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Richard Woods, is an award-winning entrepreneur, BBC’s The Apprentice finalist, professional keynote speaker, radio presenter, investor & bestselling author.

His latest marketing service to Digital TrailBlazer, showers businesses with a predictable flow of leads every day. Its unique process delivers a fully outsource lead generation system that produces qualified enquiries for sales teams to close.

The accompanying book which Richard wrote – Digital TrailBlazer when straight to #1 Best Seller on Amazon and continues to sell globally.

He was a finalist upon BBC’s The Apprentice, Series 11 (2015) ñ Where he was the top seller across all tasks during the competition and broke two Apprentice records one for most sales in one day (£4.3 million) and secondly ìThe best Advertising Task ever seen on The Apprenticeî ñ Lord Sugar

https://www.leadgenacademy.co.uk/

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/dickwoods/

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Ronsley Vaz is a speaker, author and marketer. He is the author of the book AMPLIFY ñ How to raise your voice, boost your brand and grow your business. His podcasts, ëBond Appetití, and Should I Start a Podcast, have been downloaded millions of times in 133 countries. Ronsley is also the founder of audio marketing agency Amplify, which focuses on giving brands a voice.

Ronsley sits on the board for freetoshine.org, an organisation that prevents sex trafficking. He is a advocate and ambassador for the work that Free to Shine do, and believes that girls should be in schools rather than brothels.

Ronsley has an MBA in Psychology and Leadership and a Master’s in Software Engineering as well as a Diploma in Financial Services. Ronsleyís journey has seen him specialise in a variety of different industries. Before entrepreneurship, he worked as a DJ, software engineer, financial adviser, restaurateur and chef.

His newest venture, Amplify, is all about converting audio into a content-marketing echo chamber. He and his team help clients create content and turn it into genuine assets that allow their businesses to grow.

Between the ëBond Appetití podcast and his show ëShould I Start a Podcast?í, Ronsley has reached over 4 million listeners in 133 countries.

Ronsley is also the founder of the first podcasting conference in the Southern Hemisphere: We Are Podcast.

Connect with Ronsley on these channels:

Connect with Ronsley on Facebook  facebook.com/ronsley

Connect with Ronsley on Twitter  twitter.com/ronsley

Connect with We Are Podcast on Instagram  instagram.com/ronsleyvaz

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Mark Struczewski is a speaker, coach, podcaster and the author of How to REALLY Be Productive. He works with executives to help them gain control of their time by taming distractions so they can experience less overwhelm, feel a sense of freedom and enjoy their lives.

https://www.markstruczewski.com/

https://www.MisterProductivity.com

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After 20 episodes and several guests that I’ve interviewed, I’m taking this episode to share with you my story and so you can understand why we call this podcast, Only The Brave Have Fun.

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Tomas is a professional life coach, speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, and the founder of OK is NOT enough, the core philosophy he uses to coach professionals and entrepreneurs to help them raise standards of their performance and lifestyle so they can create the results and life they can be really proud of.

Tomas has coached hundreds of clients including industry leaders, billionaire entrepreneurs, CEOs, rising stars in global corporations and influencers at the top of their game. He also often works with ambitious professionals who are just at the beginning of their personal development journey. What all his clients have in common is that they have an unshakable feeling that they’re capable of so much more than what they have they’ve achieved thus far, and Tomas’ natural, down-to-earth and direct coaching style helps propel them into new levels of success.

Tomas has been featured in various podcasts and publications such as GQ and Vice, and has been a guest on several podcasts including The Unconventionalists. He is a mentor for the Threshold Accelerator, a 12-month business development course for startup entrepreneurs run by Dent Global, who are world leaders in business training.

He is currently writing a book that aims to break people out of settling for an ìOKî life, and it is due for publication in December 2019.

Website: https://tomassvitorka.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomassvitorka/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tomas.svitorka

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomasSvitorka

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/tomassvitorka

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOV8qGQcYGUqY815A4crygQ?view_as=subscriber

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Serial Scottish Entrepreneur and Investor, Strategist and Innovator

Russell has enjoyed the benefits of a highly successful international career in the technology sector and now focuses his efforts on supporting owners and boards of companies to devise and implement growth strategies to create shareholder value. In his earlier career he has held board leadership positions with International companies achieving turnover more than £200m.

Core areas of focus are Leadership, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic thinking. He is a regular speaker at events on Leadership in business and has spoken at conferences from Los Angeles to Abu Dhabi.

Russell is founding Managing Partner of the advisory group, Exolta Capital Partners, www.exolta.com and Founding Chairman Scottish Business Network, www.sbn.scot the global network supporting Scottish business leaders. Other roles and accolades,

* Holds multiple non-exec and board advisory roles with fast growing business and organisations.

* Member of Scotland Trade Board chaired by Ivan McKee, Minister for Trade, Investment & Innovation

* Regularly named in the list off “100 most influential British Entrepreneurs” and one of the most influential figures in technology today.

* A member of the Maserati List of business leaders who support the next generation of entrepreneurs.

