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Chris Roebuck's speaking fee falls within range: $15,000 to $20,000
Chris Roebuck is a Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Cass Business School in London and an advisor to major global organizations. He has served in the British Army and held senior leadership roles at world-class companies, including UBS, HSBC, KPMG and London Underground.
Chris’s highly individually-tailored business lectures and masterclasses show clients like the UK National Health Service and Government, top legal firms, the Red Cross in Myanmar and investment banks in London how to improve their businesses by leveraging their greatest asset: their people. His expertise lies in entrepreneurial leadership, entrepreneurial HR and Mach 2 leadership, the combination of entrepreneurial, engaging, ethical and effective leadership.
For 30+ years, Chris has been helping leaders like you and their organisations stop underachieving and stressing under the pressure of too much work and too little time to achieve more.
To overcome challenges, inspire everyone to give their best, work together to be even more successful.
This didn’t start in a corporate world, but rather as an officer in the British Army. Leading a team in dangerous high-pressure environments he learned quickly that success is about how you use time optimally, get the best from people, focus on excellence.
This elite training enabled him to help senior leaders become successful high performers at HSBC Investment Bank as Head of Management Development, at UBS as Global Head of Leadership, at London Underground as Head of Culture Change, at KPMG, and others. These experiences made him realise one thing:
Leaders everywhere face the same two problems:
• Too much work
• And not enough time
Overcoming these could get you 30% more effort from 60% of people, transforming performance in all areas, and put you and colleagues in the top 20% of leaders vs competitor peers. If you don’t that’s what it could be costing you.
That’s why Chris developed his human-centric “Accelerate Your Success” system to help leaders achieve more
Built on 20+ years of guiding and coaching top business leaders beat their challenges → With a proven framework that helps leaders get more time, more performance, more impact. Here’s how it works:
1. He will interweave your career insights, his experience, business examples, data and neuroscience to show you actionable steps to achieve more. 2. He will uncover your hidden potential to use those to be more successful. 3. You leave with a personalised action plan to make it happen.
It works, Thierry Garnier, CEO Kingfisher Group, FTSE 100, said to Chris after hearing him speak “I found what you said really interesting so I took notes to see what action I can take,” Chris keynotes will enable you to build High Performance Teams, Maximise Employee Engagement, Build a Culture of Success and deliver Change and Transformation to potentially get 10% on bottom line for free!
Chris has helped 24,000 + leaders across 27 countries achieve more – from Huawei, BASF, Tata, UK & UAE Prime Ministers Offices, Goldman Sachs and NHS to Red Cross, Reuters, Chinese Space Programme and many others.
And he has been named as one of HRs Most Influential Thinkers 10 times in annual awards, is BBCs “go to” business leadership expert and has been featured in Newsweek, FT, Wall St Journal, Business Week and other major publications.
So if you’re ready to make the leap from stressing to achieve more and succeeding, check Chris topics, and let him Accelerate Your Success!
Chris discusses empowering people to succeed by being more entrepreneurial. “In the end, what is leadership about?” he asks. “We have an organization that wants to do something. We have people who have needs, ambitions and aspirations. The role of the leader is utterly simple: it is to help the organization deliver what it needs to deliver whilst allowing those people to meet their needs and achieve their aspirations.”
He goes on to discuss the principles in his book, Lead to Succeed. “The book is really aimed at the most basic level of helping leaders get their people to care about the organization,” he says. “If those employees care about their organization, it answers any number of challenges the organization faces… If they care about the organization, they care about the customers.”
Chris’s Mach 2 leadership strategies teach business leaders to embrace a style of entrepreneurial leadership that is engaging and ethical while delivering significant performance improvements. His programs simplify effective, practical realities of how leaders can become entrepreneurs, and how to motivate employees to deliver their best efforts for the good of the organization. His unique approach to delivering presentations has inspired leaders from around the world.
High Performance Leadership
The two fundamental challenges that leaders face are “too much work” and “not enough time”. These prevent you from achieving your true potential to be a high performing leader.
This then holds you back from getting the best from your people, which then reduces the performance of your team and the organisation. Chris solves this problem by showing you how you can become human centric and high performing and make your team the same through a proven formula to Accelerate Your Success.
Amongst other things this could find you ½ a day extra time a week and put you in the top 20% of performers compared to your peers in other organisations for the rest of your career.
Chris has personal experience of both delivering high performance personally and developing high performing leaders in the military, business, and government. In business he’s worked organisations as diverse as BASF, BD Pharmaceutical, Huawei, UAE Prime Ministers Office and the Chinese Space Programme to help their leaders become High Performing.
Maximise Employee Engagement
Employee engagement - people giving their best - is the engine of success for any organisation. But the reality is most organisations are significantly underperforming on their potential to get the best from their people because their leaders simply don't understand employee engagement well enough.
The real challenge is how you can increase the number of people in your team who are engaged and giving their best by being more human centric. To achieve this you probably need to understand employee engagement in more depth, eg the difference between engaged, not engaged, and disengaged. And then how to move people to become fully engaged. Quite simply most leaders have never been told what they need to know about employee engagement to be successful. Chris gives you that vital information and shows you how to maximise engagement.
Chris has studied employee engagement, written articles on it, featured it in his books, and shown leaders how to improve it for many organisations such as KPMG, Tata Communications and HSBC. It works – a house construction company he worked with in two years moved the engagement score for “I would recommend this as a great place to work for friends or family” from 40% to 82%. And significant performance and financial benefits also followed.
