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Andrew McNeill

Andrew McNeill is an accomplished senior leader with over 20 years experience in heading up major programmes.

In Person

£4500 - £6500

Price based on UK delivery

Virtual Event

£3500 - £5000

Andrew McNeill excels in building integrated collaborative cultures with clients, and multi-disciplinary and organisational teams to achieve rapid delivery.  Andrew trains teams and leaders to thrive under pressure, maximising their potential and teaching them how to look after their wellbeing. 

Andrew is the co-founder of LX Leaders, a consultancy delivering senior leadership coaching and training, embedding a collaborative culture for organisations, teams, and individuals. Andrew is also an author, he published ‘Organisational Mindfulness a How to Guide’ in 2018, which has sold internationally. 

His experience includes creating collaborative implementation plans, facilitating senior team away-days, preparing teams for assessment centres as well as designing and leading bespoke workshops for executive teams. Andrew’s work builds lasting legacies and capabilities for everyone.  Clients include, Barts Hospital Trust, GLA, SOHA, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and Leeds Building Society.  

Andrew uses a data-led approach; measuring maturity, outcomes and engendering continuous improvement. He has also created and delivered innovative Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Training for Krystal Alliance and other organisations. 

Andrew is a skilled presenter and keynote speaker who has captivated audiences with his insights on leadership, collaboration and thriving under pressure. His ability to connect with and instruct listeners on these vital elements of professional growth and organisational culture is significant.  He has spoken for clients such as Dell Technologies, Experian, RSM US, UK’s National Health Service, UK’s Ministry of Housing Communities & Local Government, NFU Mutual, Lexis Nexis, Bookiply, Allianz Technology and Ferrero International S.A.  

 

Andrew’s Most Popular Keynotes

  • Empathic Leadership: The key to leadership is connecting with the people we lead. In this talk, Andrew explains how skilful communication, clarity and empathy can make a significant difference. With the pressures people are facing in the workplace both internally and externally, and for those different generations trying to navigate a rapidly changing world, Andrew firmly believes that this style of leadership is critical if organisations are going to achieve success. Andrew will discuss how attitudes, such as being non-judgemental and showing kindness, can unlock modern leadership and drive performance. 
  • Collaboration is Key: Andrew has led complex, multi-disciplinary and multi-organisational teams. He successfully created and implemented a ‘One-Team’ culture in a £5bn national programme which involved ten delivery organisations. Andrew has coached leadership teams from traditionally rival businesses to become a single team in readiness for assessment centres. He has facilitated workshops with teams in highly conflicted situations, resulting in a shared sense of purpose, vision and values. In this talk Andrew discusses his experience of building a collaboration culture with teams, what worked and why some things didn’t work.

  • Thriving Under Pressure: Andrew has faced numerous high intensity leadership situations, from heading up the UK Government’s assurance of the Olympic and Paralympic torches for London 2012 to being a Director on the Building Safety Programme immediately after the Grenfell Fire tragedy. Here Andrew talks about his own personal journey of working under pressure, and gives the audience advanced tools to enable them to thrive under pressure, life hacks to help them navigate the challenges of leadership and techniques to help teams perform.

  • Psychological Safety – Why it Matters to You & Your Team: When employees feel comfortable asking for help, sharing suggestions informally or challenging the status-quo without fear, organisations are more likely to innovate quickly, unlock the benefits of diversity and adapt well to change. In this engaging keynote, Andrew uses powerful evidence-based examples to give leaders reasons to want this transformative team mindset and how they can reduce risk and build opportunities. This talk also highlights key indicators that show whether the workplace is psychologically safe or not and shares practical tips on how to achieve psychological safety.

  • Burnout – How to Recognise & How to Recover from Burnout: Eleven years ago Andrew realised he was suffering from burnout. He had to step back from work to find techniques that enabled him to move from being overwhelmed, to being able to thrive in high pressure environments. In this talk, Andrew shares his experience of being introduced to mindfulness and other strategies, why he was very sceptical in the beginning and how they have helped transform his life, his leadership and his career.  This talk includes interesting neuro-scientific findings and insights, an introduction to mindfulness and tools to help people integrate these into their lives.  
“Andrew McNeill had been highly recommended to me at Liberty HR Recruitment as a potential guest-speaker for our monthly HR Leaders’ Forums. After chatting to Andrew and hearing what he had to say, it became apparent that our HR Leaders network really needed to hear from him! He spoke on the subject of ‘Compassion in Leadership’ and he really didn’t disappoint.”
“It was a very lovely keynote, inspiring and easy going. Some of them really appreciated the opportunity to have mindfulness practices as a part of the keynote and were able to relax and calm themselves.”
“Andrew delivered his session with an easy style and it was full of engaging subject material. Kindness and compassion are always relevant, perhaps never more so than in our current situation whilst emerging from the Covid pandemic. Andrew ably demonstrated that there is nothing ‘soft’ about kindness.”
“Andrew was so engaging and the topic is very close to my heart so I thoroughly enjoyed the session. Loved hearing from him and exploring the power of compassion in leadership. I am so looking forward to reading his book!”
“Andrew certainly provided us with a timely reminder that being alive to the suffering of others, should be part of workplace culture. This is especially important as we emerge from our ‘Covid Bunkers’ as Andrew calls them, and emerge blinking into the Sun of our new normal. I would heartily recommend Andrew as a speaker and hope, one day, that he will return to speak for our network once again!”

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