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Adrian Webster: Motivational speaker, best selling business author and creator of the phenomenon - Polar Bear Pirates.

Adrian is one of the most popular motivational speakers in the UK today. 

Brilliantly inspiring, hilariously funny, refreshingly different, easy to relate to and very effective. He cuts through complex motivational psychobabble, making it fun, relevant and useful.

Born in the workplace, out of necessity to inspire others, his unique world of motivational terminology and characters is today helping to inspire ordinary people from a vast array of organisations to deliver extra ordinary results.

 

biography

“Adrian Webster was highly recommended to us as a brilliant speaker. He was an absolute star.” - Madeline Pearson – Communications Manager- Taylor Woodrow.

Adrian Webster is one of the most popular motivational speakers in the UK today - he knows how to inspire everyday people into making a very real difference.
Brilliantly motivating, hilariously funny, refreshingly different and very effective.
He cuts through complex motivational psychobabble, making it fun, relevant and useful. People come away from Adrian’s presentations feeling inches taller, with big grins on their faces, fully armed and ready - for success.
Born in the workplace, out of necessity to inspire others, his unique world of motivational terminology and characters is today helping ordinary people from a vast array of organisations to be extraordinary.
Adrian Webster - If you’re looking for a speaker on:
· Thriving In Tough Times
· Creating Winning Environments
· Everyday People - Together Making A Difference
· Inspirational Leadership – Getting The Very Best Out Of People
· Customer Service - Putting Customers At The Heart Of Everything We Do
· Team Building - Pulling Together As One Big Team
· Self Motivation - DIY Belief - Being The Best
· Engaging And Retaining People On Shoestring Budgets
· Behavioural Change - Embracing Change
· Winning The Sales Game And Maintaining An Edge Over The Competition
· Communication - Effective SONAR Communicators
and want someone your audience will easily relate to, who really can deliver lasting messages in a unique and fabulously entertaining way.

Riot copper, milkman and salesman were just a few of the entries on Adrian’s CV before he moved into the I.T industry and discovered an ability to motivate and inspire others.
Today Adrian is probably the most entertaining and effective motivational speaker on the UK circuit. He specialises in delivering key messages on behalf of clients.

His addictively inspirational presentations help people at all levels and from diverse backgrounds to make a very real difference in their workplace.
Drawing on his vast amount of practical experience as a motivator and team builder he brings to life a whole new world of fun motivational terminology and characters that everyone can instantly identify with, take away and put to good use - a world not a million miles away where TNTs rule and Neg Ferrets, BLOATERS and Sinkers reside…all of whom you will no doubt instantly recognise!
The son of a Yorkshire coal miner, Adrian started off his colourful career as a Police Officer in St Pauls, Bristol. He left shortly after the St Paul’s riots to go ‘back to school’ and ended up becoming President of Southampton Students Drama.

Fed up with being a poor student, he spent the next four years building up a dairy company by knocking on thousands of doors and persuading households and local shops to buy his milk. Having established the dairy business he worked as, amongst many other things, a radio presenter on local radio in Bristol.

To help ‘fund’ his career, Adrian started selling a wide range of products, ranging from frozen food to houses. He quickly discovered he could make some real money in sales and began to take selling seriously, the part time sales side soon took over as his full time career. 

In 1987 he moved into I.T sales and by 1989 he had established himself as one of the most successful sales professionals in the industry.

After two highly successful years as Corporate Sales Manager of US Robotics, he joined Northamber Plc an I.T Distributor as Group Sales and Training Manager responsible for recruiting, training, motivating and ‘driving’ 150 staff to achieve phenomenal success on shoestring budgets.

It was during this time, out of pure necessity to inspire and retain staff that the world of Polar Bear Pirates was born and Adrian discovered an ability to turn teams of everyday people with little or no ability into some of the most productive in the I.T industry.

Fuelled by a desire to try to gain a better understanding of what really makes exceptional people tick he set about researching some of the UK’s most successful people.

