How Patrick Dixon will make your corporate event a great success

Fellow contributors at corporate events have included former British Prime Minister John Major, The Ireland Taoiseach - Bertie Ahern, Mark Thompson - Director General BBC, Nicolas Negroponte - MIT, Bill Emmot - former editor of the Economist, John Naisbitt - author Megatrends, Michael Dell - Chairman of Dell Computers, Andrew Gowers - editor of the Financial TImes, Sir John Bond - Chairman HSBC, Rod Eddington - CEO British Airways, Jorma Ollila - Chairman of Nokia, Rudolph Giulliani - Mayor of New York, Gary Hamel - Chairman Strategos, Gordon Bethune - Chairman and CEO Continental Airlines, Helge Wehmeier - President and CEO Bayer Corporation, Jonathan Bloomer - CEO Prudential.... and the rock singer Elton John.

Clients include Microsoft, HSBC, BP, AIG, Allianz, Munich Re, Swiss Re, GSK, IBM, Siemens, SAP, Accenture, ABN AMRO, Credit Suisse, RBS, UBS, Saks, Sara Lee, Diageo, Ford, Gillette, ExxonMobil, Prudential, Forbes, Morgan Stanley, Fortune, Virgin Atlantic, BBC, Bupa, BT, Belgacom, Global Food Forum, IBEC, TDC, Mobilcom, Belgacom, Zurich Financial Services and Tetrapak.

See bottom of this page for comments from participants and event organisers. Talk to Dr Dixon personally on + 44 7768 511 390 to discuss what you have in mind and check dates, or e-mail, - you can then talk through formal arrangements later with Leigh Bureau. Each presentation is heavily customised, in close consultation with the client after discussions about aims of the event, conference theme, issues that other speakers will cover, the nature of the audience, countries represented and cultural factors. See also information about how Dr Dixon works with clients to create highly successful events.

	Looking for slides from a keynote speech, conference lecture, workshop or seminar you attended - or just curious to look at 200 presentations (plus some videos) on issues ranging from banking and marketing to change management, outsourcing, biotech, health care, energy, next-generation technology, emerging markets, risk management, travel industry, food and retail.
	Read recent Financial Times piece by Patrick Dixon on future trends, looking at wild card risks, tribalism and ageing
	Future of Technology and Management - keynote for 2,000 clients of Fujitsu Siemens - CEOs and CIOs. Next generation use of technology and why the future is about emotion. Lifestyle choices, fashions, fads and the demographic time-bomb. Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you. Connecting with passion and the future of leadership. Slides and one hour Video - Dr Dixon walks among the audience and involves them in his vision of the future.
	YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley - session Chairman Dr Patrick Dixon Find out in Patrick Dixon's interview how Chad felt after meteoric success of YouTube in just 15 months to become a 200 million downloads a day blockbuster media company. Lessons for every corporation wanting success online. Google Zeitgeist CEO Summit.
	The Future of Business, Logistics, Distribution, Wholesale and Retail - keynote in a theatre for 700 customers of IBS (Sweden), on the revolution about to hit every company that makes or distributes products. Find out how to save 20% of costs and rapidly increase productivity - watch 45 minute Video of this high-energy stage "performance".
	Interactive e-marketing - Video segment of event for Skynet Belgacom (Belgium), on direct marketing, looking at how to get very high response rates using permission-based, consensual e-marketing programmes
	Direct marketing - Video segment of event for Skynet Belgacom, about impact of media reporting on brand value and marketing efforts. How to protect your image and corporate future.
	Building a Better Business - new book on management, marketing and motivation by Dr Patrick Dixon including the $20,000 Challenge. Widely aclaimed and into reprint within a couple of months of publication.
	Meeting the Future - Zurich Financial Services interview with Dr Patrick Dixon on risk management, following client event in Lucerne
	Future of Fund Management - slides of ICBI event and Video of a similar presentation to UK-based fund managers. Why fund management is at risk of a new mis-selling scandal - in the retail sector - and how the industry will need to restructure. Managing uncertainty, impact of wild cards and major trends which will affect global investments.
	Surviving the Downturn - vital steps every corporation needs to take to prepare for healthy future growth - recent feature article based on a keynote
	The future of lifetyles, health care and aging - Keynote slides and video of AARP event in Washington DC (551 nationsl leaders of this 35 million member organisation). Are you ready for a possible jump in life expectancy? If you enjoy lively "infotainment", provocative insights and close audience involvement, then you will enjoy this thought-provoking video of a presentation to an American audience, sitting at round tables.
	The Future of the Travel Industry: Video of keynote for Association of Corporate Travel Executives - ACTE (1,000 people) in Germany. Large platform event.
	The Future of Marketing: direct mail, network, email, strategies, ideas, relationship marketing, campaign slogans: Two videos and slide sets: keynote for Finland Marketing Federation (500 people) and keynote for Direct Marketing client event organised by Post Danmark (1,000 people) with pyrotechnics and audience involvement. Note: both presentations for multiple-language European audiences.
	The Future of Medicine and Health Care in a Biotech Age - Video of keynote for launch of new biotech research centre in Zurich (150 investors and research scientists) - also summary
	The Future of the Food and Drink Industry - Video of keynote for Tetrapak on cruise ship (700 of Tetrapak's most important clients) in an intimate theatre, followed later that day by Elton John.
	The Spirit of Success - Fedex / Times of India client event in Dubai to Middle East entrepreneurs and business leaders. Slides plus one hour video.
	Leadership: making things happen. Video segment of Skynet Belgacom presentation on direct marketing, looking at the most powerful leadership speech in the world, and how to harness the same power in advertising
	The Future of Real Estate Industry - Slides and one hour video: Asian Summit of Corenet in Shanghai. Following presentations at similar events in US (3,000 people) and Europe. Large proportion of the Shanghai audience were Chinese business leaders.
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	Over 5,000 websites referring to Dr Dixon - many different languages
	Feature article about Dr Dixon in Times Higher
	Sustainable Enterprise - hear Dr Patrick Dixon speak - 21-22 June 06 People - attracting people and customers. Profit - investing into growth, and Planet - making a difference, social, ethical and environmental

