March 2010, DEFRA Suppliers Conference, London
In particular your presentation was very thought provoking and a number of people were discussing it at the wine reception later on. We thoroughly enjoyed your presentation and the challenging yet persuasive messages you delivered and offer you our sincere thanks for the time you put into our conference.
Meenu Westhead, DEFRA
February 2010, London Baptist Association, Annual Pastors' Consultation, London
Thank you for your presentation at the LBA Pastors' Consultation last week. Your presentation had the desired effect of engaging ministers from an alternative - but relevant - starting point and forcing them to think. the feedback on your presentation was very positive. "Thank You".
David Shosanya, Regional Minister (Mission)
October 2009, NATO and Lloyd's of London, London, UK
Thank you so much for joining us to take part in our Risk Management Conference at Lloyd's today. We were very pleased with the result and your contribution was particularly valuable in producing what was really a very successful event. We are all most grateful for your help.
Lord Levene of Portsoken KBE, Chairman, Lloyd's
SPAR Annual General Meeting, Mayfair, London
Many thanks for your presentation to the AGM yesterday , it was very informative and gave us a lot of insight to consider.
Philip Marshall, SPAR (UK) Ltd.
October 2009, INTEL, Partners Conference, Northampton, UK
The feedback we had after the conference about your talk was extremely positive, we have also had people asking for your contact details. Many thanks again for a fantastic presentation.
Lauren Calton, Team Events (Conference organisers)
A quick note to express how much I enjoyed your presentation at the Intel Partner Conference. Very informative, stimulating & thought provoking. Lots to think about!
Max Toti, Managing Director, Captec
Shirlaws MACE Partners Workshop, The Grove, UK
Thank you very much for talking to our group last week. It was really well received and fitted in perfectly with the material we covered.
Jane Nichols, Shirlaws Coach, Shirlaws Business Coaching
October 2009, Midlands Leadership Group, Northampton, UK
Many thanks for the excellent and thought provoking workshop last week. You were excellent. We would love to invite you back to talk to our other group.
Jay Hale, Co-Chairman, Midlands Leadership Group
August 2009, Detica Forum, London, UK
I just wanted to thank you for the highly engaging and informative session on Monday. It seems to have generated plenty of debate and provided some great food for thought.
Nigel Russell – Senior Manager
July 2009, Chartered Institute of Marketing, Fellows Dinner, Horsham, UK
I was lucky enough to secure David to speak for us at the CIM Sussex Annual Dinner. He delivered a superb, challenging and expert presentation that is still reverberating around our heads and in our conversations, and I am sure will do so for weeks to come. He has a charming, non-confrontational way of helping the audience challenge their views of the world and engage and comprehend what the future may bring, enriching everyone with knowledge in the process. Thank you!"
Nick Broom, Vice Chairman, Chartered Institute of Marketing, Sussex
I would like to offer our sincere appreciation for your excellent and inspiring talk last Thursday evening. We have already received so many notes of appreciation and it is clear that you have sparked some real interest in how as business leaders and strategists, we have (to some extent) the future in our hands. Thank you for helping to make our inaugural Annual Dinner such a worthwhile event.
Liz Barnes, Chair, Chartered Institute of Marketing, Sussex.
A truly enlightening presentation on Thursday evening, I enjoyed it immensely, certainly gives us food for thought. I hope you enjoyed the evening and look forward to hearing you speak in the future.
Nadine Campbell, WS Atkins
July 2009, Chamber of Commerce, Guernsey, Channel Islands
I found your presentation exceptionally interesting and it certainly had the desired effect from my firm’s perspective. We’ve had a number of positive comments as a result, most recently this afternoon from a high ranking civil servant who found the timing of the presentation (from a strategic perspective) very useful.
