Ideas

2020, what a year. I don’t need to explain what happened as you were there too. At least we’re out of the days of endless Zoom quizzes and starting emails with ‘I… Read full article.

While the outcome of any US election has profound implications for the rest of the world, the impact of President-elect Biden’s victory over Donald Trump promises to be seismic. Keynote speakers and… Read full article.

In the early noughties, I nearly left my board level job working in television when I was told I was going to have to present to more than a thousand people on… Read full article.

October is Black History Month, and in this year of unprecedented campaigning and activism following the death of George Floyd, diversity and equality are topics that are rightly at the front of… Read full article.

The signs are that schools are going back in September: and so too are many offices, with leaders deciding that working from back bedrooms, surrounded by old playmobile and computer cables, has… Read full article.

A new gold rush is underway, attracting extremists, adventurers, military officers and politicians. But it’s not gold they’re after: it’s us. Over the last decade, a new world that has been sliding… Read full article.

This is a follow up on the excellent feature by my colleague Adam Harkness, written at the end of April. Adam highlighted some of the initiatives that JLA, as a speaker bureau,… Read full article.

JLA Account Manager Adam Harkness explains what a speaker bureau gets up to when live events are all called off…  As some of you may have noticed, there is a small problem… Read full article.

During these uncertain times as we all work from home, the thought of the JLA office in central London feels like a distant dream. But in recent months, we have been busy… Read full article.

As the new year approaches, it’s that time where we all look ahead and make an attempt to improve ourselves and create new goals for the future. In the business world, I… Read full article.

(and, no, the “D” doesn’t stand for digital!) In today’s rapidly changing business environment, much airtime is given to the development of new technologies and their impact on businesses. Consequently, it is… Read full article.

JLA’s Real Variety Show will be held at Cadogan Hall, London SW1 at 7.30pm on Monday 23rd September. The Real Variety Show is seen throughout the industry as the place to preview… Read full article.

Sacha Romanovitch Former CEO of Grant Thornton, Sacha highlights what it means to lead a company through cultural and process change, to put people at the forefront of the business, and to… Read full article.

With Extinction Rebellion and the climate crisis finally making the top of the news agenda, sustainability in business is one of the topics that the Account Managers at JLA are being asked… Read full article.

On the eve of his departure on an around the world sailing race, JLA account manager Danny Lee muses on some of the best motivational speakers he has worked with:  One of… Read full article.

“A generation with a huge sense of entitlement: Bosses complain that Millennials are spoilt, full of themselves, averse to hard work and expect ‘success on a plate’ so what does that mean… Read full article.

It’s one thing to have a great story, but equally important is the art of communicating it. In my corporate presentations, I share ‘behind the curtain’ techniques of how that’s done and… Read full article.

Actually, I couldn’t possibly choose just one.  I’ve worked at JLA for over five years and have spent many an evening at awards ceremonies all around the UK, sussing out the wheat… Read full article.

The most interesting thing about working for a speaker bureau is being given the opportunity to view wider business trends. Our client base is cross sectional and on any given day, it’s… Read full article.

At JLA, we provide hundreds of after-dinner speakers each year, and humour is the key attribute of many enquiries. Whether it is a comedian who comes on after pudding for twenty minutes… Read full article.