Nick Saunders

I’m a Londoner who loves wine, food, football, comedy, autobiographies, music (from Madness to Mozart) and the company of my family and close friends. In order to counter the food and wine bit, I keep fit, sometimes taking it to extreme lengths like completing the ultra-event Marathon des Sables, a gruelling race consisting of running six marathons in six consecutive days in the Sahara. (Did I mention I was competitive?)

For the past twenty-five years, I have been lucky enough to enjoy a career doing what I love. As a professional speaker, training consultant and mentor, I’ve had the privilege of helping individuals enjoy and thrive in their careers by giving them practical tools to make their working lives happier and more successful.

I’m known as The Family Man because my experience has shown me that workplaces are like the family home: they both come with the same challenges, issues, niggles and frustrations. My speaking career inspired me to capture my thoughts and put them in a book "You can choose your friends...". In this book, I punctuate my advice for a more harmonious and productive work life with examples of issues in my own family life to make it personal and, above all, relatable.

As a key note speaker, people often tell me they come away inspired and motivated to make a change and do something about it. And I’d love you to have the same experience when you read the book.