These six years of research along with his real-life experiences, energy, passion, sense of humour and ability to understand the needs of each individual audience, combine together to deliver what will probably be the most useful inspirational speech you are ever likely to hear.
 

We started the year in last place. We took on board the Polar Bear Pirates concept, used it daily to motivate ourselves/the team and to ensure that we stayed focused.
By June we were up to second and come year-end, we finished number one. It had a huge impact on our performance.”
Mark Hussein
HSBC Head of Insurance
and Investments (Commercial)
The Book…
Polar Bear Pirates and their quest to reach Fat City has the appealing appearance and feel of a child’s book but contained within it, is a whole new universe of animated characters and terminology that anyone striving for success in whatever they do will instantly recognise and be able to relate to. The book introduces audacious characters called Polar Bear Pirates, battling with the likes of Neg Ferrets, Sinkers and BLOATERS along the road to success- we all have to deal with them ourselves on a daily basis… we just didn’t know what they were called before!
This unique book is however far more than just a highly entertaining and extremely engaging light read, Adrian Webster also gives readers the tools and tips to become the success they really want to be.
“A must for anyone who works for a living”
“A great laugh, really inspiring and very true to life.”
SIR CLIVE WOODWARD

”Polar Bear Pirates and Their Quest to Reach Fat City should be the new guide for anyone who wants to have a successful and fun career. With a strong focus on the only real priority in work – people, it will make you lethal to anybody who stands in your way. First there was The Art Of War – now there’s a new weapon: Polar Bear Pirates.”
PY GERBEAU

”A motivating and inspiring guide on how to succeed in life and how to deal with various characters you may meet along the way, whether they prove to be friend or foe.”
EVENING STANDARD

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Taylor Woodrow PlcAdrian Webster was highly recommended to us as a brilliant speaker. We were very unsure of using him because we’d never heard of him. We went ahead and used him…he was an absolute star.

HSBC
We started the year in last place. We took on board the Polar Bear Pirates concept, used it daily to motivate ourselves/the team and to ensure that we stayed focused. By June we were up to second and come year-end, we finished number one. It had a huge impact on our performance.”

AXA PPP
Adrian really is one of the best keynote speakers I have ever heard. He manages to captivate every type of audience right from the moment he starts and always leaves them wanting more. Adrian has a unique ability to have his audience rolling around in laughter one minute to suddenly getting them to hang on to his every word where a pin drop could be heard.  The messages Adrian shares will stay with you for life as they are fundamental, full of common sense and yet really make the difference when it comes to bringing out the best in others.

Lever Faberge
The brief for a “motivational speaker” was more than fulfilled as Adrian’s energy, humour and superb insight into the real world of sales had everybody mesmerised and entertained from the moment he walked onto the stage. Life hasn’t been quite the same since as we all now aspire to permanently residing in Fat City and living as Polar Bear Pirates!

Siemens
You had me listening to every word and taking in every word you spoke.

Yell Group
Adrian came along to our annual National Telesales Managers Conference last Friday, and I am delighted to report that he went down a storm.

Chair Women In Business Association
I was really blown away by Adrian – what a great guy – like a younger Rick Stein but with a passion for people rather than food!!

BT PLC
Adrian was fantastic! A style which I have never seen used so effectively. He had us in hoots but could change within minutes to deliver a very serious message with such feeling and power. Without a doubt the guy had everyone in the room hanging on every word for the full speech. Added to that, he was such enjoyable company.

South West London Health Authority
I just wanted to drop you a line to thank you again for your excellent presentation at the radiography event on Monday. We have taken a quick peek at the delegates’ evaluation forms and there are just far too many positive comments for me to forward on.

IBM
Adrian exceeded our expectations. The overall consensus is that Adrian came across as a breath of fresh air and it was totally different to any other speech delivered to an IBM audience. I have never attended a meeting at IBM before where people have laughed so much. He definitely made a big impact at IBM and we would welcome him back tomorrow if we had the chance. The only complaints we have had are from people who were unable to see him in action.

