Fabrizio Poli meets with networking expert Andy Lopata. Andy is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and has been quoted in British press, including The Sunday Times, The Financial Times and The Guardian. He has also co-authored two books on networking, and his third book published by Financial Times Prentice Hall in August 2011. Once a month he co-presents The Global Networking Show with BNI Founder Ivan Misner' www.globalnetworkingshow.com'
For eight years, he was Managing Director of one of the UK's leading referral-focused networking groups with over 2,000 member companies.Since then, he has worked with companies from one-man bands to global names such as NatWest Bank, Merrill Lynch and Mastercard to help them realise the full potential from their networking.
He is a Fellow and a former Vice-President of the Professional Speaking Association (PSA) and a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management (ISMM) and the Learning and Performance Institute (LPI). He is also a Member of the Global Speakers Federation (GSF).
In this episode Fabrizio and Andy talk about how to be effective networkers and the power of being part of a Mastermind Group.
To find out more about Andy:
http://www.lopata.co.uk