Biography
Richard Branson is Founder of the Virgin Group. Virgin is one of the world’s most irresistible brands and has expanded into many diverse sectors from travel to telecommunications, health to banking and music to leisure.
Having started Virgin as a mail order record retailer in 1970, Richard founded Virgin Records. After the first Virgin artist, Mike Oldfield, released ‘Tubular Bells’, Virgin Records went on to sign household names from the Sex Pistols to The Rolling Stones. There are now more than 40 Virgin companies worldwide in over 35 countries.
Richard has challenged himself with many record breaking adventures, including the fastest ever Atlantic Ocean crossing, a series of oceanic balloon journeys and kitesurfing across the Channel. He has described Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline, as being “the greatest adventure of all”. Richard has nearly 40 million followers on social media and blogs regularly on issues ranging from entrepreneurship to the environment and adventure to purpose.
Since starting youth culture magazine Student aged 15, Richard has found entrepreneurial ways to drive positive change in the world. In 2004 Richard established Virgin Unite, the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group, which unites people and entrepreneurial ideas to create opportunities for a better world. Most of his time is now spent building businesses that will make a positive difference in the world and working with Virgin Unite and organisations it has incubated, such as The Elders, The B Team and Ocean Unite.
Richard is available for a select number of speaking engagements per year around the world. All funds raised from Richard’s speaking engagements go to Virgin Unite – the entrepreneurial foundation of the Virgin Group – and advocacy causes striving to make business a force for good.
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In this conference the entrepreneur of more than 400 companies, Richard Branson, will tell us how he has managed to create the empire he currently owns, what has been his successes and even more important, his mistakes.
Thanks to his enormous knowledge about different sectors (he has founded 8 companies in 8 different sectors that invoice more than one billion a year) he will be able to provide invaluable advice for any audience and will be able to adapt his examples and recommendations to every needs.
In this conference, Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Group which invoices more than 24 million dollars a year and that has more than 71,000 employees, will announce the keys and strategies that have allowed him to direct and grow his business from its beginnings to the present.
He will explain the leadership formula that applies in the company and why it does so. In addition we will also discover how he adapted its management as the companies grew and how this had an impact on his success.
Richard Branson, owner among others of Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Australia, Virgin America, Virgin Holidays, Virgin Limited Edition, Virgin Trains, Virgin Hotels and Virgin Galactic will describe in this keynote the history of how he founded and created the Virgin empire since its inception.
In this conference we will be able to know what Richard thought at all times, how he faced his most serious problems and how he overcame them either correctly or erroneously. It will seek to motivate and challenge the audience to see how important it is not to set limits and set challenges.
In this keynote conference, the entrepreneur Richard Branson will convey to the audience his most fundamental principles in business that have allowed him to develop Virgin while helping society.
We will know its facet less prominent by the media, his aim to realize a positive change in the world. We will see how since its beginning's the entrepreneur has combined business success with philanthropy, culminating it with the foundation of Virgin Unite, a company with which it addresses to solve social and environmental problems.
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