Nigel Marsh

Biography

TOPICS: BUSINESS, LEADERSHIP, LIFESTYLE

Nigel speaks from direct personal experience, giving his views on how to get the best out of business, life and those around you. Nigel’s first book ‘Fat, Forty and Fired’ enjoyed top ten success alongside Dan Brown and John Grisham.

Influential business magazine BRW declaring it “one of the best books of the year”. In 2007 ‘Fat , Forty and Fired’ was translated and published around the world. It is currently being adapted for radio and stage as well as being developed into a feature film.

Nigel’s second book ‘Observations of a Very Short Man’ was published in 2008 to instant acclaim, Stephanie Dowrick describing it as “seriously funny and disarmingly wise, an irresistible invitation to laugh your way back to a better view of the world”.

In Nigel’s career he has worked with an enormous variety of business – big and small – including a number of the world’s top companies. This variety has given him strong views on what does and doesn’t lead to peak performance in the business world.

Since moving to Australia in 2001 Nigel has lead two of the most dramatic company turnarounds the communications industry has seen.

Nigel is currently Chairman of Leo Burnett. During his time as the company’s CEO the agency was awarded not one but both of the industry’s coveted Agency of the Year awards and was responsible for a number of the highest profile and most effective communications campaigns in the country for brands such as Bundy Rum, Canon, Virgin, McDonalds and Earth Hour. Outside of business, speaking engagements and writing Nigel is a performance coach and one of the founders of the globally renowned environmental initiative Earth Hour.