Tim Harris
Burnout Coach, Atlantic Rower, International Keynote Speaker
- Seasoned Burnout Coach (ACC ICF) and International Keynote Speaker with a proven track record assisting senior leaders and high-performing teams to overcome stress and burnout.
- Transformed his 25-year City career and is now dedicated to mental health advocacy and sustainable modern leadership.
- Rowed unassisted across the Atlantic, raising almost £200K for a teenage mental health charity.
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About Tim Harris
Tim Harris is a leading authority on resilience, burnout prevention, and sustainable leadership, renowned for helping senior leaders and high-performing teams overcome stress and thrive under pressure. Drawing from a 25-year City career culminating as Global Head of Fuel Oil for PVM Oil Associates, and his extraordinary achievement of rowing unassisted across the Atlantic, Tim blends lived experience with powerful insights to address today’s most urgent business challenges, from burnout and disengagement to navigating transformative change.
Tim’s journey from high-flying bond trader to international keynote speaker and ICF-accredited Burnout Coach is a story of transformation and resilience. After suffering severe burnout, depression, and overcoming critical physical setbacks, Tim reinvented himself, training for two years to complete the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge, a gruelling 3,000-mile ocean row. This feat, accomplished with friend Simon Calver, was more exclusive than climbing Everest or going to space, and raised nearly £200,000 for teenage mental health charities.
Tim has worked with international organisations and elite teams, including Google, the Royal Marines, the NHS, Thames Valley Police, and leading corporates, sharing actionable strategies for wellbeing, leadership, and growth.
With a rare blend of honesty, humour, and insight, Tim delivers practical frameworks drawn from both boardroom and real-world adversity. His presentations go beyond theory, offering transformative lessons on mental wellbeing, sustainable performance, and building cultures equipped to thrive through change.
Talks
Tim is well associated with the cause and effects of burnout. He lived it. His experiences are told to us in an educated and sincere manner.
Motivation from Tim can easily be associated to the 3000mile unassisted rowing race he completed, however, Tim also elaborates about how motivation for him is being a good, present father and husband.
During his darkest times, suicide ideation was a real threat to Tim. He addresses this subject with honesty and sympathy to what it is.
The physical feat of rowing 3000miles is hard to comprehend, however we often forget about the utter repetitiveness of constantly having to row, two hour shifts, for 52 days straight.
Tim can testify to countless times his resilience was tested. He’s had to garner resilience in his mental health and resilience in his physical attributes.
Though he’s happy and well educated to talk about the routine of rowing constantly for 52 days, he often likens this topic to his corporate days and how his routine was his downfall.
At a point in Tim’s life, he was 1,500miles from any means of medical assistance. The pressure and stress associated to this can overwhelm many. Tim explains how he managed!
Tim elaborates on the positive effects of productivity and how it can help lead to a healthier, happier life.
With suicide as an unwelcoming presence in Tim’s life, he talks us through how he pulled himself from such adversity and into competing and completing the Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Rowing Race.
His 3000mile row was with friend, Simon. Tim talks to us about being part of a small, intricate team, highly dependable on each other!