Bianca Miller-Cole

Bianca Miller – Cole an award-winning Entrepreneur and personal brand expert; having founded the ‘go to’ business for harnessing workforce potential.  The business has an impressive list of clients including HSBC, Accenture, AMEX, CMS LLP, PWC, Barclays, EY, Google, LSE, UAL, BT, KPMG to name a few. Bianca was honoured as a ‘Forbes 30 under 30’ for her commitment to ecommerce and retail via her diverse hosiery brand, which she pitched in the final of The Apprentice in 2014.

Bianca’s business influence also resulted in her being awarded a Top 10 ‘Power Profile Leader’ via LinkedIn out of 20 million members, alongside Richard Branson. She appears in the Top 50 Future Leaders lists for the Financial Times HERoes (women only) and EMpower (ethnic minority) lists for her success in business.  She is the co-author of bestselling book “Self Made: The Definitive Guide to Business Startup Success” and uses her spare time to mentor a growing community of budding entrepreneurs.

Bianca has become extremely popular for her keynote and guest speaking appearances due to her ability to cultivate an inspired workforce at any age or stage of their career life cycle. Her ability to engage audiences from school leavers to new joiners, middle managers, experienced hire, senior executives and returners is remarkable. She excels in providing her audience with an interactive experience ladened with actionable content and key takeaways.

One of Bianca’s much-loved abilities is presenting information in an engaging, actionable and informative way, making her interactive keynote speeches on the topics of Intrapreneurship in the workplace, Building ‘Brand You’ , Networking, Power Presenting, High Impact Leadership, Innovation, Critical Thinking and her personal entrepreneurial journey extremely popular with corporate audiences.

Bianca’s most popular keynote topics include:

• Entrepreneurship and Building a Start-Up
  Including lessons from her bestselling book; understand the key steps and top tips to building your business from inception to fruition, including the importance of building a credible online brand.
• Creating an Intrapreneurial Culture Within Your Business
  Learn how to convert social media into revenue, effective time management and how to sell, grow and collaborate intelligently.
• Personal Branding and High Impact Leadership
  An insight into the practical steps on how to build your personal brand and cultivate your network in order to influence and lead with impact.  This is an interactive session which will include discussion of an individual’s PACK: Presentation, Approach, Communication and Knowledge.
• Her Personal Business Journey

Including how she made her dreams a reality, the obstacles she has faced, the lessons she has learned and her tips on helping the audience work on their dreams.

Here are 5 examples of key take-aways:

1. We all have a personal brand reputation; it is what we do with it that counts:  Insight into ‘Brand You’- depicting the formula for creating a credible representation of oneself to increase career trajectory and perception at every level.
2. Impression management: You have 7 seconds to make a first impression – what do you do first? And how does body language influence your ability to communicate your message.
3. Effective Communication: There are 3 aspects of communication vocal, verbal and visual – how do you succinctly deliver a powerful 30 second elevator pitch that that is professional and effective.
4. Social Media: Potentially unavoidable, definitely essential – but how do you do it well? Especially focussing on using LinkedIn for business pursuits.
5. Knowledge is Power: It underpins everything we do, so whether you are an expert or at the start of your career – knowledge and experiences underpin your personal brand, credibility and network. Bianca will show you how to showcase what you do now and in the future.

“Energising and empathetic speaker. Engages the audience in an inclusive way” – Accenture

“Her passion for helping people identify their own personal brand is something you need to see to believe. The fact that every member of the audience walked away feeling inspired and committed to making themselves the masters of their own destiny simply demonstrates how influential Bianca Miller-Cole is” – HSBC

“Professional, knowledgeable – she holds an audience; bringing her presentations to life.” – BLACKROCK

“Her presentation was faultless. The group varied hugely in age, from early 20's up to early 50's. She was able to relate to all levels and ages making an impact on the whole group” – Allied World

“I was fortunate enough to have Bianca as a keynote speaker at our Conference. She was incredibly natural on stage, always with a smile on her face; and was inspiring, humorous and eloquent” – Travel Counsellors

“We created a women's innovative networking group (WING) at our London office and were looking for an inspirational woman to come along and speak with our group. That's where Bianca came in. I knew of her from her Apprentice appearance, however I could not have been prepare for how fantastic she actually was!!!! Her energy from start to finish was inspiring and her presentation was faultless. The group of ladies that attended were from all different roles within the business from junior administrators to heads of departments. They also varied hugely in age, from early 20's up to early 50's. Bianca was fantastic!!!! She was able to relate with all levels and ages, and made an impact on the whole group. The ladies were buzzing for the rest of the day and have already sent me emails to set up more sessions in the future.’ Thank you Bianca, I hope to work with you again in the future.” HR and Training Manager, Allied World Insurance Group

“Bianca delivered a very inspiring and insightful session on building your own brand and honing presentation skills to deliver effectively to your target audience. The session was highly interactive and engaging, and due to Bianca’s very approachable nature students felt comfortable to raise questions and ask for her opinion on matters. A fantastic workshop, which shared many constructive tips and useful advice that can be applied in daily life and in the workplace. Thank you Bianca!” Senior Recruiter, Accenture

