Confident Conversations Series One - with Toby Burton

Toby Burton’s story is going to blow your mind. He conveys with such clarity that while so many of our barriers to career success are caused by external forces, ultimately we have to dig deep and strengthen our reserves of resilience and confidence to push back against those things.

Toby is currently Chief Financial Officer of Fastmarkets. Their annual revenue exceeds 100 million. He began his career at Unilever and became a qualified accountant while there. He then found his way to The Economist and sat at the very heart of news, politics and finance and eventually became CFO to the Economist Group’s publishing business responsible for 300 million of revenues.

Toby was born profoundly deaf and has never used speech. He shares a story about being undermined as a 9-year old boy by one of his teachers. I would imagine ev ...