Solo week-long tour of Wales promotes green shoots
Some of Wales’ leading names – including the DVLA, Admiral Insurance, universities and local authorities – are playing host to a one man effort to travel across the Principality in one week to banish recession blues and inspire people to become green shoots for an economic upturn.
World-leading creativity expert Andy Green will be doing a one week-long tour of Wales at the end of June (June 29th to July 3rd) where he will be giving inspirational talks to help people be more resourceful, spot opportunities, and harness what he calls ‘Golden Swan’ opportunities in the recession.
The tour, called ‘The Upturn: your part in its rise’ is supported by leading social enterprise organization Unltd, and also features events with the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, and the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
Andy, who recently moved to Barry Island, is a successful writer and lectures around the world. In his new book ‘The Upturn: my part in its rise’, due out this summer, he highlights how each of us is a potential green shoot for recovery, in what he calls ‘the age of disruption’.
He will be squeezing his 18 stone frame into a two-seater car, dubbed ‘The world’s smallest conference centre’ to travel between venues.
Andy is giving his time for free as part of his work for the Flexible Thinking Forum, a new social enterprise aimed at promoting better creative thinking to help businesses and communities tackle their problems more effectively.
Through his 30 minute entertaining and practical talks he promises to provide people with new ideas and strategies of what they can do differently to be more resourceful and successful in the current economic climate.
He explains how you need to act differently by thinking flexibly, and thinking flexibly faster to make you more resourceful for surviving – or even taking advantage of what Andy calls ‘Golden Swan’ opportunities.
“We are all potential green shoots in a recovery.” said Andy Green. “Many of us however, need to think and act differently. The tough don’t just need to get going. They need to get going faster. By being more resourceful and flexible we can seize whatever positive opportunities there may be out there for us.”
Further details of the tour are on the website: www.flexiblethinkingforum.org.uk
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For further details please contact
Andy Green on 07815 884 525 or email:andygreenontour@hotmail.co.uk
Tour details
Monday June 29th Cardiff
8am Gambit Finance
10.30am Admiral Insurance
12.30pm Chartered Institute of Public Relations*
3pm Biocatalysts
5.30pm Royal Society for Arts*
Tuesday June 30th
Swansea/Carmarthen
9amDVLA
11amSwansea University*
2pm Dyfed-Powys Police Headquarters, Carmarthen
4pm Trinity College Carmarthen*
Wednesday July 1st Aberystwyth/Ruthin/Bangor
tbc Aberystwyth
3pm Denbighshire Council, Ruthin
5.30pm Bangor University The Management Centre Bangor Business School*
Thursday July 2nd Llandudno Junction/Mold
10am Conwy Business Centre, Llandudno Junction*
5.30pmMold 2000, Mold*
Friday July 3rd Clear for new opportunities
*Event open to the public
Andy Green biography
Andy Green is a leading expert and author on creativity and flexible thinking, opportunity spotting, creative public relations and personal brandcasting.
His latest book, ‘The Upturn:my part in its rise’ shows how each of us is a potential green shoot in the upturn in the age of disruption, but we need to think flexibly, and think flexibly faster to make the most of what Andy calls ‘Golden Swan’ opportunities.
Andy is the author of ‘Creativity in Public Relations’, the world’s first book on the subject, now in its third edition and translated into Russian, Chinese, Polish, Indonesian, Croatian, Latvian and Korean. (The fourth edition is planned for 2009)
His book, ‘Effective Personal Communications’, coined the term ‘personal brandcasting;. although there are hundreds of self development books on how each of us are personal brands, non demonstrate how you communicate your brand.
Andy is also co-author of ‘A minute with Tony Blair’, inspired by a chance meeting he had with the former British Prime Minister, which demonstrates how set backs, or things going wrong, can provide you with your best opportunities.
His book ‘Overcome Stupidity in the World Around You – the Stupid Aid Survival Guide’ demonstrates to any one who thinks the world is more stupid – or wants to overcome bureaucratic thinking – how creative flexible thinking is the nemesis of stupidity.
Andy is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, and recipient of the Institute’s Sir Stephen Tallents medal for services to the profession. He is a partner with his own award-winning brand and public relations agency GREEN communications and also founder of creativity@work, a specialist creative thinking skills agency, and the Flexible Thinking Forum.
Each January he demonstrates how to turn a negative into a positive with his worldwide campaign marking ‘Blue Monday’, the most depressing day of the year. He also campaigning to establish ‘Twixtmas’ – the period between Christmas and New Year, as an established holiday.
He provides valuable insights, processes and techniques to inspire his audiences to transform their work, generate new ideas, or new insights to achieve more less, to work faster, cheaper or better. He is also an all round fun person presenting in an engaging style bringing great empathy, humour and honesty to his events.
Andy’s media profile includes numerous TV appearances for BBC, ITV, BBC Five Live, Sky News and various international media.
Andy describes himself as ‘a mini global celebrity in a micro niche’ and has delivered events for Microsoft in Seattle, E Bay in Paris, the UK Government (Dept. of Health, Environment Agency), Etisalat in Dubai, Pace plc, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Perth, various state government events across Australia, numerous UK universities including Cambridge and Warwick, the British Council in Cairo, the Chartered Institutes of Public Relations and Marketing.
Andy, 50, is married and described in a BBC radio profile on him that his greatest creative success is his two daughters.