Louise Hall, Partner, AO Hall (Event Sponsor)
We had our first scenario planning project on the Friday after your presentation so the timing was excellent – I know my Minister wants to refer to some of the ideas in your slides in a presentation for later this week! Once again many thanks for a really interesting presentation and hope you enjoyed your visit to Guernsey
Jon Buckland, Chief Officer, Commerce & Employment, States of Guernsey Government
April 2009, Association of Convenience Store Annual Summit, UK
Your presentations was excellent and I know the delegates found it very interesting, we have had some very positive feed back from it.
Sarah Johnson, Association of Convenience Stores
It was fantastic to meet and work with you last week at the ACS Summit. I know ACS were extremely pleased and have received brilliant feedback!
Kate Hinchliffe, Aspect Ltd (Event Organisers)
March 2009, Country Range Spring Conference, Manchester, UK
I just wanted to say thank you for the fantastic presentation you delivered at the Country Range Spring conference. I have had so much positive feedback – and I have never seen a collection of business owners and executives stay so still and attentive! The delegates were entranced with the breadth of information being delivered giving them plenty of stimulus for thought and conversation. I am delighted that you were able to join us for dinner and stay on for some lunch, giving delegates the opportunity to talk to you further.
My thanks once again, yours is one of the most thought provoking and interesting presentations I have seen, it was a pleasure to meet you.
Coral Rose, Country Range Group
February 2009, The Foundation Evening, London, UK
Many thanks, David, for your very fine performance yesterday. We've had many emails today from folk who clearly enjoyed themselves. Very much appreciated!
Nick Cross, The Foundation
January 2009, Ecademy - 11th Birthday conference, London, UK
It was great seeing you, you were brilliant.
Penny Power, Co-Founder and Director, Ecademy
January 2009, Midem, Cannes, France
I’ve met about 30 people that told me these 2 presentations were among the best at Midem!!!
Gerd Leonard, Media Futurist, Switzerland
November 2008, Home Sales Network Conference, London, UK
Your talk was superb. Hope to keep in touch.
Robert Peston, Business Editor, The BBC
October 2008, HSBC Client Conference, Norwich, UK
Thanks again for yesterday. We have been overwhelmed by positive feedback the best of which was:
"I thought it was an excellent presentation - very good speaker (possibly best I've ever seen) and what a thought-provoking subject ?!"
Kevin THORN, Head of Norwich Commercial Centre, HSBC BANK PLC UK
Many thanks for the excellent presentation on Thursday last week, I thought it was brilliant.
Definitely some interesting things to think about! (Event sponsors)
Daniel Dickson, Executive, Corporate Finance, PKF (UK) LLP
Accountants & business advisers
October 2008, CSC Financial Services Conference, Tokyo, Japan
I would like to extend my sincere appreciation on behalf of CSC for your excellent presentation and participation in our conference last week.
Prakash Thomas, Regional Director-Sales & Marketing, Financial Services Group-Asia
June 2008, Developing Gloucestershire Conference. Cheltenham, UK
Many thanks for speaking at the Growing Gloucestershire Conference 2008, it is fantastic to be able to offer Gloucestershire professionals the opportunity to hear such a thought provoking presentation.
As I am sure you noticed there was a great atmosphere on the day and we have had plenty of positive feedback...
Penny Richards-Good, Marketing & Operations Manager
Centre for Enterprise & Innovation, University of Gloucestershire
Good afternoon David, I really enjoyed your speech yesterday and couldn't believe that you managed to hold my attention for an hour!
Rhonda Thompson, Royal Agricultural College
April 2008, Richard Staples, Procurement, Heinz Foods
“I hired David to present to a conference of 130 delegates during my time at HJ Heinz. His presentation was insightful, thought provoking, scary, exciting and ultimately thoroughly enjoyable. David took delegates through 2 hour journey which was excellently presented to a multi national audience. I would not hesitate to recommend David the next time you are thinking of a way to energise or inform employees at any level of your organisation.”
