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Require a motivational speaker, business speaker, celebrity speaker, after dinner speaker, sports speaker or keynote speaker? Each motivational speaker and after dinner speaker is backed up with state of the art technology that guarantees the best possible fees and ensures that you receive fast and reliable service that can truly be described as legendary!Click here to access a full biography of Laurie TaylorLaurie Taylor is visiting professor in the department of politics and sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was recently made a Fellow of Birkbeck College and holds visiting professorships at the London Institute and Westminster University. He has been awarded honorary degrees by the Universities of Leicester, Nottingham and Central England. His contributions to social science were recognised last year by his election to the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. Before entering academic life, he had eight years industrial and sales experience, worked as a librarian in Liverpool, taught in a London comprehensive school, and was a professional actor with Joan Littlewood's famous Theatre Workshop Company at Stratford East. He is the author of fourteen books on motivation, change, communication, and personal identity, and is a regular contributor to the New Statesman, The Independent, and The Times. His weekly satirical column on university life has been appearing in the Times Higher Education Supplement for the last eighteen years. His most recent book (written with his son, Matthew) was called What Are Children For? For the past twenty years he has been heard on BBC Radio 4 in such programmes as Stop the Week, The Radio Programme, News Quiz, Speaking as an Expert, Afternoon Shift, and Room for Improvement. He can currently be heard every Wednesday afternoon on R4 presenting Thinking Allowed, a programme devoted to society and social change. He has made several major television documentaries on such topics as crime, drinking behaviour, and the purpose of education. His last major film (broadcast in December 2003) was a C4 documentary on the meaning of celebrity. He is currently working on a documentary for C4 concerned with the inadequacies of palliative care in the UK In the last twelve years he has addressed over five hundred major national and international companies on such topics as change, motivation, teamwork, new technology, risk, and communication. This autumn he will begin a speaking tour of British universities called 'Laurie Taylor at Large'. Speakers-uk.com are the UK’s pre-eminent source for motivational speakers for all occasions. On engaging a motivational speaker, or business speaker or keynote speakers, you will receive a full briefing pack with some key information and advice on making sure your occasion really is memorable. Just some of the refreshing differences about Speakers-UK.com that causes our clients to return to us for all their speaking needs and thus allows us to deliver an even better service to them year in year out. Enjoy browsing the site to see just a small selection of motivational speakers. |
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