Keynote Speaker · Author
Happiness Is You Still Being You.
A keynote talk and book for anyone going through a major change. Retirement. Redundancy. Bereavement. A diagnosis. A relationship that ended. Whatever changed, the real you is still there.
Forty years in business. One lesson nobody prepares you for.
The Talk
A keynote about the question every change asks
Derrick turns forty years in business and his own journey through retirement and a cancer diagnosis into a warm, honest and practical keynote. The biggest challenge of major change, he shows, is rarely practical. It is the identity question: who am I now? Audiences leave with a simple method for finding their way back to themselves.
See the keynoteThe Book
Happiness Is You Still Being You
The book that started it all. A warm, honest and practical guide to keeping your identity through life's biggest transitions, built around a simple five-pillar method you can work through with nothing more than a pen, some paper and an honest hour with yourself.
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About Derrick
The smiley guy with the bowtie
For forty years, the advice for anyone meeting Derrick for the first time was the same. Look out for the smiley guy with the bowtie. You can't miss him. Behind it sits forty years in creative communications, partner of one of the UK's leading creative agencies, and a very human story of losing his footing through retirement and a cancer diagnosis, then finding his way back. That journey is why this talk rings true.
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