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Lauren Currie
Lauren Currie helps leaders and teams build the confidence that drives high performance. A leadership and motivational speaker, Lauren founded UPFRONT, has worked with Adidas, UBER, and WPP, and was awarded an OBE for services to design and diversity.
Lauren Currie OBE helps leaders and teams build the confidence and courage that high performance depends on. She is the founder and CEO of UPFRONT whose confidence-building programme has 1,000 graduates.
Lauren co-founded Snook, one of the UK's leading service design agencies, and later served as Managing Director of NOBL, a global change agency that helps organisations design their culture. She is a trustee of the Design Council and Pregnant Then Screwed, and in 2017 was awarded an OBE for services to design and diversity. Elle named her one of 30 women under 30 changing the world, and Creative Review listed her among its Top 50 Creative Leaders.
Her work connects confidence to results. Lauren shows leaders how to design a culture of confidence and bravery with the same care they give their products, and gives teams concrete steps to speak up, show vulnerability, and learn from mistakes. Adidas, UBER, Lloyds Banking Group, eBay, Sainsbury's, and WPP have all drawn on her approach.
Audiences leave with steps they can use the next day, a healthier relationship with failure and small wins, and ways to build psychological safety in remote teams. Her aim on stage is for everyone in the room to turn their own lights on.
Book Lauren for leadership, high-performance, and motivational sessions that leave teams ready to act.
Topics, sessions and talks
As a company grows, decisions pile up at the top and slow everything down. Lauren Currie shows managers and department heads how to take ownership and lead with confidence, so leadership is shared across the business. Drawing on the UPFRONT confidence programme and her culture design work as Managing Director of NOBL, Lauren gives leaders practical ways to step up. The result is fewer bottlenecks, faster decisions, and a stronger bench of leaders for the next stage of growth.
High-pressure scaling phases can quietly pull teams apart just when collaboration matters most. Lauren Currie shows how to reignite the spark of teamwork and turn it into innovation and growth. Drawing on her experience co-founding the service design agency Snook and leading culture work at NOBL, Lauren shares how teams can share ideas openly, build on each other's work, and stay connected under strain. Teams leave with renewed energy and clear ways to turn collaboration into impact.
Trust and confidence let people do their best work, especially during scale-up periods. Lauren Currie explores how leaders can cultivate both to unlock new levels of productivity, creativity, and ownership. Drawing on the one thousand graduates of the UPFRONT confidence programme, Lauren explains the link between vulnerability and confidence, how to build psychological safety, and how a healthier relationship with mistakes helps people take smart risks. Leaders come away knowing how to create the conditions for their teams to excel.
Confidence in an organisation starts at the top. Lauren Currie works with leadership teams on how to lead by example, take bold action, and inspire confidence in the layers beneath them. Drawing on the UPFRONT programme she founded and her time as Managing Director of NOBL, Lauren shows what confident leadership looks like day to day, from speaking up to showing vulnerability. Leadership teams leave with concrete steps to model the behaviours they want to see.
When people lack the confidence to act on their own, pressure lands on a few and stress spreads. Lauren Currie shows how to build a company culture that scales, where team members feel confident to make decisions, take risks, and solve problems autonomously. Lauren argues culture deserves the same care as products and services, and shares the behaviours that help confidence grow and those that hold it back. Organisations gain a blueprint for a culture that grows with the business.
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