Leading from the Top
Gavin Esler, award-winning television and radio broadcaster, novelist and journalist

• Sunday 22 June 2014, 3.30PM to 4.30pm
• Free admission
  Booking required
• National Science Learning Centre (map)

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Great leaders have always understood the power of stories. Through the stories they tell, the most successful leaders educate, persuade and bring about change, but how do they do this? In this insightful talk, leading journalist Gavin Esler presents first-hand knowledge of the secrets of those who achieve power based on over thirty years' experience interviewing world famous figures from Bill Clinton to Angelina Jolie.

Introducing the questions every leader must answer - and the elements that the best stories must contain - Esler explains how creating a leadership story can promote success at all levels, whether running for the United States presidency, or applying for a place at university. While many essentials of storytelling have stood the test of time, he examines the opportunities and pressures created by twenty-first century phenomena such as 24 hour news, and what they tell us about how to reach the top - and how to judge those already there. Spanning fields from business and culture to the military and even taking in lessons from terrorism, Lessons from the Top offers a fascinating portrait of leadership in the modern world - and shows how the methods of the most powerful leaders could work for you.

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