Date:	Wednesday, 17th March 2010 - 18:00:00
	Speaker:	Damian Hughes
	Venue:	Lawley Lecture Theatre Kingston Hill campus

The Faculty of Business and Law in conjunction with Kingston University Careers and Employability bring you the third and final of our 'Business Heroes' talks. These events will see inspirational business speakers focussing on 'overcoming challenges' and giving you their personal insight and experience.

Damian Hughes, The Liquid Thinker

Speaker Biography

Damian Hughes is the author of three best-selling books, Liquid Thinking and Liquid Leadership and The Survival Guide to Change as well the founder of the LiquidThinker Company which takes the methods used by great achievers and shows, in easy steps, how you can adopt them into your own life and business in order to achieve your dreams and ambitions.

Hughes, a former England schoolboy footballer and Manchester United football coach, was a Human Resource Director for Unilever, where he led a turn around in performance at the UK’s oldest manufacturing site in Port Sunlight before carrying out similar work in Africa and US.

He now runs his own change management consultancy, LiquidThinker Ltd, helping a wide range of individuals; teams and industries achieve similar employee engagement and success. He also works as a change management consultant and sports psychologist for Warrington Wolves, England and GB Rugby League team.

He also runs a Manchester inner-city youth club, Collyhurst and Moston which has helped reduce crime and help many kids find a purpose in their lives from stopping crime to winning Olympic medals. He has also been nominated for the 2007 William Hill Sports book of the year award for his biography of boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson. In 2009, he co-authored a critically acclaimed biography of boxing legend, Thomas Hearns in Hitman: the Thomas Hearns Story.

His innovative and exciting approach has been praised by Sir Richard Branson, Muhammad Ali, Sir Terry Leahy, Tiger Woods, Jonny Wilkinson and Sir Alex Ferguson.