Nationwide Building Society
What really impressed me about Adrian’s presentation was that there were key messages that everyone could take away about how they as individuals could make a difference in their world, irrespective of where they were in our structure.

St James Group
Adrian was absolutely fantastic last Friday at our Seminar.  It’s not easy to win the hearts and minds of a room full of people in the building industry.  Many come having already decided they would rather be somewhere else, or that this sort of thing is for office staff only, etc., but Adrian won them over hook, line and sinker! He talks in a language that everybody can relate to. Adrian is highly entertaining but much more, he has the ability to make you think.

Bodylife UK Ltd
We have worked with many of the country’s leading keynote speakers over the years and they have all been good, but in many ways Adrian surpassed them all.

KPMG
Adrian’s speech really lifted the day: it created impact, raised energy levels materially, while giving our team much of value to reflect on. Everyone left at the end of the day in an upbeat and positive “can do” frame of mind.

Brook Street
We booked Adrian Webster although we had only seen the video clip of his performance and possible content. He was an excellent speaker. His enthusiasm and wit were a breath of fresh air and his inspirational and poignant messages made a huge impact. Thoroughly entertaining and thought provoking, Adrian left a lasting impression with our 600 strong audience with his powerful messages that could be related to our workplace.

SSL International
Stunning, funny, interesting and relevant. I cannot say much more.

McCarthy & Stone
Adrian listened to our requirements , understood our remit and delivered an impeccable presentation. The audience were spell – bound and would have listened all day. Fantastic!Hewlett-PackardAdrian, You were superb. The feedback was very positive and many were inspired by your speech as well as royally entertained.

David Lloyd Leisure
On feedback from 200 conference delegates, Adrian averaged a score of 5 (on a 1 – 5 scale of poor to excellent). The feedback was phenomenal, not one negative comment.

Thomas Sanderson
There is so much good stuff to take on board. I remember having tears in my eyes three years ago when you first talked to Thomas Sanderson and this time it was a case of even more tears.

Richmond Events
What a performer! Adrian provided the closing keynote presentation onboard the recent IT Director’s Forum.  His boundless energy and powerful use of humour and emotion kept the audience highly entertained and wanting more. I would thoroughly recommend Adrian Webster to anyone looking for a truly motivational speaker.

Parcelnet
Adrian was a major hit at the Conference. Everybody was so buoyed up by the speech and full of motivation and vigour - just as I had hoped.

Prime Business Solutrions
Adrian really brought some life and thought inspiring moments to our day and more importantly had us all in stitches.

Wavin Plastics
In 17 years of being informed and entertained by a wide variety of speakers, no one has engaged, entertained and motivated a Sales Team more than Adrian Webster. Truly inspirational.

Anderson Anderson & Brown
Adrian’s presentation was absolutely excellent and motivated the entire room to get down to business later on that day. We have also taken back Adrian’s message to the workplace and we are using this to make our firm a first class place to work.

HSBC
Just to say thank you very much on behalf of us all for coming in last week.  As you will gathered from the audience reaction, you were extremely well received on the day and we have since received even more excellent feedback.  Everyone came back with a smile on their face, so you were a great success and we really will use some of your thoughts going forward.

Office Friendly Dealer Association
A brilliant presentation which had all of us engaging every emotion. Last year Kris Akabusi was our ‘motivational’ speaker and we didn’t believe we could top an Olympic Gold medal winner. Well, we don’t believe that now. You’re an Olympic Champion in your chosen profession.

Travel & Personal Underwriters Ltd
Arian Webster really was just fantastic. Although I had booked Adrian and, as such, had done my homework and even read his book, I really had no idea that he would actually be as side-splittingly funny as he was.  I now realise that when you book Adrian you get a top notch comedian and a motivational speaker for the price of one! His energy and enthusiasm for his subject were utterly infectious (you get out of breath just watching him!) and his ability to have his audience choking on the brink of tears one second and then crying with laughter the next must surely be second to none..

