We are excited to be hosting Nelson's star peanut-butter maker Pic Picot.

Pic is a well-known entrepreneur and speaker. By the time he was 21, Pic had earned enough from making leather goods to pay for his first OE.  Back in New Zealand, he took to furniture-making, learning the trade from an English craftsman.  He quickly learned that giftware sold better at Christmas than bespoke tables.  Pic's Panic Packs – glass-fronted emergency boxes of tea bags, cigarettes, condoms, and toilet paper – proved quick to make and were easy and fun to sell.

Take this opportunity to hear Pic as he tours the South Island to promote his published memoir: Pic: Adventures in Sailing, Business, and Love. Business writer Rod Oram describes the book as "a rich story of living and working" and describes Pic himself as, "an inspiration to all in business and life".

Pic will share his remarkable business journey. He will also talk about having the confidence to start his own business, and his successes and failures – and the lessons he learnt along the way. Pic's prose is as expressive, funny, accessible, and Kiwi as Barry Crump.