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Chris Roebuck
Chris Roebuck, a leadership keynote speaker, helps organisations raise leaders' performance by drawing out the 10%+ of untapped capability in their teams. The BBC's business leadership expert, he has been named one of HR's Most Influential Thinkers ten times.
Chris Roebuck helps organisations lift their leaders' performance through Supercharged Leadership. Chartered Management Institute research found that around four in five leaders lack some of the skills they need to perform at their best, and Chris shows teams how to close that gap.
A former British Army Officer, Chris has spent more than 40 years leading and developing leaders across the military, business, and government, including leading global teams at HSBC, UBS, KPMG, London Underground, and the NHS. He chairs the Advisory Board for the MSc in People Analytics and Human-Centric Management at UCL School of Management and has given more than 250 interviews as the BBC's business leadership expert.
HR's Most Influential Thinkers list has named him ten times, and he holds an HR Lifetime Achievement Award. He has written five leadership books that have sold 40,000+ copies.
His six-step Accelerate Your Success roadmap takes leaders from mindset through behaviour and action to results tied to business KPIs, with live polling in the room so delegates build a personal plan as they go. Having run more than 40 events for senior leaders himself, Chris advises organisers on how to keep that momentum going after the day.
Chris has spoken to more than 37,000 leaders across 32 countries. Audiences leave with priorities tied to their business KPIs, tools they can use straight away, and the potential to reclaim around half a day of working time each week.
Book Chris for an interactive leadership keynote that keeps delivering after the event.
Topics, sessions and talks
Many leaders know engagement matters but struggle to improve it. Chris Roebuck breaks engagement into three states, engaged, not engaged, and disengaged, and shows how to recognise each in a team and what moves people from one to the next. He draws on research and on his work with KPMG and HSBC, and keeps the approach human-centred. Leaders leave with specific actions to lift engagement and team performance, and a clearer view of where their people sit today.
Ideas from a conference often fade once delegates are back at their desks. Chris Roebuck is regularly booked to close an event, drawing its themes together, or to open it and set up the follow-through. Working interactively with the room, he helps delegates pick the ideas that matter most for their own role and turn them into personal actions. Leaders go home with a plan and a clear route to results.
Chartered Management Institute research found that around four in five leaders lack some of the skills they need to perform at their best. Chris Roebuck shows how to close that gap and release the 10% or more of performance most leaders already have in them. Through his six-step Accelerate Your Success roadmap, he takes leaders from mindset to behaviour to action, finishing with a personal plan tied to business KPIs that frees up time and lifts team performance.
AI only pays off when leaders create the conditions for people to use it well. Chris Roebuck shows how human intelligence and leadership decide whether AI investment delivers, drawing on 40+ years of leading through change in the military, business, and government. Built on the final step of his Accelerate Your Success roadmap, the session helps leaders free up time, build AI readiness across their teams, and develop the human skills that make the technology work harder.
Chris Roebuck draws on military and corporate leadership to help leaders build the confidence and capability to steer teams through sustained change. Using his six-step roadmap, each leader builds a personal action plan covering resilient teams and complex transformations. He uses the Crisis Consumption Loop to build disruption resilience. His own experience leading transformations at London Underground and UBS grounds each step. Leaders leave with a personal plan for keeping their teams steady and productive through change.
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Chris Roebuck runs interactive sessions built around his six-step Accelerate Your Success roadmap, using live polls and reading of the room so delegates draft a personal action plan during the session.
Chris Roebuck speaks on leader performance, leading through relentless change, human leadership in an AI-powered world, turning conference insight into action, and employee engagement. A former British Army Officer, he chairs the Advisory Board for the MSc in People Analytics and Human-Centric Management at UCL School of Management and has given more than 250 interviews as the BBC's business leadership expert.
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