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Matthew Syed
Matthew Syed helps organisations build a growth mindset and drive high performance. A bestselling author of Rebel Ideas and Black Box Thinking, award-winning journalist, and BBC broadcaster, Matthew brings decades of research and elite sporting experience to teams facing change.
Matthew Syed is a British journalist, author, and speaker whose work explores how mindset shapes high performance in individuals and organisations facing constant change. He has written seven bestselling books, including Rebel Ideas, Black Box Thinking, Bounce, and The Greatest, and writes a regular column for The Times and The Sunday Times, work that has twice earned him Sports Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. He presents BBC Radio 4's Sideways and co-founded Matthew Syed Consulting, which builds growth mindset cultures across business and the public sector.
Drawing on his own career as Britain's table tennis number one for almost a decade, including two Olympic Games for Great Britain, Matthew shows organisations how understanding the connection between mindset and performance can unlock potential in individuals and teams, driving the innovation and agility needed to compete in a fast-changing world. Audiences leave his sessions with a clear framework for building a culture of continuous improvement, a first-hand account of learning from failure under pressure, and practical ways to apply diverse thinking to complex problems.
Book Matthew to give your organisation the mindset and tools to perform under pressure and adapt at pace.
Topics, sessions and talks
An outstanding motivational speaker, Matthew Syed has worked with some of the world’s leading organisations to build a mindset of continuous improvement. Using compelling examples from healthcare, aviation, business, education, sport and the criminal justice system, Matthew’s keynote will highlight how to implement a growth culture and the difference this can have on performance – both at an individual level and at an organisational level.
Matthew Syed's credentials span Olympic sport, award-winning journalism at The Times, and co-founding Matthew Syed Consulting, which delivers psychometric assessments and development programmes to organisations. That combination of elite performance experience and applied consulting practice makes his insight directly relevant to teams under pressure to improve.
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