Trudy ignites the audience’s enthusiasm with her passion and understanding of innovation. Facilitates interactive sessions to build confidence and commitment to innovate. Great case stories to inspire and entertain. Dynamic chairperson who provides succinct and sensitive summaries and promotes genial conference climate.

Trudy Lloyd is an honours graduate in Chinese and holds an MBA from Cranfield University School of Management. Her studies in the field of innovation include an original research project into “Enabling Creativity and Innovation in Organisations.”

She is a NLP practitioner, qualified business coach and Chartered Marketer. Trudy has extensive experience in innovation and marketing gained in senior roles in Ranks Hovis McDougall and latterly as Brands Director at Allied Domecq. She helps companies develop new products, achieve breakthrough thinking in their strategy and motivate teams for high performance at project start-up. She also works with business leaders who want to develop a culture of innovation.

“For me, innovating is about achieving even more. More value for all stakeholders, not just shareholders. That means better products, better profits and more rewarding work for employees. There is scope to innovate in all aspects of business.” Trudy believes passion is even more important than the processes for successful innovation, and she helps leaders rediscover it and develop it, for themselves and amongst their teams.

Recent speaking engagements include World Food Technology and Innovation Forum, Scottish Food and Drink, Women in Finance and Banking, Cambridge Business and Professional.
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Sample innovation topics that Trudy speaks on
•How to spark innovation in your organisation
•Intrinsic motivation – “Passion”: the key to business creativity and innovation
•Unlocking the passion to sustain innovation projects
•Selling breakthrough ideas within organisations
•Achieving More: through creativity and innovation
•The power of dreams and intuition to build businesses.
•Developing innovation capability as a strategic asset.
•Creating diverse high performing innovation teams that can deliver breakthrough innovation
•Creative ways to get insight from consumers and use it to develop new products
•Bringing people and technologies together to succeed in innovation.

A dynamic business coach and change agent. Trudy has specialist knowledge of creativity and innovation in business, and she fires people's confidence to experience their transformational effects. Trudy inspires people to move beyond the known solutions and to develop themselves and their organisations to achieve even greater business and personal success.