April 2008, Nick Peters, Owner, Business First magazine
“In a world where we are bombarded with myriad opinions, conflicting predictions and a glut of data, David Smith helps us see the future with piercing clarity. In business this is invaluable - listen to David and you will be on the next bandwagon - and exploiting it - before your competition even know it exists.”
April 2008, Brian Coventry, Chief Executive, APS
“I first saw David present at the Shirlaws client conference in March 2007. It was clear that David and his subject matter would be a great addition to our own client conference that followed in November of that year. Since then clients have commented on the excellent presentation that David gave. For me personally thought provoking, high energy, entertaining and professionalism are words that immediately spring to mind when describing David. I have no doubt that we will use David again at an APS event”
May 2008, Institute of Directors, Annual Dinner, North Yorkshire, UK
I wanted to get my thanks in early for being an excellent speaker last night and for royally entertaining the audience at Rudding Park. I know that they enjoyed the evening and I hope that you enjoyed it too.
Nick Bramley, Chairman, Institute of Directors, North Yorkshire Branch
May 2008, Bank of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
We were delighted to meet and talk with you on Tuesday and you've definitely provided food for thought amongst the team. There is a great buzz in here about the Awards (I just need to steer people away from the robot idea; it seems to have caught the imagination hugely!). So again, thank you for an insightful and interesting talk.
Lorraine Griffin, Bank of Ireland
May 2008, Building Society Association, Annual Conference, Manchester
Many thanks for your excellent presentation which feedback suggests the audience really enjoyed.
Adrian Coles, Director-General, The Building Societies Association
May 2008, SustainPack – Sustainability Conference, Prague
Thank you very much for your presentation which certainly helped to make it a most successful couple of days. The appraisal forms retrieved indicate that the delegates were very satisfied and found the conference most worthwhile. Once again, we very much appreciate the time and effort you put into producing and presenting your material, and hope we may seek your help on a future occasion.
Jenny Fehrenbach, Event Manager, SustainPack
February 2008 – Financial Services Forum - London
Thank you for presenting to our general insurance group today. You gave us a breathtaking review of everything that is changing in our world.
Andrew Porter, Managing Director, The Financial Services Forum
February 2008 – Henley Management College – British Dental Association
I received very positive feedback this morning on your behalf as the participants enjoyed your presentation.
Kim Harris, Henley Management College
I had a number of people today saying how much they enjoyed your session so thanks very much.
Rebecca Chandler-Wilde, Director of Studies, Consortium Programmes
January 2008, Distribution and Emerging Technology Conferences, LOMA, Tampa, USA
Delegate comments:
- Wow! Great start for the conference. Lots to think about.
- Great presentation, very thought provoking
- Extremely insightful and eye opening glimpse of the future
- Extremely relevant
- Easily could’ve provided 2 hrs of valuable content. Very good presentation skills
- Very informative, challenging presentation. Enjoyed him in Dallas and pleased with this year
- The type of presentation that makes these conferences wonderful
- Very informative- thought provoking
- So lively and easy to listen to. Information that can be beneficial for everyone in the future
You received a score of 3.82. This score is based on a 1– 4 scale (1=poor, 4=excellent).
Thank you for a great presentation today.
Ann M. Purr, FLMI, CSP, PCS, AFSI, Second Vice President, Information Management, LOMA
January 2008 - Tampa
I enjoyed your presentation very much.....I would even go so far as to say that it was the session that provided the most value to me because it was very thought provoking. You reminded me of Alvin Toffler, a favourite author.
Brian P. Doyle, FLMI, Business Consultant, Distribution Systems
I was present for your presentation on revolutionary technologies and the future. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Charlie Turri - Director, IT American General Life & Accident Ins. Co.
Thank you very much for your rousing and interesting presentation. I am looking forward to sharing your insight with my organization. I hope that this will get them moving in new directions.
Adrienne Piggott, Consultant, Information Development, Standard Life Assurance of Canada
I very much enjoyed your presentation this morning… thank you for the great information!
