Finding Your Path

Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futur.

This is part 2 to our in-depth conversation that we had previously published on 02/08/2020. Chris, goes in and shares even more.

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Daniel Priestley started out as an entrepreneur at age 21 and built a multi-million dollar event, marketing and management business before the age of 25. A successful entrepreneur, international speaker and best-selling author, Daniel has built and sold businesses in Australia, Singapore and the UK. 

Daniel is the founder of Dent, which runs a 9-month growth accelerator programme for small enterprises, working with over 500+ entrepreneurs each year to develop their businesses. Dent has offices in the UK, USA, Singapore and Australia. 

Daniel uses campaigns to help raise up to $100,000 for charity each year and is connected to some of the world’s most known and celebrated entrepreneurs and leaders. With a passion for global small business, Daniel is the author of the four best-selling books Key Person of Influence, Entrepreneur Revolution, Oversubscribed and 24Assets.

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Stephanie for years was dealing with shame from becoming a young mother at 18 who was unemployed and struggled to provide for her child. Stephanie needed to make some life changing decisions which she had to make to create the life she wanted.

Now Stephanie has a Masters and PhD, leads a successful property business with over a Million in property being managed and is a trainer and podcaster with a passion to help others to do the same.

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Rebecca Owers has extensive national experience from working in the field of Wealth & Mortgages for 22 years in her career with HSBC where she now heads up their Wealth Centre of Excellence. Rebecca leads a team of 200 people across six varied departments, from a wealth call centre to highly qualified technical consultants and a retirement advice centre. Rebecca is a respected leader who loves positively impacting those she leads on her teams and the customers they serve. 

Rebecca is always in a constant state of learning, using innovation, and always leading from her value of fairness which drives her passion for creating open and diverse teams enabling ideas and change to come from the ground up. In 2020, Rebecca led the creation of the Belonging group for over 1200 colleagues which leads practical change across many aspects of the staffing to ensure more people truly feel they belong at HSBC.

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Chris Do is an Emmy award-winning designer, Director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futur—an online education platform with the mission of teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love.

He currently serves as the chairman of the board for the SPJA, and as an advisor to Saleshood. He has also served as: advisory board member for AIGA/LA, Emmys Motion & Title Design Peer Group, Otis Board of Governors, Santa Monica College and Woodbury University.

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Dan Brown is an Entrepreneur, Serial Networker and the Founder of The Positive Transformation Initiative. 

During our talk, we discussed all things PTI, life and positive and transformational relationships.

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Veronica devotes her life to supporting young people so that they are empowered to seize opportunities in order to add value to improving their lives.

Prior to joining the charity sector, Veronica spent 13 years building her career in the advertising industry for publications such as Time Magazine and the Voice. Since then, she has advised and worked for organisations/individuals focused on helping young people to realise their potential.

Veronica is the Founder of Beyond Our Youth, Development Manager of RedSTART Educate, COO of the Aleto Foundation, Vice-President of Reedham Children’s Trust, Trustee of the Armitage Foundation and founding Trustee of Generating Genius.

Veronica is a fully certificated member of the Institute of Fundraising and has a Masters with Merit in Charity Marketing and Fundraising.

Veronica lives in Bromley and has twin sons who both work in the creative industry.

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A qualified Chartered Accountant by profession and now turned Entrepreneur! Lubna was a candidate on BBC One The Apprentice UK 2019 - Season 15 after being one of the 16 selected from a pool of almost 100,000 applicants.

Her beginnings are very humble and the journey has been long with a lot of hard work, sweat and grit but because of it Lubna feels proud when looking back and seeing how far she has come. Parents tell her they give their kids her example and others tell her that they look up to her as a role model and want to be like her.

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With more than 25 years of industry experience and a reputation for making things happen, Andrew Diaper is regarded as one the most successful new business builders in the Consulting and Technology industry.

With an ‘A’ list of client successes and contract wins to his credit, Andrew has driven multi-million pound revenues, across a range of disciplines from IT infrastructure through to major M&A deals, with many of the major banks and financial institutions.

Andrew started his career as an electronic engineer and motherboard designer for Acorn Computers. It was when he was at Arm, someone persuaded him to ‘take a bigger challenge’.

Fast forward 27 years and in his eigth year at Capgemini, Andrew has become Vice President of Banking and a member of the UK leadership team. Andrew and his teams of experts are driving Capgemini’s growth and strategic partnerships through innovative solutions and global delivery models that provide mutual benefit to the Capgemini Group and our partners.

‘I wear my heart on my sleeve for all to see, and I lead from the front, my past failures are what make my future successes’.

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Sarah Walker-Smith is the CEO of Shakespeare Martineau. She is the first female, non-lawyer CEO in the legal top 50.

A trained accountant having worked for PWC and Deloitte, Sarah puts people at the core of everything she does as well as the marketing and branding experience gained at Boots plc

Sarah looks to challenge the norm in the legal sector and wider business world. She is passionate about levelling the playing field, encouraging everyone to bring their authentic selves to work.

A self-professed ‘geek’, Sarah loves learning and is currently exploring the relationship between leadership, purpose and trust. Sarah strongly believes that ‘good business’ is both purposeful and profitable, often with one leading to the other.

Sarah is a governor at Nottingham Trent University, is a member of the Society of Leadership Fellows at St George’s House and is on the board of the West Midlands CBI Council.

Recognising the importance of life beyond work, she enjoys writing, directing and performing in musical theatre productions.

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