Note: You DO NOT have to be a member of proNet to attend this event and enjoy Terry’s presentation. The event is open to all.

Terry Hodgkinson: Photo - Roger V Moody

This is a rare opportunity to hear one of our region’s most accomplished business leaders talk about a subject that is close to his heart:

Inspired Leadership – Finding the Hero Within Yourself

When and Where?

We’re expecting this event to be well attended and is a great networking opportunity, as such places are limited and booking is required.

When? Tuesday 15th November 2011, 7.30am – 9.30am
Where? Healds Hall Hotel, Liversedge [Map]
How Much? Places are £12 per person (cash only please), payable on the door.

The Agenda

The meeting agenda will loosely follow a normal proNet breakfast meeting.

7.30am – 8.00am: Open networking & buffet Breakfast
8.00am – 8.30am:  Introductions, sharing of business cards, personal pitches
8.30am – 9.15am: Terry Hodgkinson’s presentation followed by Q&A’s.
9.30am: Meeting Close

How to Book

Simply complete the booking form below and click the SEND button.

Alternatively, you may email this event’s organiser Jamie Dobson directly using inspiration@joinpronet.com

Read more about Terry and his career to date on his own website at www.terryhodgkinson.com or scroll down past the booking form below to read his biography.

Download the Promotional Flyer for this event [PDF]

Our Speaker

Terry Hodgkinson

Terry is passionate about great design, heritage and place; he is an advocate of continuous learning and training and considers inspirational and charismatic leadership a quality that influences growth and development of people in all aspects of their lives.

Terry Hodgkinson

Terry is well versed in many aspects of leadership development, coaching and training and has worked with many of the leading NLP and leadership and management coaches and trainers across the UK and beyond where he has put into practise many of his developed skills and techniques in an business environment he’s developed over a 35 career in industry which has included establishing, growing, buying and selling, SME businesses in the construction, house building and property fields.

Terry brought his business acumen to lead the Regional Development Agency, Yorkshire Forward as its Chair for seven years to December 2010, overseeing the Agency in growing the economy of Yorkshire and Humber. He was honoured in the Queen’s Birthday 2010 list with a CBE for business and regeneration and was recently appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant for West Yorkshire: he gained Chartered Director status in 2003 and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, an Ambassador and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building.

Terry was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Huddersfield in 2010 and was appointed as Visiting Professor attached to the Business and Law School at Leeds Metropolitan University in January 2010.

He launched his new brand and website, www.terryhodgkinson.com recently titled “Inspiration for Industry, Education and Regeneration” with a view to seeking opportunities to take on roles as a Company Non-executive Chair/Director or ambassador, convention or conference chair, championing inspirational leadership in business and speaking engagements across his three area of interest and expertise under his new company as principal and director of Terry Hodgkinson Ltd.

Now you’re probably wondering what the “Global Entrepreneurship Week” is and why should you care?

Well this question os probably best answered by the GEW video below and by a quick browse through the GEW website at www.gew.org.uk

Get the idea?

proNet’s GEW Events

The two events that proNet are running next week that will form part of Global Entrepreneurship Week are:

• Spen Valley, Liversedge: Healds Hall Hotel – WF15 6JA
  7.30am – 9.30am, £10 on the door
  Speaker: Andrew Hawley – MEC Contractors – How Not to Present Using PowerPoint
  To Book Call: 07792 090 700
• Bradford: Dubrovnik Hotel – BD8 7AQ
  7.30am – 9.30am, £10 on the door
  Speaker: Steve Goodwill, Goodwill Training - Effective Goal Setting for Your Business
  To Book Call: 07837 970745

All entrepreneurs, regardless of how long they’ve been in business are welcome to attend either event.

To keep up with GEW (Global Entrepreneurship Week) events on Facebook and Twitter, follow the instructions on this page:  http://www.gew.org.uk/followus

Notes

Global Entrepreneurship Week began life as Enterprise Week in the UK back in 2004. When news of the phenomenal success of Enterprise Week in the UK spread the globe, lots of other countries got excited at the potential of running similar initiatives in their own countries. So in 2008, Enterprise UK and the Kauffman Foundation (the world’s largest entrepreneurship foundation based in the US) founded the very first Global Entrepreneurship Week. Global Entrepreneurship Week is an opportunity to showcase and celebrate all the amazing work that goes on year-round.

Last year, there were over 32,000 events run in 88 countries, attended by more than 7.5 million people. In the UK, over 529,000 people attended 4,812 events.

The launch meeting this morning got off to a great start with plenty of new faces including Sarah Godfrey from Jet Cleaning Services and Julian Thornhill from  Thornhill Financial Services. Also attending was Steve Donnison, a full-time MBA student from Bradford Business School, who sent us the following Tweet after the meeting which summed up the consesus of opinion from all those that attended;

…this morning was refreshing and worthwhile. Thank-you for the warm welcome.

Hypnotherapist, renowned motivational speaker and chair of the Bradford meetings, Gary Blonder; gave an excellent presentation in our Knowledge Transfer section on the psychology of networking.

Everyone came away armed with some great tips for their next networking experience.

Meeting Pics

Visiting photographer Roger V Moody from proNet’s Spen Valley Group took great some shots of the meeting which may be seen on proNet’s Flickr Stream

Were you there, can you spot yourself?

If you’re interested in attending the next Bradford meeting please visit the Group’s page on this site for future dates and instructions on how to book your place.

Last Thursday was a busy day of networking and exhibiting as proNet made an exhibition of itself at the GRID* Enterprise Expo in Bradford.

The day started off with a busy business networking breakfast which was immediately followed in the same building by a small business Expo organised by those folks at the Bradford Grid* Park Lane .

Despite early pre-match nerves regarding low advanced bookings for both the Expo and our networking meeting, minds were set at rest on the day as numbers through the doors proved to be plentiful and steady with over 20 people attending proNet’s early morning breakfast meeting which included many new faces and featured a very informative presentation by Barbara Dinsdale of Health Yourself Ltd entitled “Combating Stress Through Nutrition.”

You can view Barbara’s presentation which we’ve posted to our Slideshare account

At the Expo, proNet shared exhibiting floor space with support agencies such as Bradford Kickstart, Business Link and service providers that included proNet members Philip Gwynne from The Naked Marketing Company, Jaimie Dobson of iNet inSights and Joanne Vose from Red Elephant HR; all of whom had stands.

Photography

proNet member John Steel from John Steel Photograpy was on hand throughout the Expo and at our breakfast meeting to take photos, many of which can be see on our Flickr account with a couple of examples being shown on this page.