Melissa Schmidt, Director, IT - Application Development
November 2007, London - ‘Estate Agent of the Year Awards’, UK
Peter Knight, Chairman, Phoenix Plc
November 2007, Hampton Court, UK
Thanks for last night we had fantastic feedback and I understand Carol Bagnald has you in mind for a number of future events. Thanks
Kevin Thorn, Head of Commercial Centre, HSBC Bank plc
It was good to meet you on Wednesday. The feedback from our guests was excellent and we would like to use you again at some stage.
Carol Bagnald, Regional Commercial Director, HSBC Bank plc
October 2007, Institute of Directors - Chairmen’s Conference, London, UK
Just a quick note to say how much I enjoyed your presentation at the IoD Chairman’s meeting on Friday... I am sure that you could have taken the whole afternoon session and perhaps you should have done. Fantastic, entertaining and thought provoking in equal measure, excellent……
Nick Bramley, Chairman, Institute of Directors, North Yorkshire Branch
Many thanks David, they are all clamouring for it! (Copy of David’s presentation)
And thank you again for attending and giving your excellent presentation, I have been quoting you all weekend! I hope we have opportunity to work together again in the future. Kind regards
Lisa Champion, Institute of Directors
October 2007 - Cisco Advanced Services Kick-off - Berlin - Germany
First of all I'd like to thank you for presenting at the Cisco AS Kick-Off. Once the evaluations have been collected I will share the feedback with you but I can already tell you from the comments I received that people felt you were a very engaged speaker. The start was excellent and you've captured the audience's attendance... I'm convinced many participants will go home with ideas. You gave them food for thought no doubt!
Marina Van den Bossche, Executive Communication Manager, Advanced Services, Cisco,
It was a thought provoking and valuable session. We thoroughly enjoyed it… if the opportunity arises to have you come and talk to a group in the new world to provoke their thinking on the challenges ahead for all of us I would be delighted if you would come and talk to us again.
John Collins, Group Deputy General Counsel, ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
October 2007, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Thanks so much for your presentation at our Forum in Florida.
We had great feedback from the session.
Denise Garth, ACORD, Vice President - Membership and Standards
September 2007 - Alton Towers - UK
I am writing to extend my sincere thanks to you for agreeing to be our Guest Speaker
at the Heinz European Purchasing Workshop in Alton Towers on 13 September and for
sharing with us such passion and conviction your thoughts on the key trends and issues of the future, the challenges as well as the opportunities in the decades ahead.
As you know from the applause and the positive feedback you received on the day, we all thoroughly enjoyed your presentation which we found fascinating, engaging, enlightening, inspiring and thought-provoking, to say the least. Having just seen the results of the feedback questionnaires, I am delighted to let you know that out of all the presentations yours received the best marks.
Philip Duncan , Vice President, Procurement (Europe), Heinz
September 2007, London,
Thank you for your presentation at the RBS Insurance Education Day. The feedback from the event has been very strong and this could not have been achieved without your contribution.
Roger Ramsden, Marketing and Strategy Director, Royal Bank of Scotland Insurance
September 2007 - Southampton
“David Smith’s presentation was very thought provoking. Quite a wake up call!”
Peter Taylor, CEO, Winchester Legal
“Thanks for today and many congratulations on a fine job. I think you pitched it perfectly and people seemed to leave energized to make some real changes. Also it was a lot of fun.”
John Rosling, Shirlaws, Institute of Directors Breakfast.
September 2007 - Other feedback from Institute of Directors Breakfast Meeting
“The presentation last week was one of the best I have attended this year - very informative and it has given me a lot to think about.”
Simon Smith. , Head of Commercial Centre. HSBC
“I felt that I had to respond. I found the presentation absolutely fascinating and it was interesting to see the response of the delegates varying from fear and disbelief to mild amusement. I have mentioned the event to number of colleagues and clients since. Thank you.
