NAOMI LANGFORD-WOOD

A serial entrepreneur, businesswoman, business writer and speaker over the past 20 years.

It is rare to find a speaker who seeks to demystify the subject of internet technologies and view them in truly business terms - cutting through the jargon and techno-babble and putting the role of new technologies and techniques into perspective in business life, both now and for the future. 

Naomi always researches her audience to ensure that speeches are focused on their needs; and her speech "eBusiness without tears!" is sold out each time she gives it. Her speeches are useful, amusing, motivational, interesting, entertaining and thought provoking. 
Booked around the world, this striking woman is an excellent communicator whose presentation style can be changed depending on the audience, time of day and subject matter and whether she is booked as a keynote or in a lighter tone after dinner speaker on a range of subjects - or indeed as a chairman or facilitator. 
In addition to her solo speeches, Naomi and her co-author, Brian Salter, have a very effective presentation and speech style as a double act which is much in demand from London to Los Angeles, Croydon to Cairo and Perth to Paris. 
She has co-authored a number of books on subjects ranging from eBusiness and Internet technologies, through event management, to business planning and raising finance.
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors (IoD) and of the Royal Society of Arts Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) as well as a Founder of the Association of eBusiness Professionals (www.e-biz-pro.org). 
Books co-authored with Brian Salter include :
.Successfully Dealing with Difficult People - Hodder & Stoughton 2001
.A Simple Guide to Flash 5 - Prentice Hall April 2001 
.A Simple Guide to E-commerce - Prentice Hall 2001 
.E-commerce Without Tears! - Financial Times/Pearson - December 2000 
.The Complete Idiot's Guide to E-commerce - QME 2000 
.A Simple Guide to Flash 4 - Prentice Hall 2000 
.A Simple Guide to Quicken 2000 - Prentice Hall 1999 
.A Simple Guide to Paint Shop Pro 6 -Prentice Hall 1999 
.The UK Business Internet Starter Kit 2000 - Financial Times 1999 
.Successful Event Management in a week - Hodder & Stoughton 1999 
.Successful Use of E-mail in a week - Hodder & Stoughton 1999 
.Successfully Dealing with Difficult People in a week - Hodder & Stoughton 1998 
.The Essential Business Guide to the Internet - Thorogood 1997 
.The Essential Guide to Business Planning and Raising Finance - Thorogood 1997 
.The Internet as a Business Tool - Hawksmere Special Briefing 1997 


The following comments have been made about some of the speeches she has made: 

"Thank you, Naomi. Your speech was really insightful and will help us to be more customer focused." - World Airline Entertainment Association 
"We really need business internet gurus like you."- World Life Balance Conference, Lancaster House 
"We're delighted that Naomi wrapped up our conference in October - she set just the right tone as well as being thought provoking about what makes people actually buy." - TMA 2000
"Our whole business is about customer relationships. Turning CRM into CMR [Customer Managed Relationships] was just what we needed to hear."
Yhteys 2000, Helsinki
"We had high level people from all over Europe who were able to relate Naomi's speech to their own situation and core business issues." 
Specialist corporate conference - Berlin 
'You're really ahead of the game and so entertaining too. You guys are really prolific. It's hard to believe you've written 14 books in four years."
Pearson/FT conference in Marbella, Spain 
"I learned so much - and I can see how new technologies can affect my business. We shall certainly work on the integration of the internet into our business now. The presentation was amusing too - we'll remember it!" - Guildford Chamber of Commerce 
"Naomi succeeded in wrapping up a complex debate with captains of industry with no prepared notes in front of an audience of 3,000 at the Albert Hall." 
Institute of Directors Annual Convention
"You made it so easy to understand how we should approach new technologies in our business." - Business Link Kent 
"Brian and Naomi were able to present a compelling business case for our industry to seriously consider Internet technologies, in an amusing and pithy presentation at our Annual Conference - it wasn't easy as they were given the graveyard shift - yet no-one escaped or nodded off!" - General Aviation and Manufacturers Association Annual Conference 
"I just came along to the dinner because I thought we ought to see if there was anything. The speech was so illuminating and the on-line presentation showed us what we could do straight away and the impact on our business, if we don't do anything as well as if we do." - Institute of Directors - Sandown Park

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