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“People are becoming increasingly intolerant of companies without a … Compelling Cause.” ~ Roger Fairhead What’s the difference you want to make? When I was growing up, my dream was to become an Engineer and much of my early career was spent managing engineering projects. A key lesson I learned in that role was that […]
“Don’t just do something, stand there!” I’ve heard that message three times now. The first time was shortly after I started my own business almost 20 years ago. I wanted to focus on training and development, with the strap-line of “helping you learn”, and I had quite quickly secured three sources of income. Two […]
Roger in Company Culture, Define your Audience, Dream, Leadership, PRIZE, Put Your Dream to the Test
June 12, 2020
Are we going to be a gold digger, a wheelbarrow salesman or a Mustang Maker. All three business models have merit, and all three are significantly different ways to approach this crisis.
Roger in Deliver, Dream, Implement, Influence, Leadership, PRIZE, Put Your Dream to the Test
May 15, 2020
When I came back to the bike sheds to cycle home at the end of the day, of course, it had gone. My bike had gone. Forever. And I didn’t get a replacement for several years; my parents decided it would teach me a valuable lesson, and it did!
“Time may change me. But you can’t trace time.” ~ David Bowie Changes is a popular chart-topping song by David Bowie about an optimistic personal journey of stepping out on your own. He wrote it when he was going through a lot of personal change in his own life, as he and his wife were […]
Rather as a plane needs to have both the thrust to provide the forward motion, they also need the wings to generate the lift. In the same way a new idea needs the dream to produce drive, and it needs the excitement to make the dream fly …
Roger in Deliver, Dream, Implement, Leadership, Leadership Gold, PRIZE, Put Your Dream to the Test
October 26, 2018
In leadership terms, it’s important to know where you’re going to, to define where you want to end up. Sometimes this is really quite obvious. When Kennedy stated “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade” on September 12 1962 it was really quite obvious where there was, and where here was. There was the moon, and here was the earth.
If we don’t know where we are, we’ll not be able to chart the course to where we want to get to …
I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain, To see for certain what I thought I knew. Far, far away, someone was weeping , But the world was sleeping, Any dream will do.
I first heard these lyrics when I was a teenager, and more recently when I started thinking about what they actually meant for me I found an interpretation that really resonated and helped me to understand why I love doing what I’m doing.
Publishing a book on Amazon.
Oh, I could write a book about that! How many times have you heard someone say that when they’ve been through some difficult situation or experience, or when they want to have a gossip about something. Maybe you’ve said it yourself from time to time too.
Apparently, nine out of ten adults have or want a pursuit that ignites their passionate side. That’s what the study conducted by Alpha Romeo found as part of their recent #FindYourPassion campaign.
Roger is a Leadership specialist and uses the PRIZE Winning Leadership model to help leaders improve their effectiveness and that of their teams, through remote and on-site delivery of keynotes, group training events and individual coaching sessions.
He is the author of several books including "PRIZE Winning Leadership" and “Personal Productivity Planner”, a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management and a Director of the Global Leadership Network UK with extensive experience in Project Management and Sales.
“He is articulate, tracks complex issues with ease and has an incredible gift for raising pearls of wisdom out of the murky depths of people and process.” His passion is to help people to learn effective leadership skills to lead their teams to capitalize on their strengths and passions to realize their dreams.
Roger also invests into the dreams of families in the world’s underserved communities to offer them small loans that empower them to invest in their future, to provide for their families and give back to their communities.