Shay McConnon

Psychologist, Author,Workplace Culture & Leadership Expert

Speaker fees:

In-person: £3k-£5k
Virtual: £3k-£5k

Topics:

Transformational Leadership
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Workplace Culture
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Employee Engagement

Powerful Messages Delivered with Humour 

Shay McConnon is an internationally recognised speaker, author, and leadership expert who specialises in workplace culture, employee engagement, and transformational leadership.

With a unique ability to blend psychological insight with humour, he delivers transformative messages that inspire lasting change. 

A Fellow of the Professional Speakers Association, Shay has worked with organisations worldwide, helping them build trust, improve communication, and create high-performing, engaged teams. His dynamic and interactive presentations leave audiences not only informed but also equipped with practical tools they can apply immediately. 

Expertise & Impact 

  • Founder of People First – Shay is the creator of the award-winning An Even Better Place to Work programme, which has been successfully implemented by leading organisations such as Siemens, BAE Systems, and Emirates. This innovative system fosters collaboration, trust, and motivation within teams, leading to measurable improvements in workplace culture. 
  • Published Author – Shay has written multiple books on leadership, communication, and personal development, including Resolving Conflict and An Even Better Place to Work. His practical, research-backed insights have made him a go-to expert for organisations seeking to enhance their workplace environment. 
  • Member of the Magic Circle – Bringing an extra dimension to his presentations, Shay seamlessly integrates magic to illustrate key concepts in a memorable and engaging way. 

If you’re looking for a speaker who can captivate, educate, and inspire, Shay McConnon delivers a unique blend of practical expertise and engaging storytelling. His interactive style ensures that audiences leave not just with ideas, but with real strategies they can implement straight away. 

To book Shay for your next event, get in touch today.

Introducing Shay – 1 min 54 sec
What makes Shay unique – 1 min 58 sec
Shay’s most popular keynotes – 2 mins
What inspires Shay – 1 min 45 sec

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First class businesses have first class relationships. Shay brings fresh insights to work and domestic relationships with lots of humour and audience participation. It is a high energy, content rich keynote, packed with practical, workable ideas that will reduce your people problems and create more collaborative relationships across your business. Ideal if you want to improve retention rates.

Suitable for everyone in your organisation.

Organisations are only as effective as their people. People are only as effective as their managers enable them to be. Discover ways to lead and inspire. Learn how to make your leaders a growing rather than depreciating asset. Create special people who will give you special results. Develop leadership, not just leaders.

Suitable those with people responsibility.

In this entertaining and highly interactive keynote, Shay will show you how to handle everyday situations, so you get the best out of your relationships. Learn the secrets to being a master communicator. Replace conflict with openness, trust and collaboration. Understand, predict and influence behaviour. Learn what is the single biggest mistake we make in our relationships and ways to avoid it.

Suitable for everyone in your organisation.

Shay McConnon will share the culture change model he has developed for organisations like Siemens, Environment Agency, the NHS and others. He identifies 7 indicators for making your place of work ‘An Even Better Place to Work’ and outlines a system for growing and tracking these indicators across the organisation.

Embed the “What am I going to do” not “What is management going to do for me?” mindset.

Delegates will be given practical ideas to grow a collaborative model of leadership, create high performing teams and improve the quality of work life for everyone.

Suitable for everyone in your organisation.

What people say

The feedback has been excellent, evidence by our repeat bookings with you for the remainder of our USA and UK staff. You kept the audience riveted and I look forward to the next time.

Pippa Anderson Head of OPD Glaxo Smith Kline

Have you ever done stand-up comedy? If not, you should. If you make dull subjects sound that interesting just imagine what you could do with topics that everyone likes. You should indeed be the Billy Connolly of the business world.

Joe Carney, Fife Gov

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