Andy Lopata Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Author, speaker, trainer and mentor on building, nurturing and leveraging professional relationships. Key areas of focus include: Referral StrategyThe author of the Financial Times Prentice Hall book ‘Recommended: How to Sell Through Networking and Referrals’, I run programmes for clients helping their teams to develop strong relationships both inside and outside their organisations and then understand how to leverage those relationships to generate high quality introductions. Professional Relationships StrategyAuthor of 'Connected Leadership': How Professional Relationships Underpin Executive Success'. A strong professional relationships strategy focuses on building, nurturing and leveraging the right relationships and can help to generate influence, supercharge career growth, break down siloes and drive innovation. I deliver talks, training and mentoring programmes to help clients develop the networking strategy that best serves them. Mentoring, Masterminding and SupportOne of the most underestimated benefits of strong professional relationships is the support that your network can offer you. I offer sessions on developing strong mentoring relationships, establishing mastermind groups (peer group mentoring) and being able to be vulnerable and open to trusted members of your network. Also covered: • Networking skills• Social networking strategyI deliver to clients in a number of ways including: • Keynote speaking• One-year programmes• Courses and workshops• Lunch-and-learn sessions• Mentoring for individuals and small groups• Online learning• Books and other products

Author of: Just Ask: Why Seeking Support is Your Greatest Strength (2020) - Category Finalist in Business Book Awards 2021 Connected Leadership: How Professional Relationships Underpin Executive Success (2020) - Category Finalist in Business Book Awards 2021 Recommended: How to Sell Through Networking and Referrals (2011)...and Death Came Third! : The Definitive Guide to Networking and Speaking in Public (2006 and 2011) - Finalist in Indie Book Awards 2012Building a Business on Bacon and Eggs (2005)Contributing author to various publications.

Exploring the premise that professional relationships underpin executive success, The Connected Leadership Podcast features interviews with guests from a wide range of backgrounds and from all over the world. Interviewees to date include an Olympic medalist, NASA Space Shuttle astronaut, orchestral conductor, former Royal Navy Commander, New York Times bestsellers, a senior Disney exective and more. Topics include: Relationships in hierarchies, trust, developing strong relationships, mental health in the workplace, diversity and inclusion, managing relationships as operations scale, storytelling and much more.

Voluntary position. Responsibly for supporting and developing the Chapters around the UK. Ensuring that members benefited from the national network.

A social business network based in the UK. Designed to develop local groups of businesses generating referrals and support for each other without the need for weekly meetings.

Referral Generation focused networking groups. Developed the BRE franchise across the UK and into Spain. Developed two training programmes for members on networking skills and strategies. Part of the management team who grew the company from 4 groups on joining to 125 groups and 2,500 members on exit.

Referral Generation focused networking groups. Developed the BRE franchise across the UK and into Spain. Developed two training programmes for members on networking skills and strategies. Part of the management team who grew the company from 4 groups on joining to 125 groups and 2,500 members on exit.

Responsible for managing the car park operations on West Anglia Great Northern, London to Southend and Thameslink railways

Distribution Manager for Inside the Tour and Champions Tennis. Then Project Manager for 'The Finest Golf Clubs of the World'

Sound engineering radio live link interviews with radio stations across the UK.

Political Science

Activities and Societies: Debating Society, Debating Team, Anti-Apartheid, Amnesty International (Regional Student Co-ordinator), Football.

Economics, Politics, English

Activities and Societies: Debating Society

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