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James Kerr
James Kerr helps organisations build high-performing cultures and lead through change. A leadership and culture speaker, he wrote the bestseller Legacy on the All Blacks and has advised Google, PayPal, and Shell.
James Kerr is a leadership consultant and the author of Legacy, the bestselling study of what the New Zealand All Blacks can teach business about culture and leadership. He speaks on leading through change, resilience, and building high-performing cultures.
Legacy came out of time spent with the All Blacks during a period when their win rate rose from 75% to 86%, and it sets out 15 leadership lessons drawn from the team's culture. James has advised organisations including Google, PayPal, and Shell on leading change and building strong teams.
James combines that research with years of consulting, so he translates the All Blacks' habits into language business leaders can act on, from sweeping the sheds to leaving the jersey in a better place. That gives teams a shared vocabulary for standards and behaviour.
Audiences take away a practical model for building culture, ways to stay agile in a volatile environment, and how leaders create a sense of purpose people commit to. Sessions cover VUCA, resilience, and the Legacy principles, so they can be shaped to the brief.
For a leadership conference or culture programme, James brings one of the most influential business books on teams and the thinking behind it.
Topics, sessions and talks
James Kerr discusses VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity), offering strategies for developing agility to navigate and thrive in an ever-changing global landscape.
James Kerr discusses strategies for fostering resilience, enabling individuals and organizations to thrive amidst challenges and uncertainty in a rapidly changing world.
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James Kerr uses the All Blacks' culture, as documented in his book Legacy, as a running case study, translating specific team habits into principles for leadership and organisational culture.
James Kerr speaks on agility in a VUCA world, building resilience in volatile environments, and the leadership and culture lessons of the All Blacks. He wrote the bestseller Legacy, based on time spent with the New Zealand team, and has advised organisations including Google, PayPal, and Shell.
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