The G&T Sessions

Named The UK's #1 CX Influencer by Customer Experience Magazine. James used to be an actual, real-life, legitimate, award-winning rockstar. He played guitar in a heavy metal band, released albums and tore up stages all over the world, James uses this unique experience to energise, empower and inspire his clients and their teams as a 'Customer Experience Rockstar'. ►Were you really in a band?◄ Yes, I played guitar in a heavy metal band, I toured the world, was in magazines, released albums and had a video on TV. ►Are you a consultant?◄ No. I’m an international keynote speaker, trainer and content creator. #notaconsultant ►What kind of people do you work with?◄ CX practitioners, Heads of CX, Directors of CX and CCOs that are serious about learning, evolving and growing as CX professionals. ►How do you work with these people? ◄ Through unique and inspiring musical keynote performances and powerful and energising non-musical training & certification programs. ►Are you rich now because of your Amazon Prime show?◄ Yes....no, not really, I get $0.16 for every hour watched, you do the maths 😂 ►How do I join one of your ACXS training & certification programs?◄ The most common way is to be personally invited by me or recommended by a past attendee. However, if you don’t want to wait for that, drop me a message or email me and I can let you know the next available open classes or discuss in-house possibilities. www.acxs.co.uk ►What’s this ‘Evangelist For Hire’ stuff?◄ Basically, if you’d like a keynote speaker to talk at an event on your company’s behalf, I can do that. ►Do you really play guitar in your keynotes?◄ Yes, my keynotes are all musically themed and I LOVE performing them, so if you’ve got a conference, event, birthday or Bar Mitzvah you’d like to go off with a bang, take a look at some videos at www.jamesdodkins.com and get in touch.If you would like to know more about speaking, training or content creation drop me a line today. Email: jd@rockstar.cx Phone: 07809703073 

Eric Edmeades is an internationally recognised business speaker, film producer and serial entrepreneur. Eric’s varied business background includes mobile computing, medical simulation, augmented reality gaming, 3D camera engineering and Hollywood special effects. Eric is also the founder of WildFit and the creator of both Inception Marketing™ and Business Freedom™ -- a business ownership methodology that empowers you to own a business that doesn’t own you. FACEBOOK PAGE - https://www.facebook.com/ericedmeades/INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/ericedmeadesTWITTER - https://twitter.com/EricEdmeadesLINKEDIN - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericedmeades/WEBSITE - https://ericedmeades.com/

Ed Johnson is the CEO & Co-Founder of PushFar, a globally-leading platform helping to make mentoring more accessible and effective for individuals and organisations. With a background in digital marketing and online business growth, Ed now works closely with HR directors and Learning & Development Managers in organisations across a wide range of industries and sectors, helping to unlock mentoring and employee potential. Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PushFar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pushfarapp LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pushfar/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pushfar/

Patrick is the Founder of The World's 2nd biggest business meet-up. with 27,500+ members http://www.meetup.com/Entrepreneursinlondon. His expertise and superpowers are Pitching, Presentation, Lead generation, Copywriting and Sales Funnel conversion... basically how to influence and persuade with words. He has authored a few books including How To Conquer Fear Of Public Speaking and "Turn Your Contacts Into Cash" . He is super-connected and can get you connected to anyone, anywhere... even VIP’s. He teaches the science of doing this and also make introductions through his meet-up group of 26,000+ Entrepreneurs who are mainly in London/UK and through www.Vipdinners.com and he love's speaking .. with his favourite subjects being ; 1) How to pitch with confidence and Impact 2) How to get connected to ANYONE anywhere… even VIP’s 3) How to create prospects on demand 4) The secrets of power influencers 5) How to become a social genius. Patrick is originally from Denmark but has lived in 9 different countries, currently living in Surrey/UK This was a fun episode with Patrick, Enjoy !

Alejandro Canonero is Criteo's VP of Indirect Channels & Platform Ecosystem. He has 30+ years of successful hands-on experience in building Technology Platform Ecosystems while leading commercial teams at the global level at innovative Technology companies like NCR, Oracle, Dell, Hewlett Packard and Amazon. Alejandro earned a University Business degree in Argentina, an MBA from Ashridge Business School in London, has run several full distance Ironman triathlons all over the world and is a passionate scuba diver Instructor focused on shark diving globally. Alejandro is currently writing his doctoral thesis [DBA] on Technology Platform Ecosystems with BSI, Skema & Iaelyon from France. This is a great episode with Alejandro where he explains his amazing experiences in life, business and his plans for the future. Enjoy !. Alejandro Canonero LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/canonero/ Alejandro Canonero Shark diving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B5M1jw0DBQ Alejandro Canonero Ironman Race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khhy7w-iiVE Alejandro Canonero Ironman University Coach Certification: https://u.ironman.com/certified-coach/alejandro-canonero Alejandro Canonero PADI Divemaster Certification: http://www2.padi.com/mypadi/pros/online-services/pro-chek/default.aspx enter263183  Tiger Shark Diving: https://www.projectaware.org/blog/aliwal-shoal-scuba/jan-24-16/working-conserve-tiger-sharks-aliwal-shoal-scuba  Famous Argentineans Rene Favaloro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Favaloro Juan Manuel Fangio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Fangio Carlos Gardel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Gardel Cesar Milstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Milstein Jorge Luis Borges: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges Gabriela Sabatini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Sabatini Guillermo Vilas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Vilas Lionel Messi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Messi Manu Ginobili: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_Gin%C3%B3bili The Pope: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_(papa) Diego Maradona: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Maradona

