Speaking

Keynotes for real change.

I speak on the stages where it matters - from EO chapters and Vistage groups to corporate leadership events and family business conferences - in 57 countries. Every talk is built to leave the room informed, challenged, and ready to act. Not motivation. Not inspiration. Clarity - the kind that has people picking up a pen the next morning.

Countries Visited

Signature Talks

Mission: Happy People

For Individuals For Managers & Organisations For Family Businesses

For Individuals

1 talk

Individuals

Why You HATE Your Job

Most people don't hate their job. They hate the gap between where they are and where they thought they'd be. This talk names that gap, explains how it happens, and gives people a practical way to close it. It draws on the same period of my own life that produced the HAPPY framework, so it doesn't tell people to "follow their passion." It helps them tell the difference between end goals (what they actually want to feel or become) and means goals (the promotion, salary, or house they've mistaken for the destination).

Best for: General business conferences, HR conferences, employee engagement events, radio and podcast interviews

For Managers & Organisations

4 talks

Managers & Organisations

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.

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

Managers & Organisations

Happy Teams Start With Happy People

You can't build a happy team out of unhappy people. This talk applies the HAPPY framework at the organisational level, showing leaders how to build genuine engagement instead of performative wellness.

Best for: HR conferences, leadership events, culture and employee engagement events, company away days

Managers & Organisations

What's Your Leadership Style?

The behaviours that made you effective as a manager won't necessarily make you effective as a CEO. Using the Leadership Profile - an eight-style model built on occupational psychology research - this talk gives leaders language for their own behaviour and a practical way to adapt it.

Best for: Leadership conferences, corporate leadership events, EO chapters, L&D programmes

Managers & Organisations

What Corporations Can Learn From the Best-Run Family Businesses

Family businesses that survive multiple generations have solved some of the hardest problems in business: culture, loyalty, leadership development, long-term thinking. Most corporations haven't. This talk flips the usual lens and asks what corporate audiences are missing by not looking at family businesses.

Best for: Corporate leadership events, HR conferences, executive forums

For Family Businesses

1 talk

Family Businesses

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.

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

Beyond keynotes

The HAPPY Work Life MAP workshop

Not every room needs a keynote. The HAPPY Work Life MAP is a half-day interactive workshop that turns the HAPPY framework into a personal, measurable action plan, including The HAPPY Entrepreneur, a version built specifically for founders and leaders who think intentionally about their business but rarely about their life. Participants leave with their own Work Life MAP and one owned 90-day commitment, not a wellbeing tick-box.

Best for: leadership programmes, EO forums, retreats, conferences, and teams, 15 to 60 participants

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On stage

Selected moments

EO Global Leadership Conference - Legendary

Main stage, full house

Keynote in the spotlight

Global audience

Storytelling on the big stage

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

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