Best-Selling Author, Broadcaster and Professional Speaker
A Talented & Entertaining Speaker: Frances is a Founder
member and Fellow of the Professional Speakers Association.
Rated Britain's most entertaining female speaker in a recent
survey by The Times, Frances Edmonds is a best-selling author
whose non-fiction works cover sport, politics, motivation,
self-help and personal and business success.
Speaking Topics Include:
· Cross-cultural communication
· Humour/Sport
· Motivation/Personal Success and Fulfilment
· Customer Service (Treat Your Customers Like Children!)
Professional speaker, public speaker, Frances Edmonds, personal
success, after dinner speaker, humour, motivational speaker,
personal success, cross cultural communication, association
of speakers, languages, British Association of Women Entrepreneurs,
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, author, Conference Speaker,
key note speaker, corporate hosting, broadcaster, sport.
Her understanding of business issues, gleaned from her own
experience in helping creating a specialized construction
company, led to her election as an Honorary Fellow of the
British Association of Women Entrepreneurs. She is a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Arts and a Founder member and Fellow
of the Professional Speakers Association.
Frances contributes to a wide range of publications, including
The Times and The Evening Standard, and appears regularly
on radio and television, frequently as a news reviewer for
BBC's TV's "Breakfast with Frost." She is currently
working on a book about mothers and daughters and has just
written a song, "Believe in Me," sponsored by National
Lottery organizers Camelot, which it is hoped will be used
for London's 2012 Olympic Bid. She spends her time between
her homes in Notting Hill, London, and Biarritz, France.
For over a decade, she worked to facilitate communication
and cooperation within all the major international organizations
(EU, EP, UN, OECD, WEU, UNCTAD) and between the (then) G7
heads of state and government at their annual World Economic
Summits.
Why Frances Edmonds:
Frances Edmonds helps her clients improve the effectiveness
of their communication by striving constantly to "connect"
with the target audience and to "empathize" with
their issues.
· Her strong academic background (she holds a Masters
Degree from Cambridge University) allows her to assimilate
any client brief and to add her own particular brand of input.
· Her experience as an international conference interpreter
has made her an expert in cross-cultural communication and
the art of negotiation at the highest level.
· The impact of her best-selling books and her experience
as a radio and television broadcaster continue to reinforce
her passionate interest in people and in what people want.
· As a businesswoman who has worked to create a specialized
construction company, she genuinely understands issues of
customer service, team building and delivering excellence.
Latest Book:
"Winning The Game of Life"
Frances Edmonds' latest book, "Winning The Game of
Life" suggests tools for personal success and motivation
and embraces techniques employed by many of Britain's foremost
captains of industry and top sportsmen and women.
Best-Selling Author:
In 1986, her first book, Another Bloody Tour (an outrageously
funny and highly controversial account of the England cricket
team's tour of the West Indies) became an overnight international
No 1 best-seller and shook England's male-dominated sporting
establishments to their foundations.
In 1987, she covered the Ashes series in Australia and wrote
another No 1 best-seller, Cricket XXXX Cricket , which again
created uproar. Whilst in Australia, she covered the America's
Cup for The Times and hosted Good Morning Australia, the country's
most popular breakfast TV show.
Further books, Members Only ( an irreverent search for signs
of independent intelligent life in Westminster- she found
few) Samson & Delilah, Star of Heaven and Games all met
with critical acclaim. Her latest work, Winning The Game of
Life , is based on three years of research and interviews
and suggests tools for personal and business success and embraces
techniques employed by many of the UK's foremost captains
of industry and top sportsmen and women.
Frances Edmonds is the communicators' communicator.
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