“Bianca delivered a Personal Branding workshop to our final year graduates recently. Students loved the interactive nature of the session and that they were actively involved in developing their own personal brand. What was really impressive is how Bianca’s direct contact with students’ really empowered them. Bianca spent time giving advice on a 1:1 level as well as group feedback on their elevator pitch which students found highly valuable. One student commented, “Bianca’s speech was great, her elevator speech formulation was interesting and I learned a lot from this. I didn’t know how important personal branding is when looking for a job so glad I came. The overall experience was very motivating.” An excellent workshop and we look forward to working with The Be Group and Bianca in the future.”  Employability Officer at University of Essex

“Bianca ran her branding workshop for the KPMG women’s network in Canary Wharf. A very talented woman, her session was both engaging, funny and informative. If you’ve not had the chance to attend one of her workshops, you’re missing out! She’s one to watch. Good luck Bianca.” Bid Manager at KPMG

“It was an absolute pleasure to have Bianca come in for the KPMG X Bianca Miller Networking & Personal Branding workshop. Bianca has great energy and fantastic delivery and really kept the group constantly engaged.  The workshop was of a great quality and really highlighted issues which many of us are unaware of as these are skills that are usually always spoken of but not explained prescriptively.  Overall, the workshop was a massive success and the feedback for Bianca was extremely high. She did a fantastic job and really helped us all collectively and individually learn more as a group.” KPMG 

“Bianca lead a session for our Rising Professionals Network in 2016 about networking and personal branding. The feedback from my peers was very good, and we will certainly be looking to book more events with The BE Group in the future.” Assistant Lead at the Centre of Mobility Excellence at Mercer

“Bianca was our keynote speaker at the launch of the Executive & Personal Assistants Association in January 2016 and wow what a speaker she was! Bianca presented on her career story to date, plans for the future and most importantly tips for success for anyone, regardless of your profession. She tailored it fantastically for our audience of EAs and PAs and I know they felt hugely empowered and inspired by her drive and story. She is a utter delight to work with and highly interacts with her audience on the lead up to the event, at the event and afterwards too, which is so important to me as a booker. Bianca spent a massive chunk of time speaking to EAs and PAs after her speech and this is what brings it all to life for me. I would highly recommend her to speak at any event, she will be incredible to have as part of your line up.” Chief Executive at Executive and Personal Assistants Association Ltd

“Bianca was the Keynote Speaker at the Women in Finance Society Conference, Working World Ready 2016. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting and having Bianca at our event. She was a very engaging speaker who brought interesting ideas and topics forward. She also arrived early and was fantastic about pictures and answering questions.” President of the Women in Finance Society at University of Birmingham

“Recently Bianca had great night at Bucks New University delivering the keynote to launch 'Biz Fest' and appearing on the panel with some amazing individuals. Bianca performed her keynote speech where she discussed her journey from being in a similar position to the graduates to becoming an award-winning celebrity entrepreneur. As a whole the event was a large success and Bianca was well received by the graduates and staff alike.” Bucks New University

“Fantastic contribution to the ISN Leading Ladies Programme today.  Bianca’s warmth, enthusiasm and excellent tips really helped the women. Keep up the great work. Comments from our attendees included:  “Very inspirational and had impact”  “Bianca was brilliant and very inspirational” “Bianca was excellent—very inspiring and the facts on confidence for girls too” “Good advice, great bullet points to follow and take away.” “Excellent, inspiring, Information received was just what I needed” CEO, ISN

“Bianca delivered a highly enjoyable and beneficial session to our students at De Montfort University, covering personal brand and profile when applying for placements. The session gave practical, accessible and achievable advice that students could identify with and put straight into practice. For example a simple role play about breaking into a conversation when networking was very funny and instructional. Bianca has a great tone for engaging with students – sincere, fun, and speaking to them as the adults that they are. Nothing seemed too much trouble and I'd recommend any university to invite The Be Group to their campus.” Head of Careers at De Montfort University

“I just wanted to say how fab Bianca is and so so friendly. I personally think she is amazing and has such a lovely aura and it was lovely to see and hear a speaker full of youth and energy!”  HSBC

“Bianca did a great job inspiring our audience.”  “Bianca is an inspirational, hard working entrepreneur who is using her exceptional skill and influence to encourage business leaders and the next generation of entrepreneurs.” Director of Middle East, Africa, Russia and CIS at Cisco Systems

“Keynote speaker for International Womens Day Bianca was fantastic and the event went really well. The audience (and myself) loved every bit of her talk! Thank you for all your help and please also thank Bianca on our behalf. We will definitely reach out to you for future events!” Uber

“Start up Awards  – University of Sussex Keynote Speaker Bianca was our keynote speaker at the Start-Up Sussex Award Ceremony. She created an atmosphere of positivity, confidence and inspiration particularly as Bianca is an alum of Sussex.” Start up Awards  – University of Sussex

Bianca Miller Cole Business Journey – https://youtu.be/I3wrQnWPxFA