Liz Jackson - Founder of Great Guns Marketing

Liz Jackson is a truly inspirational business and after dinner speaker and enthrals audiences with her witty, genuine and highly entertaining natural talent. Her business achievements speak for themselves as Liz’s company, Great Guns Marketing, goes from strength to strength; a company she started in 1998 aged 25 with no money, no advanced education and rapidly failing eyesight.

Liz is now totally blind but continues to build her company into the UK’s leading business to business telemarketing force.

Liz’s achievements have been recognised by her winning the 2003 T Mobile ‘Women Mean Business Award’ and the 2004 regional Customer Focus Award in the National Business Award series; an award referred to by Gordon Brown as the Business Oscars. Liz is most recently the regional winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year award in the Chamber Awards 2005.

Liz is available to book for your dinner, seminar or conference or any other type of event. Subjects on which she regularly speaks are motivation and inspiration, overcoming barriers, telemarketing, customer services, leadership and being an entrepreneur.

Liz is a truly accomplished business speaker and motivational speaker. She carries out around 40 speaking engagements each month for organisations such as The Call Centre Association, Entrepreneurs in Dubai, Chamber of Commerce, Business Link, Virgin Mobile, Forever Living Products and Lions Club International.

Liz’s amazing story is told in her book StartUp! Published by Pearson.

Speaker topics:-

Motivation
Customer Service
Entrepreneurship
Leadership

Books

"How to Start a Successful Business from Absolutely Nothing, What to Do and How It Feels "

 

Testimonials

“Liz has shown remarkable determination, vision and passion in developing her business. Her inspirational story should serve to motivate many people setting up in business, as she really demonstrates what can be achieved with a can-do attitude. These characteristics are the hallmark of great business leaders, as we identified in our Bright Business Effect report earlier this year.”

Richard Hanscott Vice-President of Business Solutions at Orange (From ‘Director’ magazine – the journal of The Institute of Directors)

“I cannot begin to tell you how proud and pleased I am that Elizabeth Jackson has won this year’s Women Mean Business Awards. Elizabeth has overcome the most extraordinary difficulties to make Great Guns Marketing the success that it is and I am delighted that my Princes Trust was able to play a part in all she has achieved. Elizabeth is an inspiration to young business people everywhere and I do send her my warmest congratulations”.

Prince Charles

"Witty, brilliant, successful, full of fun - and blind..."

Margaret Kimberley-Lions Club International