Richard Lucas - July 2020 Introduction This blog post ends with the transcript of the talk I gave for TEDxShenkarCollege, Israel in May 2020. It provides information about the idea of pre-events, events before events. and putting "the time before things start" to better use. As a result of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic events are […]
6th January 2020 Richard Lucas Introduction On Friday 3rd January I was honoured to attend the funeral of Krysia (as I knew her) in the small town in Sherborne in the West of England. I asked her son Michael if I could share the Eulogy he delivered. It follows this introduction. A letter from the […]
October 2018 This blog post has the transcript of my Inaugural Lecture at Wydział Inżynierii Lądowej Politechniki Krakowskiej. The Dean of Krakow Polytechnic's Department of Civil Engineering Andrzej Szarata - full Polish title (Dr hab. inż. Andrzej Szarata, prof. PK. Kierownik Zakładu Systemów Komunikacyjnych Dziekan Wydziału Inżynierii Lądowe" asked me to give the inaugural address to new students starting […]
Richard Lucas This is a list of past and events I have or am going to speak at, host and/or organised. I welcome invitations. Please read this first. I speak about entrepreneurship, leadership and business. My talks and hosting are interactive, participant focussed, high quality and fun. I've written about this here. My experience at […]
Richard Lucas 8th November 2017 This blog post is to go with my podcast interview with Russell Hicks - which goes live today. There will be the first airing of my new pre-roll, a new 'old' music voice over, and very different content. I was very, very pleased to have Russell on the show and […]
October 2017 I’m doing a workshop at the Winchester College - the School I attended many years ago -on the pros and cons of starting a business (compared to a conventional career) and put together a "reading, listening and viewing" list) for the boys. This list is not complete, but as my father often said […]
Richard Lucas April 2017 I received this e-mail a few weeks ago from the organisers of a business plan pitching competition. "Dear startup pitching competition organiser. My first reaction is "NOOOOOOOOO" "I'm too busy. My TEDxKazimierz event is only three weeks away. There is a lot of great advice on how to pitch available on […]