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.

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 10,000 CEOs, business leaders and others have achieved transformational change through his thought provoking, entertaining talks laced with real-life stories and humour.

Roger is also an author, business advisor, mentor, consultant and independent director.

He has unusually wide leadership experience… from small start-ups to multinationals… and from high-tech products to basic commodities, people-based service businesses and not-for profit organizations.

Roger spent seven years as Group Chief Executive of a FTSE quoted, high-tech industrial group with 12 sites across 4 continents. The UK Government mentioned it in its 'Competitiveness' White Paper. The US Forbes magazine 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 has tutored on a leading leadership and teambuilding programme for over 25 years. He's also a keen windsurfer and mountain biker.