Successful Culture & Change / Transformation in Uncertain Times
Often even doing “business as usual” presents a challenge for most leaders as they are under pressure to deliver. Then if change and transformation needs to happen it not only adds to the pressure but also creates uncertainty.
To be able to deliver business as usual and successfully deliver change in uncertain environments requires leaders to think differently and to have excellent human centric leadership and management skills.
Chris has led work on several successful major transformations in organisations as diverse as London Underground, UBS and UK National Health Service. The transformation at UBS is now a Harvard case study on successful integration and change in uncertainty. Chris was Hon Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Cass Business School 2009-22.
He enables you to create an environment of certainty amidst the uncertainty which then allows individuals and teams to be more motivated, effective, resilient and aligned to what needs to be done. Within this Chris shows how Entrepreneurial Leadership can be developed so leaders can use change and uncertainty as an opportunity not a threat to envision and then deliver a better future.
Human Leadership and AI
AI can bring significant benefits to both leaders and organisations. However AI professionals are clear that it is not a silver bullet for success as its application must be based on optimal use cases.
The reality is that AI will never be optimised without HI (Human Intelligence).
Not only that but perhaps the greatest challenge with making AI work its effective implementation. That requires leaders and people in your organisation to see the benefit which AI can bring them, to understand how it works, to be able to identify optimum use cases and then have the skills and capabilities to implement it.
Chris has spoken to audiences on how this can be achieved and even been asked to address Chief Digital Officers on the people challenges around AI so that they can better understand their role in enabling AI to achieve its potential through people as well as tech.
“What you said was really interesting and so took notes to think about what action I can take.”
– Thierry Garnier, CEO Kingfisher Group
“Chris came highly recommended to us as a speaker on leadership, a critical issue for retailers in this period of unprecedented change. He more than delivered on this by fully engaging with our delegates. His closing keynote was outstanding in pulling together all the strands from the Congress and setting out clearly some takeaway points that were extremely relevant, thought-provoking and helpful to all of the retail leaders in the audience.”
– IAN MCGARRIGLE, CHAIRMAN, WORLD RETAIL CONGRESS – 600 TOP RETAIL LEADERS ROME
“Chris delivered a great keynote to leading CEOs and Finance Directors that engaged and challenged their thinking. He presented a powerful business case backed up with proven data and followed up with practical ideas for action that deliver return on investment, critical for credibility with this audience. The feedback was excellent and we hope to work with Chris again in the future.”
– MARK CRADDOCK, PARTNER, ETON BRIDGE – “HOW TO GET 10% ON BOTTOM LINE FOR FREE!”
“Chris in a very simple and straightforward way explained to us why this makes sense and is simple. Chris translates this in a very engaging way and from my own role Chris has given me a few things to consider, I’m going away thinking I am going to have to up my game. Very valuable morning. Thanks!”
– DECLAN RONAYNE, CEO, WOODIES DIY CHAIN – ANNUAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
“Chris, I enjoyed an incredibly inspiring ‘leading with integrity’ Masterclass with you at the UK Defence Academy, which I use as inspiration for leading my own high performing teams at sea… tomorrow I am using it to conduct a workshop with officers and SNCOs. We are on operations in Asia Pacific on a 10 month deployment, far from home and on strategic tasking – leading and inspiring people could not be more important.”
– KEVIN EMPEY, DIRECTOR, STRATEGIC LEADERS PROGRAMME MASTERCLASS – IRISH MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE – 25 CEOS & DIRECTORS
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Lead to Succeed: The Only Leadership Book You Need
Everyone, everywhere is under pressure to work harder. Many of us work to survive and get paid. Bored and trapped, performance is low, family relationships suffer and organisational performance deteriorates.
To deliver real success, people must be inspired to be their best. Lead to Succeed shows you how: how to transform both your own and your peoples’ performances, whether you’re an individual leader, a leader of leaders or work in HR, IT, finance or marketing.
Professor Chris Roebuck introduces ‘Mach 2’ leadership, a programme that works as well for SMEs and not-for-profits as it does for the public sector or large corporations. It creates responsive, efficient, customer-focused and risk optimised organisations, that inspire their employees, please their customers and stakeholders, cherish their environment, enrich their society AND deliver real success.
Mach 2 leadership is proven in the real world; it’s simple, low cost and brings quantifiable benefits quickly, with just two key steps. It’s founded on Roebuck’s own experience, and from leadership success stories around the world – his ideas have helped the Red Cross in Myanmar, US investment banks, government organisations in China and the British National Health Service, as well as countless smaller organisations. That’s why this really is the only leadership book you need.
Strategic Leadership Development: Building World Class Performance
This new core textbook addresses the key issues of how organisations build and develop leadership capability and examines how this ability is a key element in delivering organisational success. Focusing on the behavioural aspects of leadership, it looks at how both individuals and organisations can develop leadership talent, and how leaders can influence and shape the strategic direction of an organisation as a whole. Drawing on case studies from a variety of contexts, and punctuated with questions and activities to encourage reflective learning, the text takes a decision-making approach and looks at how senior leaders come to make and implement decisions that maximise organizational performance.
This book is the ideal companion for undergraduate and postgraduate leadership students, as well as practitioners, researchers and scholars in the field.
Effective Leadership (Self-development for success)
Effective Leadership is a short, simple, practical guide to critical leadership skills.
Its simplicity and practicality resulted in it being translated into 13 languages and published by the American Management Association as one of their own branded guides to best practice. Globally it sold over 40,000 copies.
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