Stuart Stoter, , International Trade Partner, Clydesdale Bank plc
“Wow! What a great Breakfast Meeting – many congratulations on also having such a superb speaker”.
Neil Murphy, , CEO Armchair group
“Really enjoyed the presentation. It has certainly sparked a fair amount of debate”.
Jason Colombo , Operations Director C&C Technology
“The feedback from our guests has been fabulous”.
Debbie Richardson. , CEO TFK Marketing
“I found the whole morning fascinating and the presentation truly inspirational”.
Andrew Mais, , PMP UK Ltd
September 2007, Alton Towers, UK
Many thanks - the event was a great success all round and there was some really good feedback on your presentation from the delegates.
Richard Stables,, European Procurement Manager, Heinz Foods.
June 2007 – West Midlands, UK
Dear David, I had high expectations of your presentation at our event at Warwick, this week, and you over-delivered! I was really impressed with the way in which your enthusiasm has spread to my top-team. Now, it is very much down to us to make sure we maintain the momentum.
Roger D Smith, Group Commercial Director, West Bromwich Building Society
Further to Roger’s email of 28th June I would like to reiterate the successful impact you had on the quality and content of our Executive Strategic event. You really managed to add an additional series of dimensions to our thinking and I think these will pay dividends as we pull our plans together.
June 2007 – Berlin, Germany
David - Thank you so much for your presentation yesterday - it certainly hit the spot with most of the delegates and with the Board. The breakout session that followed was very animated (despite the late nights in the bar!) but did keep the issues raised in context. As you can imagine quite a number of delegates have committed to go away and find out more.
Lynn Mathieson, CMO, Reed Exhibitions
The presentation was great - well done!
Alistair Gornall, CEO, Reed Exhibitions
June 2007 – St. Paul de Vence, France
We invited David Smith to speak at our first European Executive Summit in St. Paul de Vence, France in 2004. With his encyclopedic grasp of global change issues and his professional but uniquely enthusiastic presentation style he proved to be a great success. So much so, that we have invited David to contribute to our summit every year since. In addition, we have invited David to address senior groups of executives to help them prepare their business for the future.
I would have no hesitation in recommending David as one of Europe's leading speakers and facilitators
Anthony Thomson, Chief Executive, The Financial Services Forum
June 2007 – Beijing, China
David - It was good meeting you again after a long time. On behalf of CSC we would like to extend our thanks for taking out the time to speak at our event in Beijing last week. The participants have extended a positive feedback.
Prakash Thomas, Regional Director-Sales & Marketing, Financial Services Group-Asia
CSC Computer Science Pte Ltd
June 2007 – Nice, France
David - It was a pleasure to work with you in Nice. A cracking presentation. Talking to the delegates it was obvious that you had a real impact. It was a shock to me how so much of what you said to them seemed to take them so completely by surprise. Good work.
John Luff, Chairman, Sustainable Marketing
June 2007 – London, UK
Hi David - thanks for your contribution today. Very interesting as always. I think the virtual community and networking stuff gave the (Heinz) marketing people real food for thought especially.
Andy Rushforth, Intertech PIRA
May 2007 – Madrid, Spain
Thank you very much for your contribution which certainly helped to make it a most successful couple of days. The appraisal forms retrieved indicate that the delegates were very satisfied and found the conference most worthwhile. I hope that you also found the other presentations of interest as well as finding some time to enjoy Madrid.
Jo Stone , Co-ordination Team Leader , Events Group, IntertechPira
March 2007 – Sydney, Australia
David – I wanted to personally write and thank you for the effort you put forward on our client survey. Your professionalism and ability to keep us focused and work to tight deadlines meant that our clients received superb value. And, as always, your presentation style really hit the mark!
Clare McCarthy, Chief Executive, Shirlaws International
Your talk was very well received - several of the course participants came up to me afterwards to say how much they appreciated it, so many thanks.
