We ’ re still a young company , 17-yearsold , and we are now the largest privately owned company in the world , in exhibitions .
“ I think every exhibition organiser will tell you that we lost people . And recruiting now is not easy .
“ If you ’ re entirely selfish about it , it ’ s about preventing you from having to find new people , it keeps good talent within the company . We want to retain our team .
“ So , we want to make sure that we ’ re giving the right opportunities to the right people . So we ’ ve got 12 of our senior managers on this six module program .
Matt Benyon
As part of the programme three top class leaders - including Keegan- will run training sessions with the group .
“ Ben [ Grover ], our CFO is a crazy football fan and said it ’ d be fun to bring in a guy who ’ s been at the absolute top of his game . [ Keegan ] has won all sorts of accolades , played for England , managed three clubs . It is obviously a completely different industry , but we thought ‘ let ’ s bring him in and understand what made him a great player and what made him a great leader and also to find out how he got the best out of his people ’.”
Benyon said the biggest lesson
30 — May