Chris Roebuck
British economist, Organizational and Personal Success Advisor, Professor of Transformational Leadership
Chris Roebuck’s combination of personal leadership experience in the military, business, and public sector, gives him unique insight as a globally recognised expert speaker on delivering success.
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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 2022 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.
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Chris Roebuck's 2022 talks & topics
Build you future and make it happen
‘- effective transformation, boosted disruptive thinking, talent attraction and diversity of thought.
Beat your challenges blocking greater success
– be that better customer service, inspirational and entrepreneurial leadership, or optimised risk management.
Meet and beat this years objectives
– and maybe add 10% to bottom line for free!
Beat your Great Resignation “People Time Bomb”
– there is one underlying reason behind this time that hasn’t been widely discussed. It is a key driver of the great non-return and resignation. It has to do with the quality of leadership—or lack thereof—in organizations.
Chris Roebuck's 2022 speaking fees
- United Kingdom
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