Russell Butler's guest appearances

Russell Butler

Learning Is The New Working

Inside Coventry and Warwickshire Podcast

Learning with Leaders

Oscar Trimboli

Kate Shaw

Jesse Jackson

Geoff Stead

Adam Gray

Paul Nicholls

Matt Robinson

Nick Martin

Jeremy Hunter

Lisa Kay Solomon

Aaron Hurst

Dan Pontefract

Gina Jeneroux

Simon Brown

Julian Stodd

OwlTail

I am joined this week by Russell Butler. Russell is the founder of iVentiv, based in Kenilworth. iVentiv offers learning and networking events for senior executives. Founded in 2008 as a response to what he saw as an inadequate ‘sit and listen’ conference format that didn’t allow people to truly learn and exchange ideas. Instead, iVentiv’s unique format does away with formal talks in favour of interactive sessions where every participant is a speaker, allowing event attendees to take away new ideas that they can apply to their business in an actionable way. Starting as a one man band, the business now employs a full team and runs events attended by most of the world’s biggest companies. From its beginnings in Warwickshire, iVentiv has hosted events in 44 countries, for more than 1500 senior executives at 845 companies. Since the pandemic, the company has pivoted quickly and successfully into Virtual Events. iVentiv’s 200th event will take place at the start of 2022. I really enjoyed learning more about Russell, and his story, and I hope you do too. LINKS &amp; RESOURCES Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iventivevents Twitter: https://twitter.com/iVentiv LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iventiv Web: https://iventiv.com/ ABOUT YOUR HOST Daniel Martin is a born and bred local lad, a keen rugby player and sports fan. In his day-to-day life, Daniel is a Director and Independent Financial Adviser at MDM Wealth. A family run firm of lifestyle financial planners and independent financial advisers based in Rugby, in the heart of Warwickshire. HELP US SPREAD THE WORLD If you know someone who should be a guest on the show, and has a great story to share, please do not hesitate to get to touch. We would also love it if you would give us a review and a 5-star rating. Until next time. 

I am joined this week by Russell Butler. Russell is the founder of iVentiv, based in Kenilworth. iVentiv offers learning and networking events for senior executives. Founded in 2008 as a response to what he saw as an inadequate ‘sit and listen’ conference format that didn’t allow people to truly learn and exchange ideas. Instead, iVentiv’s unique format does away with formal talks in favour of interactive sessions where every participant is a speaker, allowing event attendees to take away new ideas that they can apply to their business in an actionable way. Starting as a one man band, the business now employs a full team and runs events attended by most of the world’s biggest companies. From its beginnings in Warwickshire, iVentiv has hosted events in 44 countries, for more than 1500 senior executives at 845 companies. Since the pandemic, the company has pivoted quickly and successfully into Virtual Events. iVentiv’s 200th event will take place at the start of 2022. I really enjoyed learning more about Russell, and his story, and I hope you do too. LINKS &amp; RESOURCES Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/iventivevents" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/iventivevents</a> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/iVentiv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/iVentiv</a> LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/iventiv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/iventiv</a> Web: <a href="https://iventiv.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://iventiv.com/</a> ABOUT YOUR HOST Daniel Martin is a born and bred local lad, a keen rugby player and sports fan. In his day-to-day life, Daniel is a Director and Independent Financial Adviser at <a href="https://mdmwealth.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MDM Wealth</a>. A family run firm of lifestyle financial planners and independent financial advisers based in Rugby, in the heart of Warwickshire. HELP US SPREAD THE WORLD If you know someone who should be a guest on the show, and has a great story to share, please do not hesitate to get to touch. We would also love it if you would give us a review and a 5-star rating. Until next time.

#18 Russell Butler - iVentiv

Join Francisco ‘Paco’ Pelzing, Head of International Sales at Hemsley Fraser and Russell Butler CEO of iVentiv as they discuss urgency in the workplace and how Russell went from teaching people how to dive and working in a bar to running a successful events company. He also shares his thoughts on millennials and how they need to challenge hierarchies and encourage employees to challenge processes and drive change throughout their careers.

