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Ronan Harrington
Transform workplace performance with Ronan Harrington, speaker and resilience expert. Ronan works with senior leaders to build sustainable high-performance teams and enhance wellbeing, delivering impactful keynotes for Deloitte, KPMG, L'Oreal and Oxford University.
Ronan is an acclaimed international keynote speaker who advises industry leaders on how to create sustainable, high-performance teams. His clients include Deloitte, EY, KPMG, Siemens Energy, Kellogg's, L’Oreal, Sky, IHG, Sage, TUI, the UK Treasury, and Oxford University.
His innovative approach boosts productivity and well-being, helping companies drive sustainable standards of excellence during demanding change.
A former futurist to the British Foreign Office, he is at the forefront of workplace trends; and as a LinkedIn Top Voice on Public Speaking, he always has a memorable one liner up his sleeve. In his hugely entertaining keynotes, audiences are introduced to a new way of working grounded in the cutting-edge science of resilience and productivity, with practical tools to apply immediately when we return to our teams.
What truly sets Ronan apart is his ability to inspire through his own story—a jaw-dropping cautionary tale about the pressures of senior leadership and the consequences when we get it wrong. He navigated the corridors of power before being diagnosed with a lifetime chronic pain condition.
It’s rare to hear a story of triumph from within an ongoing adversity. As a keynote speaker, he delivers talks with the lucidity, depth and wisdom we need to dig deeper during tough times.
Topics, sessions and talks
In his most celebrated keynote, Ronan Harrington shares his impactful story about the pressures of senior leadership, the lasting consequences when we get it wrong, and how to transform when adversity strikes.
As a futurist to the British Foreign Office, Ronan navigated the corridors of power before being diagnosed with a lifetime chronic pain condition. His story of triumph from within an ongoing adversity exemplifies the lucidity, depth and wisdom we need to dig into when times are tough.
Ronan Harrington shows executives and people managers how to shift from overwhelmed task coordinators to composed performance conductors and caring people leaders. Leaders are shown the mindsets required to transition their team from basic psychological safety to psychological freedom. Equipped with the best collaborative tools, they learn how to make difficult conversations a daily habit, shift from blame to responsibility, and create a culture of masterful appreciation. The result is a high-performance team where people feel energised to do the best work of their lives.
In our demanding work cultures, far too many of us are operating in an unsustainable state of burnout. But there's a better way - a path to resilience that unlocks your highest performance without sacrificing your wellbeing. In his award-winning keynote, Ronan Harrington reveals the secrets to achieving sustainable excellence, grounded in cutting edge science of resilience and productivity. Attendees will gain insights into what energises and drains them, acquire practical, science-backed tools to improve work practices, and learn rituals to prioritise rejuvenation. Ronan shares techniques to foster resilience within teams and organisational culture, leaving participants with a revitalising model of sustainable excellence to enhance their team’s impact.
In today's world, psychological safety is the ultimate game-changer. When people feel safe to speak up and be candid, innovation and productivity explode. Yet most workplaces inadvertently create cultures of fear that strangles honesty. In this eye-opening keynote and workshop, Ronan Harrington offers practical skills to foster a culture of openness and relational excellence. Attendees will explore common scenarios that impact psychological safety and learn effective tools to establish new standards of excellence, inspiring teams to voice ideas, take risks, and push past fear.
Ronan Harrington hosts leadership talk shows featuring senior leaders from your company, typically focused on High Performance Leadership. He draws on their hard-won insights and shares the research on high performance, allowing leaders to interrogate whether the theory works in practice. Road testing ideas in this engaging way allows Ronan to showcase how to drive higher productivity, deepen renewal, transform client relationships for sustainability, and set new standards of excellence for your team.
Book Ronan Harrington to learn how to foster sustainable high performance in your organisation. His talks blend cutting-edge research with practical tools to help leaders balance productivity and wellbeing. Ronan's powerful personal story will move and inspire your audience toward meaningful change.
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Ronan Harrington structures his keynotes around his personal account of working as a futurist to the British Foreign Office before receiving a diagnosis of a lifetime chronic pain condition, using this narrative as a through-line to deliver science-backed frameworks on resilience and sustainable performance.
Ronan Harrington speaks on personal resilience, burnout prevention, and high-performance team leadership. He is a former futurist to the British Foreign Office whose clients include Deloitte, EY, KPMG, Siemens Energy, and Oxford University.
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