Feedback from conference delegates and event organisers:

"Thank you for your presentation. Naturally, you were a great hit (highest rated session on the program.) Like all the participants, I got a lot out of it and it will definitely change my work life." David Maister, Author of Managing the Professional Services Firm after presentation at a leading Business School

"Steve Ballmer and I extend to you our most sincere thanks for joining us at the first Microsoft Global Accounts Summit in the Hague. Your participation contributed to its success. I especially appreciate your joining us at very short notice and for delivering such an insightful keynote address .....I don't think I have to tell you that your session was very well received. Every person in that room was glued to what you had to say. It was truly riveting and I know you received very high marks from the audience. You were a life-saver for our event and added great value to the topic. We would like to say thank you again for your flexibility. It was truly a pleasure working with you. We will keep our eyes open for the opportunity to work together in the future" Jonathan Murray Vice President Global Accounts Microsoft / Stephanie Rowland Communications Manager Global Accounts Microsoft

"Thanks for the best EIRMA presentation ever" Prof Kari Ebeling Director Corporate R+D UPM-Kymmene Group

"Congratulations on your outstanding contribution to our conference. Board and staff of CSC Ploenzke as well as our guests were very happy to have you with us. It was by far the most intriguing lecture and I am sure my colleagues and the participants of the conference will talk about it for some time." Klaus-Michael Erben, CSC

"Thanks for your excellent input into our Congress. You set the scene perfectly (opening speech) with your "tour d'horizon" and left some delegates quite breathless. Our delegates evaluated your presentation among the best of the Congress. I particularly wanted to thank you for the speed, efficiency and enthusiasm of your response when we approached you "in extremis" (Hemlut Schmidt unwell). The whole process was seamless and you lived up to your claims. You did a great job" Richard Fedigan CEO Food Business Forum (CIES)

"I owe you a thank you very much for your fantastic presentation. Need I say you got a 1.0 rating (Cannot get higher than that! Do you want to see them?...You must be used to them anyway) and you have people reading your book on their vacation!!! If that is not success, I don't know what is... " M. Claudia Benassi Head of Corporate Relationship Management ESMT European School of Management and Technology Gmb

"I first heard Dr Patrick Dixon's outstanding presentation at a Futurists conference for around 50 CEOs and Chairmen. Other speakers included the UK former Prime Minister John Major, the editor of the economist, Senator Bill Bradley, President Carter's former security advisor, someone from MIT Medialab, Proessor Rudi Dornbusch and others. I learned more about my business from Dr Dixon than from all the others put together." Brad Martin Chairman of Saks Inc

