Deborah Swallow

In Business there is no Magic, just the Magician

Dr. Deborah Swallow DBA, M.Sc (Managment and Business Development), ACPA, FIMgt, MCIM, NLP Licensed Business Practioner

Speaker, Conference Chair, Seminar Leader

Dr. Deborah Swallow is the magician who makes magic for corporations and institutions. She addresses international conferences on the impact of globalisation on businesses worldwide. She is the rare entrepreneur who has the ability to connect with and move an audience whilst motivating individuals to want to achieve and learn more -- about themselves and their organisations. She is known as a speaker who motivates AND gets results . She can deliver her topics either as keynote presentations or as interactive whole- or part-day programmes.

Deborah doesn't just fill a Speaker slot. Her presentations help companies of all sizes move towards their goals through creative, interactive and high-content presentations designed for long-term and sustained results. She helps individuals achieve better performance through a rare combination of fact, insight and practical advice that delegates can apply immediately for improved results.

An inspirational speaker, her passion for great people performance has been learned the hard way. Deborah?s talks are brought to life with true life stories of success and failure -- designed and delivered to make any listener realise that they too can achieve their goals. She empowers people to realise that motivation is something they have to do for themselves, whether they are business owners, salaried staff or self-employed.

 

Topics

Deborah Swallow never delivers a set piece; each presentation is developed and customised to suit your specific requirements. The draft outline will be submitted to you in advance so you can be sure that your audience gets the messages that you want them to hear.

Here are the key areas of Deborah?s expertise:

Warp-Speed Change: The Challenge to Business Leadership
The half-life of change has now collapsed. ?70,000 businesses will disappear in the next 5 years because of ineffective leadership,? Financial Times 2003. What?s going on? Why is the pace of change becoming ?instant?? How do CEOs understand this pace of change? More importantly, how do they lead so others will follow? What principles, wisdom, and processes do they employ to confront this era and prosper?

Knowledge Management: Unifying Knowledge and Action
With the increasingly complex problems that global organisations face every day, knowledge assets have become the infrastructure of competitiveness and success. What is knowledge management and why is it more than capture, storage and retrieval systems? How do you refocus on meaning over measures? How can you create core competences? Why is the recognition of cultural differences important? How easy is it to transfer knowledge?

Operating in a Global Environment
Companies need to understand Globalisation and have the capacity to respond to it. How can companies prosper through cultural synergy? How important are national differences and characteristics? How do companies need to adjust when they move beyond their borders? Can just anyone ?Go Global?? Do leadership and management styles need to adjust?

Entrepreneurship
Rapid change in many industries has meant the demise of many smaller businesses ? and the process is set to continue. What hope for the small guy, how can David slay Goliath ? or at least co-exist? Is reinvention always the key to growth? How can you build business health? Are you managing, or are you leading? ? the magical difference between pushing and pulling. What can major corporates learn from SMEs?

Deborah was keynote speaker at The Women Entrepreneurs Conference in Budapest, The Family-Run Business Conference in Estonia, and The Economic Forum in St. Petersburg. She has also spoken at The Microsoft Conference on Knowledge Management in the UK.

She is co-author of several books on Cross Cultural Communications, and author of Thriving and Surviving as an International Manager and Culture Shock: Finland. Deborah gained her Masters degree in Management and Business Development at business school in Britain. She attended university in France before becoming an interpreter in Spain for Ford Motor Company. She is a qualified accountant , a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and has submitted her Doctorate in Change Management : specialising in Managing Knowledge Across Cultures.

Her Speech Titles are:

MANAGING THE FIZZ
Your Knowledge Assets can give you the edge

GETTING THE RIGHT PERFORMANCE OUT OF THE WRONG PEOPLE
The key secrets of being an entrepreneur

BLOOD, SWEAT AND CHEERS
Reversing a corporate collapse with an entrepreneurial touch

CROSS CULTURE: EAGLE OR VULTURE?
How to soar on the wings of synergy

Speaking Topics:

Business
Management
Change
Future Trends
Globalisation
Knowledge Management
Entrepreneurship

Articles

How To Break Down Barriers To International Communication