Keynote Speaker
Nick Saunders
Nick has a 25 year track record as an international keynote speaker and trainer. His publication, You Can Choose Your Friends, is an Amazon No 1 best-seller. He is known as The Family Man because he demonstrates that workplaces are like families; you can choose your friends but work colleagues and families you’re stuck with. However, you can still get on with them and Nick shows you how… by turning relationships into results. He delivers his powerful message in a highly entertaining style that is unusual, unstuffy and unpretentious.
Nick's keynote will focus on the areas of communication, collaboration and conflict resolution. He will provide six powerful, practical tools to develop self- awareness and communication style – as well as help people work together more effectively and collaborate more successfully leading to improved performance and increased profit. Nick reveals how to win over anyone and everyone.
Industry Speaker
Linsey Adams - Reckitt Professional UK
Linsey Adams is the Head of Trade Marketing and Customer Activation at Reckitt Pro Solutions, overseeing Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. With over 20 years of experience, she has successfully driven sales growth and led omni channel marketing campaigns for global power brands, spanning many different categories.
Starting her career in sales at Red Bull she has gone on to hold commercial and marketing positions across multiple channels and 4 years ago joined Reckitt to launch the trade marketing function in their newly created professional division. Her achievements in this role being recognised at the last BOSS awards where she was presented ‘Professional of the Year’, Linsey will be sharing her career journey so far!
Workshop Sessions
Leanne Gregg
Workshop Session - Leanne Gregg: Using Emotional Intelligence to mediate internal workplace conflict.
Leanne’s career has taken her on a dynamic journey across diverse industries, each offering unique challenges and opportunities. She began in the legal sector before transitioning to the office supplies and stationery industry in 2005. After 11 years in that sector, she moved to the automotive industry, working with global brands such as Porsche, Audi, and Mercedes-Benz between 2015 and 2017, where she helped shape HR strategies at an international level. In late 2017, she took on her first board-level role with a tech company in Leeds, playing a pivotal role in M&A and a private equity sale.
In 2022, Leanne returned to her roots with evo, where she continues to focus on people development, building strong stakeholder relationships, and driving organisational success through its talent and culture. Over the years, she has led People and Culture teams across the UK, Europe, and the US. She is also proud to be a co-founder of the evo Foundation, which aims to tackle poverty within communities and break down barriers to education for those who need it most.
A recent highlight of Leanne’s career was being named Executive of the Year at the 2024 EOPA Awards—a recognition she is excited to share with the teams she has had the privilege to work alongside.
Jonathan Smith
Workshop session: Winning Negotiations: Building Stronger Customer Relationships
Jonathan Smith has spent 40 years in the office products industry, with ten years at Avery as Sales Director UK and then 20 years as VP Sales Europe. Jonathan’s career in office products began in 1981, when he joined 3M Office Products in the UK. He worked at 3M for ten years where he held various sales and marketing roles. He now acts as a consultant to the OP industry, working for both Avery and Highlands Group across Europe.
Darryl Brunt
Workshop session: Overcoming Challenges in Building Emotional Intelligence for Leadership
Future leaders will face challenges when building emotional intelligence, as this skill set is critical for leadership now and in the future, lets discuss the main obstacles encountered and how you might overcome them….
Darryl Brunt is the UK & Ireland Sales & Marketing Director for Fellowes Brands – a 4th generation family business and global manufacturer of market-leading products for improving life at work, in the home and on the go. These include shredders, laminators, binders, storage boxes, workspace wellbeing solutions and air purifiers.
Darryl is responsible for establishing and delivering the Sales and Marketing strategy through the UK Sales, Marketing & Customer Service Teams.
Prior to joining Fellowes, Darryl was Group Sales Director at the Blueberry Group, a PE backed ambient food Business having spent time in senior sales roles at Coca-Cola and Nest