Shine
General Business
Tuesday 18 September 2012
Chris Baréz-Brown
Shine: How to survive and thrive at work
- Learn to be a bit more Elvis in everything you do
- How to inject more energy and fun into your work
- Understand the Art of Creative Leadership
Work should be exciting, stimulating and fun. Chris Baréz-Brown is on a mission to energise the business world and make us more creative and engaged as individuals.
We all have good days and bad days at work but how do you get every day to go your way? Chris believes you can work to live and be ordinary, or you can live through your work and be both extraordinary and fulfilled. Discover how by being a bit more Elvis you can stand out, break the rules and make things happen.
This event will be packed full of ideas to show you how to make the most of yourself. Learn to love your work, live your working life to the full and shine more brightly.
About Chris Baréz-Brown
After helping turn Carling Black Label into the first British billion-pound brand, Chris joined ?What If!, the innovation and ideas agency. He set up and ran their capability practise for over 10 years. There he helped some of the world’s biggest businesses become more innovative.
In 2009, Chris founded Upping Your Elvis, a business that releases the genius of organisations by helping their people shine more brightly. He works with companies including Coca-Cola, Nike and Pfizer to help their teams make an extraordinary impact.
Chris’s first book, How to Have Kick-Ass Ideas, was described as a “champagne-in-the-veins tonic for jaundiced people" by Tim Smit of the Eden Project.
Shine. How to Survive and Thrive at Work was a business book of the year 2011 and is launching globally in 2012 to much acclaim.
All guests will receive a complimentary copy of Shine. How to Survive and Thrive at Work by Chris Baréz-Brown, published by Portfolio Penguin (RRP £9.99).

