Chris Roebuck
Chris has unique experience from military, business and Government. Over 25 years Chris has developed leaders, particularly senior leaders, to deliver what their organisation needs to get done. Across multiple sectors and geographies.
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"This was an amazing keynote that absolutely resonated with what I am trying to do with the leadership team. Your message was so crisp, so clear, so easy to understand, so relatable. It is a true enabler to help us create value for the business going forward. It was fantastic."
"The webinar was incredibly well received by everyone. Many senior managers contacted me immediately pledging to action their learning. Chris was clear, crisp with a superb flow throughout the session. I am grateful for such a wonderful session and so is the rest of Tata Communications."
"Chris’ presentation at our CEO & Directors event was fantastic. He really resonated with attendees, who found his session extremely interesting, insightful and inspirational. He also provided attendees with a lot to take away and put into action straight away."
"Chris’ closing keynote address was outstanding, 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 top retail leaders present."
"Chris delivered a great presentation to CEOs and Finance Directors that engaged and challenged their thinking. His powerful business case, proven data and practical ideas for action that deliver return on investment were critical for credibility with this audience. The feedback was excellent and we hope to work with Chris again in the future."
"Chris, in a very simple and straightforward way, explained leadership to us and how to be better in a very engaging way. From my one perspective, Chris has given me a few things to consider, I’m thinking I am going to have to up my game. Very valuable morning. Thanks."
"Chris gave a highly relevant and compelling keynote on Transformational Leadership. It’s never easy to talk to people who might say they already know everything about being a leader, about leadership and challenge thinking. Chris managed it in exemplary fashion and brought new perspectives. The feedback from everyone was hugely complimentary."
"I have read books and listened to talks on leadership over many years but yours was, without doubt, the most inspirational and sensible approach that gave absolute clarity. Your outstanding contribution was invaluable to the success of the day."
"I was profoundly impacted by the presentation. Thanks so much for inspiring me to be more authentic, take it to my team and be more profitable."
"Chris, I enjoyed your incredibly inspiring seminar at the UK Defence Academy which I continue to use as inspiration for leading my own high performing teams at sea. Tomorrow I am using it as inspiration for a workshop with officers and senior NCOs. We are on operations on the other side of the world for 10 months far from home and on strategic tasking – leading and inspiring people could not be more important."
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Chris Roebuck's 2024 biography
Who is Chris Roebuck?
Through business case studies, psychology, neuroscience, in which he is certified, insights from his broad career and interaction Chris inspires leaders to unleash the power of their own experience and potential to then deliver what their organisation needs immediately after his events via a simple 3 step system.
In over 200 keynotes he has shown over 21,000 leaders from over 1600 organisations globally how they can be more successful to beat their objectives, beat their challenges, build the future and, more recently, in a unique way that defuses their Covid Great Resignation “People Time Bomb”.
In his role as Global Head of Leadership at UBS Chris worked on the selection and building of a strategic leadership team of 500 for a newly created global bank which is now a Harvard Case study. He also led Leadership Development at HSBC Investment Bank and helped KPMG set up an training enterprise.
Chris worked on the top team at London Underground, the London subway, leading the creation of a partnership culture during a part privatisation working with management, employees, consultants and government. He subsequently helped the UK National Health Service, 1.4m staff, create the first nationwide talent and leadership guidance and identification systems and then rapidly implemented to identify top talent in under 6 weeks.
Chris also helps expert professional leaders get better being invited to deliver a 1 Day Masterclass on “Leadership Integrity” to 300 senior military officers and government leaders at the UK Defence Academy and also to speak on leadership at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UKs Westpoint, to both trainee officers and to those who have served in combat, a rare honour.
He was co author of first book on strategic leadership development, has published a number of books on leadership one of which was translated into 11 languages, published over 100 articles, has been on the list of HR Most Influential Thinkers 10 times in past 11 years and Hon Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Bayes Business School. He has been quoted by other leadership experts over 70 times in their books or articles.
Chris writes articles for Newsweek, has been quoted as a business leadership expert globally in the Harvard Business Review China, FT, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Business Week, Washington Post and many other titles. He has done over 350 TV interviews on leadership and business on BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC and other channels and regularly judges business awards.
Chris unleashes the potential hidden within his audiences experiences in a way which focuses their action on the specific objective the organisation wants – from high performance to better customer service, from innovation to operational risk management.
