Charlie Reading is an inspiring award-winning speaker, business coach, podcast host, and four-time author, and the founder of the award-winning Efficient Portfolio Wealth Management. He is best known for his strategic insights into financial planning and business growth. Charlie is dedicated to helping others find balance and fulfilment. As a qualified Ironman Championship competitor, Charlie embodies the spirit of endurance in his professional and personal pursuits. He advocates for a holistic approach to success, encompassing financial security, happiness, and a meaningful life.
Charlie has a diverse background as a Chartered Financial Planner and has founded many successful businesses. His entrepreneurial journey has shaped his unique perspective on achieving a balanced and fulfilling life. Charlie's aim is to help people turn their goals into reality, providing support through his Chartered financial planning firm and online courses. He is the author of several impactful books including "Entrepreneurial Happiness" and "The Dream Retirement". His books provide actionable strategies for building a successful business without sacrificing personal well-being. His life is an example of this with his business, Efficient Portfolio Wealth Management, generating 50% growth year on year while allowing him to take 3 months off every year.
Charlie is also passionate about endurance sports, having completed multiple Ironman races. The resilience and dedication he demonstrates in these races have been channelled into his work as the host of the Business of Endurance podcast, where he shares wisdom from top endurance athletes and explores how these insights can be applied in the business world. In addition, Charlie speaks on AI and its implications for business, highlighting how AI represents both the greatest threat and the greatest opportunity for companies, particularly for service-based professional businesses.
As a keynote speaker, Charlie is committed to promoting a healthy lifestyle and highly values growth and development. His presentations are tailored to help individuals and organisations unlock their potential, offering insights that are both actionable and transformative. Charlie speaks on a range of topics, focusing on how to grow your business while working less and enjoying life outside of work. His drive and determination leave audiences feeling highly motivated and energised, empowering them to take control of their future. Charlie’s dynamic speaking style, combined with his passion for helping others, makes him a sought-after speaker for various corporate events and conferences. If you are looking for a powerful keynote speaker to educate your audience on balancing work with personal life successfully, as well as understanding the role of AI in transforming business, then hire Charlie Reading today!
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How to hire Charlie Reading
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Charlie Reading's official speaking topics are listed below:
- The AI Advance: Your Greatest Threat & Your Greatest Opportunity
- The Game of Gains: The secret behind long term success in sports & business
- 3 Steps to Entrepreneurial Happiness: How to grow your business whilst working less & enjoying more
- Ironman business tactics: Business & Life lessons from the world of Endurance Sport
- Marketing Yourself as the Expert: How and Why to create Positioning as a Professional
- 2024 – Qualified for, competed in and completed the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii
- 2024 – Opened The Hub & Spoke, a business hub and café by week, cycling café at the weekend.
- 2023 – Launched Accelerated Adviser Solutions, helping financial advisers outsource and optimise
- 2023 – Founded The Trusted Team, a coaching business for professional serviced entrepreneurs
- 2022 – Sold Efficient Portfolio Wealth Management
- 2020 – Launched the TRIBEathlon podcast, which has since rebranded to The Business of Endurance
- 2020 – Efficient Portfolio award NMA’s Tope financial planning practice in the Midlands award
- 2020 – His 3rd of 4 books, Entrepreneurial Happiness was published
- 2019 – Completed his first full Ironman in Italy
- 2018 –Becomes an award-winning speaker at The Public Speakers Academy
- 2015 – The Dream Retirement is published, Charlie’s first book.
- 2012 – Founded Efficient Paraplanning, which he sold in 2017
- 2011 – 2011 Efficient Portfolio awarded Chartered Status
- 2010 – Opens The Rural Business Community, which he sold in 2019
- 2006 – Founded Efficient Portfolio, to deliver better, fee based financial planning
- 2003 – Achieved Advanced Financial Planner placing him in the top 10% of advisers in the UK
- 1999 – Qualifies as a self-employed financial adviser, aged 22