Join Francisco ‘Paco’ Pelzing, Head of International Sales at Hemsley Fraser and Russell Butler CEO of iVentiv as they discuss urgency in the workplace and how Russell went from teaching people how to dive and working in a bar to running a successful events company. He also shares his thoughts on millennials and how they need to challenge hierarchies and encourage employees to challenge processes and drive change throughout their careers.

Russell Butler - CEO of iVentiv

The 2020 Covid19 Pandemic might just be the most disruptive event in the last 60 years. It has, amongst many devastating social and personal effects, also propelled us into what seems to be a ‘New Normal’ of work, with a speed and force we could never have imagined three months back. And as we emerge out of Lockdown into Recovery, the worlds of Work and Learning are changing radically—indeed, will arguably never be the same again. In our new COVID-19 mini-Season at ‘Learning Is The New Working,’ ‘From What-If To What Now?’ we’re exploring what that’s looking like on the ground—and this week’s guest, Russell Butler, Founder and CEO of Learning event creators iVentiv is literally thinking and responding in-flight to these issues. After all, industry conventions are so important to our industry, and most L&amp;D teams use some form of convening to practice our ‘trade’—but it’s one that hasn’t worked for everyone for a while. What’s really interesting is that Russell had been disrupting that model for some years… but that COVID and travel bans present an existential threat to even his new way of fostering learning. Listen in to hear about the genuine drama of this possibly terminal crisis and what he’s done to save it, including:how he ended up in ‘Silicon Spa:’ a place ‘bang in the middle’ of rural England with a ‘serious gaming’ heritage that he found highly impactful on his own growth as a business professionalhis workspace—an office between the Motor Sport Industry Association and the National Beekeeper Society next to where the Queen retired some of her ceremonial horses; the first ten years of what’s very much a family business, iVentiv, and the evolution of its ‘Learn, Connect and Develop’ mission; what he learned from the first 100-plus iVentiv events; how well his pipeline looked at the start of the 2020… and then how much it changed; the day he had to tell his staff in their brand new offices that the business faced huge challenges, and that none of it was their fault; the pivot/postpone conundrum; a steep learning curve: the start of iVentiv’s virtual and what’s proving to be a surprisingly strong, Zoom-based way back; the usefulness of the self-challenge, ‘What are you doing to keep yourself relevant for us - and not just for us?’; and much more.

The 2020 Covid19 Pandemic might just be the most disruptive event in the last 60 years. It has, amongst many devastating social and personal effects, also propelled us into what seems to be a ‘New Normal’ of work, with a speed and force we could never have imagined three months back. And as we emerge out of Lockdown into Recovery, the worlds of Work and Learning are changing radically—indeed, will arguably never be the same again. In our new COVID-19 mini-Season at ‘Learning Is The New Working,’ ‘From What-If To What Now?’ we’re exploring what that’s looking like on the ground—and this week’s guest, Russell Butler, Founder and CEO of Learning event creators iVentiv is literally thinking and responding in-flight to these issues. After all, industry conventions are so important to our industry, and most L&amp;D teams use some form of convening to practice our ‘trade’—but it’s one that hasn’t worked for everyone for a while. What’s really interesting is that Russell had been disrupting that model for some years… but that COVID and travel bans present an existential threat to even his new way of fostering learning. Listen in to hear about the genuine drama of this possibly terminal crisis and what he’s done to save it, including: how he ended up in ‘Silicon Spa:’ a place ‘bang in the middle’ of rural England with a ‘serious gaming’ heritage that he found highly impactful on his own growth as a business professional his workspace—an office between the Motor Sport Industry Association and the National Beekeeper Society next to where the Queen retired some of her ceremonial horses; the first ten years of what’s very much a family business, iVentiv, and the evolution of its ‘Learn, Connect and Develop’ mission; what he learned from the first 100-plus iVentiv events; how well his pipeline looked at the start of the 2020… and then how much it changed; the day he had to tell his staff in their brand new offices that the business faced huge challenges, and that none of it was their fault; the pivot/postpone conundrum; a steep learning curve: the start of iVentiv’s virtual and what’s proving to be a surprisingly strong, Zoom-based way back; the usefulness of the self-challenge, ‘What are you doing to keep yourself relevant for us - and not just for us?’; and much more.

The Day Russell Butler's Highly Successful L&D Business Broke, What He Did Next, And What We Must All Learn From It