JLA’s Speakers Breakfasts give event organisers and producers a free opportunity to see speakers in action before making a booking. Each year we host a Spring and Autumn season to showcase motivators, trends experts and business leaders – as well as the latest ‘movers and shakers’ and exciting new names to join the circuit.
SHOWING ALL MAY 2012
Special Diamond Jubilee 'Feelgood' Speakers Breakfast
We were joined by three well known, highly entertaining and appropriately upbeat Brits for an unashamedly patriotic event...
Ben Fogle sees himself as an 'accidental adventurer.' Since Castaway he has led would-be explorers in Extreme Dreams, tracked Prince William in Botswana and lived for a month in Scott's hut. He's now set to take part in the Thames flotilla, in the same boat in which he rowed the Atlantic with James Cracknell. Ben embodies the message of his presentation: stay focused, embrace change and never give up.
Richard Madeley is a national institution. After 13 years presenting This Morning, Richard and his wife Judy moved to Channel 4 and established Book Club - which has had a phenomenal effect on the bestseller lists. A thoroughly warm and engaging storyteller, Richard engaged the room with plenty of anecdotes, and truly lifted the spirits.
Paddy O'Connell attracts over two million listeners to his Sunday Radio 4 show, Broadcasting House. A former Wall Street correspondent, he now hosts cultural tours of Britain for wealthy Americans and performs a one-man stage show about Eurovision: My Semi Heaven. Dismissive of the doom-mongers, he trumpeted our natural resourcefulness and offered eight reasons to remain steadfastly optimistic.
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LOCATION 28 Portland Place, London W1
DATE MAY 31 2012
Discovery
We were joined by three experts who brought scientific and mathematical discovery to life in a way that was genuinely inspiring and relevant for any organisation interested in innovation.
After training to be a doctor, Michael Mosley moved into TV to work on Troubleshooter. He has since produced and presented a raft of science programmes. 2012 projects include a look at today's medical frontiers and why we really don't need much exercise - along with his regular slot on The One Show. Michael's presentation explored the economics and the history of innovation.
Kevin Fong is an astrophysicist and anaesthetist. After training with NASA he now works with the UK Science, Technology and Facilities Council, as well as running an intensive care unit and teaching 'extreme environment physiology.' He also makes films for BBC's Horizon strand. Kevin considered lessons from space, and how technology and exploration both solves and creates problems.
In an earlier life Alex Bellos was The Guardian's man in South America and Pele's ghost-writer. He's now often hailed as the person who reclaimed maths from the geeks. In his presentation, as in his book Alex's Adventures in Numberland, he explained how maths underpins everything we do - and how random behaviour can be strangely predictable.
