Angus Kennedy

The Voice of Anti-Self-Help and Anti-Self-Improvement

Speaker fees:

In-person: £1k-£3k
Virtual: £1k-£3k

Topics:

Mental Health & Wellbeing
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Entrepreneur
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Imposter Syndrome

Angus Kennedy is the voice of Anti-Self-Help and Anti-Self-Improvement / Founder of the Re-humanist Movement.

You’ve been told who to be.
You were sold success.
Taught to chase happiness.
Preached to about positivity.

And still you’re burnt out, anxious, broke, or quietly wondering why you feel like a failure… and still wear the false smile.

Angus Kennedy is here to say what no one else will:
People are not failing because they are broken.
They are failing because the world is.

Once known as the world’s leading chocolate expert and author of nine books with appearances on BBC, CNN, ABC and media all over the world. Angus had it all… until it all collapsed.

After losing everything, his marriage, his money, his home, Angus rebuilt his life not by fixing himself, but by unlearning everything he was taught. Angus doesn’t speak from theory. He speaks from raw, lived experience and how he finally rejected all he read over 40 years in order to succeed.

In just 36 months he went from being jobless, broke, homeless, divorced, to living in a manor house in Kent, a property developer and owner of 5 successful businesses. All by rejecting positivity the self-help doctrines and replacing it all with raw emotion and realism.

He takes audiences through 7 radical steps to freedom that are in his latest book -The Positivity Trap, not by telling them how to improve, but by showing them how stop.

  1. The Positivity Trap: Why Fake Happiness Is Making Us Miserable
  2. The Self-Help Detox: Escaping the Endless Loop of Not-Quite-Good-Enough
  3. The World Isn’t Broken — It’s Rigged: The Lies That Failed Us
  4. Stop Pretending It’s OK (When It’s Not): The Power of Emotional Honesty
  5. Freefallism: The Art of Succeeding Without a Plan — Faith With No Anchor
  6. My Story: How Unlearning Made Me Succeed
  7. Rehumanise: Awakening From the Systems That Dehumanise Us

 

If your audience is ready to break the illusion, drop the mask, and hear the exact opposite of what they’re expecting, it may be time to shake things up.

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Featured topics include

You’ve been told to smile, stay grateful, and think positive – but what if that’s exactly what’s keeping you stuck? In this provocative keynote, Angus Kennedy dismantles the self-help industry’s toxic optimism and shows how emotional honesty is the true path to freedom.

How much self-help does it take to realise you’re not broken? In this searing keynote, Angus reveals how the personal development world thrives on your insecurity and how to finally step off the treadmill of self-fixing and into radical self-acceptance.

The system was never designed for your success. It was built for your compliance. In this eye-opening talk, Angus exposes the hidden architecture of control in everything from education to money and calls for a new way of seeing, thinking, and living.

Behind every “I’m fine” is a silent scream. This keynote explores why denying your pain is the fastest way to deepen it and how reclaiming your feelings is the first step to reclaiming your life.

Forget the five-year plan. In this liberating talk, Angus introduces Freefallism, his original life philosophy rooted in surrender over strategy. Learn how to let go of control and fall into something far more powerful: the truth of the present moment.

From global success to homelessness, Angus lost it all, then chose not to rebuild, but to unlearn. This raw, unforgettable keynote tells the story of how he broke free from societal programming and discovered success not through improvement… but through undoing.

We were never meant to be machines. This keynote is a rallying cry for The Rehumanist Movement, a global call to awaken from automation, emotional suppression, and spiritual numbness, and return to what makes us human: feeling, presence, and connection.

What people say

Angus was extremely personable and related to our young people who respected the fact that he shared his story, no matter how personal, with them. Angus’s talk was refreshing and he brought new ideas and thoughts that inspired those who came to the talk.

Head of youth Engagement The Drive Forward Foundation

Angus Kennedy  in a one-off and a truly unique speaker. In an age where being seen to be on-trend has made many speakers timid and boringly bland, Angus speaks his mind. His energy is infectious, his passion for his subject unbounded – and he engages his audience with rare charm and good humour. If you want a memorable event, he will not let you down.

THE SUN

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