Geoff Burch

Biography:

Since walking out of a senior management job 30 years ago, Britain’s ‘Alternative Business Guru’ Geoff Burch has never looked back. Now an international business expert, best selling author and TV presenter, Geoff travels the world working with blue chip companies to help stimulate, motivate and inspire their people and is established as one of the world’s most well known, sought-after and entertaining speakers. He is constantly in demand to give his rip-roaring keynote presentations at conferences and was recently voted ‘Business Communicator of the Year’ by the UK Guild of Speechwriters.

But his interests are not just confined to big business. After years of doing his own thing and ‘loving every mad, scheming, wheely-popping, money-spinning second of it’, Geoff also has a particular passion for small enterprise. A third generation entrepreneur – his grandmother and mother ran a number of successful enterprises – Geoff loves to inspire small businesses using the skills he’s acquired from working with big business. These experiences were distilled into two of his best selling books ‘Go It Alone’ and ‘Self Made Me’ which are aimed at all those planning to succeed in their own businesses. Funny and mischievous, the books, like their author, pull no punches.

Publications:

• The Art and Science of Business Persuasion (Birch Lane, 1996)
• Writing on the Wall: The Campaign for Commonsense Business (Capstone, 2002)
• Way of the Dog: The Art of Making Success Inevitable (John Wiley and Sons, 2005)
• Resistance is Useless: The Art of Business Persuasion (Capstone, 2003)
• Self Made Me: Why Being Self Employed Beats Everyday Employment (Capstone, 2011)