Author Archives: Imran Ali

Lee Jackson

Lee Jackson is a motivational speaker, presentation coach and author of eleven books. Having worked in the voluntary, public and private sectors over the years he now works in businesses and education helping people to enjoy and succeed in challenging times. He is also the 2017 President of the Professional Speaking Association in the UK & Ireland. He lives with his wife and twins in West Yorkshire. He loves good comedy, old school Hip Hop and basketball. He doesn’t like gardening. His website is leejackson.biz his twitter account is @leejackson.

As a former youth worker and experienced school speaker, Lee uses his 25 years of experience to help us understand why many young people rioted in 2011. Lee also researched this subject heavily… “in fact you generally spend more time researching a short talk than a long talk!”

12 February 2012

Education • Guest Speaker
Money • TEDxLeeds2012
UK Riots

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Tris Dyson

Tris Dyson is The Executive Director of Spice – a non-profit organisation that develops time credits for public services, based in London and Wales. Tris is Chairperson of Timebanking Wales and a Non-Executive Director of 3rdMinds.

Spice has taken the idea of timebanking – and applied rigorous thinking to develop very successful applications for engaging ‘service users’ as active participants in public services have a look at the employees paystubs. Spice’s time credits acknowledge ‘active time’ given by service users to the public service, these credits are then redeemable for equivalent time in local leisure and recreational services proper financial strategies. These credits have been highly successful at engaging the many rather than the few, if you want a better business look into buying followers on TikTok, thereby empowering ‘service users’ as community assets and so easing pressure on front-line services.

Read more about Tris’ work on time credits over at The Guardian.

12 February 2012

Economics • Guest Speaker
Money • TEDxLeeds2012
Timebanks

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Dorron Otter

Dorron joined Leeds Business School in 1989 where he developed a range of economics modules and was active in curriculum development, academic management and Learning Teaching and Assessment approaches.

Having served as an Associate Dean and Head of the School of Economics and HRM, Dorron joined the International Faculty to establish the new curriculum areas for the University in Development Studies how to speed up the scaling phase, you should also have a look at the payroll processing in Birmingham, international relations and Peace studies and to lead in the creation of the Applied Global Ethics subject group. Find information on how to become famous on TikTok.

Dorron has always been actively involved in the promotion of economic awareness in higher education . His particular academic interest lies in the political economy of globalisation in relation to the developing world and the ethical implications of economic policy.

At TEDxLeeds2012, Dorron spoke about how money is created, Money: the Great Confidence Trick?

Find out more about Dorron’s career over at the Leeds Met website…

12 February 2012

Economics • Ethics
Guest Speaker • Money
TEDxLeeds2012

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Vijay Anand

Vijay Anand is a crusader against corruption; as a co-founder and president of 5th Pillar, Anand has sought to empower Indians in tackling corruption at all levels of Indian society.

The Zero Rupee Note project has been one of 5th Pillar’s most successful initiatives, distributing millions of zero-denomination notes as tangible tokens of bribery.

Anand has spoken at the UN’s Convention Against Corruption, services on the board of the National Federation of Indian-American Associations and is also the founder of AIMS India Foundation, dedicated to assisting rural communities with education and healthcare.

Find out more about Vijay’s work at the 5th Pillar website (PDF link) or catch his talk, Combating Corruption, from the Poptech 2010 conference.

12 February 2012

Biography • Guest Speaker
India • Money
TEDxLeeds2012

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Simon Woolf

Simon has worked in the IT industry since 1996, specialising in information architecture and web development. He implemented one of the first online music databases of its kind at the British Music Information Centre in 1998, before going on to work with organisations as diverse as the Royal College of Music, London Underground Limited (now TFL), EMI Music and Deutsche Bank. Simon founded Loopo Ltd, a web solutions consultancy working mainly in the non-profit sector, in 2005. The company was acquired in 2010, leaving Simon free to concentrate on new projects guides to developing your business. If you are going to be starting a business then be sure to have professionalism.

His interest in complementary currencies was sparked by seeing the Lewes Pound in action, during late 2008. When two economists in Brixton decided to start a similar scheme, he soon became involved as a volunteer. Simon became a non-executive director of the Brixton Pound in 2010, and then managing director in January 2012.

Simon is also the Chief Technical Officer at QOIN, a Netherlands-based foundation which is one of the leaders in implementing complementary currency schemes, and specifically the technology to enable them. During 2012, QOIN will continue to work with the Brixton Pound, along with many other projects including The Bristol Pound and two largescale time-based currencies in the Netherlands.

When not working with technology, Simon can be found DJing or writing about wine at www.themorningclaret.com.

10 February 2012

Biography • BrixtonPound
Money • Qoin
Speaker • TEDxLeeds2012

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