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Steve Tappin
CEO confidant
Steve Tappin is the personal confidant of many of the world's most successful CEOs and the best selling author of "The Secrets of CEOs: 150 Global CEOs Lift the Lid on Business, Life and Leadership".
Steve has dedicated his career to being a personal confidant to Fortune500 CEOs on business and personal leadership. He draws on 20 years' experience of working with Chairmen and CEOs and is currently a confidant to 7 FTSE50 CEOs and working with a number of leading CEOs in China and India.
Personally mentored by the late Sir John Harvey-Jones, Steve is a successful entrepreneurial CEO; he is currently CEO of Xinfu and prior to that founded and led Edengene, the industry award-winning new venture consultancy, and Leaders Reloaded, the CEO development boutique.
Steve is a highly sought after media commentator: he has appeared live on screen and on air and in print with the BBC (e.g. Today Programme), CNBC (e.g. Squawkbox), ReutersTV, BusinessWeek, Fortune, FT, New York Times, Telegraph, Mint, Financial Express and Business Today, China Daily and Shanghai times.
Keynote speaker and conference host
Steve frequently speaks around the world on a very wide range of leadership issues drawing on The Secrets of CEOs and his professional assignments. Recent speeches in India, China, Serbia, France, USA and UK have focused on:
- Lessons from practical experience working with the best global CEOs
- Winning: how CEOs should go again after the global economic crisis
- Taking the best from the West, China and India to create a new way to lead global businesses
- How on earth do you deliver growth and innovation in a major corporation
- Hard globalisation: how do you combine the best of Eastern and Western Leadership?
- How do you lead a global business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
- How do you do all this and have a personal life as a CEO and not burn out?
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Steve has addressed audiences of 50-600 in India, China, Serbia, France, USA and UK in 2009 alone. Highlights have included:
- Chairing and keynoting at the inaugural Leaders in India CEO business Forum alongside dozens of CEOs and experts including Steve Forbes, Tom Peters, Adi Godrej and Donald Trump Jnr
- Annual Conference: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (London)
- FTSE100 HR Directors Forum (Channel Islands)
- Lecturing at Beijing and Shandong business schools
- ACCA Global Virtual Conference (Global Broadcast & London)
- CelebrAsian 2009 (New York)
- Day one keynote and panel host at Leaders in London alongside Jack Welch, Gary Hamel and Daniel Goleman
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More on Xinfu here.
Email Steve: enquiries@xinfu.com
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Andrew Cave
Andrew Cave, 42, has been a financial journalist for 18 years. He has written for the Daily Telegraph since 1996, including three years in New York as US Business Correspondent and five years as Associate City Editor. Now freelance, he writes the weekly business profile in The Sunday Telegraph as well as several other regular features for the Daily Telegraph. For four years, he wrote City Life, a weekly column in the Daily Telegraph chronicling the irreverent side of working in the UK's financial district.
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