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| 26 Nov 2009 08:25:23 am |
 Inspirational Business Mum 2009 joining Select |
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Select is delighted to announce that Antonia Chitty an award winning entrepreneur and author is joining our team of professional business speakers. Antonia can speak on topics from business promotion to career change and flexible work.
Antonia is the winner of the ‘Inspirational Business Mum’ Award for 2009. She is an expert on websites such as www.mumandworking.co.uk and Hire My Parents
Antonia launched her PR business, ACPR, after the birth of her daughter in 2002. Since then she has been working with entrepreneurs who want to do their own PR and offering PR coaching and training.
She is the author of nine books on business, health and parenting. Recent publications include:
• The Mumpreneur Guide
• Commercial Writing: How to Earn a Living as a Business Writer
• Family Friendly Working
• A Guide to Promoting Your Business
Antonia is a strong advocate for flexible and family friendly working and publishes a daily news-packed blog at www.familyfriendlyworking.co.uk
Antonia can speak on topics including:
• My Story, with learning points for any working mum
• Career Change
• Developing your Business
• Flexible Working
• Business and Work Life Balance
• Writing for a Living
• Promoting Your Business on Next to no Budget.
More about Antonia
Back in 2002, Antonia Chitty was stuck in a job that just wasn’t working for her. She says, “I felt like I was trying to do a full weeks work in part time hours, and spending all my money on childcare. Other people were looking after my daughter, and I was missing out on her growing up.”
Antonia has a session with a life coach which set her on the path to run her own business. She says, “I set up my own PR agency which focused on helping mums in business to do their own PR. That led to my first books, A Guide to Promoting Your Business and Family Friendly Working. I now love what I do and the way I can combine work and family. ”
For more information about Antonia or to book her for your next event please contact: carol@select-speakers.com. |
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| 30 Oct 2009 10:05:33 am |
| Left right, left right attention please! |
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'Attention - stand by your bunks'! we are delighted to let you know that Geoff Hughes former Prison Governor has joined our ranks.
Geoff joined HM Prison Service in 1981. After training, which included working as a prison officer in HM Prison Cardiff, he moved to HM Young Offender Institution Onley in 1982 as Assistant Governor. In 1985 he transferred to HM Prison Wandsworth where he was in charge of the Observation and Classification Unit. Promotion took him to HM Young Offender Institution Feltham in 1998 as Head of Inmate Activities. In 1990 he moved to the Area Office for Wales and the West of England. He was promoted to Deputy Governor at HM Prison Brixton in1991 before moving to HM Prison Drake Hall (a womens’ prison) as Governor in 1994. Further promotion in 1997 resulted in a short spell as Deputy Head of Prison Service Standards Audit Unit.
In 1998 he was promoted, on secondment, as a Team Leader for HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and held that post until 2002. During this time he was awarded a Fellowship of the Sir Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to study Prison Inspection in Sweden and Finland.
He took up post as Governor of HM Prison Belmarsh, the highest security prison in UK in February 2002. Belmarsh employs almost 1,000 staff, has an annual budget of over £35m and holds over 900 prisoners.
Geoff moved to Prison Service HQ in 2005 to be Head of Security Group before moving back to Wales as Governor of HM Prison Cardiff in 2006. From 2007 until his retirement in 2008 he was Area Manager for Wales.
During his career Geoff has travelled extensively on prison related management assignments in Australia, Argentina, China, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Poland, Netherlands, France, Czech Republic, Turkey, Bulgaria, Kosova, Mongolia and Jamaica.
He is now a self employed International Prisons Consultant, part time lecturer at University of Wales, Associate Consultant for the International Centre for Prison Studies, King’s College, London and Director of “Inside Time” the national newspaper for prisoners. Geoff has a BA and MBA from the Open University and MEd from University of Wales. |
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| 30 Oct 2009 09:59:40 am |
| High Flying Chairman of AgustaWestland joins Select |
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It is with great pleasure that Select announces that the charming Air Marshal Sir Christopher Coville KCB BA FCIPD FRAeS RAF is available through them for speaking engagements.
