CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
£10K TO £25K
AFTER DINNER SPEAKERS
£5K TO £10K
PRESENTERS
£10K TO £25K
"René Carayol really wowed the audience."
KPMG
YOUR FEEDBACK
"René had everyone buzzing with enthusiasm and renewed vigour for their profession."
Jersey CIPD
EXTERNAL LINKS
JLA is not responsible for the content of external websites.
TOPICS
Change Management, Diversity, Transformational Leadership, Social Responsibility
SPEECH TITLES
Creating a team of leaders / Inclusivity & valuing the difference
Managing a little less, leading a little more
The DNA of an entrepreneur
BIOGRAPHY
René Carayol is a business speaker with wide-ranging credentials. He is author of Corporate Voodoo, presenter of Pay Off Your Mortgage and a regular voice on Radio 5 Live. He is also a former non-Executive Director of The Inland Revenue.
René has served as an advisor to the CBI, McKinsey and PA Consulting. He has worked with Barclays at board level and on the ground in Africa. He has chaired Sunday Times Business Week and Leaders in London, and spoken at conferences in the retail, financial, technology and energy sectors.
Presentations focus on transformation and leadership - often addressing uncomfortable questions. How do you change risk-averse processes that are ill-suited to global markets? How do you replace fear and complacency with resolve? René shakes up and inspires audiences, showing them what lies within their grasp.
© Copyright JLA: All Rights Reserved
Q&A
JLA: How can entrepreneurial skills be fostered within large organisations?
RC: Culture is more powerful than strategy. If people take risks and think the unthinkable, praise them, make role models of them and the culture will change.
JLA: Are entrepreneurial skills useful in the public sector?
RC: Massively, but we need to call them something different. In the public sector no-one gets promoted for taking risks. An entrepreneur, by definition, will make mistakes, and in the public sector you will be crushed, if not fired, for such things.
JLA: Describe an entrepreneur's attitude to risk:
RC: Having worked with many entrepreneurs, I wouldn't always be surrounded by the strongest intellects, but they have more fire in the belly and more drive than I have experienced elsewhere. Entrepreneurs see opportunity and push against it until a business is formed or nothing happens.