The Power of Your Professional Relationships with Andy Lopata

Elevate with Adam Harris

In today's episode I talk to Andy Lopata about the power of professional relationships. We talk about networking, formal and informal, the power of a conversation and asking meaningful questions. Finally, we talk about the importance of community through the means of one of our favourite topics, football.

About Andy:

Andy Lopata is an acclaimed professional relationships strategist, with global clients including Paypal, GlaxoSmithKline and Brother.

He has written five books on networking and professional relationships and has often been quoted in the media, including The Sunday Times, The Financial Times and Inc. In fact, the FT called Andy ‘one of Europe’s leading business networking strategists’ and both Forbes.com and The Independent called him ‘a true master of networking’.

Andy holds the PSAE award – that’s the UK’s top award designed to recognise excellence in professional speaking. He is a two-time Board Member and current President of the Fellow’s Community of the Professional Speaking Association (PSA) UK and Ireland and a member of the Global Speakers Federation (GSF). He’s also a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute (LPI), and a Master of the Institute of Sales Management.

He started working in networking in 1999, and spent eight years as Managing Director of a UK networking organisation that had over 2,000 member companies.

Website: https://lopata.co.uk/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/networkingstrategy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/networkingstrategy/

About Adam Harris:

I work with CEO’s, managing directors, their boards and leadership teams as well as aspiring leaders who want to climb the corporate ladder. I help them achieve greater results for their teams, their businesses and themselves. How? By taking them from where they are to where they want to get to. I do that not by answering their questions, but by questioning their questions. By being Frank and Fearless. I ask tough questions and encourage my clients to say what they really think. I create space to enable them to stop, pause and reflect. Out of that space comes clarity and real opportunities for growth. I help my clients do incredible things. I help them understand that good and bad things happen. Life goes on regardless. What matters is your perspective and how you react to the shit that happens to you. What you get out of life depends on how you navigate your way through it.

Mastermind opportunities: https://frankandfearless.com/masterminds-2/

Website: https://frankandfearless.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frankandfearlessleadership/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/frankandfearless

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frankandfearlessleadership/