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Chris Roebuck helps organisations supercharge their leaders' performance and unlock their hidden 10%+ potential. A leadership speaker and the BBC's business leadership expert, Chris has spoken to 37,000+ leaders and been named one of HR's Most Influential Thinkers ten times.
Chris Roebuck helps organisations supercharge their leaders' performance. His Supercharged Leadership approach starts from a gap the Chartered Management Institute identified: 80% of leaders don't have all the key skills they need to be fully effective, which leaves 10% or more of their performance potential untapped.
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 was Honorary Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Cass Business School from 2009 to 2022, has given more than 250 interviews as the BBC's business leadership expert, and has been named one of HR's Most Influential Thinkers ten times, alongside an HR Lifetime Achievement Award.
His six-step Accelerate Your Success roadmap turns inspiration into action, moving leaders from mindset to behaviour, action, and results. The steps run from optimising task delivery and getting the best from people to growing entrepreneurial leaders and building the business of the future, and he's refined them using post-event feedback. Having run more than 40 events for senior leaders himself, he can also advise organisers on keeping momentum after the day.
Audiences leave with priorities aligned to business KPIs, tools to improve execution straight away, and often around half a working day a week they can win back.
Book Chris for an interactive leadership keynote that keeps delivering after the event.
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Chris Roebuck emphasises that employee engagement is crucial for organisational success, yet many leaders struggle to harness its full potential. He highlights the importance of understanding the nuances of engagement levels - engaged, not engaged, and disengaged - and how to foster a more human-centric approach. Drawing from his extensive research and experience with companies like KPMG and HSBC, Chris provides leaders with essential insights to enhance engagement. Attendees will learn effective strategies to transform their teams and boost overall performance.
Chris Roebuck addresses the challenges leaders face in maintaining business as usual while navigating change and uncertainty. Drawing from his experience leading successful transformations at organisations like London Underground and UBS, he emphasises the importance of human-centric leadership skills. Chris highlights how to foster an environment of certainty amid uncertainty, motivating teams to align with organisational goals. Attendees will learn to embrace change as an opportunity through the practice of Entrepreneurial Leadership, ultimately delivering a better future.
Chartered Management Institute research found that 80% of leaders don't have all the key skills they need to be fully effective. Chris Roebuck shows how to close that gap and unlock the 10% or more of performance potential most leaders already have. Using his six-step Accelerate Your Success roadmap, he moves leaders from mindset to behaviour, action, and results, 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 empowers leaders to develop the confidence and capability needed to navigate ongoing global changes. His session focuses on creating a personalised action plan, drawing from his expertise in military leadership, corporate leadership, and a proven six-step roadmap. Attendees will learn how to build resilient teams, lead through complex transformations, and optimise their impact during change. By understanding the "Crisis Consumption Loop," leaders will enhance their disruption resilience to not just survive, but thrive.
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To book Chris Roebuck, email chris.roebuck@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Chris' availability and speaking fee. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and about your audience.
Chris Roebuck runs interactive sessions built around his six-step Accelerate Your Success roadmap, using live polls and reading the room to turn each step into concrete actions that attendees note down and take back to their teams.
Chris Roebuck specialises in supercharging leaders' performance, leading through relentless change, human leadership in an AI-powered world, and employee engagement and culture. A former British Army Officer who has given more than 250 interviews as the BBC's business leadership expert, he has been named one of HR's Most Influential Thinkers ten times.
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