The forum chairman introduced and questioned an array of speakers at the Jersey Evening Post-sponsored event, each of whom can claim to have a distinctive individual approach to leading others.
Andrea Robottom of NoNonsense Consulting, IT entrepreneur Dr Malek Ladki, the explorer and adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Big Issue founder John Bird, the Island’s Treasury Minister, Senator Philip Ozouf, and JIBS founder Stephen Platt, of Stephen Platt Associates, all demonstrated that successful recipes for leading effectively come in a wide variety of flavours.
Memorable
In doing so, the speakers held the attention of the audience at the Hotel de France – consisting largely of business people, plus students from a number of Island schools – with a series of truly memorable presentations leavened with questions from the chairman and from delegates.
Mr Templeman began his own career as a marketing man, working on brands such as Daz and Levi Jeans, and went on to undertake consultancy roles before becoming chief executive of Bulmers, non-executive chairman of Yo! Sushi and then leader of the Institute of Directors.
This week he added another string to his bow, becoming non-executive director of the Rugby Football Union.
