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Personal Power: How to lead a High-Performance Culture

4 September 2026

Personal Power: How to lead a High-Performance Culture

​Led by Inspirational, award-winning speaker Marcus Child and proudly hosted by Vivacity’s Key Theatre on the 28th September 2018.

Marcus Child has had a powerful impact on the people and the performance of many well-known businesses during the past 18 years. He inspires confidence, wholeheartedness and courage…and has an impressive reputation for helping thousands of members of hundreds of organisations embrace change positively and successfully. In thoroughly uplifting conversations with audiences his work stirs resourcefulness in individuals, positivity between colleagues and trust between organisations and their customers.

Marcus’s emphasis on exploiting work as an opportunity for self-improvement as well as commercial success means that the new habits he trains are practised in the minds and relationships of people – at work and beyond – long after his programmes are complete.

He speaks in workshops and on conference platforms with pace, humour and exceptional energy. He has helped an astonishing number of CEOs, MDs, boards, business teams, sportspeople, politicians, teenagers and people living with health challenges realise bold and extraordinary goals.

Speaker Awards

  • Vistage…The World’s Largest CEO Membership Organisation: Speaker of the Year 2013, 2011, 2003, 2001.

  • Vistage…Long Term Achievement Award 2014.

  • ‘Outperforming Speaker’…2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004.

  • Most Requested Speaker 2005.

  • Star Speaker 2008.

  • Above and Beyond Award 2008.

  • TEC Australia 100% Club 2009 – the only speaker ever to be rated 100% with participants over two days.

  • Academy For Chief Executives Speaker of the Year 2014 and 2015

Who will benefit? 

This fantastic event is ideally suited to existing and future leaders CEOs, Managing Directors, Head of Departments, and Senior Managers. For those looking to inspire and ignite high performance and passion within their teams. Whether looking to attend as an individual or an entire team, we believe Marcus can provide the support to help you overcome challenges and achieve extraordinary goals.

With the overall aim to drive a high-performance culture in your organisation.

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THE ONE GROUP

Where we're from,
and how we got here

Twenty years of specialist recruitment in the East – and a lot of small decisions that added up.

TOG started in Peterborough in 2004 with a small team and a simple idea: that recruitment is a people business, done best by specialists who stay in their sector long enough to know it properly.

More than two decades on, we've grown into four offices across the East of England and Home Counties. We recruit for finance leaders, HR directors, engineering managers, tech founders, scientists, and the commercial teams that keep businesses running day to day. Between us, we've built up over 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of more than 150,000 candidates we've placed, coached, or come to know across two decades in the region.

The founding principle hasn't changed. Recruitment as it should be.

OUR STORY

Key events timeline

2004

Doors open in Peterborough.

Our first office launches with a team of six on Lynch Wood. Cambridge follows the same year, giving us two offices before our first anniversary.

2015

Northampton makes it three.

Our third office opens with a team of five, quickly growing to eleven consultants covering the wider Midlands region.

2017

Peterborough moves across the road.

The team has outgrown the founding office. We move into Arena House on Lynch Wood, big enough for a growing consultant base and the back-office team that supports the whole group.

2018

Cambridge moves too.

Our second office relocates to Cambourne Business Park, giving the growing Cambridge team the space it now needs.

2023

Four offices, three counties, one very good year.

The Hertfordshire & Essex office opens in Potters Bar, extending our footprint into the Home Counties.

In the same year, we're named Business of the Year in Northamptonshire, and Employer of the Year in both Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire at the regional SME Business Awards. Three counties, three panels.

TODAY

Still growing.

Four offices, more than 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of over 150,000 candidates.

Same founding principle.

SPECIALISTS BY DESIGN

What we do

We're specialists, not generalists. Every consultant at TOG focuses on one sector and stays in it. Not because it's the only way to do recruitment, but because it's how you build the depth to spot the difference between a strong CV and a strong hire.

It's also why so many of our clients come back to us years, even decades, after a first placement.

01
Accountancy & Finance
→
 02
Human Resources
→
 03
Commercial Office
Administration, customer service, project management and more
→
 04
Technology
→
 05
Engineering & Manufacturing
→
 06
Scientific
→
 07
Sales, Marketing & Creative
→
 08
Executive Search
Across all of the above
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Beyond the recruitment itself, we produce annual salary guides, regional market reports, and the practical resources our clients and candidates turn to when they want a clearer view of what's happening in their sector.

THE WAY WE WORK

How we work

Four principles show up in every conversation and every process.
01

Be curious.

We stay interested in the market we work in, and in the people who work in it.

02

Keep it human.

We remember your kids' names and know how you take your coffee. That's just how we work here.

03

Make a difference.

We're here to help people build careers they love and businesses they're proud of.

04

Enjoy the ride.

Recruitment is a career, but it should be fun too. If it isn't, we've done something wrong.

WHAT COMES NEXT?

Recruitment
as it should be.

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