Ben Hines

Leadership teams talk about high performance more than they practise it. The behaviours that separate a coordinated team from a competent one are often invisible inside the organisation itself, drowned out by hierarchy and process. Senior groups need a way to see those behaviours from outside their own dynamics and translate what they see into how they work on Monday morning.

Ben Hines is a leadership facilitator and executive coach who uses orchestral musicians and live performance to make the behaviours of high-performing teams observable to senior leaders.

Download Profile
Check Availability
Check availability

Check Ben Hines's availability for your event

Complete the form below to check Ben Hines's availability. If you prefer, you can also send an email directly to our head office.

How would Ben Hines deliver their presentation at your event?
Please provide details of your budget for Ben Hines's speaking fee, including currency.

Full Profile

Why organisations work with Ben Hines

  • A signature programme, Know the Score, delivered with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and other professional ensembles, that puts senior leaders in the room with a world-class team operating in real time.
  • Faculty appointments at Henley Business School and Korn Ferry International, anchoring the experiential work in a credible leadership development frame.
  • Eighteen years in financial and legal services, including strategic marketing leadership at Barclays PLC, which keeps the corporate translation grounded rather than theatrical.
  • A coaching credential (ACC, International Coach Federation) and a music degree from the University of York, sitting behind a method that other speakers cannot replicate.

Biography highlights

  • Founder of Moving Performance (2009), a leadership development firm using music and live musicians as the medium for senior team work.
  • Creator of Know the Score, the first leadership programme to be developed in partnership with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
  • Senior Associate faculty at Henley Business School, Korn Ferry International, and Altitude Leadership Partners.
  • Associate Certified Coach, International Coach Federation.
  • BA (Hons) Music, University of York.
  • Earlier career as a strategic marketer at Barclays PLC and advisor to CPA Global.

Biography

A high-performing orchestra and a high-performing executive team face the same problem. Many specialists, one shared outcome, no rehearsal time. Most leadership development programmes describe that problem in abstract terms. Ben Hines puts it on a stage and lets leaders watch it solved in front of them.

Moving Performance, the firm he founded in 2009, places professional musicians inside leadership sessions for serious organisations. The signature programme, Know the Score, runs in partnership with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and was the first leadership format developed with that orchestra. Senior teams observe how a group of experts coordinates without verbal instruction, then translate what they have seen into their own decision rhythms, listening habits, and roles under pressure.

The credibility of the work rests on the corporate spine behind it. Eighteen years inside financial and legal services, including strategic marketing leadership at Barclays PLC across multiple international markets and an advisory role at CPA Global, sit underneath the musical method. Senior Associate faculty appointments at Henley Business School and Korn Ferry International, and an ACC coaching credential from the International Coach Federation, place the practice inside recognised leadership development infrastructure.

Clients to date include Accenture, BP, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Borse, Jaguar Land Rover, PwC, Telekom Austria, Thames Water, and Wise.

Key speaking topics

  • High-performing teams
  • Leadership and team development
  • Change leadership
  • Emotional intelligence in senior teams
  • Communication and listening
  • Executive presence

Ideal for

  • Chief Executives and executive committees running team off-sites and leadership conferences
  • Heads of Leadership Development and CHROs commissioning senior team programmes
  • Transformation leads using a leadership intervention to reset team behaviour during change
  • Conference organisers needing a substantive keynote that doubles as a shared experience for the room

Audience outcomes

  • A common reference point for how an expert team coordinates without hierarchy interrupting the work
  • Specific behavioural cues from professional musicians that translate into meeting and decision rhythms
  • Sharper attention to listening, non-verbal signals, and timing in senior team interaction
  • A shared experience the group keeps referring back to long after the session

Talks

Know the Score: Elevating Leadership and Performance

An immersive session with a live ensemble of professional musicians that lets senior leaders observe a high-performing team operating in real time, then draws out the behavioural lessons for their own context.

Key takeaways:

  • How a group of experts coordinates without a central instruction-giver
  • The role of leadership in setting tempo, listening, and recovery from error
  • Specific behaviours to take back into the leadership team straight away

Change Management

A keynote framing organisational change as an emotional and rhythmic process, using musical material to surface what people experience when the score changes.