East Sussex CC
“Adrian’s speech was superb, and just what I needed!”

Danwood Group
Thank you, you were awesome! The guys are still talking about you! The impact was pitched at the right level and was perfect.

Network Rail
We have had some terrific feedback on your slot which is well earned from our “conservative” teams!

The Diamond Trading Company
You energy, enthusiasm and humour were infectious—it was evident so many people were inspired by what you said.

Anchor Trust
I would just like to say that after seeing you at the HDi conference as a conference speaker in April, I had though that seeing you for a second time at the Anchor Dinner that I would switch off, but NO… for a second time, you had me busting my sides with laughter.  The way that you can take an audience from tears of laughter and within seconds can you turn the audience to more sombre subjects is an amazing skill you possess.

Jardine Lloyd Thompson
I have never seen my sales team so speechless and enthusiastic about using some of the thoughts and ideas you gave to the team during your presentation.

Tellabs UK Ltd
What a phenomenal… lasting impact! Adrian spoke at our EMEA conference in Malta just over three months ago. The effect of his speech has been quite remarkable, our people are still talking about it today

Car Care Plan
Adrian was one of the best keynote speakers we have had in our 28- year history.

Allan Bignell – Conference Producer
Adrian is the greatest on message deliverer that I’ve ever had the privilege to witness. Through twenty years of producing corporate live events I have never seen such an extraordinarily electric effect on an audience as I did during Adrian’s keynote speech. Adrian has taken the subject of motivation and stripped it of its clichés and psycho –babble and placed it in the tough world that people live and work in today. Aching ribs and tear stained note pads were the order of the day.

Courts (UK) Ltd
He gave a superb performance, which exceeded all our expectations. In a matter of minutes Adrian managed to achieve the aim of our sales conference – to motivate and energise our managers into action.

Xplor UK
The first day started with an excellent motivation speech from Adrian Webster. When it came time to thank him I was lost for words - a rare occasion I hear you mutter. He was simply brilliant. 

HSBC Invoice Finance
Adrian understood our requirements perfectly and delivered - the feedback received has been fantastic - Monday morning and we have a group of people fired up with enthusiasm.

Business Link Wessex
Thank you for making our event so successful - we had some really good feedback, and our clients all went away with happy faces! Everyone found something to relate to in Adrian’s talk whether from a work or home situation. Thanks once again for a great performance, I also wish I had half Adrian’s energy!!

Lorri Delahunty – Conference Producer
Adrian is the most wonderfully original presenter/motivator/enter-trainer I have ever encountered.

Manchester Chamber Business Enterprises
I would like to thank Adrian for such an entertaining and informative performance. Every evaluation survey returned has marked Adrian as Excellent… the best of any speaker we have had previously.

Anglia Cooperative Society
I’ve been lucky enough to see a lot of motivational speakers over the years, but Adrian must be up there with the best. It’s rare for a speaker to be able to take you from ‘belly aching laughter’ to ‘shivers up the spine’ within such a short period of time. A rare skill.

Compass Group
Your talk last week was superb and absolutely hit the mark.  You picked up on all the key points of the conference, you obviously listened to and read the briefing notes and all I can say is you were a superstar.

Hyde Group
The feedback I have received has been excellent and it ranges from “fantastic” to “outstanding speaker” and “can he please be invited back again”.

Thomas Sanderson
Thank you for a hilarious and fun packed hour at our National Sales Meeting in Warwick. There were moments when I literally had tears streaming down my face. The feedback from the guys was “that was as good as it gets”.

Jardine Lloyd Thompson
I have never seen my sales team so speechless and enthusiastic about using some of the thoughts and ideas you gave to the team during your presentation.

British Association of Removers
Adrian was excellent and it has been said that he is the best speaker we have ever had at a BAR conference.

Simon Edwardes – Conference ProducerThe biggest compliment I can pay is that even ‘off – duty’ technicians were transfixed, which certainly doesn’t happen too often.