PSA South West December 2025: We’re Not Slowing Down!

Roger Harrop has spent over 25 years leading international businesses, including a Public Limited Company (plc), which puts him in a unique position to deal with present-day business challenges.

Based in Oxford in the UK, he’s an international business growth speaker who inspires and entertains audiences with his acclaimed Staying in the Helicopter® programmes. Over 30,000 CEOs, business leaders and others, across 50 countries, have achieved transformational change through his thought-provoking and entertaining talks laced with real-life stories and humour.
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Roger is also an author, business advisor, mentor, consultant and independent director.

He has unusually wide leadership experience: from small start-ups to multi-nationals and from high-tech products to basic commodities, people-based service businesses, and not-for-profit organisations.

Roger spent seven years as Group Chief Executive of a FTSE quoted, high-tech industrial group with 12 sites across four continents. The UK Government mentioned it in its ‘Competitiveness’ White Paper. Forbes Magazine in the US included the group among its list of the top 100 overseas companies. Two business schools have used it as a benchmark case study on culture change and business re-engineering.

Roger tutored on a leading leadership and team building programme for over 25 years.

He’s a keen mountain biker and classic car enthusiast.

Carol Benton is a business communication speaker and consultant. She helps organisations to win more business through effective communication.

With over 30 years in the tech sector, Carol has held executive positions at IBM and Toshiba, spearheaded sales strategies, and sold IT solutions to major financial, retail and public sector organisations in the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Through these experiences, she saw first hand the importance of having the right message the customer’s own language, igniting her passion to transform how organisations convey their business value.

She used these insights to develop her signature ‘Connect, Convince, Convert’ methodology and best- selling book.

Today Carol is going to share with us some of her insights and tips, in her speech – From ‘What’ to ‘So What’.