During the past 30 years, Rob Parsons has spoken to over a million people in events held in the UK as well as internationally. He is the founder and chairman of the national charity Care for the Family and has spoken extensively on family issues across the world. Rob has also been in demand to speak to the business community, drawing principles from his best-selling book The Heart of Success, and experience gained in being a co-founder of a legal consultancy through which he advised thousands of lawyers on practice management and expansion.
In his keynote speeches he has addressed audiences as diverse as Alcatel, AstraZeneca, AXA, Barclays Bank, BBC, Birmingham Social Services, Boots, BT, BUPA, Chambers of Commerce, Costains, DTI, DVLA, Ford, Gerling NCM, Halifax plc, Heath Lambert, Honda UK, IMB, KPMG, Lloyds TSB, National Grid, NHS Trusts, npower, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sir Robert McAlpine and Uganda Telecom.
He has addressed government representatives including the Houses of Parliament in the UK and national assemblies. He has given evidence to Parliamentary committees and been invited to meet with government leaders in Africa including Zambia, Uganda, and Swaziland.
Rob was the 2022 winner of the Association of Speakers Clubs National Finals Evaluation Contest. He is also a member of the Association of Speakers Clubs.
He is co-founder of The Speakeasy Advice Centre in Cardiff (using solicitors to advise those in debt or with fuel poverty or welfare benefit issues) a founding member of The Tavistock Homeless Centre in Cardiff, and is a trustee of The Gate Arts Centre in Cardiff, a community arts centre in inner-city Cardiff.
