Smart Thinking

The UK Business Book Festival is an opportunity to meet the authors of the best business books.

Whether it’s about a new ways of doing business, a biography of an entrepreneur or a history of a great company, we organise an event that brings together those who want to hear great stories and use the lessons to improve their own lives.

Like a political fringe, we want to hear from those people who will shape the future.

Discover

  • What’s new in enterprise thinking
  • How to succeed in today’s challenging times
  • How you can learn from the mistakes that others have made
  • What sparks the ideas that grow into ground-breaking businesses
  • How to write an publish your own business book

Why Attend?

  • Hear great stories from entrepreneurs
  • Get ideas that will make you money
  • Network with the sharpest brains in the business world
  • Learn techniques from top trainers in seminars
  • Find the courage to do your own thing and succeed

Who should attend?

Entrepreneurs, career changers, small business owners, business starters, social entrepreneurs, speakers, business authors.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time – none, zero. You’d be amazed at how much Warren (Buffett) reads – and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out – Charlie Munger, sidekick to Warren Buffett

UK Business Speaker of the Year Competition

In 2011, the UK Speechwriters’ Guild launched the first UK Business Speaker of the Year Competition. Contestants submitted video auditions to YouTube and eight speakers were selected by the judges to appear in a final judged at the Pavilion Dance Theatre in Bournemouth on the eve of the UK Speechwriters’ Guild annual conference.

In 2012 we will be running the contest again. We want to put the spotlight on authors, entrepreneurs and gurus with an inspirational message for our times.

The competition was sponsored by the branding agency RT Media. You can find out more here.