Roger Harrop

Roger is an International Speaker who inspires and entertains his audiences with his acclaimed Staying in the Helicopter™ series of transformational keynotes presentations, seminar, workshops and master class. Over 1000 CEOs and others have achieved massive growth in profits and sales through his thought provoking and entertaining speeches laced with real-life stories, anecdotes and humor. He is also an Author, Non-Executive Director, SME Business Advisor, Mentor and Consultant focused on improved profitable growth.

He has extensive experience across a broad spectrum of businesses - from small start-ups to large multinational corporations; from high tech manufactured products through basic commodities, to people based services businesses.

Roger spent seven years as Group Chief Executive of a fully quoted, high tech Industrial Instrumentation Group with 12 operations over three continents. The company was listed in the UK Government’s ‘Competitiveness’ White Paper and gained a reference in the US Forbes magazine as one of the top 100 ‘small’ overseas companies and has been used as a benchmark case study by two business schools on Culture Change and Business Re-Engineering.

He has run businesses for major multi-national companies and has been a tutor with one of the leading Leadership and Teambuilding program for over 20 years.

Roger is a member of The Professional Speakers Association. a former Vice-President of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and a Liveryman with The Worshipful Company of Marketers.

He is an accredited SME business advisor, a trained Assessor and Coach, and is on the Chairman panel with a number of Private Equity Houses.