RECENT BUSINESS NETWORK EVENTS May 2017 PowerPoint or NoPoint?
November 2018 From Coatbridge to Hollywood
Broadcaster and Media Presentation Coach, Paul Coia (1973), gave the audience his hot tips on making presentations, how to avoid the pitfalls and revealed his aversion to corporate jargon, such as, “granularity”, “silos” and “negative feedback loops”! Paul presents his own radio shows for BBC London and BBC Berkshire and travels extensively coaching executives in the corporate world and hosting conferences.
C&C Group kindly sponsored the evening at the Drygate Brewery, with their CEO, Stephen Glancey, taking us back in time through Glasgow’s historic world of brewing in the Drygate area.
November 2017 Journey to the Garden of Eden Gin is more popular than ever now, and in November 2017, Paul Miller (1980), whose career has been spent in the wines and spirits industry, told us about the “Journey to the Garden of Eden” and the founding of the Eden Mill Distillery & Brewery at Guardbridge, St Andrews. G&T anyone? Hosting the College that evening was David McBeth of The Glasgow Collective in the East End, where we also held our first ever ‘pop-up shop’ event with everything from Coffee to Kilts on offer.
May 2018 Making Money Who knew how much work went into the design of the humble fiver in your pocket? David Freer (1993) cofounder of O Street Design in Glasgow enlightened our Glasgow audience with an insight into the new designs for the Royal Bank of Scotland polymer banknotes. Charged with designing the new £5, £10 and soonto-be launched £20 notes in 2020, David gave us a glimpse of the methods used by a modern design studio on a once-in-a-lifetime dream project . . . making money! Craft beer was kindly provided by David McGowan of Broughton Ales.
New York Times bestselling author and founder of Millarworld, Mark Millar, delighted audiences with his story “From Coatbridge to Hollywood”. Joined by his wife Lucy Millar, CEO for the Millarworld division of Netflix, they spoke about the remarkable journey through DC Comics, Marvel, Netflix and the business side of this unique and creative company.
May 2019 Success. Chance or Design? In May we took the Business Network to the flagship headquarters of ScottishPower, hosted by Charles Langan, and were treated to an engaging presentation from Robin Sieger (1974). Robin has developed a reputation within media circles as a motivational ‘guru’ and he certainly got his message across to the audience in an entertaining way. Talking about how he overcame his own personal challenges, we can see why his international bestseller, “Natural Born Winners” is just that.
We are always on the lookout for potential Business Network Speakers and venues, so if you have a burning desire to deliver a talk to our Aloysian Community, or can offer a comfortable space for approximately 100 guests, please contact us at: alumni@ staloysius.org, putting Business Network in the subject line.
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