TALK Management recommends Laurie Taylor as an After Dinner Speaker, Keynote Conference Speaker, Motivational Speaker, Celebrity Speaker and Conference & Awards Host.

Laurie Taylor is the highly acclaimed professor, writer and broadcaster. Laurie Taylor has been critically acclaimed by the national press as having one of the liveliest, intelligent minds which when coupled with his excellent verbosity, makes him one of the most sought after and successful speakers currently on the circuit.

Laurie Taylor is visiting professor in the department of politics and sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was recently made a Fellow of Birkbeck College and holds visiting professorships at the London Institute and Westminster University. He has been awarded honorary degrees by the Universities of Leicester, Nottingham and Central England. His contributions to social science were recognised in 2003 by his election to the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.

He is the author of fourteen books on motivation, change, communication, and personal identity, and is a regular contributor to the New Statesman, The Independent, and The Times. His weekly satirical column on university life has been appearing in the Times Higher Education Supplement for the last eighteen years. His most recent book (written with his son, Matthew) was called What Are Children For?.

Before entering academic life, he had eight years industrial and sales experience, worked as a librarian in Liverpool, taught in a London comprehensive school, and was a professional actor with Joan Littlewood`s famous Theatre Workshop Company at Stratford East.

For the past twenty years he has been heard on BBC Radio 4 in such programmes as Stop the Week, The Radio Programme, News Quiz, Speaking as an Expert, Afternoon Shift, and Room for Improvement. He can currently be heard every Wednesday afternoon on Radio 4 presenting Thinking Allowed, a programme devoted to society and social change. He has made several major television documentaries on such topics as crime, drinking behaviour, and the purpose of education. His last major film (broadcast in December 2003) was a C4 documentary on the meaning of celebrity. He is currently working on a documentary for C4 concerned with the inadequacies of palliative care in the UK

A natural, dynamic communicator, in the last twelve years he has addressed over five hundred major national and international companies on such topics as change, motivation, teamwork, new technology, risk, communication, future trends in business and leisure, new ways of selling, revolutionising the workplace, rewards and recognition, and the importance of understanding customers. In 2004 he conducted a speaking tour of British universities called `Laurie Taylor at Large`.

Laurie gives vigorous, well-researched, and always entertaining keynote and after dinner speeches.

The Daily Mail describes him as lively minded, engaging and supremely capable, while The Independent calls him suavely mischievous.

(Laurie Taylor) Has both genuine intelligence and great verbal facility The Telegraph


Laurie is available to book for public sector and charity events.


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