* Scotland: Board member Institute of Directors, ScotlandIS, Merchant Company of Edinburgh

* London:  Advisor to Tech Advocates, The Griffin Club and E2Exchange.

* International: Talent Tech Labs, New York; Asia Scotland Institute

* Member of the advisory board Napier University Business School

* Popular international speaker on business ScaleUp, Strategy and Innovation.

* Addressing the gender imbalance in business through his support of the Association of Scottish Business Women and Changing the Chemistry.

* Advisor to a range of disruptive led companies in UK and US.

* Investor/Advisor Par Equity angel investor fund.

* Regular press contributor in print, radio and TV on the subject of accelerating business growth.

Not all work – since turning 50 he has developed a passion for endurance events and can often be found at weekends mud splattered clambering over obstacles and “trying to keep up”.

* Linkedin: uk.linkedin.com/in/russelldalgleish/

* Twitter: @russellexolta

* Email: [email protected]

Recent PressProfile:

* https://www.scotsman.com/business/the-big-interview-russell-dalgleish-co-founder-of-the-scottish-business-network-1-4728138

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Andrea Pacini is a presentation coach. He is the founder and Presentation Director of Ideas on Stage UK. Ideas on Stage has worked with clients like Google, Facebook, The World Bank and TED. They specialise in helping business professionals win more deals, get more customers and sell more through better presentations. Andrea’s vision is to rid the world of crappy PowerPoint.

Ideas on Stage website: https://www.ideasonstage.com/

Andrea’s blog: http://andreapacini.co

Where to find Andrea:

* https://www.facebook.com/andreapacini.presentations/

* https://www.linkedin.com/in/apacini/

* https://www.instagram.com/andreapacini_ppt/

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Rebecca is the founder of Etheo, a Team & Leadership Transformation consultancy with a focus on the highly regulated technical industries.

Rebecca is a scientist by background having completed a PhD in Immunology at the University of Cambridge. Since leaving academic research, Rebecca’s career has given her the opportunity to build and develop a successful drug safety consultancy business, work with and lead colleagues from more than 90 countries, live and work abroad and lead organisations and groups in roles ranging from Company Director of a small consultancy to Global Head and Global Director roles in two of the world’s top 10 pharma companies.

Having thoroughly enjoyed a fruitful and successful career so far, in 2018 Rebecca took the leap to set up Etheo bringing her wealth of business experience, outstanding leadership skills, strategy and process development expertise and passion for meeting new challenges to support individuals and leaders build cohesive, high performing teams with a focus on operational excellence.

Where to find Rebecca:

* Rebecca’s YouTube Channel

* Connect with Rebecca on Linkedin

* Rebecca’s website

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Patrick M. Powers is the founder of Europe’s Biggest business meetup and one of Uk’s most prolific authors, speakers and trainers on the subjects of sales-funnel conversion, lead-generation, marketing, Copywriting, Entrepreneurship and Influence.

Having run networking and mastermind events for a decade he is now establishing himself as one of London’s most connected business people

He has been featured on BBC 3 times, interviewed by Forbes and is a regular guest on some of the biggest podcast shows in the world. See more here about Patrickís Media coverage and appearances.

He is also the author of several highly acclaimed books including Turn Your contacts into cash and Deadly Marketing Weapons and have several new ones on the way.

Patrick’s talks and work have inspired and helped tens of thousands of people in UK, US, Canada, the Caribbean, Germany and Denmark.

Patrick currently lives in London/UK, and travels all over the world to share his unique idiot-proof success secrets.

In 2009 he founded www.entrepreneursinlondon.co.uk : A community for entrepreneurs, which has now become the biggest business meetup in Europe.

Where to find Patrick

* Patrick’s website – http://patrickmpowers.com

* Follow Patrick on Linkedin

* Check him out on Facebook

* Watch him on YouTube

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In 2002, Qasim moved from Manchester to Birmingham to launch his first business, a technology services company specialising in offshore development, which was in partnership with an American firm. Since then he has set up, and been involved in several businesses in the field of technology, as an investor, board director and CEO.

Currently he is the CEO of Wow Group of Companies, which consists of two digital agencies, Wow Zone , which was featured on Channel 4s TV show The Job Interview and Raw Jam, a digital transformation company, a content agency, Neely There and an IT Support Company vGoose.

He has served 4 years on the boards of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce from 2006 to 2010. In April 2016 he was recalled, to serve once again on the Executive board of The Asian Business Chamber of Commerce (ABCC). In 2018, he has been appointed as President of the ABCC and also the Vice Chairman on Ronald McDonald House Charity.

He has also served 4 years on the board of UK IT Association, an initiative which was set up by Advantage West Midlands, to help collaboration and growth for SME technology businesses. Whilst serving on this board, he was asked to represent the West Midlands on a technology trade delegation to the United States and Turkey, the aim was to build closer ties with US, Turkish and UK based businesses in the field of technology.

His philosophy in life and business is simple “give without expecting anything in return”.

 Where to find Qasim:

* Twitter Personal: @cas_majid

* Twitter Business: @wow_zone

* FB: www.facebook.com/WowZoneLtd/

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