Rebecca Chandler-Wilde, Director of Studies, MBA Program, Henley Management College
March 2007, Warwick, UK
I write to thank you for a most informative and enjoyable presentation by yourself at our recent AGM. Yesterday was the BMF Council Meeting and I am pleased to inform you the comments from members at the meeting were extremely positive. Everybody appears to have been engaged with your most enlightened presentation. Once again, may I thank you and I wish you continued success.
Peter Methven, President, British Marine Federation
Thank you for your very good presentation, you had me on the edge of my seat and we've had many great comments from our members. So thanks once again.
Hazel Parker, British Marine Federation, Annual Conference
February 2007 - UK
On behalf of myself and Patricia can I once again thank you for your superb input to our last Pensions-Net-Work meeting.We have had excellent feedback once again from members and we are looking forward to the next meeting in June.
Malcolm Small, Managing Director, The Pensions Net-Work, UK
October 2006 – Tampere, Finland
Thank you very much for speaking in our Executive MBA program. You received a very good response from the students… I personally really enjoyed your presentation and the time we spent together. I look forward to seeing you again on some other occasion.
Petri Vehmanen, Professor, University of Tampere, Finland
I wanted to personally write and thank you for taking the time out of your working day to speak at our mobile data technologies event. I know how much time it takes to craft and deliver a presentation and I am pleased to report that overall feedback was excellent in terms of relevance of the subject matter of your presentation, style and pace of delivery and entertainment value no less!
Jonathan West, Marketing Director, Formic
September 2006 - San Francisco, USA
It was fabulous to have you with us – I have some great feedback from the group re your session.
Clare McCarthy, Chief Executive, Shirlaws International
June 2006 – Henley, UK
I wanted to write and thank you for your excellent presentation at Friday's Forum at Henley. The feedback was excellent on the day overall, but your presentation in particularly got rave reviews! I know you gave them a lot to think (and perhaps worry!) about, but the participants commented that your presentation was superb, very informative, thought provoking and indeed inspiring and entertaining. Their only negative comment was that they would have liked to listen to you for much longer!
I am most grateful to you for taking the time from your busy schedule to be with us on Friday and for your contribution in making the day such a success. As briefly mentioned, I am putting together a programme of events for the remainder of this year and into next, and would be delighted if we could entice you back to Henley on another occasion.
June Sebley
Director, Henley Partnership
June 2006 – St. Paul de Vence, France
Just a short note to thank you for helping to make the conference one of the better one’s that I’ve attended.
Mario Aristides ACII`
Head of Business Development, AXA Insurance UK plc
Thank you to you & the team for a superb 3 days. I thought the quality of the event was outstanding and the value gained far outweighed the time away from the business. It gave me valuable thinking time and the sessions prompted some real differences in my thinking about what customer centricity really means & how we could deliver it.
Andrew Norton
Head of Alternative Channels, Halifax Regulated Sales
March 2006 – Dallas, USA
Thank you for speaking at LOMA’s Distribution and Emerging Technology Conferences. Your presentation was very well received by our attendees. The information you provided was both useful and timely.
The evaluations from the conference have been collected and the following reviews concern your presentation.
Comments: Very provocative, thanks. Timely, interesting, outstanding, thought provoking, I want more. Very enjoyable. Eye-opening and thought provoking
Additionally, each speaker received a score based on the reviews of their lecture. You received a score of 3.93. This score is based on a 1– 4 scale (1=poor, 4=excellent).
Thank you again for taking the time to share your knowledge and talents at our conference. We hope that you will consider returning in the future to continue the discussion.
Ann M. Purr, FLMI, CSP, PCS
Second Vice President, Information Management
March 2006 – Copenhagen, Denmark
Thank you so much for coming over. People were excited about "your hour"… it was a great day and they felt very committed at the end.
Casper Puggaard
Concept Manager, SAS Scandinavian Airlines Denmark