"You did a fantastic job and everybody, participants and Post Danmark, were very pleased." Helen Rimmer, 3rd Dimension - organisers of event for 900 marketing executives, sponsored by Post Danmark

"Your presentation scored highest of the whole conference for content and style. I particularly appreciated the attention to detail in preparation to make the presentation so relevant to our business." Dr Ian Fyfe Planning and Quality Control management, BASF

"You were fantastic! Not enough time! We loved your family. Thanks for your contagious energy, unpredictability and warm generous atmosphere. Important when there were so many sobering and thought provoking concepts to absorb." Lynne Schey, Young Presidents Organisation (YPO), London

"The Georgia Technology Forum is still receiving positive feedback from your talk. Your insights were invaluable to the new CEOs in the audience who will be forming entire companies around your predictions." Ellen Smith Executive Director Georgia Technology Forum

"I attended the Human Resources Strategy program.. Your presentation on that program was one of the most striking 'events' I ever experienced". W Mul Director Cororate Human Resources Anthos New Zealand

"Thank you for presenting such a fascinating and stimulating session at the conference last week." Pippa Bourne Institute of Management

" You did what you promised to do: Your presentation was excellent. We've had only positive feed back. Thank you very much - the future looks much brighter now!" Leena Saksa, Finland Marketing Federation

"Your presentation was superb, thoroughly enjoyable, memorable and thought provoking." Karan Bilimoria CBE, DL CEO Cobra Beer Ltd, Chapter Chair - YPO London

"Thank you once again for the superb presentation you gave to our ServiceMaster management team on Friday and the Trustees of Wheaton College on Saturday. Both presentations were very well received. I know you have had more feedback from the presentation on Saturday, but I have received a significant amount of positive feedback from your presentation on Friday, It was very thought provoking for our officers." C. William Pollard, Chairman, ServiceMaster

"Global-Change Guru Dr Patrick Dixon in a whirlwind speech recently, gave delegates a whiff of a much-changed future." Margaret Studer, Wall Street Journal 11/12/98

"Your extraordinary presentation has been highly appreciated and certainly stimulated a wealth of ideas and discussions with the participants." Bernadette Conraths Director General European Federation of Management Development (EFMD)

"On behalf of EuroCHRIE I write to congratulate you on a wonderful presentation." Sybil Hoffman Past President

"You delivered a dynamic and very timely closing keynote addreess at the recent CoreNet Global Summit. Evaluation comments indicate the audience especially liked that you related the Futurewise message to the corporate real estate industry. Many are anxious to see how quickly their respective corporations will embrace the technological innovations that you mentioned. It was indeed a pleasure working with you. On behalf of the membership and staff, thank you for adding great value to the CoreNet Global's first conference." Lawrence Edge, Executive Director CoreNet Global

"Once again thank you very much for coming to Munich Re. We have received very positive feedback on all 3 sessions, which were really inspirational and very fruitful. I hope you had a safe trip home on Thursday. I would be very happy if we could keep in contact and continue our exchange, especially in the area of wild cards." Dr. Michael Menhart Munich Re Group Strategic Planning

"I enjoyed your teaching tremendously. I was amazed how easily you could really fascinate people. Thank you for such memorable experience." Valentina Werner, European School of Management and Technology

"I want to thank you for your great contribution to the success of this event. I had very positive and personal verbal feedbacks during the last social part of the event. One manager said to me: "You have moved our company", and a spouse who was not present asked me in the evening: "What did you do to my husband. He talks in a way I have never heard him talk before. He uses words like "quality of life"!". We also got very positive feedback in writing." Claude R Schmutz Managing Director Roche Vitamins Europe Ltd

"Thank you once again for the excellent lectures you gave at our conference yesterday. We got many, many enthusiastic responses from our participants." Helmut Frick ZFU

"Thank you for the session you did for us on Monday. It went very well and we've had great feedback from those who attended. I hope that we can work together again in the future." Nigel Paine, Head of People Development BBC

"I wish to express my sincere thanks to you for taking time out of your busy schedul to speak at Tourism Ireland's staff conference. Your presentation was most thought provoking and it was interesting to see many of your ideas being incorporated into the group activities in the afternoon. Best of all, you presented the future as something to be excited about rather than feared. Many thanks again." Paul O'Toole Chief Executive Tourism Ireland

