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Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitator - Marketing That Works

Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitator - Marketing That Works
Chris Willman
Chris Willman
Marketing Strategist and Author
The Big Brand Blueprint

Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitator: Marketing That Actually Works for Small Businesses

Marketing talks that leave your audience with something they can actually use on Monday morning.

Chris Willman brings over 20 years of senior marketing experience to the stage - and none of the corporate waffle that usually comes with it. His sessions draw on real experience leading marketing inside world-class technology brands, translated into practical thinking that founders, small business owners and early-stage teams can immediately apply.

His talks are grounded, direct and deliberately non-hype. No trends, no tactics without context, no motivational filler. Just clear thinking that changes how your audience sees their marketing.

Popular session topics include:

  • Why most small business marketing fails before it starts
  • How to think like a big brand without the budget or the team
  • The seven foundations every small business marketing strategy needs
  • Marketing clarity: how to stop doing everything and start doing the right things
  • Building marketing that compounds rather than constantly resets

Format options:

  • Keynote (30 to 60 minutes)
  • Panel contributor
  • Workshop or masterclass (90 minutes to half day)
  • University and business school guest lectures

Suitable for: business events, entrepreneurship programmes, university enterprise sessions, accelerators, chambers of commerce and SME networks.

Fee: Available for relevant events. Get in touch to discuss.

 
Chris Willman
Chris Willman
Marketing Strategist and Author
The Big Brand Blueprint
 
Chris Willman has spent over 20 years leading marketing inside some of the world's most recognised technology brands - building and scaling field marketing, demand generation, brand, channel and ABM programmes across EMEA. He's operated at the level where marketing decisions involve real money, real accountability, and real consequences. That experience taught him something most marketing advice ignores: the difference between marketing that works and marketing that wastes money is rarely creativity, budget or effort. It's structure. Most small businesses are handed tactics when what they actually need is a foundation. Chris has made it his mission to change that. He translates the thinking behind world-class marketing - the kind that drives serious growth inside serious organisations - into practical frameworks that founders and smaller teams can actually use. No jargon. No hype. No shortcuts that quietly don't work. Just clear, structured thinking made usable at any scale. He is the author of The Big Brand Blueprint, a seven-part marketing framework helping startups and small businesses think and act like big brands without needing big teams, big budgets or specialist expertise. Readers describe it as "the only marketing book that gives you a complete system" and "finally a marketing book that gives you the thinking, not just the to-do list." He also writes The Entrepreneurs Marketing Manual, a tactical companion for founders focused on day-to-day execution. Chris works with founders and small business owners who are done with random acts of marketing and want something that actually compounds.
 

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