Judo champion Ian Rose reaches for gold in everything he does. The Wycombe silver medalist is not just hoping to cap his silver medal success in Athens in the next Paralympics.

He is also mapping out a golden career as a professional business speaker talking about: motivation, nerve control, goal setting, teamwork and achieving potential.

After attending a "bootcamp" run by top speaker Frank Furness, Ian is building his confidence and speaking expertise by attending events locally and nationally telling companies and organisations about the self-motivation and drive needed to reach the top in sport and business.

He details the personal goal setting he used to achieve a winning performance.

Since setting up the speaker business in December, he has discovered audiences are eager to see his Paralympic medals.

They also like the fact that he wears the official sports uniform and appreciate his sense of humour and down to earth approach.

As he tells them: "I am aiming to get gold in Athens but I have other personal goals. That's the way I operate.

"For instance, I love the houses in Beaconsfield and have set my sights on living there one day. You have to have a goal in life."

Ian's glittering achievements are destined to become a benchmark for sales, marketing and management teams throughout the UK.

They will appreciate how he achieved his success in sport while holding down a full time IT sales job in Wooburn Green. They will also appreciate Ian's personal jouney to success which began after he was teased at junior school. He had eye cancer which robbed him of sight and it left him scarred as a result of operations.

Ian, 33, who went to Chalfonts School, lives with his wife Debbie and children, Leah, 6 and Jordyn, 2, at Hicks Farm Rise, High Wycombe.

It was his parents who introduced him to judo when he was in junior school and he found it gave him the courage to stand up to unkind jibes about his pebble-thick glasses. And he found a passion for the sport which ultimately took him to the greatest sporting arena in the world the Oympics.

It is typical that he regarded cancer and bullying as a challenge and his positive nature and zest for life went on to help him reach for sporting stardom even when injury prevented him being picked for his usual sporting category.

Sports motivation helped Ian forge a ten-year career in internal sales where he became skilled at proactive and reactive sales. Working for such organisations as ACER, Edify and TIS, Ian successfully opened up opportunities in markets where others have failed.

Ian has the will to win in sport and at work.

He has already been interviewed by a national IT magazine about his latest venture. He has been booked for awards ceremonies including Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow and has given a motivational talk to staff at Wycombe Council.

He is planning workshops where he gives tips on motivation, setting goals, telephone and sales techniques.

Success is his goal in life. "I am different from other motivational speakers and people appreciate the fact that I am young and have a business story as well as a sports story.

"My aim is to be the best motivational speaker. I am working on it."