Happiness and family business keynote speakerTalks for happier careers, teams and family businesses

My life's work is helping people be happy. Not the fluffy kind of happy. The right career, the right people in the right roles, and a family business that doesn't wreck the family.

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Signature Talks

Mission: Happy People

Every talk draws on the same HAPPY framework, so you can mix and match for your audience.

Featured flagship talk

Build a Killer Family Business Without Killing Your Family

My flagship talk. I bought two businesses from my parents, nearly walked away from the first over generational conflict, and eventually built the 5 Ps of Successful Succession: Purpose, Pick, Prepare, Promote, and Patience. This is the talk that gets family business owners nodding in recognition and taking notes at the same time. Real, practical, personal - and it usually ends with a difficult conversation people now know how to have.

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Best for: EO chapters, Vistage/YPO, family business associations, accountancy and legal firm events, entrepreneurship conferences

Signature talks

The HAPPY Entrepreneur

For entrepreneurs and leaders who want to be as intentional about their lives as they are about their businesses. Built on the happy work life MAP framework and tested live with entrepreneurs around the world.

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Best for: Entrepreneurs, founders and leaders

Hiring The Right People

Unconscious bias runs through almost every hiring process: the candidate who plays the same sport as the CEO, the one who went to the same university, the one who "just felt right." These aren't hiring decisions, they're pattern-matching dressed up as judgment. This talk explains why gut feel fails, what actually predicts performance, and how an assessment-led process works for SMEs without needing an HR department.

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Best for: EO chapters, Vistage/YPO, SME conferences, HR conferences, leadership forums

Shape the unstoppable

More talks

What's Your Leadership Style?

Using the eight-style Leadership Profile, leaders learn to understand their behaviour and adapt it as their role grows.

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What Corporations Can Learn From the Best-Run Family Businesses

What multigenerational family businesses can teach corporate leaders about culture, loyalty, leadership development and long-term thinking.

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Start Over After Forty

For everyone who's done everything right and is quietly wondering if this is it. An honest, practical and hopeful talk showing experienced professionals it's not too late to change direction, that experience is leverage not baggage, and exactly how to take the first step.

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Finding Your IDEAL Career

Using the IDEAL Career framework of Aptitude, Interest and Demand, audiences learn why work that truly fits sits where all three line up, and leave with practical steps to find it.

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What's The Future of Work?

From automation and AI to remote work and portfolio careers, this talk helps students, professionals and organisations navigate change with confidence, including the five skills that will safeguard your employability.

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Where I've spoken

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82 places in 58 countries

Keynote, MC, panel and workshop roles. Hover a dot for details.

On stage

Selected moments

EO Global Leadership Conference - Legendary

Main stage, full house

Keynote in the spotlight

Global audience

Storytelling on the big stage

Speaking at EO Unlimited 2026, Kraków

Making the point

EO Hawaii

In conversation with Guy Kawasaki

Panel host - Cairo

The American University in Cairo

EO @ Oxford - Saïd Business School

Hosting Junk Kouture

Keynote - the love of the work

Bringing the room together

Workshop in the round

Facilitating the room

Thank you

On stage

After the talk

Ready to bring Stephen to your stage?

Whether it's a keynote, workshop, facilitation, or leadership training, I bring the framework, the stories, and the energy to make it memorable. Looking for someone to host rather than speak? I also MC conferences, summits, and retreats.

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