ShedTalks – Reach

Reach. The extent or range of something’s application, effect or influence.

Hosted in our West End hub – The Shed – this ShedTalks gives three speakers 12 minutes each to tell a story around the word ‘reach’. It’s free to attend and each speaker has a story, strategy, experience or viewpoint that will raise eyebrows, prompt debate and light a fire in your belly!

A little info on the speakers telling their stories…

Karl James

Karl is one of the UK’s leading specialists in dialogue, facilitating, teaching and enabling conversations in big business, small enterprises and good organisations. He records, edits and shares conversations on subjects that people find difficult to talk about in his series of podcasts, 2+2=5. Karl’s Radio 4 debut with A Different Kind of Justice was nominated for Best Documentary in this year’s Radio Academy Awards and his book Say It and Solve It is currently book of the month in WHSmith. Sometimes he pops up in odd places doing different things like co-directing Tim Crouch’s controversial new play Adler and Gibb at the Royal Court.

Tara Benson

Tara is on her seventh startup, building alluring brands that are exciting to consumers and deliver rapid commercial growth. Her company, Here & Now, is a mobile/geo-location business that monetises parents’ biggest pain points. Initially Here & Now helps parents find amazing stuff to do nearby with their children, commercialising spontaneous inspiration and instant booking. Tara is currently running a data-drenched pilot in southwest London and is raising seed funding on the back of the data deluge.

Oli Barrett

Oli Barrett has been described as ‘the most connected man in Britain’ by Wired, a ‘high-energy firecracker’ by GQ and a ‘singularly woeful MC’ by Esquire. He started Tenner, now in its eighth year and run by Young Enterprise, the scheme which challenges up to 40,000 kids a year to see what they can do with ten pounds in one month. A chance coffee led to the formation of StartUp Britain, launched by the Prime Minister and funded by businesses. His full time is now dedicated to Cospa, a business that connects marketing with corporate social responsibility by launching imaginative new ventures, such as helping young people to fix their own youth clubs in 50 locations, sponsored by DIY chain Wickes. Oli was awarded an MBE in 2013.