But above all it’s simple, practical and resonates so it works.
“I have read books and listened to talks on leadership over many years but without doubt yours was the most inspirational and sensible approach that gave absolute clarity.”
Col Helen Singh – Senior UK National Health Service Leader and Commanding Officer, 254 Reserve Hospital, British Army. Veteran of service in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It works because Chris, in his roles developing leaders performance, eg Global Head of Leadership for UBS, has used hundreds of speakers to help achieve success, both internal and some high profile external.
He’s seen them, heard audience feedback, assessed them, studied how behavioural change works and neuroscience to learn what speakers need to do to inspire an audience, but then to go and take exactly the action thats needed.
Now he applies all that expertise to his own speaking. That’s how his speaking always delivers the impact required.
Chris Roebuck's 2024 talks & topics
Growth, performance, profitability - High Performance Leadership
Higher expectations of leaders post COVID, the Great Resignation, potential Quiet Quitting, and Hybrid Working have created a perfect storm. There is an urgent imperative for organisations and leaders beat these challenges by maximising purposeful high performance.
What will you learn and take away for action?
- What really engages people to give their best? Growing your high performance culture.
- How are we doing on employee engagement?
- Which insights from your own experience are your lessons to engage everyone?
- High performance task management & delivery.
- What simple day to day actions can you take to get the best from people?
- Your power as an authentic servant leader – potential effort increases.
- How much hidden impact potential is there you don’t know about you can use?
- How you can use psychology and neuroscience to boost your success rate?
- How could this boost overall organisational performance & other key areas?
- Your action plan to start the journey.
Thriving in uncertainty - Entrepreneurial Leadership
The last few years COVID, Great resignation and economic instability have combined to create a perfect storm of uncertainty. Leaders and organisations who view this as an opportunity will flourish. It’s about leaders being able to scan the environment and identify opportunities, enable their people to do the same, then to implement so their organisations are more agile and successful.
What will you learn and take away for action?
- So what’s your uncertainty map at the moment?
- Where do you see your greatest challenges?
- How to become a leader for uncertainty.
- Inspiring your team for agility, growth and opportunity.
- Using the big picture to inspire and align to strategic imperatives.
- Transforming the emotion of uncertainty from negative to positive.
- Creating your dynamic plan for action.
- Building team flexibility to make it reality.
- Your action plan to start the journey.
Seamless change and transformation - Transformational Leadership
The one certainty is change. Success is about being ahead of the change curve by assessing the change needed, adapting to make it and accelerating ahead of the competition. Every leader must recognise the need for change, even in their own team, present an inspiring vision for change and get everyone behind making the change reality.
What will you learn and take away for action?
- Change is a fact of life – use it to your advantage.
- The hidden power of your experience and perception in leading change.
- Creating a growth mindset for successful change and transformation – opportunity.
- Identifying the optimal changes to make to maximise return on investment.
- Creating a great plan to make it a reality – clear purpose, objectives, milestones and contingencies.
- Making it happen through an inspiring vision to engage everyone to “live” the change.
- Beating challenges that arise on the journey – learning moments.
- Celebrating the power of teamwork and success.
- Your action plan to start the journey.
Building a talent powerhouse – Inspirational Leadership
Inspiring everyone to give their best not only delivers high performance but it also grows talent. This is vital for the future of any organisation. Success in this based on using a set of simple principles and actions which leaders at all levels can implement to create a powerful talent generating system within a short time – simply a culture of growth and success. This enables more people to grow more quickly which then creates more high performers ready to become future talent.
What will you learn and take away for action?
- Talent is a litmus test for everything else in your organisation.
- What is talent? Who has it?
- Why identifying and growing talent is key to the future.
- How great talent development works in practise.
– What the organisation needs to do – C suite & HR.
– What leaders need to do. - Your vital role as a leader in your organisations talent strategy.
- Simple day-to-day actions you can take to get the best from your talent.
- Creating an environment where you grow talent fast.
- How to beat the common challenges of talent development.
- Leveraging talent development to grow everyone in the organisation.
- How developing talent enhances your own capability and leadership.
- Your simple action plan to start to make it reality when you leave.
Chris Roebuck's 2024 speaking fees
- United Kingdom
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