Time at the Beach Series – The Beaches, Your Most Creative Time in the Year

A Conversation with James Berkeley

Ellice-Consulting5-150 [http://www.jamesberkeley.com/wp-content/uploads/Ellice-Consulting5-150.jpg] Join Chad Barr in a conversation with James Berkeley on how his firm, Ellice Consulting, is helping executives and organizations dramatically improve their operating performance. James talks about his “past”, his passion and his ability to apply that rapidly to transform his clients’ futures (increasing revenues, improving image, happier clients, faster growth, reduced risk and so on). Over a near 25 year career, James has sat in almost every seat in the “house”. An adviser to multinational businesses, an entrepreneur, a corporate executive, an investor and a Board member, he brings a unique perspective of someone, who has successfully tested his powerful approaches in the real world, not just on white boards in a sterile executive’s office. He also brings a “blast of fresh air” (success practices from other industries and geographies) to industry sectors that are awash with corporate executives and so called “experts” swimming in endless industry data and information.

Time at the Beach Series – Turbo Charging Career Growth

Ellice-Consulting5-150 [http://www.jamesberkeley.com/wp-content/uploads/Ellice-Consulting5-150.jpg] [http://www.jamesberkeley.com/wp-content/uploads/Ellice-Consulting5-150.jpg] Why is September and January recruiters’ hottest months? In our daily work, it is easy to get sucked into the minutiae of the work and job. The summer vacation or beach weekend is a very valuable opportunity to reflect for a moment on our careers. What is exciting us, what is boring us, what do we want to do more of and what do we want to abandon. James provides an action list that any ambitious manager or executive would be wise to listen to.

Time at the Beach Series – Boosting Your Self Esteem

Ellice-Consulting5-150 [http://www.jamesberkeley.com/wp-content/uploads/Ellice-Consulting5-150.jpg] [http://www.jamesberkeley.com/wp-content/uploads/Ellice-Consulting5-150.jpg] Faced with demands from customers, shareholders, employees, business partners and regulators for short and long-term growth, it is not capital or regulatory issues that are humbling executives, it is a lack of self-esteem. Maintaining a high level of self-worth and self-confidence is critical to business success. We recharge those levels by learning and applying new skills, applying them successfully in our daily work and most importantly, increasing our resilience. Honest reflection at the beach is a great starting point for prioritizing where we need help in the next 12 months and doing something about it. Don’t let the time go to waste.

Time at the Beach Series – The Beaches, Your Most Creative Time in the Year

Ellice-Consulting5-150 [http://www.jamesberkeley.com/wp-content/uploads/Ellice-Consulting5-150.jpg] [http://www.jamesberkeley.com/wp-content/uploads/Ellice-Consulting5-150.jpg] Whether it is a weekend in the Hamptons, a vacation on a Greek island or a Maldivian atoll, James offers tips on what executives can do before, during and after your vacation to become more effective and efficient resolving open issues in your work, job and career. After listening to this you might even surprise yourself about the level of power and influence within your control.

Changing Insurance Analyst Perspective

Ellice-Consulting5-150 [http://www.jamesberkeley.com/wp-content/uploads/Ellice-Consulting5-150.jpg] The speed and quantity of information about publicly and privately run insurance and reinsurance businesses is at an all time high. Yet in the public arena, the quality of information generated by rating agencies, banking analysts, in-house investor relations and others is woefully inadequate. James looks at the work of banking analysts in this talk and asks why their questioning and analysis is so shallow and rarely forsees key industry events or trends until it is too late. James offers tips to analysts on how they can gather sharper insight from top management in the insurance sector and apply that to the knowledge of retail and institutional investors to make wiser investment decisions.