Chris Roebuck

Too often leaders are told what they need to do but rarely shown how to do it successfully. That’s where Chris changes the game.

Using his 40+ years’ experience developing leaders and proven Accelerate Your Success roadmap, Chris works interactively with audiences to unlock the 10%+ extra performance potential hidden in their experience.

By integrating Chris’s insights with that experience, leaders become more effective at delivering results, getting the best from people, leading change and thinking entrepreneurially — becoming leaders for the future who can build the organisation of the future.

And specific personal benefits flow quickly – during Chris keynotes leaders can potentially identify ways to gain around half a working day a week, develop practical actions to get more from their people and leave with their own action plan to implement immediately.

KEYNOTE THEMES:

High Performance — Unlock hidden potential, optimise delivery and create more time and capacity to focus on what really matters.

People & Engagement — Enable leaders to get the best from their people, building trust, motivation, accountability and discretionary effort.

Leading Through Relentless Change — Give leaders practical ways to maintain engagement and performance while successfully delivering change.

Human Leadership in an AI World — Combine the power of technology and data with the human leadership needed to turn them into sustainable results.

Entrepreneurial Leadership — Develop agile, opportunity-focused leaders who collaborate, seize opportunities and help build the organisation of the future.

FROM INSPIRATION TO ROI

Chris’s proven six-step Accelerate Your Success roadmap integrates these key leadership success factors into one practical leadership journey:

Optimise Task Delivery → Get the Best from Everyone → Align to the Big Picture → Grow Entrepreneurial Leaders → Seize Opportunities → Build the Future

That journey to unlocks the hidden potential in the audience’s own experience creating practical actions they can apply immediately:

Mindset → Behaviour → Action → Results

The objective is not simply inspiration in the room, but better individual and team performance, cascading organisational impact and measurable ROI afterwards.

ABOUT CHRIS

Chris brings 40+ years of real-world leadership and developing leaders across military, business and government. He has helped 37,000+ leaders across 32 countries, working with organisations including BASF, Tata, UBS, L’Oréal, Huawei and KPMG, as well as the UK and UAE Prime Ministers’ Offices and the Chinese Space Programme.

As Global Head of Leadership at UBS, his work contributed to the transformation now featured in a Harvard Business School case study, and he introduced Entrepreneurial Leadership into the corporate world. He was Honorary Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Bayes Business School from 2009–22.

Chris has been named one of HR’s Most Influential Thinkers ten times, was inducted into the HR Hall of Fame, and is a BBC business and leadership expert with 250+ television and radio interviews. He has written five books on leadership and has been quoted in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, TIME and Newsweek.