Frances Edmonds
Frances is an international keynote speaker and an acknowledged expert in the area of cross-cultural communication. Her gift is to inspire audiences of diverse cultural, national and social backgrounds to recognise and transcend their differences in pursuit of higher, common objectives. She is a much sought-after keynoter by multinational and multi-cultural organisations who are rising to the challenges of innovation and change.
In her capacity as a businesswoman who has helped create a prestigious specialist construction company, Frances believes that outstanding customer service is based on clear communication and on cohesive, motivated teams. For her commercial success in this venture and for her efforts in promoting the interests of British female entrepreneurs in the UK and abroad, she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Association of Women Entrepreneurs.
In her capacity as a businesswoman who has helped create a prestigious specialist construction company, Frances believes that outstanding customer service is based on clear communication and on cohesive, motivated teams. For her commercial success in this venture and for her efforts in promoting the interests of British female entrepreneurs in the UK and abroad, she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Association of Women Entrepreneurs.
Author of
"Another
Bloody
Tour"
In addition, whilst researching her acclaimed motivational book, Winning the Game of Life, Frances discovered the tools for personal and professional success employed by world-class performers in the worlds of business, sport, education, politics, the arts, science and not-for-profit. In her keynotes, she draws on this accumulated wisdom to suggest strategies for personal and professional well-being, success and fulfilment.
As an after-dinner speaker, Frances combines intellectual curiosity about her audience with her own brand of wit and flair to create truly memorable events of lasting resonance for her clients.
Frances is a best-selling author and broadcaster who has been rated Britain’s most entertaining female speaker in a recent survey by “The Times.”
A Cambridge-educated modern linguist, with humorous tendencies in five European languages, she spent fifteen years as an international conference interpreter creating linguistic silk purses out of befuddled politicians’ syntactic sows’ ears.
She then accompanied her cricketer husband, Phil Edmonds, on the England cricket team’s disastrous tour to the West Indies in 1986. It was there that she wrote her first and highly controversial bestseller, “Another Bloody Tour”, which shook British male sporting bastions to their foundations.
She continued on to Australia where she wrote another Number One bestseller, “Cricket XXXX Cricket,” and hosted Good Morning Australia, the country’s most popular breakfast TV show. “Members Only” followed a search for signs of independent intelligent life in the Houses of Parliament. She found few.
Her subsequent works of fiction have all been published internationally and to great critical acclaim.
Frances has wide experience on radio and television as both a host and a panellist where she enjoys a deserved reputation as a controversial, irreverent and very funny woman.
As an after-dinner speaker, Frances combines intellectual curiosity about her audience with her own brand of wit and flair to create truly memorable events of lasting resonance for her clients.
Frances is a best-selling author and broadcaster who has been rated Britain’s most entertaining female speaker in a recent survey by “The Times.”
A Cambridge-educated modern linguist, with humorous tendencies in five European languages, she spent fifteen years as an international conference interpreter creating linguistic silk purses out of befuddled politicians’ syntactic sows’ ears.
She then accompanied her cricketer husband, Phil Edmonds, on the England cricket team’s disastrous tour to the West Indies in 1986. It was there that she wrote her first and highly controversial bestseller, “Another Bloody Tour”, which shook British male sporting bastions to their foundations.
She continued on to Australia where she wrote another Number One bestseller, “Cricket XXXX Cricket,” and hosted Good Morning Australia, the country’s most popular breakfast TV show. “Members Only” followed a search for signs of independent intelligent life in the Houses of Parliament. She found few.
Her subsequent works of fiction have all been published internationally and to great critical acclaim.
Frances has wide experience on radio and television as both a host and a panellist where she enjoys a deserved reputation as a controversial, irreverent and very funny woman.
