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Lunch and Learn: Why we need audacious and resilient leadership

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Recent business challenges mean audacious and resilient leadership is needed more than ever, to enable businesses and industries to rebuild and grow with real confidence.

In this Lunch and Learn, Paul Spiers, founder of 

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Paul also examines what leadership looks like in practice and how it can be used to reframe the challenges and opportunities we have in business.

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I am a highly accomplished C-suite and Senior Leadership Team member, recognised for exceptional leadership and strategic expertise in sales, marketing and business development. Demonstrated success in international leadership positions, including successful start-ups (UK and USA), Private Equity and IPOs, MBOs and orchestrating three seamless acquisitions. Trusted professional known for managing very complex working environments with a dependable reputation built on trust and honesty. A focused leader experienced in driving companies through high growth, strategic transformations, business integration and fostering high-performing, thriving people-first cultures. Leadership style centred on compassion, motivation and inspiration, setting clear team goals, targets, and incentives to cultivate a culture of continuous communication, interaction and engagement for sustainable performance improvement. Proudly committed to nurturing and developing talent, serving as a hands-on people manager, dedicated coach and compassionate leader who has empowered countless individuals to unlock their true potential and achieve remarkable success.
During my career I:-
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<li>At the age of 27, I created the strategy and led the growth for Mosaic Information Technologies, that resulted in the business being acquired by NASDAQ listed company, Intelect Inc., for $15m after 18-months of a $200k angel investment.</li>
<li>Personally responsible for a $2m trade investment into my start-up, International Multimedia Corporation</li>
<li>Played a pivotal role in starting the Roc Technologies revenue scale-up from £3m to £35m over a 4-year period and part of the senior leadership team that secured BGF’s largest investment for an MBO and acquisition.</li>
<li>Successfully led the Nimbus Partners people integration of 150 people into TIBCO post their acquisition and ran the business unit globally resulting in being promoted to the TIBCO global senior leadership team.</li>
<li>Managed and scaled-up the AvePoint UK business during the pandemic and transformed the territory by implementing a compassionate operating model that became the global standard.</li>
</ul>
My core competencies are:
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<li>Organisational Leadership</li>
<li>People Management</li>
<li>Leadership Development</li>
<li>Board &amp; Stakeholder Engagement</li>
<li>Strategic Vision</li>
<li>Global Business Development</li>
<li>Crisis Management</li>
<li>Data-Driven Decision Making</li>
<li>Negotiating &amp; Influence</li>
<li>Financial Planning &amp; Forecasting</li>
<li>Process Transformation</li>
<li>Innovation &amp; Critical Thinking</li>
</ul>
<ins>Industry Highlights</ins>
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<li>£40m + Merger and Acquisition activity.</li>
<li>10+ industry awards.</li>
<li>8 Start-ups.</li>
<li>30+ years of corporate experience including sitting on Boards and SLTs of global public companies.</li>
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Hello, I’m Rita an entrepreneurial consultant, author and writer. I’m also a creator and author of ‘The Leverage Your Knowledge Method’ program. I help busy entrepreneurs, professionals and experts from various fields and backgrounds as well as those aspiring to be experts who are genuinely looking to leverage their skills, expertise and experience to create profitable and scalable products and services such as signature programs or productising their professional services to scale their businesses.
I&apos;ve written, productised and created my own TWO signature programs to help entreprenuers, professionals and experts and female entrepreneurs looking to do the same.
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<li>The LEVERAGE YOUR KNOWLEDGE METHOD: Book and program for entrepreneurs, professionals and experts looking to leverage their skills, expertise and experience to create profitable and scalable products and services.</li>
<li>IDEA2LAUNCH: Book and pre-startup program to help aspiring entrepreneurs looking to start their own business or working for themselves.</li>
</ol>
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Looking forward to some great connections.
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