Tim spent more than a decade in Fast Moving Consumer Goods, ending up as Client Services Director of the global advertising agency BBDO. He then became an entrepreneur, and co-founded a retail business that 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 2009 by Pearson, is entitled You Can Be As Young As You Think.
It is an uplifting and practical guide to moving from Old Brained, anxious, defensive, closed, thinking, to Young Brained, creative, enthusiastic and open thinking.

Testimonials

“I think the Young Brain/Old Brain concept is brilliant. It’s both easy to grasp and true – for both everyday life and business. You need a Young Brain to be effective in both. I believe that I already have a relatively young brain but, thanks to the insights in your session, it is getting younger by the day now!”
MIKE TOMKINS, CHAIRMAN, M & M DIRECT

“Your presentation on Young Brains at our high level customer day was both outstanding and highly relevant. Our audience thoroughly enjoyed the presentation, particularly the managers and company leaders, and the feedback was excellent. It worked particularly well for IBS because it hit the nail on the head for both us and our customers.”
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SYSTEMS

“I loved Tim’s session. He was a brilliant and passionate speaker. Superb in every aspect.” AIESEC CONFERENCE

“Using his Brain Age test and Six Wisdoms of Youth, Tim challenged our delegates with insightful and relevant questions, to dare to dream and be open to change, whilst having fun and throughout maintained the perfect balance between humour and serious content. With Tim you are guaranteed great results. His commanding intellect and engaging style make him a compelling choice as a keynote speaker.”
VICTORIA ROUGHT, THE ENTREPRENEURS’ FORUM

“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

“Tim’s contribution was excellent. Feedback from customers was very positive reflecting the content and style of his presentation.”
ROGER COTTELL, MD ZURICH RISK SERVICES


“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, MD, LAKELAND

Corporate Social Responsibility: a crucial selling tool for the 21st Century

Genuine commitment to CSR involves both staff and customers at a gut level. Staff are now looking for meaning and significance in what they do. They want to bring more of themselves to work, and a coherent and high integrity CSR programme can help make this happen. Because CSR becomes part of the brand, customers come on board.

Tim’s tailored talks share uplifting insights from his new book You Can Be As Young As You Think, co-written with management scientist Chris Middleton.
The book explains how our mindsets can start ageing from our early twenties, with the result that Old Brain thinking starts to inhibit our ability to perform. We become less open to change, less creative, more risk-averse, and more negative in general.
To reverse this, Tim explains how to understand, and live, the Six Wisdoms of Youth. These enable us to plug more relevantly and more dynamically into today’s society, and into how our customers are thinking and behaving.
Young Brain Thinking means we can engage better with our colleagues and our customers and serve them better.
Tim’s talks inspire your colleagues to be more open, creative, enthusiastic, and innovative. To respond positively to change, rather than resist it. And to have more fun in their work.

Simply put, they will get more satisfaction from their work, and be better at it.
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SHARPER LEADERSHIP, PEAK PERFORMANCE

Individuals and teams - and the leaders within them - can operate far more effectively, and fulfil much more of their potential, if they can re-find their Young Brains.

Tim shows your people how to get rid of their Old Brained anxieties, fears, doubts - and grumpiness - and get back to their excited, creative, youthful selves.

They will become more in touch with what is going on in society – and how their customers are feeling. They will anticipate changes in consumer tastes and will be more innovative, optimistic and enthusiastic – about their jobs, their markets and their lives.

YOUNG BRAINED CUSTOMER 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 Young Brained enthusiasm providing genuine value. Young Brains can empathise with their customers, and add value by making sure the service they give is relevant as well as full-hearted.

If some of your front line staff have Old Brains, they need this session. And if your backup staff have them too, so do they.

As well as Leadership, Customer Service, and Peak Performance, Tim also talks on Vision and Values, and Making Brands Sing

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