Air Marshal Sir Christopher Coville was born in Liverpool in 1945, and joined the Royal Air Force in 1964 as a Flight Cadet at the RAF College Cranwell. After flying training, he served several tours of duty as an operational Lightning and Phantom pilot in the Air Defence role. His early career included staff and command appointments, including commanding No 111 (Fighter) Squadron, a spell in the Falkland Islands in 1983 as Officer Commanding Operations Wing, and later command of RAF Coningsby, where he flew the Tornado F3 and displayed the Hurricane and Spitfire of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
In July 1992, on promotion to Air Vice-Marshal, he was appointed Air Officer Commanding Training Group, with responsibility for all RAF Air and Ground Training, as well as overall supervision of the Red Arrows. In September 1994 he became Assistant Chief of Defence Staff Operational Requirements (Air Systems), in which post he oversaw the largest re-equipment programme for the RAF since the War. On promotion to Air Marshal in 1998, he was appointed as Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe. He assumed the appointment of Air Member for Personnel (an RAF Board position as the RAF’s HR Director) and Commander-in-Chief Personnel and Training Command in March 2001, and retired from the RAF in May 2003. He maintains his flying currency as a Flying Officer in the RAFVR, flying the Tutor aircraft in support of the Air Cadet Organisation.
The Air Marshal was awarded The Queen’s Commendation for Valuable Services in the Air in 1988, the CB in the 1995 New Year’s Honours List and became a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the New Year’s Honours List of 2000. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and is a founder graduate of the Open University.
Sir Christopher is now Chairman of AgustaWestland, and Senior Defence Advisor to Rockwell Collins (UK); in both Companies he is also a senior mentor to junior directors. Formerly he was a senior mentor director level at BT. In addition, he is the Council Member for Strategy with the Forces Pension Society, President of the Regular Forces Employment Association and President of the European Area of RAFA. He is also a Director of ForcesFirst Ltd, and sits on the Councils of several civilian and service charities. |
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| 30 Oct 2009 09:50:40 am |
| Tickled Pink by Graham Keal |
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Select is tickled pink to have someone as entertaining and funny as Graham Keal join them.
Graham was born in a prefab in Lincoln in 1951. While still in short trousers he approached a moving Jaguar containing soap superstar Pat Phoenix, who was retreating from the traction engine rally she had just opened. Pat wound down the window, Graham made her laugh, and he has been chasing celebrities and making people laugh ever since.
After many years serving on regional papers as a journalist, he turned freelance in 1986 and began writing celebrity interviews and TV columns for national newspapers ranging from The Sun to The Daily Telegraph and most points in between, as well as writing for TV magazines (TV Quick, TV Choice, What’s On TV etc) and women’s magazines (Best, My Weekly). Eric Morecambe was Graham’s first celebrity interview, back in 1974. Since then interviewees have included Oprah, Roger Moore, Tom Jones, Jimmy Stewart, Les Dawson, Vic Reeves, Liz Hurley, Gene Pitney, an Everly Brother (Phil), Spike Milligan, Vic Reeves, Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Ralf Little, David Attenborough, Jamie Oliver, Keith Floyd, Rick Stein, Joan Rivers, Johnny Vegas, Barry Humphries, Noel Edmonds, Amanda Holden, Esther Rantzen, Jeremy Clarkson, Fiona Bruce and too many more to mention. |
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| 30 Oct 2009 09:13:41 am |
| Social Enterprise Pioneer joins Select |
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Select is delighted to announce that Adele Blakebrough, MBE, Co-Founder and Chief Executive, Community Action Network has joined it's wonderful group of speakers.
Adele co-founded Community Action Network, (CAN) in 1998, when it began as a membership organisation whose aim was to identify and create a network of social entrepreneurs across the UK. CAN pioneered the use of the Internet to achieve this, and from the start set up partnerships with businesses to help it grow and expand. CAN has always believed that businesses, through partnering with social enterprises, can have a mutually-beneficial relationship and in 2005 created ‘Breakthrough’ with private equity firm Permira to invest in the scaling up of social enterprises
CAN is now recognised as one of the UK’s leading organisations for the development, promotion and support of social entrepreneurs and social enterprises.
Adele was a founder member of the Social Enterprise Coalition. She is also a trustee for Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) and a founding partner and trustee of UnLtd.
Prior to the beginning of CAN in April 1998, Adele was director of the nationally renowned Kaleidoscope project in Kingston Upon Thames, a voluntary organisation working with 350 heroin dependants daily. She holds a Masters degree in Theology, is a Common Purpose graduate and a trained Baptist minister.
In 2006, Adele was awarded an MBE for services to social enterprise in the Queen’s birthday honours list and in July 2007 received the prestigious Business in the Community (BITC) Awards in Excellence - the Marks and Spencer Sieff Award for her work in collaborating with the corporate sector for social benefit, which was presented to her by HRH The Prince of Wales and Al Gore.
Adele's presentations are inspirational and motivational. Her insight into corporate responsibility and the advantages that gives are profound. She is required listening in today's chaniging world. |
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