Key takeaways:

  • Why change effort stalls when the emotional dimension is left out
  • How leaders create alignment when the direction of travel is unfamiliar
  • Practical signals for sustaining engagement through a transition

Effective Communication

A session built around the discipline of listening, using musical examples to show what attention actually looks like in a senior team.

Key takeaways:

  • The difference between hearing and listening inside leadership conversations
  • How non-verbal cues carry more weight than most leaders assume
  • Concrete adjustments to how meetings are run after the session

Available for
Speaking Themes
Languages
Click the button below to check Ben Hines's fees and availability for your event.
Check Availability

Videos

Testimonials

I recently attended Know the Score®, using music as a metaphor for leadership at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was the most incredible experience I have had on a leadership learning day. The way Ben and team intertwines music and contextualises it with business is superb and leaves you with a wow factor. The boring sporting analogies are a thing of the past... As a result of my first experience I asked Ben to facilitate a leadership piece at the Callcredit Management Conference focused on Collaboration, Agility and Innovation. The result was stunning and attendees are still talking about the experience weeks later, I would suggest the output will live on in our organisation for a long time to come. If you are looking to develop your leaders or managers and want a truly world class unforgettable experience speak to Ben.
Chief Operating Officer, Callcredit Information Group
Having produced conferences for over twenty years I was struck by how Moving Performance offers something refreshingly new to clients. They weld the interactive, creative elements of their presentation with the business messages extremely well. Ben has a likeable style and his preparation is meticulous; he carefully researches the business objectives of the client and tailors a solution around this. His own commercial leadership experience gains credibility and empathy with the audience allowing him to obtain speedy buy-in which makes the whole team ethic he promotes more relevant and powerful.
Managing Director, 2IIS
Compose a piece of music? But we work in IT! We ‘faced the music’ with Moving Performance to discover new team dynamics that previously had evaded us in the 9 to 5 workplace. Team building has never been so engaging drawing out raw passion and emotion amongst the group that would otherwise have lay dormant. A unique experience! Encore!
Head of Account Delivery, Accenture
You sometimes meet people who have passion coming out of every pore, but not often. To meet someone like this, who's passion is to help others, is unique in my experience. It is for this reason that I have no hesitation in recommending Ben to anyone who wants help in building their team. A talented musician, a far-sighted faciltator with a clear vision of how to help other people makes him someone you should speak to.
Associate Course Director, The Leadership Trust
Ben and his team are AMAZING! Their ability to quickly understand,simplify and orchestrate a 500 person team toward a common cultural mission was beyond my expectations! In 90 minutes, they took us out of our comfort zone and the outcome was a mindset of a FASTER, SIMPLER and TOGETHER Cisco IT - with a recording that I can¹t get out of my head. : ) Thank you Ben and Team!!
Cisco
The concept of connecting world class musical performance to high performing business is as thought provoking as it is obvious. Presenting this concept to our top 70 leaders at Grange Insurance was masterfully accomplished by Ben with a level of facilitation that truly resonated with our leadership team. As successful as the end product was, the real joy was partnering in the design process with Ben and being able to bring in our local Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Ben was resourceful and exceptionally easy to work with.
Grange Insurance
Ben is masterful at facilitating participant reflection and drawing the leadership lessons from his interviews with the conductor and the performers. People leave Know the Score® uplifted, engaged and focused on their own leadership journey.
CEO, Mobius Executive Leadership
You sometimes meet people who have passion coming out of every pore, but not often. To meet someone like this, who's passion is to help others, is unique in my experience. It is for this reason that I have no hesitation in recommending Ben to anyone who wants help in building their team. A talented musician, a far sighted faciltator with a clear vision of how to help other people makes him someone you should speak to.
Associate Course Director, The Leadership Trust

Fees

EUR GBP USD
Home Country Please enquire Please enquire Please enquire
Asia Pacific Please enquire Please enquire Please enquire
Europe €12000 to €40000 £10,001 - £35,000 $15000 - $50000
Middle East & Africa Please enquire Please enquire Please enquire
South America Please enquire Please enquire Please enquire
United Kingdom Please enquire Please enquire Please enquire
US East Coast €12000 to €40000 £10,001 - £35,000 $15000 - $50000
US West Coast €12000 to €40000 £10,001 - £35,000 $15000 - $50000
Virtual Under €12000 Under £10,000 Under $15000