Mike has spoken at over 1,000 live events around the world, on entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and sales. Practical ideas, real stories and plenty of humour, from the co-author of The Beermat Entrepreneur.
Every talk is built around the Beermat approach: simple ideas people remember and use the next morning, told through stories. Each one is shaped to your audience and the theme of your event.
Keynote
How good ideas become great businesses, from the bestselling book. Simple, practical ideas an audience can remember and use the next morning: finding the first customers, building the right team, and the three roles every business needs.
Good for: Founders, small business audiences, enterprise weeks, universities and accelerators.
Keynote or workshop
Selling for people who hate selling. How to win customers through trust and good conversations rather than pressure, drawn from Mike's book of the same name.
Good for: Sales teams, professional services, freelancers and anyone who has to sell but would rather not.
Keynote
Bringing entrepreneurial thinking inside a large organisation: spotting the people who make things happen, giving them room, and turning ideas into results. Mike has also used this work to help local authorities run more like social enterprises.
Good for: Corporates, leadership teams and the public sector.
Keynote
The Beatles as one of the UK's most successful start-ups: a charismatic founder, an outstanding team and mentor, world-beating products, then egos getting out of control. Business lessons told through a story everyone already knows.
Good for: Conferences and dinners that want something memorable.
As well as speaking, Mike interviews entrepreneurs live on stage and gets them to tell their own stories. He's a safe pair of hands for a fireside chat, a panel or a whole evening.
On stage, Mike has interviewed:
“Mike and Chris understand with unusual clarity what drives a start up.”
“Lots of great entrepreneurial ideas go to waste, but yours won't if you take the practical advice from this book. I have personally worked with Mike and found his input to be invaluable in getting an idea to the point where customers will buy something.”
A short biography to use in your listing or introduction.
Mike Southon is an entrepreneur, mentor and speaker, and co-author of The Beermat Entrepreneur, which has sold over 100,000 copies in the UK and appeared in many languages around the world. He co-founded The Instruction Set, which grew from 3 to 150 people in five years before being acquired by Hoskyns, now part of Capgemini, and has since mentored thousands of entrepreneurs. Mike has spoken at over 1,000 live events and interviewed some of the best-known entrepreneurs on stage, including Sir Richard Branson five times.
The date, the audience and your budget are all Mike needs to tell you whether he's free and what he'd suggest. It goes straight to him.
