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'Intelligent Fun'
If a light touch is needed for a conference or corporate event, we provide a range of 'intelligent fun' inputs, through highly participative events or keynote speeches with practical take away messages. Examples include:
- Lessons from 'The Office' - We offer a hilarious mixture of upside down wisdom from the BBC TV series 'The Office' with serious punchy lessons on a range of topics, from personal development through to business leadership and strategic management.
- After dinner strategy keynote and team building event for Unilever strategy managers in Barcelona and Rome. Harald Melwish, Brand Manager said of it 'Peter, Thanks to you for your performance and the energy you created! We had great fun and a strong moment of togetherness that will last.'
- Career development keynote – The finale of a month of events to focus on this topic for Pfizer. A PhD senior scientist said of it 'As a confirmed classical music addict. I approached the event with more than a little doubt, especially when I heard them warming up with electric guitars beforehand. But this turned out to be THE event of It's Your Life. The dynamic combination of Peter Cook and John Otway just blew me away. For once I was, and remain, truly inspired. The event was different, by a long, long way, but so much more effective for being so. Thanks to the organisers who took a risk putting it on. I'm glad I took the risk of attending!' Read Pfizer's own full review here.
- The head, heart and soul of leadership – Keynote address and interactive events for the National Health Service, the Chartered Insurance Institute and others based on different versions / configurations of this talk / experience
- Annual conference for a housing company – Including
selection and hiring keynote speakers, event design, co-ordination of the
project team. One speciality of this event was team building through
music for a group of staff from the company, who recorded their work in a
professional recording studio and performed their material at the start
and end of the conference in support of a cancer charity. Read a short piece about the 'Credit Crunch Blues' in the Financial
Times
- Team building for 200 people in a Government agency, using a range of participative methods, e.g. songwriting, art and crafts, outdoor and theatrical approaches.
- Public services innovation conference – Looking at the use of technology to deliver social care in the future and involving 100 staff in the evaluation and acceptance testing of the technologies.
- Annual general meeting of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Typically these events had attracted less than 20 people. We increased the attendance to 100 and then further to 250 the following year by converging a keynote speaker with a rock star who spoke on the importance of failure in success and performed with members of the Human Dynamics team.
