A Meeting of Minds - Advisory Distributors

Speakers

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  Lynn Erasmus

  Motivational Female International Speaker & Interactive Facilitator, Become Unstoppable

  Lynn Erasmus is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur & journalist and a powerful keynote speaker on culture, resilience& change. She has created, worn, and burned most of the t-shirts, but she says you don’t need to. Her story is a journey of self-discovery, acceptance and mastering the impossible, triumphing against all odds to becoming a self-made entrepreneur, and inspiring others to thrive. As an inspiring speaker and entrepreneur, Lynn’s mission is to help individuals, corporate teams and fellow entrepreneurs to challenge their comfort zone, ditch assumptions and to break all those rules that kept them small.

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  Neil Morrison

  Group HR Director at FTSE100 Severn Trent plc

  Neil Morrison has been working in HR for 20 years in a range of different businesses and industries. Through this experience he has grown to believe that businesses need to completely rethink the way that they approach people management, focussing on organisational need more than alleged HR best practice. He is passionate about solutions that are organisation-centric, about thinking that is new and creative and he is passionate about the role that people have in organisational success, exploring how education and employment are fundamentally linked and the role that technology can play in making organisations better.

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  Professor Matthew Goodwin

  Professor of Politics, University of Kent

  Matthew J. Goodwin is an academic, writer and speaker known mainly for his work on British and European politics, extremism, immigration and Euroscepticism. He is currently Professor of Politics at Rutherford College, University of Kent, and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. Matthew is a trained political scientist. He received his PhD from the University of Bath in 2007, after which he worked for a self-funded research institute at the University of Manchester. He was then awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Economic and Social Research Council. He was also recipient of an ESRC Knowledge Exchange Fellowship and spent twelve months on full-time secondment in a UK government department. In 2015 he was appointed Professor of Politics at the University of Kent. In the same year he was awarded an ESRC Senior Fellowship to examine Britain's 2016 EU referendum. In 2014 he received the Richard Rose Prize, awarded to one person annually for their contribution to the study of politics. In 2015, he won the Paddy Power Political Book of the Year for Revolt on the Right, co-authored with Robert Ford. Since completing his PhD he has attracted around £1 million in external research funding. Since 2008 he co-edited the Routledge book series on Extremism and Democracy. Between 2011 and 2015 he served as a member of the UK government's working group on anti-Muslim hatred. Since 2013 he served his profession as a Trustee and executive committee member of the Political Studies Association, which since 1950 has promoted the study of politics. Matthew is an outward-facing researcher who believes that social science should be as much about contributing to wider society as to social science. He engages widely and has worked with over two hundred non-academic organisations from the European Parliament and National Security Agency down to his local police authority.