The Communication Directors’ Forum 22 - 23 November 2018, The Grove, Hertfordshire Speakers: Professor Steve Peters, Author of The Chimp Paradox, Consultant Psychiatrist and Performance Coach for Elite Sport, and Kate Adie OBE, former chief news correspondent for BBC News In this keynote address, Steve Peters will explain how to use your mental muscle to greatest effect. Peters will be exploring topics such as, optimising performance, getting the best out of yourself and others, the principles of managing thoughts, behaviours and emotions and finally functioning individually and in a team. Peters is a Consultant Psychiatrist working in Elite Sport, the Corporate world, Education and Health and an acclaimed specialist in the functioning of the human mind. Steve is the author of the bestselling personal development book The Chimp Paradox and the CEO of his own charitysupporting company, Chimp Management Ltd. Steve has worked in elite sport for over fifteen years and some of his clients, past and present, include: British Cycling, GB Taekwondo, England Rugby and England Football.
Kate Adie is one of the best-known television news correspondents of recent times and has won awards for her coverage of Northern Ireland, the American bombing of Tripoli and the student uprising in China in 1989. In 1993 she was awarded an OBE. In this keynote address, Kate will share her considerable experience of world events and insights into how to communicate in times of crisis and change. She will discuss the developments in modern communications and how best to tackle the message – internally and externally. Kate will share her experiences honed from her assignments in the first Gulf war, conflicts in former Yugoslavia and events in Armenia, Albania, Rwanda, Kosovo, China and Sierra Leone. Most recently as one of the group of ten journalists at the BBC, her experience of getting the message of equal pay heard. Kate currently presents From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4.
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