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Andy Ayim MBE believes one thing above all else: how you feel drives how you perform.
It sounds simple. In practice, it changes everything about how organisations lead.
He works with senior leaders and entrepreneurs at organisations including Google, Uber, Pfizer, and Novartis to help them move from leading by traditional habits to leading with genuine intention. Over a multi-year programme with Tesco, Andy has worked with more than 2,000 managers, helping them build the kind of leadership that makes people feel seen, heard, valued, and ready to give their best.
As a facilitator, keynote speaker, and transitions coach, what sets Andy apart is the breadth of real-world experience behind his thinking. He began his career in management consulting at EY, moved into product leadership at WorldFirst and Investec, and later served as Managing Director of Backstage Capital. He received an MBE for services to the UK technology sector.
On stage and in workshops, Andy makes heavy topics feel approachable. Whether the conversation is about psychological safety, inclusive management, the human cost of bad leadership, or how to lead with intention in an AI-driven world, he brings depth without weight. Audiences leave more connected to each other and clearer on what they need to do differently. He publishes the Letters from Andy Ayim newsletter to 4,000+ subscribers. When he isn’t working, he can be found swimming, walking in nature, or exploring a new podcast.
Most organisations measure performance. Very few ask what drives it. In this keynote, Andy Ayim MBE makes a simple but evidence-backed case: your feelings are not a distraction from performance, they are the engine of it. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and over a decade of working inside organisations from Google to Tesco, Andy takes audiences through a practical framework for leading with intention, showing leaders how to manage their own emotional state and how to create the conditions where the people around them can consistently perform at their best.
Audiences leave with:
● A clear understanding of why and how people feel directly shapes how they perform
● A simple framework for leading with greater emotional intelligence and intention
● Practical tools for building cultures of trust, safety, and high performance
As AI changes the nature of work at unprecedented speed, organisations face a paradox: the more capable technology becomes, the more the human qualities that can’t be automated become the most valuable thing in the room. In this keynote, Andy Ayim MBE explores what intentional, human-centred leadership looks like in an AI-driven world, drawing on his work across technology, financial services, and large enterprise. He challenges leaders to stop outsourcing the things that only humans can do: emotional intelligence, connection, judgment, and the ability to make people feel something. AI can be a force multiplier with the right perspective!
Audiences leave with:
● A clear-eyed view of which leadership qualities AI cannot replace
● A framework for leading with greater intentionality in digitally transformed environments
● Practical steps to future-proof their leadership and their teams
Inclusion is not a values statement. It’s a performance strategy. In this keynote, Andy Ayim MBE draws on his work delivering large-scale inclusive leadership programmes across some of the UK’s most complex organisations to make the case that intentionally inclusive leadership isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s the most commercially sound thing to do. He tackles the gap between organisations that talk about belonging and the ones that actually build it, showing leaders exactly what it takes to create cultures where every person on their team can perform at their absolute best.
Audiences leave with:
● A clear, practical understanding of the link between inclusive leadership and team performance
● Concrete actions to close the gap between intention and the actual lived experience of their teams
● A framework for embedding inclusion as a leadership practice, not a HR initiative
Suitable for: Diversity and inclusion events, leadership development programmes, team culture sessions
Sam Altman predicts the first billion-dollar one-person company is coming. AI will handle the operations, content, and code. So the most important question for every entrepreneur right now is: when the machine can do almost everything, what do you bring?
The answer is intention.
In this keynote, Andy Ayim MBE introduces the five principles of Intentional Entrepreneurship: the human operating system that separates founders who build something lasting from those who remain perpetually busy yet never quite break through. Drawing on his Self-Influence framework and experience training over 2,000 investors and entrepreneurs, Andy makes a practical and provocative case for the one competitive advantage no algorithm can replicate.
Audiences leave with:
● A clear framework for the five principles: curiosity, self-knowledge, critical thinking, intentional leverage, and ruthless prioritisation
● Practical tools for identifying where their irreplaceable human value lies
● A sharper operating system for building with intention in an AI-driven world
Andy masterfully balanced inspiration, practical advice, and timing — leaving our group energised and ready to act.
You are a brilliant speaker, I felt relaxed, the best I have ever heard.
