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What clients say ‘James presented the first ever Arena lecture at Ecobuild 2010, giving an innovative insight into "How to avoid power cuts in the UK." Thought provoking and compelling in delivery, James was a welcome contributor to the prestigious Arena programme.’ Briony Mansell-Lewis, Ecobuild Arena Producer, May 2010 ‘I just wanted to give you my personal thanks for your excellent presentation and contribution to the success of the Symposium. It was a pleasure to meet you and listen to your views, which both challenged and inspired us, and delegates from other UK cities. The course leader for architecture at Coventry University told me afterwards that she felt liberated by your presentation.’ Andy Telford, Urban & Landscape Design Team Leader, Coventry City Council, March 2010 ‘Thanks so much for the presentation. It was very well received and we had really positive feedback from the attendees.’ Craig Tomes, Corporate Account Manager, Network Services Division, Commercial Group, February 2010 ‘James acted as Chairman for a recent Forum for Chief Information Officers held by Orange. He ran the event with a light but disciplined touch, and I was impressed by both his chairing skills and his insight. I look forward to James working with us again.’ Olaf Swantee, Senior Executive Vice President, Orange Europe, November 2009 ‘I have had a lot of feedback from the attendees and it is all very positive - particularly that you took time to talk to people afterwards.’ Tim Bullock, British Computer Society and Head of IT at BNP Paribas, Jersey, on a speech about mobile computing for BCS and Jersey Telecom, 8 October 2009 ‘His ideas, suggestions and take on energy issues were interesting and stimulated discussions the next day. Audience reaction was good - some individuals disagreed with some of James's ideas but that is what we were hoping for (!). Overall, his performance was excellent.’ Ian DIckie, chief executive, report on feedback for a speech at a conference near Frankfurt held by the International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies, 15 July 2009 ‘Many thanks for the dynamism, energy and real class you brought you our event yesterday. You were rated as the best presenter.’ Sandie Gustus, ZYLAB, on a client seminar held by ZYLAB, 24 June 2009 ‘James was brilliant! The audience reaction was a little shocked, but then interested and impressed.’ Lyndsey Denham, Business Objects, on a client seminar held by Business Objects, 2 April 2009 ‘Just less than 20 per cent of delegates to Mobile Government 2009 gave James a Good rating, and just less than 80 per cent rated him excellent.’ Jay Patel, programme manager, GovNet Events, on a conference on mobile government, 24 March 2009 ‘The best overall session was James Woudhuysen with a combined score of 8.78 for relevance and quality.’ Elaine Davis, report on delegate feedback for the 2008 annual conference of Socitm, the professional association for public sector ICT management, November 2008 ‘We have worked with James for a couple of years now and the one thing that stands out is his thorough professionalism in delivering what the client wants. With an unrivalled knowledge of our sector, he is able to bring both academic rigour and real world experience to his presentations, which are always high energy, challenging and slightly edgy in terms of where his thinking takes you.’ Ian Wright, Director of Performance Improvement, Northern Housing Consortium , March 2008 ‘Please accept our deepest gratitude for your participation. You are a brilliant speaker and we have received many spontaneous comments from the audience showing that your performance was highly appreciated. Especially, your speech gave a practical as well as theoretical view. That's a balance that's quite hard to find. Your recipe on forecasting and innovation was certainly something to take back home.’ Marianne Reuterskiold, Director General, The Swedish Marketing Federation, October 2007 ‘Thank you so much for yesterday and glad to hear you made your flight. Your session went down really well. You certainly kept everyone's attention and left people with lots to think about. It really worked for me and I only heard positive comments from the audience afterwards. If you hadn't run out the door I think they would still be firing questions at you.’ Elaine Hewitt, BT Group Property Director, September 2007 ‘James provided a thought-provoking and insightful analysis of the relationship between technology and society, which was just what was required to kick off our event on airline IT. He set the scene to enable some open and frank discussions, and provided his experiences and thoughts to the audience in a fresh, vibrant and interactive manner... along with great humour. That stimulated the audience to think from a different perspective. I'd recommend James highly to any organisation.’ Ray Batt, Director of Network Solutions, ARINC Europe, Middle East and Africa, August 2007 ‘Many thanks on behalf of us all for your talk yesterday. The feedback was that as well as being a thoroughly enjoyable session your thoughts and ideas were considered to be "on the button". We were particularly impressed that you'd made the effort to think about our business and actually come up with some specific ideas for us to consider rather than just general stuff.’ Steve Lee, head of customer services, Brixton plc, July 2007 ‘I am most grateful for the presentation you made at the Fund Strategy Investment Summit in St Moritz this month. The success of this Summit, and of the debate you participated in on the future of energy, was due in no small part to you. Delegates found your delivery enthusiastic, your presentation skills excellent, and your content fascinating.’ Simon Bennett, Producer, The Investment Summit, April 2007 ‘ John O'Higgins, CEO, Spectris plc, December 2006 ‘ Carol Haslam, chair, Wildscreen International Wildlife and Environmental Festival, October 2006 ‘Thank you for livening things up! I thought it went down very well.’ Nick Edwards, editor, Health Service Journal, October 2006 ‘MBA students from Sun Yat-sen University thoroughly enjoyed your session and found it stimulating and informative. We are very grateful that you were able to give the delegates your insights into disruptive thinking, and to contribute to the success of the course.’ Caroline Airey, Leadership Programmes for China, University of Oxford, October 2006 ‘Thank you so much for sharing your ideas with us in Montreal. It was a great experience, and you made us THINK! I’ll look forward to future collaborations.’ Thomas Lockwood, President, Design Management Institute, Boston, July 2006 ‘Many, many thanks for setting the conference off to such a great start and for contributing to the discussion and debate throughout the day. Your talk had good ratings on our evaluation, so we know it went down well.’ Ruth Flood, Association for Qualitative Research, London, June 2006 ‘The feedback we have received to date has been extremely positive and I know the audience appreciated your extremely relevant and focused presentation. I am very aware of how much work and preparation you put into your presentation in advance of the conference and I thank you for taking the time out of your extremely busy schedule to participate.’ Gordon Maclennan, Senior Director, Business Growth, Scottish Enterprise Glasgow, November 2005 ‘I have had much positive feedback from the event last week. There was even talk of crowning you the white wizard of design forecasting! Thank you so much for stimulating the debate.’ David Kester, Chief Executive, Design Council, October 2005 ‘James’s contribution to our 2005 User Conference was both thought-provoking and challenging ...the Interactive Intelligence technology Users from Europe, Middle East and Africa without exception, found his insights into the Consumer experience meaningful and relevant.’ Richard Brown, MD EMEA region, Interactive Intelligence, June 2005 ‘The feedback from your session was great, so I’m glad we managed to persuade you.’ Martin Stewart, Education Projects Officer, Scottish Screen, March 2005 ‘I am most grateful for the job you did at our Global Telecoms Business Summit this week. The success we achieved on the day is due in no small part to the role you played. As conference chairman, you incorporated knowledge of the topic, good presentation skills, and great humour, with an infectious enthusiasm that enabled a great atmosphere at the event throughout. It is this energy and enthusiasm that I regard as the key component and the vital ingredient to us achieving success.’ ‘I would just like to say again, how much we enjoyed your talk and the challenges that you posed for us. I hope that we will remain in contact.’ ‘Thanks for your contribution – it was excellent. I thought the second panel, in particular, was very well handled.’ Andy Lawrence, Editor, Infoconomy, 4 March 2004 |
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