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Hattie Willis

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Unlock team performance and build cultures where people do their best work with Hattie Willis, professional skills trainer for innovation and adaptability. Hattie works with leaders and teams to build psychological safety, embed coaching cultures, and deliver feedback in a way that really lands, drawing on programmes delivered for Lloyds Banking Group, Experian, DPD, and Jaguar Land Rover.

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GuessWorks Founder, designing and delivering practical skills training
Delivered programmes for Lloyds Banking Group, Virgin Startups, and Experian
Former Head of Training at Innovation Consultancy Rainmaking Innovation

Hattie Willis is a professional skills trainer helping organisations build the capability to innovate and adapt. Her work focuses on what that actually takes from teams and leaders, with psychological safety, coaching practice, and feedback as the conditions that let people move forward even when they don't have all the answers yet. Hattie has delivered leadership programmes and workshops for organisations including Ramboll, Lloyds Banking Group, Virgin Startups, Experian, DPD, and Jaguar Land Rover, working with people managers, graduate cohorts, and senior leadership teams. She brings a research-backed, practically focused approach that draws on frameworks including Radical Candour and decades of organisational psychology, without the corporate jargon. Hattie's sessions empower leaders to make the shift from managing to coaching, develop the skills for giving and receiving feedback that actually lands, and build the psychological safety that drives measurable team performance. Her work is particularly resonant for hybrid and distributed teams, people-first organisations, and L&D programmes investing in their next generation of leaders. Book Hattie to help your leaders build teams that can adapt, perform, and do their best work under pressure.

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Psychological Safety As Your Performance Lever

Most teams already have the talent. What holds them back is the fear of speaking up, disagreeing, or trying something new. Hattie Willis draws on her work with teams at Lloyds Banking Group, Experian, and Jaguar Land Rover to show leaders the concrete practices that build psychological safety at every level. Practical, evidence-backed, and immediately applicable, this keynote gives people leaders the specific tools to unlock the performance that is already in the room.

Leading When The Ground Keeps Moving

The old model of leadership — plan, execute, control — no longer holds. Hattie Willis explores what it takes to lead with clarity when the strategy keeps shifting, how to protect your own energy while guiding a team through uncertainty, and how to help people feel steady when nothing around them is. Built for the reality that leaders are actually navigating, this keynote leaves teams better equipped to lead under pressure without burning out.

Coach, Don't Tell

The most effective managers today are not directors, they're coaches. Hattie Willis unpacks the shift from telling to coaching and gives leaders the specific techniques that unlock ownership, energy, and growth in their teams. Grounded in real coaching practice rather than theory, this talk challenges every people manager to examine how they show up and leaves them with a clear, actionable approach to developing the people around them.

Feedback That Lands

Feedback is the highest-leverage skill in any team and yet it's the one most people handle the worst. Hattie Willis draws on the Radical Candour framework and her work delivering programmes for organisations such as Lloyds Banking Group and Jaguar Land Rover to give leaders a practical model for sharing candid, trust-building feedback and receiving it without defensiveness. Teams leave with a shared language and framework that makes difficult conversations less avoidable and far more productive.

Mentor Both Ways: The Intergenerational Advantage

For the first time, most organisations have four or five generations working side by side. Hattie Willis makes the case for mutual mentoring, where senior leaders learn from younger colleagues on AI, culture, and customer behaviour just as much as the other way round. This talk gives teams a practical framework for building reverse and reciprocal mentoring relationships, with clear links to retention, innovation, and team cohesion.

Why we recommend booking Hattie

Hattie is a trusted voice on psychological safety, coaching culture, and leadership development. She combines real rigour with genuine warmth — ideal for organisations serious about building teams that perform and innovate.

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