Graeme Hall

Why organisations work with Graeme Hall

• He arrives with a specific, verifiable thesis: that the psychology of dog training produces better management results than most corporate training frameworks, making his core idea repeatable and memorable long after the event.
• His 21 years as an operations manager at Weetabix, running teams of 200+, grounds every analogy in real management experience. The dog training lens sharpens the insight; the corporate background makes it credible.
• The methodology he teaches: clear signals, consistent reinforcement, calm authority, is simple enough to apply the following day. Audiences leave with a model, not a reading list.
• As the presenter of seven series of a nationally broadcast Channel 5 show, he carries a recognition factor that drives audience engagement before he has said a word. His TEDxLeamingtonSpa talk has been viewed more than 37,000 times.
• His Sunday Times bestseller status confirms the core ideas have been tested and validated well beyond the speaking circuit.

Biography highlights

• Master Dog Trainer, Guild of Dog Trainers (accredited since 2009); more than 5,000 dogs trained across the UK, Australia, and internationally
• Presenter, Channel 5’s Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly – seven series since 2017; also presenter of Dog Hospital with Graeme Hall (Channel 5); show distributed internationally to CBC (Canada) and Network 10 (Australia)
• Sunday Times bestselling author: All Dogs Great and Small (Penguin Books, 2021) and Perfectly Imperfect Puppy (Random House, 2022); further titles include Does My Dog Love Me? (2024)
• TEDxLeamingtonSpa speaker: “Why using dog training psychology to train people makes sense” (37,000+ views)
• 21-year career at Weetabix Limited as operations manager, leading teams of 200+; University of Hull graduate
• Described by The Daily Telegraph as “Britain’s best dog trainer”; monthly columnist, Country Living Magazine; featured on BBC Breakfast, ITV’s This Morning, and in The Yorkshire Vet (2025)
• Children’s debut The Ultimate Kids’ Guide to Dogs (2024) shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Awards 2025

Biography

The hardest part of managing people is not knowing what good looks like, it is getting people to do it consistently. Most management frameworks address process and structure. Fewer address the simpler, less comfortable question: why do people change their behaviour, and why do they not?

Graeme Hall spent 21 years as an operations manager at Weetabix, overseeing teams of more than 200 people. When he left to train dogs professionally in 2008, he found that the same principles he had been applying to people: clear communication, consistent reinforcement, calm authority, were precisely what made dog training work. The parallel was not decorative. It was functional.

That observation became the foundation of his speaking work. His TEDxLeamingtonSpa talk, “Why using dog training psychology to train people makes sense,” made the case in public. His books All Dogs Great and Small (Penguin, 2021) and Perfectly Imperfect Puppy (Random House, 2022) both became Sunday Times bestsellers, drawing on a methodology grounded in behavioural science and tested across more than 5,000 training cases.

As presenter of Channel 5’s Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly – now in its seventh series, with audiences across the UK, Australia, and Canada – Hall combines national media recognition with a management insight that is both immediately applicable and genuinely difficult to forget. The Daily Telegraph has described him as “Britain’s best dog trainer.” Organisations hire him when they want a session that is entertaining, practical, and still being talked about the following week.

Key speaking topics

• Behavioural psychology applied to people management
• Communication, clarity, and consistency in leadership
• Motivation and behaviour change
• Team performance and getting the best from people
• Science-backed management and habit formation
• Storytelling and audience engagement

Ideal for

• Line managers and team leaders seeking practical, immediately applicable tools for improving team behaviour and performance
• HR directors and people teams planning leadership development days, away days, or company-wide culture initiatives
• Conference and event organisers seeking a high-recognition keynote with crossover entertainment and business value
• SME owners and entrepreneurs managing growing teams and the communication challenges that growth creates

Audience outcomes

• A simple, memorable model for communicating expectations clearly and reinforcing the behaviours they want – without conflict or complexity
• A reframe of everyday management challenges through behavioural science, making abstract concepts concrete and immediately actionable
• Practical techniques for addressing difficult team behaviours calmly and consistently, drawn from Hall’s 5,000-case training methodology
• Greater confidence in having direct conversations about performance and conduct
• A central idea – the dog training management parallel – that is memorable enough to repeat to colleagues and durable enough to apply over time