Richard Godfrey is a pre-eminent producer of large scale entertainment spectaculars involving some of the world's best known show business personalities.
Richard started his career as a forerunner to Alan Partridge as a Radio DJ in East Anglia, but since then has had an illustrious career creating events and TV shows for some of the biggest names in broadcasting, including MTV, ITV, Disney, Nickelodeon, Channel 4 and many more.
Whether it’s producing the MTV Europe Music Awards in 20 different European cities, launching Disney + in Hollywood, creating and producing the NBA Awards for Warner Brothers or producing bespoke events in countries as diverse as China, Nigeria, Australia, Kenya and Russia, Richard gives insight into how to manage a project of any size successfully interspersed.
He has worked with many of the biggest stars in the world from Taylor Swift to Beyonce from U2 to Madonna.
From managing large, multinational teams, to handling multi-million-pound budgets, or just trying to keep everyone happy and positive during what is, more often than not, a stressful environment with lots of moving parts - Richard draws on his wealth of experience, and shares a few juicy celebrity anecdotes, to show what it really takes to put together huge, high-profile events.
Subject headings for inspiring talks include
* Leadership in Creative Environments
* Buiding Trust in new teams/situations
* Navigating Cultural differences (US vs UK business practices)
* Adapting to Industry changes and corportae pressures.
All intersperesd with amusing anecdotes about the celebrities Richard has worked with.