Motivational Speakers | After Dinner Speakers | Keynote Speakers | JLA Speaker Bureau - JLA

JLA is the UK's biggest specialist agency for keynote, motivational speakers and after dinner speakers, conference presenters, awards hosts and cabaret for corporate, industry and public sector events.

Photo of René Carayol MBE

"René Carayol really wowed the audience."

KPMG

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.

Print print icon

© Copyright JLA: All Rights Reserved

TOPICS

Change Management, Diversity, Transformational Leadership, Social Responsibility, Customer Service & CRM, Business Strategy

SPEECH TITLES

Creating a team of leaders / Inclusivity & valuing the difference
Managing a little less, leading a little more
The DNA of an entrepreneur

FEE BANDS

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Fee band A £10K TO £25K

AFTER DINNER SPEAKERS

Fee band B £5K TO £10K

PRESENTERS

Fee band A £10K TO £25K

YOU MAY ALSO BE INTERESTED IN...

Photo - BJ Cunningham

BJ Cunningham

Serial Entrepreneur

Fee band c Synopsis
Photo - Ellis Watson

Ellis Watson

CEO, DC Thomson Publishing

Fee band b Synopsis
Photo - PY Gerbeau

PY Gerbeau

Visiting Professor, LBS & imperial College

Fee band c Synopsis
Photo - Tom Cannon

Tom Cannon

Business Management Professor

Fee band d Synopsis
Photo - Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

'The Black Farmer'

Fee band c Synopsis

If you can't find who you're looking for ... click here

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.

Print print icon