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Andrew Pain is a TEDx / Keynote speaker and CPD accredited. He’s a podcaster, award-winning campaigner for men and boys and soon-to-be-author.
He’s on a mission to create psychologically safe and inclusive working environments, where people can openly voice their fears and concerns, and where the words ‘belonging’ and ‘community’ are not just buzzwords but truly describe how people feel.
Andrew is an energetic and down-to-earth speaker who is passionate about bringing fresh perspective to the topics he covers, blending his lived experience into each of his talks, which includes the highs and lows of domestic abuse, parenting woes and joys, facing his worst fears (like jumping out of a plane) to business failure and success, and his personal journey from a people-pleasing procrastinator and nail biting chronic worrier, to the decisive and grounded person he is today.
To enrich every talk, Andrew also draws on up-to-date global research, the wider stories from his podcast guests (53 episodes so far aired) and he delivers a range of insightful and practical take-away strategies, to help people create better outcomes for themselves and their teams.
Andrew has 25 years’ HR experience, from policy and strategy to people development and recruitment, spread across the corporate and charity sectors and then as a self-employed entrepreneur. Andrew is unswerving in his belief that resilience, adaptability and decisiveness are critical people skills (not soft skills) and down to nature not nurture. They can be developed over time, with the right support, environment and knowledge and they’re a constant work-in-progress because the challenges we wrestle with, will always change and evolve.
Andrew’s podcast, Men on Show, showcases the stories of everyday male heroes, to spread positive stories of masculinity which inspire both the current and next generation of men. Interviewing some of the best male community builders, advocates and researchers, Andrew’s podcast has explored diverse topics affecting men from; the testosterone crisis to PTSD, addiction, domestic violence, prison reform, adventuring, suicide prevention, men’s communities, burnout, addiction. His book on how to solve the challenges facing men today, is due for release in 2026 and his TEDx talk (viewed by over 140K people) is one of only a handful of TEDx talks to explore the topic of domestic abuse and male victims.
Andrew’s keynote talks focus on the key principles of how to develop resilience within a fast-changing environment, how to create allyship so men, women, people work cohesively together, and how to create safe spaces where people can truly voice how they feel. He’s an in-demand speaker, and commonly described as a joy to work with, both before, during and after the event, serving diverse organisations from ITN to HSBC, Specsavers, NFU Mutual, Pernod Ricard, National Highways, National House Building Council, Aardman, etc
Andrew speaks at larger annual conferences and internal wellbeing events. He delivers ‘lunch and learn’ style webinars to co-created mini podcast series for organisations (instead of a keynote talk), Andrew’s message is impactful, relevant and easy to digest, inspiring people to think differently, take action and move forward.
As a father of 5, with 3 boys aged 6,9 and 12, Andrew is also a warzone reporter, triage nurse, neurotic health and safety officer, failing caretaker, masterful bribery and blackmailing guru, cook, cleaner, agony aunt and unappreciated taxi driver.
Beyond the tragedy of the nation’s suicide data, it’s becoming increasingly known that 95% of people in prison in the UK are men, 85% of rough sleepers in the UK are men, 60% of victims of violence are men and boys (but there is no UK government strategy to tackle violence against men and boys). We’ve heard so much about the rise of the manosphere and struggling men, but what’s really happening?
This keynote talk, addresses these three questions, whilst also unpacking the following sub-topics.
The Testosterone Crisis: The levels of testosterone across the globe and all male age groups, is in serious decline, and its bad news for men’s physical and mental health. But why is declining testosterone a problem? What’s causing it and how do we reverse the decline?
Men’s Communities: There’s been an explosion of men’s communities across the world in the last 15 years, but is this a return to the old boys’ network or something more positive? Why are men joining these communities? What good to they serve and what can we learn from them in reaching out to the men in our own workplaces/communities?
Toxic Masculinity: These words carry so much meaning, yet they are often loosely banded around to describe all manner of anti-social male behaviour or simply men who won’t go to the doctor! But is there a better way of framing our language so we draw men into meaningful conversation? What does the data say about the impact of ‘toxic masculinity’ as a phrase on male psychology? And what can we learn from groups successfully engaging men but using a completely different narrative?
Fatherhood: From new fathers to childless men (but not by choice) to fathers no longer living with their children, and low-income dads, there are different groups of fathers, each with their own unique set of challenges and being aware of them, is key to supporting dads as meaningful role models for the next generation of men. And in terms of our own fatherhood input, how can we be more present as fathers, when we’re working long hours and feel overwhelmed by it all.
Allyship: What is allyship? What difference does allyship make when addressing sensitive topics? What gets in the way of delivering allyship at work and how do we become better allies for each other?
Redefining masculinity: if the old man code of tradition stereotypes is no longer fit for purpose and damages us as men, then what next? How do we create a perception of masculinity which is truly inspiring, and which is aspirational for 21st century blokes?
Now that the term burnout is in our daily language, some people use the word lightly, to describe feeling tired, whereas other people cite burnout and are ill … really ill. They’re off work and not coming back any time soon. If we’re serious about preventing burnout, 3 questions need to be answered.
In this workshop, we’ll answer these 3 burnout questions, busting the myths, identifying the signs, triggers and symptoms and equipping people to create deliver on their aspirations and responsibilities, but without sacrificing their health or relationships.
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Most people know that to get more done, we need to break down our big goals into small chunks, delegate more often, and commit to doing the less desirable things first (hence the mantra: Eat That Frog). But with the lines increasingly blurred between home life and work life, most of us are still a long way from being the productive time ninjas we want to be (despite what we know). According to research from 2022, half of the UK population admit to procrastinating every day or all the time, so despite what we know, the question remains: how do we create better habits and make better decisions with our time?
In this session, we explore the 5 principles of time management, unpacking insights and techniques to help people develop positive habits and systems.
Without active communities, issues such as absenteeism, presenteeism, burnout, low morale, working in silos, communication issues, misunderstanding and a high turnover of staff are likely to characterise our organisations. Social connection is in our human DNA, it’s at the heart of human wellbeing and innovation and thus for organisations who want to thrive, two crucial questions need to be answered.
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Domestic abuse, which includes physical and sexual violence, emotional abuse, coercive and controlling behaviour and economic abuse), will affect 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6-7 men, during their lifetime. There are over 2 million reported cases of domestic abuse each year in the UK alone, with men, women and people from all age groups, ethnicities and cultures both as perpetrators and victims, the annual social and economic costs of domestic abuse have been estimated to reach as much as £66 billion a year in the UK.
As a lived-experience survivor of domestic abuse, TEDx speaker and CPD accredited trainer, I will draw on some of my story, as well as wider research, to develop your understanding of how domestic abuse unfolds, the challenges in reaching out for help and how to best support your colleagues.
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Thank you so much for your burnout talk on Tuesday, it was brilliant and really set the tone for the rest of the conference with loads of engagement and discussion from the attendees.
Andrew we genuinely think you might be one of the best speakers we’ve had at the firm. The sessions have had excellent feedback, and we really appreciate how flexible and great you both were to work with.
