Paul McGee has worked with global brands including Harrods, GSK, Dyson, Adidas, Lloyds Bank, Virgin, The NHS and Manchester City Football Club (although he supports Wigan Athletic!)

By taking responsibility for your life, you can fulfil your potential, seize opportunities, enjoy relationships, succeed at work and respond to adverse situations with a positive attitude.

S.U.M.O. encourages you to look honestly at your life, remembering that it is never too late to change.

He has appeared on BBC Breakfast television and is a regular contributor on radio shows for the BBC and Radio 5live. Paul McGee is a motivational speaker, best known to many as the SUMO Guy. A best selling international author, Paul’s main aim is to help people S.U.M.O – Shut Up, Move On or Stop, Understand, Move On! Paul has spoken in over 40 countries across five continents. A visiting Professor at the University of Chester, he has the unique ability to communicate ideas in an easily accessible and relatable way. Do you want to build better relationships? Then you will benefit from ‘ How To Handle, Not Strangle Difficult People’. Paul’s no-nonsense style enables him to facilitate enjoyable but realistic workshops, keep clients engaged, and help them to make a genuine change to their lives. He’s practical, memorable and entertaining. He gives his audiences ideas and an insight that can help them immediately and also last a lifetime. His style means that people laugh as well as learn.All of these speeches cover themes such as leadership, motivation, service excellence, and resilience.

Paul aims to focus on the challenges of working in the 21st century and not the problems that surround it. Paul McGee's international bestselling personal development heavyweight S.U.M.O. has helped hundreds of thousands of people around the world fulfil their potential, seize opportunities, succeed at work, and respond to adverse situations with a positive attitude. Weighing in with humour, insight, practical tips, and personal anecdotes, it's a thought provoking—and possibly life-changing—read. Now newly updated to celebrate 10 years since its first publication and including up-to-date case studies and examples, as well brand new exercises to test yourself, S.U.M.O: 10th Anniversary Edition will help SUMO fans, as well as SUMO amateurs, get more out of this bestselling, self-help classic. Explore ‘Green Zone’ thinking based on the work of one of the world’s leading leadership gurus (and someone I’ve worked with). Kevin was author of the national Trading Standards training programme and delivered talks and lectures to a range of national audiences, and soon discovered his passion for teaching. He has been a visiting lecturer in Law and Business for a range of colleges and universities for over 30 years. Rather than focus on problems, Paul works with organisations to help their people overcome many challenges of working in the 21st century.Just like Hippos wallow in the mud sometimes, humans also need to allow ourselves some time to wallow when we feel mad, bad or sad. Time to sit with our sadness, to process and digest. Hippos don’t just go into the mud to wallow, they also go there to get out of the heat, to cool off and to play.