Patrick Dixon to speak at your unique event
"Brilliant communicator who really cares about his audience and his clients"
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Dr Patrick Dixon has been ranked as one of the world's 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50 - 2005) and is often described in the media as Europe's leading Futurist. He is widely regarded as one of the most powerful and effective speakers in the world on issues relating to future business success and many of the world's largest corporations are his clients. Every presentation is customised after close discussion with event organisers, to create a high impact, entertaining, provocative, very interactive and relevant multimedia experience for audiences ranging from 20 to 3,000. Dr Dixon tests opinion of each audience with "straw polls" and probes what they actually think themselves about future challenges, often walks around audiences and engages them personally. See videos.

Most presentations are opening keynotes, setting the scene for all that follows. Dr Dixon works hard to dig deep into organisational strategy and culture, with the help of each client, and aims to bring practical insights that are vitally important to the future of the corporation, taking into account everything else in the programme, and the priorities of the senior executive team. There is an element of consultancy in most presentations: far more than an off-the-shelf standard lecture. Organisers usually feel after working with Dr Dixon that they have found a friend: someone who understands the huge pressures they are under to make a great success of their event, and who is passionate about helping them make it happen. That is why he usually arrives the day before an event, offers to write articles, makes himself available for media interviews, signs every book that organisers buy to give participants (yes he has signed 1,400 for just one event), publishes his presentations online, makes conference videos available on / from his website, provides free access to 300 other presentations, and the entire text of 6 books and so on.

There is usually a strong focus on the future in every presentation, while also addressing urgent challenges facing the corporation / industry right now. There is a warm, practical, personal dimension, reflecting the fact that Dr Dixon first trained as a physician, looking also at what it means for individuals, families and friends, connecting with passion and ending with an inspiring challenge to make a difference.

For smaller groups, some clients prefer an entirely discussion-based futuring and strategy development exercise, where all the "work" is done by participants who rapidly build their own scenarios based on likely and less likely events. These are then used as a basis to challenge existing assumptions about strategy and to develop innovative ideas about products, services, markets, structure and internal processes. However the preparation process is similar with detailed analysis of where the company is and where it could be in future in the light of wider changes in the operating environment.

Dr Dixon is also regularly called on to chair large conference sessions and has done so recently for NCR, Google and for a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson.

Reasons clients engage Dr Dixon include:

* Identify new opportunities
* Product development
* Strategy development
* Reducing risks and impact of "wild cards"
* Brand strengthening - connecting with consumer emotion
* Innovative thinking
* Fresh customer insights
* Wider industry perspectives
* Promoting company to key clients as thought-leader
* Radical "out of the box" questioning of key assumptions
* Insurance policy against institutional blindness
* Team building, strengthening of corporate "tribe"

Examples of recent issues:

* What will be most important for users of mobile phones in emerging markets in the next decade?
* How can we improve commitment and loyalty in our senior management?
* What will be the greatest unmet health needs by 2020, and what new products will be needed?
* What will next-generation online markets look like, and why?
* What is the future for newspapers and TV, for paper directories and books?
* How can we protect our business from attack by activists?
* What should be our response to global warming?
* How should banks respond to increasing regulation and uncertainty?

"Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you"

* Biography - and frequently asked personal questions
* Wikepedia article on Patrick Dixon
* Client list - many of the largest corporations in the world
* Recent feature on tribalism and ageing (Financial Times)
* Commendations after recent lectures - from organisers and participants evaluations
* 300 presentations and watch many videos of events for many different industries / audiences
* Countries visited and in the diary - 47 nations
* Large number of articles and other resources on global trends
* Future of Management, Marketing and Motivation - many resources
* Media coverage of Patrick Dixon - total audience reach more than 400 million
* Details about the top 20 business thinkers ranking - Thinkers 50 2005
* Why have 10 million different people visited Dr Dixon's web pages?
* What 30,000 other websites are saying about Dr Dixon
* List of the videos watched online by more than 250,000 people
* Technical requirements for multimedia presentations
* Check list to help ensure a really great event

To discuss your event personally with Patrick Dixon phone +44 7768 511 390 (if necessary leave message). You can also e-mail Dr Dixon. If you wish, we can also put you in touch with organisers of previous events.

Booking Patrick Dixon for your event is easy: phone Karen O'Donnell at Leigh Bureau Ireland office +353 1 230 2322 or for US bookings phone +1 908 253 8600. Please DO mention that you got the number from this web page. Leigh Bureau is the exclusive agent for all bookings worldwide. If other agencies wish to book Patrick they should contact Leigh Bureau to discuss joint arrangements.