Mark Shayler

Mark Shayler has been disrupting businesses for 22 years. He works on innovation, strategy and eco-design and has saved his clients over £100 million through smarter thinking and design, doing things better and doing better things.

He has worked with leading brands such as Coca Cola, Samsung, Proctor and Gamble, Innocent, and has improved the design of hundreds of products from pasties to houses. He has worked with the main business support agencies to help businesses grow. He has set-up and grown three of his own, one of which floated on AIM.

He is a public speaker (quite funny) and founding partner of the Do Lectures. He lives in England with his wife, four children and some chickens - all free range. Do Disrupt is his first book.

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