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

He is an, Oxford, UK based, international motivational business growth speaker who inspires and entertains his audiences with his acclaimed Staying in the Helicopter® programs. Over 10000 CEOs, business leaders and others have achieved transformational change through his thought provoking and entertaining talks laced with real-life stories, anecdotes and humour.

Roger is also an author, business advisor, mentor, consultant and independent director focused on business development, growth and success.

He has extensive experience across a broad spectrum of businesses - from small start-ups to large multinational corporations; from high tech manufactured products through basic commodities, to people based services businesses and notfor- profit organizations.

Roger spent seven years as Group Chief Executive of a FTSE quoted, high tech industrial instrumentation group with 12 operations over four continents. The company was listed in the UK Government’s ‘Competitiveness’ White Paper and gained a reference in the US Forbes magazine as one of the top 100 overseas companies and has been used as a benchmark case study by two business schools on culture change and business re-engineering.

He has run businesses for major multi-national corporations and has been a tutor with one of the leading leadership and teambuilding programs for over 25 years.

He is ranked in the top 10 of business management speakers worldwide, a winner of the prestigious Professional Speaking Award of Excellence and is a twice Speaker of the Year with The Academy for Chief Executives and a Liveryman with The Worshipful Company of Marketors.