Speaker

Richard John

Richard has nearly 25 years of sales, marketing and event management experience, gained working with a host of “Blue Chip” companies including Rover Group, Allied Dunbar, News International and British Airways.

Richard is recognised as a leading authority in the field of event management, training and consultancy. In 1995 he became the first person in the UK to receive the prestigious Certified Manager of Exhibits (CME) award from the Virginia-based International Exhibitors’ Association. In 1996 he was appointed to the teaching faculty at the prestigious Chartered Institute of Marketing, where he lectures on all aspects of exhibition and event strategy and marketing. As well as fronting the most successful AEO/DTI national exhibitor training programme, he is a visiting lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University and a Lecturer at the University of Oxford Centre for Continuing Professional Development.

Richard has a joint Hons Degree (Economics & International Studies) from Warwick University and a raft of post-graduate qualifications. He is a qualified adviser and assessor of National Vocational Qualifications, and holds an NVQ Level V in Management (as well as a Diploma in Management) and a Level IV NVQ in Training & Development. He is also a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management, and a qualified NLP Practitioner.

Richard writes regularly for a number of business magazines on a variety of commercial topics, he can frequently be found on the international MICE speaker circuit and is the author of two marketing books. More recently he wrote and developed the “Inside Job” television series for Channel 4 Television.

Richard’s presentations have been extremely well-received across the world, with successful assignments that have taken him to mainland Europe, Scandinavia, the USA, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East.