepreneurship,
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Marshalls,
Institute of Clay Technology,
EADP Venice,
Scottish Enterprise,
University of Warwick,
Northcliffe Newspaper Group,
Rennes Business School,
France,
KPMG UK,
Industrial Tribunal Service,
Inverclyde Regeneration Partnership,
British Gas,
Solaglas,
Hill and Smith Holdings Plc,
Cabinet Office,
Prontaprint,
Insead Paris,
Glynwed Plc.
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Hallmarks for Successful Business by David Hall.
Please click here for information on Hallmarks for Successful Business. In the Company of Heroes.
Can Entrepreneurship be developed? David Hall thinks so. In this enlightening book, he claims that entrepreneurship is often a natural process at the start-up and growth stages of any successful business. As businesses mature this entrepreneurial spirit often disappears. This need not be the case. Packed with over 50 world-wide examples, In the Company of Heroes demonstrates that there are clear lessons to be learnt from entrepreneurial businesses. There is no one right way of making yourself or your business more entrepreneurial. Instead, the book illustrates different approaches that will provide a blueprint for success that can be used by anyone. It shows how individuals can:
Written by an entrepreneur, for entrepreneurs budding, actual and lapsed In the Company of Heroes shows how it is possible to be entrepreneurial at every stage of the business life cycle, from start-up to eventual decline.
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