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4 November, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm GMT
E2E & IWG Special Reception Event with The Lord Bird MBE, Founder of The Big Issue – and Stanford Professors Dr Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas
Wednesday, 4 November 2020
18:00hrs
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E2E & IWG Special Reception Event with The Lord Bird MBE, Founder of The Big Issue – and Stanford Professors Dr Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas
Wednesday, 4 November 2020
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About the Event
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This virtual evening reception is your opportunity to connect with Lord Bird MBE, Founder of The Big Issue Group and ‘one of the most interesting and inspiring characters you are likely to come across’, as well as the who’s who of entrepreneurship in the city. We will also be joined by Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas, two Stanford Graduate School of Business professors who’ve just released a book about the importance of the under-leveraged tool of humour in the business world. The talk will explore current challenges, experiences, and ideas over a glass of wine in a unique setting.
Lord Bird MBE along with Gordon Roddick of The Body Shop launched The Big Issue in September 1991, the magazine that now appears around the world and whose high standard of reporting has won the magazine a brace of high-profile media awards. Along with his entrepreneurial achievements, Lord Bird has a history more colourful than the Northern Lights, and stories that will have you crying, laughing, but ultimately in complete awe of this larger than life individual, that not only embraces life, but teaches others how to do so.
Naomi and Jennifer both teach the popular course Humor: Serious Business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where they help some of the world’s most hard-driving, blazer-wearing business minds harness the power of humor to lead. They’ve also written a book on the topic: Humor, Seriously: Why Humor is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life. And the UK version – Humour, Seriously. Naomi and Jennifer share findings from behavioral scientists, advice from world-class comedians, and stories from inspiring business leaders to reveal how humor works and — more importantly — how you can use it to be more effective at work and more joyful in life.
SPEAKER BIOS
Dr Jennifer Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a leading expert on how purpose and meaning shape individual choices and how technology can positively impact well-being. Her work has been widely published in leading scientific journals and featured in The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and Science. A recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award, Aaker counts winning a dance-off in the early 1980s among her greatest feats.
Naomi Bagdonas is a Lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and an Executive Coach. Naomi helps leaders be more innovative, flexible and resilient in the face of change by facilitating interactive sessions for Fortune 100 companies and nonprofits and coaching executives and celebrities for appearances ranging from Saturday Night Live to The Today Show. Formally trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Naomi now volunteers teaching improv in San Francisco’s county jail. Her dog Maxxy describes her as gullible and full of treats.
As a valued E2E guest, you will have the opportunity to meet and hear from our co-hosts: Richard Morris, CEO of IWG UK, the world’s largest serviced office supplier and Shalini Khemka, E2E’s Founder and CEO, Deal Maker for the UK Government’s Department of International Trade and a Member of the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board.
Don’t miss an opportunity to virtually meet our speakers and join in the conversation!
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Meet your Speaker
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Lord Bird MBE
Founder – The Big Issue Group
John, Lord Bird MBE was born into poverty and brought up in care. His life journey has included spells as a prisoner, artist and printer. Now an activist, publisher and Crossbench member of the House of Lords, Lord Bird is the driving force behind The Big Issue Group, which includes the world’s most successful street magazine, The Big Issue and its social investment arm, Big Issue Invest. Lord Bird is a business leader with an outstanding record of using enterprise as a force for social change in dismantling the root causes of poverty; and in Parliament, he focuses on poverty prevention, literacy and protecting the rights of future generations.
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Naomi Bagdonas
Lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and an Executive Coach
Naomi helps leaders be more innovative, flexible and resilient in the face of change by facilitating interactive sessions for Fortune 100 companies and nonprofits and coaching executives and celebrities for appearances ranging from Saturday Night Live to The Today Show. Formally trained at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Naomi now volunteers teaching improv in San Francisco’s county jail. Her dog Maxxy describes her as gullible and full of treats.
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Jennifer Aaker
General Atlantic Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a leading expert on how purpose and meaning shape individual choices and how technology can positively impact well-being
Her work has been widely published in leading scientific journals and featured in The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and Science. At Stanford, she teaches classes including Designing AI to Cultivate Human Well-Being, Rethinking Purpose, A New Type of Leader, VR/AR: Scaling Empathy in an Immersive World, Power of Story, and Humor: Serious Business. She is the recipient of the Coulter Family Faculty Fellowship, Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award, Stanford Distinguished Teaching Award, and the MBA Professor of the Year Award, yet Aaker counts winning a dance-off in the early 1980s among her greatest feats.
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Meet your Hosts
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Richard Morris
CEO – IWG UK
Richard is the CEO of IWG UK. He joined in 2014 following his role as CEO of G4S’s UK & Ireland Division. IWG UK is the world’s largest provider of flexible workspace solutions offering a fast growing global network of 3,000 locations in 120 countries. Since joining, Richard has consistently delivered year on year growth for Regus’ UK division.
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Shalini Khemka
Founder & CEO – E2E, Member of the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board, Deal Maker – UK Government
Shalini founded E2E in 2011. Her mission was to develop the largest and most active entrepreneurial community in the UK to enable extraordinary connections for entrepreneurs.
Under Shalini’s guidance E2E has become a trusted entrepreneurial community which has one objective: to unlock the full potential of ambitious entrepreneurial businesses by enabling extraordinary connections. It has developed into an exciting and thriving powerhouse of international entrepreneurs, investors and entrepreneurial non-execs, coupled with access to globally leading corporate services. E2E’s ecosystem has ambition and innovation at its core.
Shalini is also a Deal Maker for the UK Government, a Member of the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board, a Non-Executive Director of UK Export Finance (UKEF), a Fellow of Burton & South Derbyshire College and a Judge for The Great British Entrepreneurial Awards. Before establishing E2E, Shalini co-founded the world’s first bank to bank trade finance platform. She was an Investment Director at LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyd’s Banking Group and held finance related roles at Deutsche Bank, Bankers Trust, Natwest Bank and Coopers & Lybrand.
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