Advisor, speaker, author, broadcaster

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Simon Middleton has become one of the UK's best known brand consultants

Simon's work has included brand strategy and campaigns for companies that include: Barclays, Norwich Union, Denplan, pharmaceutical giant Merial, brewing and wine company Adnams, and Britain's best known sandwich chain Pret A Manger.

He has also advised numerous charities on their specific brand strategy, including St John Ambulance, Anthony Nolan Trust and Voluntary Norfolk.

Other clients have included international organisations like Deloitte, British Airways, and Comic Relief, as well as leading UK organisations and businesses such as Wales Management Council, McCann Erickson, Lovells, and Xansa.

He has also worked for dozens more small and medium-sized businesses, charities and other organisations, advising on: brand strategy, marketing, creativity and innovation, staff motivation and communication, public relations and other areas of company strategy. Simon's clients are diverse in nature and size. Recent clients include: Oxfordshire environmental and educational trust Northmoor, the Norfolk village seaside resort of Hemsby & Newport, graphic design business Special Design Studio, the extraordinary singer-songwriter Jess Morgan, and UK's most beautiful waterland destination The Norfolk Broads.

Speaker, author and broadcaster

Simon presents master classes and inspiring keynotes on brands and branding both here in the UK and also Europe, and is soon to be heard in the United States.

If you are seeking a stand-out speaker for your event and would like to see more examples of Simon's content and presentation style, please call or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for a free copy of his DVD The Brand Effect containing two episodes of the TV series plus a showreel.

Recently Simon has been filming Seaside's Last Resort with Duncan Bannatyne, which will be transmitted on Virgin 1 in Spring 2010. Simon's book Build A Brand In 30 Days is published in April 2010 by Capstone Wiley. A regular media commentator on all things 'brand’ for the BBC, Sky News and Five News among others, Simon is also scripting and presenting a unique new six-part TV series The Brand Effect . Further business and brand-related TV projects are in the planning stages.

Simon's expertise and outstanding reputation stem from a varied career. He is a qualified primary school teacher, a Registered Nurse for people with learning disabilities, and a former senior manager in the NHS.

He has also been Creative Director of a leading advertising agency, a business journalist and an entrepreneur, launching two successful marketing agencies.

Simon is a respected leader in the brand field. He is a Business Fellow of the University of East Anglia, and a member of the team creating UEA's unique new MSc in Brand Leadership. He is also a Chartered Institute of Marketing Marketer of The Year.

He continues to teach master classes to MBA students at UEA and post-graduates at the prestigious Norwich University College of The Arts.

Simon is also an expert in creative-thinking and innovation in business and runs popular workshops on creativity all over the UK.

When he's not working Simon’s natural gifts as a performer are expressed as front-man of an acoustic-Americana band The Proposition, with a rapidly growing reputation on the roots circuit.