Chris Roebuck, Leadership Speaker

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Become a High Performance Leader with Chris Roebuck

Maximise employee engagement

Beat the Great Resignation

Prevent Quiet Quitting

Optimise hybrid working

Entrepreneurial leadership

Why Chris Roebuck?

Chris work in the military, across business sectors, public sector, from transport to healthcare as a leader, enhancing leaders performance and growing talent give him a unique insight into delivering organisational success – through his Accelerated Leadership building High & Peak Performing Leaders. 

Accolades such as 10 times one of HRs Most Influential Thinkers in Annual Awards, as Hon Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership, as one of top 40 global experts on organisational culture, over 150 leadership experts using his insights in their publications and proven success in practice shows he can turn the complex concept into the simple action to enable anyone to make it happen.

Chris special keynotes accelerate your leadership :

High Performance Leadership

Unleash your peoples experience, to get their best.

High Performance Leadership

Unleash your peoples experience, to get their best.

  • What really engages people to give their best? Growing your high performance culture.
  • How to boost employee engagement.
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Entrepreneurial Leadership

Leaders identifying & leveraging opportunity

Entrepreneurial Leadership

Leaders identifying & leveraging opportunity.

  • Creating a culture of opportunity.
  • Making opportunity reality.
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Transformational Leadership

Success is about being ahead of the change curve.

Transformational Leadership

Success is about being ahead of the change curve.

  • The hidden power of your experience and perception in leading change.
  • Build a culture of dynamic change.
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Inspirational Leadership

Inspire everyone to give their best, grow and develop.

Inspirational Leadership

Inspire everyone to give their best, grow and develop.

  • Get the best.
  • Grow & develop talent.
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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.

There is a simple powerful solution which will achieve that, in just 3 simple practical steps. It unleashes your peoples experience, to get their best. No models, no new or more things to do, just doing better what you already do to get the best from everyone and focus onto strategic objectives.

Chris is recognised as being at the leading edge of leadership performance globally, eg his award of Companionship of the Chartered Management Institute the highest accolade that the UKs professional management body can award for his role in developing leadership around the world.

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.

Chris has worked with organisations at key uncertain points in their growth and is a leading expert in this field, eg his work at Global Head of Leadership and Talent at UBS on the first implementation of “entrepreneurial leadership” within a corporate environment, now part of the Harvard Case study.

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.

Chris expertise in this area is proven through many roles from Global Head of Leadership and Talent at UBS, now Harvard case study on creating a new global bank, to leading culture change on the restructuring of the London Underground and also as Honorary Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership.

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.

Chris expertise in the world of talent development is exceptional through his various roles which have focused on this over 30 years at the highest levels, eg Global Head of Leadership & Talent at UBS, his book on strategic leadership development, the first on this critical subject, his mentoring programmes and his publications.

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.

Enquire about working with Chris

Whether it’s a keynote for your organisation’s leaders, executive coaching or team development for yourself, working with Chris and his team is simple, straightforward and practical.