Marcus Cauchi started his sales career in 1986. He has failed a lot. He's left money on the table. Well in excess of £56,000,000, and that's the stuff he can remember. He's snatched defeat from the jaws of victory more often than he cares to admit. He's a flawed human being, a creature of emotion, programming and messed up beliefs. He's also cunning, turning his propensity for self-sabotage, laziness and idiocy into a lucrative career as an author, trainer, coach, consultant and star of his own YouTube channel (www.tinyurl.com/cauchisubscribe). A master of work avoidance and a creature of the moment, he frequently writes on all subjects related to sales and selling on LinkedIn if you'd like to connect or follow his work on there. He is very responsive to questions and apt to connect especially if you engage in his threads or his 400+ articles (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandlersa...). A frustrated stand-up comedian and heavy (metal) lead singer, Marcus channels his creative juices into entertaining CEOs, business owners and salespeople with his special brand of curmudgeonly, brutally direct, practical ways for doing less but better on purpose. His company motto is "pecunia opus dimidium duplum" which means double the money for half the work. You can follow him on Twitter @The_Inquisitor and on Facebook via his company page https://www.facebook.com/sandler.se.uk/ He teaches his clients ways to cut out the useless fat from their selling, management, recruitment and channels. His clients regularly see revenue growth in excess of 300% and profit growth in excess of 500% in under 1 year. He has clients who've been with him for 15 years. He's a licensed franchisee with Sandler, the global leader in performance improvement. His greatest pleasure in business is seeing his clients grow, win deals they never thought possible and free up choices that used to be out of their reach. He is married with 3 bright, brilliant daughters who have managed to dodge a bullet through his wife's superior gene pool. When he eventually retires he intends to be the oldest stand-up comedian on the circuit and fill the Apollo in Hammersmith where he will perform his yoga-based routine in his red latex catsuit

David is the CEO of 11:FS and since his dream of being a sportsperson was crushed (along with the ligaments in his knee!) and he had to get a proper job, he has worked in pretty much every angle of the financial services industry never losing that competitive desire to win. Having pitched, established and run billion-pound transformations for some of the biggest FS companies on the planet the realisation that digital banking is only 1% finished has spurred his desire to establish an organisation that can actually make it happen. 11:FS is a challenger consultancy building out new propositions and ventures in the UK, US, Europe and Asia for some of the biggest brands on the planet. Alongside this 11:FS build in-house products from competitor benchmarking tools like 11:FS Pulse, to core banking systems like 11:FS Foundry. Most recently David has led the creation and market establishment of the challenger business bank Mettle for Natwest in the UK as its CEO, proving that the big banks can fight back against the FinTech threat. Enjoy this Episode.

Chris Obdam is founder and CEO of no-code platform Betty Blocks. He’s a born programmer turned internet entrepreneur with a passion for people and a lust for life. His vision is to empower the human side of innovation and push the limits of what is possible with technology. Under Chris’s leadership, Betty Blocks is bringing no-code to the world.

Robert Brus started in the Australian Defense Force when he was 17 years old and traveled the world as a Combat Systems Operator for the Royal Australian Navy. Now, Rob seeks to pay it forward by hosting the Go All In podcast (available at https://www.goallin.com.au/ on iTunes at https://apple.co/2K9qyMn and on all major podcasting platforms), where amazing people share stories of triumph and heartache to help others GO ALL IN. He also helps entrepreneurs amplify their message through his own digital marketing and podcast booking agency (https://www.goallin.com.au/podcast-booking-agency/) In this episode, Rob and I discuss the importance of having a mindset of incremental growth, how he “goes all in” in his personal and professional life and his advice for battling back from adversity and tough times. Please follow Rob everywhere on social media at: https://www.youtube.com/goallin https://twitter.com/goallinpodcast https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertnbrus/ https://www.instagram.com/go_all_in_podcast/ https://www.facebook.com/goallinpodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/254714381989102/

Jacqui is one of the 100 most powerful UK entrepreneurs, awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science in recognition of her international web science work. One of the 250 Founders of Tech City in December 2016 she pivoted her company FlyingBinary to meet the challenge of Brexit and the Internet of Things (IoT) with spectacular results. She is recognised as one of the 100 Global Leaders in 2019, Top Ten Global IoT innovators, and is an independent industry analyst for IoT. One of 4 IoT leaders advising the European Commission on their Citizen strategy for smart cities. One of the UK’s most influential Women in Tech, most influential web science researcher in 2019, 34 IoT Influencers on Twitter, 20 global entrepreneurs to watch, a UK Smart City leader. Shortlisted for a Cyber Security industry award based she was invited to speak in Davos on the future of the Cyber Security Industry. Globally recognised as a Smart City Tzar, and a strategic Advisor to the UK Government, Cities lead on Digital Built, Principal UK Expert lead for BSI international team for Smart Cities and AI. As a UK Science Diplomat she is working across the world to connect nations with her IoT innovations. She created CyberSafe to share the secrets of her Brexit success plan with entrepreneurs via a unique membership offering. CyberSafe launches after the UK exits from the European Union and will give entrepreneurs resources to meet the challenges of transition and the IIoT based on a proven success plan. Great stories and insights into the evolution of the UK Tech market and the future of Tech. Enjoy !