"We had very positive feedback for Patrick Dixon's speech. He scored 4.6 - 5 out of a maximum of 5. Everybody seemed to enjoy the content of his speech as well as his great capacity of transmitting fro the stage to the audience. He is truly a great speaker!!! Thank you for making all this possible." Alessandra Melloni Conference Manager IDC EMEA

"I want to express my sincere thanks for your extraordinary performance. Listening to you was informative, surprising and very entertaining. But more than that, your ideas and views gave us a sustainable perspective." Dr Christoph Dumrath on behalf of the European Association of Directory and Database Publishers

Following multimedia presentation by videoconference from London to Argentina: "Thank you for your presentation and this wonderful trip into the future. It was a pleasure for me to have attended your talk. As a human resources professional I find it very interesting to apply new technologies to our work environment. From now on I will be hitting your site frequently." Alejandro Delobelle AGA

"Thank you once again. Your speech was a great contribution to the success of the event and we received lots of positive response from the participants. They were fascinated by this extraordinary trip into the future. We particularly appreciated the attention to our products and the history of the company to make the presentation so relevant to the business of Zellweger Luwa AG." Thomas Bechtler Chairman of the Board

	"Outstanding presentation and content"
	"Super presentation - certainly explored the future with outstanding examples. Very humerous with thought-provoking predictions for the global economy. An outstanding speaker."
	"Mind blowing - but real. Good balanced presentation - enjoyable"
	"Exciting vision of the future - I am impatient to read his book"
	"Great impact - v impressive delivery"
	"Global and inspiring. Incredible use of images, and strong macro-sense of the material. Pragmatic. Fascinating."
	"Most provocative and interesting"
	"Excellent - captures the imagination and promotes creative thinking"
	"Outstanding!"
	"Wow! Dixon was great. Interesting thought material."
	"Superb!"
	"His choice of media was very powerful - his slides reinforced his message tremendously - very strong management of classroom Q and As.
	"Intelligent person - strong values - his class helped create more compassionate leadership and values."
	"Wow - he certainly got us thinking"
	"Very stimulating / entertaining and thought provoking"
	"Thought provoking - excellent presentation"
	"The way he performed - I call it entertainment"
	"Fantastic person - he really made you believe you are in the future"
	"Energised and highly active presentation"

	"The most updated and intelligent speech I have ever heard in my life"
	"Lateral thinking, provocative ... absolutely brilliant."
	"Excellent presentation, perfect use of a screen show, powerful, very competent!"
	"One of the best communicators we have had."
	"Excellent, outstanding, lively speaker."
	"Hard to improve upon as someone to stir up strong motivational responses."
	"Enjoyable presentation that impressed many people and changed lots of perspectives"
	"Excellent, profound and motivating presentation."
	"Very outspoken speaker - amazing broad horizon."
	"Excellent presentation which gave an overview of the challenges faced by management."
	"This was outstanding. It is essential for everyone to constantly reflect on the speed of change and how the direction of change in the world can affect one's personal and professional life."
	"Dr Dixon is a remarkable man and an effective speaker ... higher level of learning ... intellectual challenge... highly recommended."
	"I liked it! Could have been for whole day."
	"Great speaker...time too short."
	"Excellent food for thought regarding current / future changes to industry and environment - his arguments were extremely compelling.
	"Excellent kick-off session."
	"Good thought provoking performance which should not be shortened."
	"Interesting macro-issues - important that we should take a "big picture" approach."
	"Very provocative and interesting."
	"Vibrant speaker, plenty of toys."
	"Excellent speech which made it clear that banking is essential, banks are not!"
	"Excellent presentation, opens new perspectives."
	"Excellent - content was great. Dr Dixon's message is clear. I could have listened to him for longer."
	"Very impressive - opened my eyes."
	"Good presentation - nice multimedia."
	"This was very interesting - I am very impressed with the environmental issues."

NEWS: "Journey to the Future" total immersion events: Take your clients or colleagues on a turbo-charged journey into the future of their corporation and personal lives. Whether you have 5 board members for a day or 5,000 clients for a week, you will be delighted with this imaginative, challenging, provocative and inspiring approach to making your future happen. Enter a future world (2010) where tomorrow is already old history, where you look back on practical lessons you can learn from your past (your future). You will never see the world in the same way again. More details. e-mail Dr Dixon or phone him yourself on 00 44 7768 511 390.