TIM DRAKE
Author: I Want To Make A Difference.
The evaluation of your session was tremendous; everyone gave it the top marks and wrote comments such as "brilliant speaker" and "inspirational", so very many thanks.”
- UNITED BRISTOL HEALTHCARE TRUST
Tim Drake spent more than a decade in Fast Moving Consumer Goods, ending up as Client Services Director of a global advertising agency. He then became an entrepreneur, and co-founded a retail business which achieved a turnover of £17 million, and was called by 3i’s“a gem of a company.”
Selling the business in 1992, Tim has built up a portfolio of interests. He set
up and Chairs, three Think Tanks for Chief Executives, including the Sports and Leisure Industry, with CEO’s from brands such as Nike, Reebok, and Adidas.
Tim’s latest book, published in June 2006 by Cyan, is entitled I Want to Make a Difference.
It is an uplifting and practical guide to understanding your values and purpose, and turning the energy released into transforming value for other people.
Sharing uplifting insights from his latest book I Want to Make a Difference:
Tim’s latest book goes to the heart of our personal motivation to make sure we can all increase our energy, our focus, and our fulfilment.
We, and our colleagues throughout the organisation, want to bring more of ourselves to work. We have unfulfilled potential in both our personal and our work lives. Tim helps us find the key to unlocking it.
To do this, Tim gives us techniques to discover our purpose. His central message is that finding the mutual, high octane values, and a common worthwhile purpose will energise both individuals and the organisation.
Colleagues want to identify with the purpose of their work, and to feel pride in it. Customers too are looking for integrity and purpose in the organisations they deal with.
Tim helps organisations deliver this, and make a difference.
Clients spoken to in the past: Office Depot, Glaxo SmithKline, Mars Masterfoods, Zurich Financial Services, Zurich Risk Management, Dell Computers, Lakeland, The HR Forum (Oriana), PeopleSoft, Marsh Financial Services, LE Group, Viacom, Y&R Brand Futures Group, EPMA, Tplc, Oxford Group, , Ulster University Business School, BPMA, various Business Links, LACA, Caterpillar, and the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development Conference.
TOPICS
MAKE A DIFFERENCE:
ACHIEVE PEAK PERFORMANCE
When leadership becomes a value, rather than a function in your organization, things start to happen. Fired-up colleagues are more innovative, customer aware, and keen to drive things forward. Plugging into a high energy shared vision brings meaning to work. It creates enthusiasm about creating value for customers –both inside and outside the company. Once colleagues understand they too can be leaders, they will go the extra mile to make things better.
DELIVER GREAT SERVICE
Customers today can smell at fifty paces whether they are valued by the organisation they are dealing with. Great service is the result of positive enthusiasm to provide genuine value. There is reciprocity of enjoyment and engagement in Walking in Customers’ Shoes service.
Walking in Customers’ Shoes service
will impact positively not just on your front line, but on your bottom line as well as.
Tim also speaks on a wide range of topics including:
-Leadership, Vision and Values
-Creating Great Customer Service
-Achieving consistent Peak Performance
-Making Brands Sing
-Corporate Social Responsibility
TESTIMONIALS.
“Tim’s contribution was excellent. Feedback from customers was very positive reflecting the content and style of his presentation.”
ROGER COTTELL, MD ZURICH FINANCIAL RISK SERVICES
“One of the best presentations I have seen”
S.E. WALES TEC.
“Many thanks for your input off-site. The whole group found your input both stimulating and thought provoking…the group were still talking about IBG’s the next day!”
DELL TOP MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE, IRELAND
“Tim was great. His piece was exactly as he said. We achieved our goals, which in this session was to try and understand how a great brand is made and what were the potential barriers to us becoming a great brand.”
SAM RAYNER, MANAGING DIRECTOR, LAKELAND
“Initial feedback from the inaugural OIA Conference you helped organise has been very positive, encouraging, and, it must be said, flattering. Your expertise in being the chairman was evident and your introductions, links and summations were seamless and polished.”
ROGER SOUTHCOTT, DIRECTOR, OUTDOOR INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION.
“Tim’s presentation on the importance of branding was an inspiration to us all. He spoke extremely enthusiastically and with great clarity – an essential where, for 90% of the delegates, English is a second language”
NILESH GOKANI, COO LINGUAPHONE GROUP
Your speech was spot on in terms of style, content and timing. All the feedback I have received has been positive and the fact that you were able to correctly identify the key issues which we are dealing with, both in terms of business focus and people development made what you had to say highly relevant.”
MARSH FINANCIAL SERVICES
“I loved Tim’s session. He was a brilliant and passionate speaker. Superb in every aspect.”
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