This event has now finished.
  • Date and time: Saturday 8 June 2024, 5.15pm to 6.15pm
  • Location: In-person only
    Law and Sociology Building, Campus East, University of York (Map)
  • Admission: Free admission, booking required

Event details

The groundbreaking concept of Thankonomics definitively demonstrates how measuring appreciation levels can uncover the hidden value, providing a transformative perspective for not-for-profit organisations such as the NHS and education.

It is time to elevate not-for-profit organisations from being perceived as costs to being recognised as the invaluable assets they truly are. The back office and not-for-profit employees are not mere costs, but rather valuable investments. By acknowledging and measuring their personal contributions and setting earnings accordingly, Thankonomics will align employees' motivations and productivity with the organisations they represent.

Corporate strategist Andrew Robshaw, author of Thankonomics: The Revolutionary Paradigm Change for Value, Money and Appreciation, will emphatically present how this new perspective will enhance our quality of life, drive organisational growth and expand the world economy.

Find out more about Thankonomics.

About the speaker

Andrew Robshaw is Managing Director of Value Synergistics and an expert in strategy, international business and new market development. He is also Sloan Fellow at London Business School. Andrew holds an MSc in Business Strategy, Administration and Leadership (specialising in Enterprise Development), an MSc in Bio-aeronautics from the Cranfield Institute of Technology, and a BSc in Animal Science from Nottingham University. He started as a trainee commodity trader in the City of London, then founded and ran a successful trans-European logistics company in France, before emigrating to Chile to run the British Chilean Chamber of Commerce in Latin America. He also ran the Australian and Norwegian Bi-National Chambers of Commerce in Chile. In 2009 he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, which led him to focus his perspective on his life mission: to develop the revolutionary new business paradigm from the first principles which will modify the parameters of the global economy to the benefit of everyone in society. Thankonomics was launched as a book and concept in York in 2021.

 

Venue details

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Hearing loop