Jeremy is an experienced business executive, coach and writer. His background includes leadership expertise gained with global brands, multinationals, start-up enterprises and business schools. Much of his experience has been in the media industry, developing and leading profitable businesses, and he has also worked extensively with multinational businesses in the financial services sector. During his career, Jeremy has worked internationally with a range of organisations. He established distance learning businesses with the UK’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and Reed Elsevier, before working as Head of Publishing and Research with the Chartered Management Institute. He was Senior Vice President and Director with The Economist responsible for The Economist Group’s conference and executive network businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The role involved expanding the profitability of this premium-value brand, leading successful teams in London and Vienna as well as meeting with senior politicians and business leaders on behalf of The Economist Group and building the profitability of the business. He left The Economist to establish his own business working with a wide range of industry-leading clients including: HSBC, Pearson, PwC, KPMG, IBM, Citigroup, the Chartered Management Institute, Saudi British Bank and London Business School. Jeremy is the author
of
20 books including: Coaching Essentials – practical,
proven techniques for world-class executive coaching (co-written
with Denis Sartain and Patricia Bossons), A Question of Trust (with
Sally Bibb), 100 Great Business Ideas, Surviving
a Downturn and Business
Strategy. Jeremy’s work has been translated into several
languages including: Chinese, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese,
Korean,
Norwegian,
Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbo-Croat, Spanish and Thai.
He has also written occasional articles for the Financial
Times and
the
Economist Intelligence Unit. |
Simon began his career as a teacher of English in a north London comprehensive school. He left the tumult of those classrooms to lecture on Shakespeare in the calmer waters of undergraduate study. It was then that he became enamoured with the rhetoric and oratory of great speeches and speechmakers – many from the fields of film and theatre, but most from politicians and American presidents. By accident, he traded his lecturing for the world of commerce, working as a practitioner of internal communications within the Charles Barker Group, a large London city PR agency. He advised many international businesses on how their staff could communicate better and it was during this time that he began to write speeches for senior executives both in the UK and the US. After a while, politicians also asked for his help in speechmaking methodology, including the management and production of several political broadcasts and international keynote speeches. He was invited to join a burgeoning Saatchi & Saatchi Group as an executive producer for one of its design and event production companies, ICM. Within two years, Simon was its managing director and the company grew under his stewardship, producing huge events for many of the organizations that were privatised in the mid-1980s including British Airways, BP and Rolls Royce. Executives from these companies and others sought his advice on presentation and oratorical techniques. He left ICM to become CEO of Crown Communications Group after which he established his own company, Communication Shows. Throughout this time, Simon continued to advise people running large businesses on speech content and delivery. He also gained an international reputation as a talented event director. He was and is a quarterback – making things happen and blending creativity with a keen ability to market and sell. Many CEOs and political leaders have called him a rainmaker and he did (intentionally) once make it rain on stage at an event in New York. He also once created a huge lake in a British venue with the conference delegates sitting (comfortably) in boats, but that’s another story. He joined Jack Morton Worldwide as one of its creative directors and was later invited to become its marketing director during which time he spoke at numerous events on rhetoric and oratory in the corporate workplace. After leaving Jack Morton, where he had been responsible for a healthy spurt in growth, Simon decided to tread the boards himself - facilitating events around the world, writing speeches and directing keynote presentations for international executives and politicians. Most recently he has joined the Grass Roots Group as Events Director and is in the process of writing a book on how most executives can present brilliantly and also a thriller set in the world of event management and production. He’s won poetry competitions, writes many articles on managing events and loves the theatre. He shares his life with three sons and Jane, his wife, each of whom he’s immensely proud and without whom not much would have been achieved in the Maier household.
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