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Known as The Confidence Rooster, Chris Grimes is a communication expert, keynote speaker and executive coach who helps individuals and organisations build confidence, strengthen relationships and communicate with greater impact.
With more than 30 years of experience working with global organisations including JPMorgan, Barclays, PwC, Experian, Equifax, Equinix and M&S, Chris has developed a distinctive speaking style that blends practical communication strategies with humour, storytelling and audience interaction. Drawing on his background as a professional actor, drama and voice teacher, broadcaster and comedy improviser, his sessions are energetic, memorable and packed with practical takeaways.
Chris specialises in communication skills, personal impact, leadership presence and relationship building. Whether helping leaders navigate change, develop executive presence or inspire high performing teams, his sessions encourage audiences to think differently about how they connect with others. His guiding philosophy is simple: “It’s all about the relationship.”
His signature approach, Prepare for the Freestyle, means every keynote is tailored to the audience while allowing room for real time interaction, ensuring each session feels fresh, relevant and engaging rather than scripted.
Alongside his keynote speaking, Chris is the founder of Second Curve, Artistic Director of the acclaimed comedy improvisation company Instant Wit, and host of The Good Listening To Show podcast. These diverse experiences give him a unique perspective on communication, confidence and human connection.
Combining sharp insight with genuine humour, Chris delivers keynote talks that leave audiences feeling more confident, more connected and equipped with practical communication tools they can immediately apply in both their professional and personal lives.
How to build better relationships and be much more effective as individuals and as part of a Team, through the enhanced quality of your Communication Skills.
A Personal Impact & Leadership Presence Masterclass to explore the ‘Top Tips of Highly Effective Communication’ for you and your Teams.
A highly interactive Talk packed full of tools, tips, techniques and plenty of ‘muscle memory’ exercises for participants to be able to directly experience and immediately apply the dynamics of Personal Impact & Presence, from a professional Actor/Performer’s perspective, in the company of Chris as “The Confidence Booster Rooster!”
Change in life and in work is a CONSTANT. However, the only human beings that actively look forward to change are wet babies! The rest of us all find it much more difficult! So, how do we keep Resilient? How do keep calm? And how do we keep perspective?
A fast-paced, highly interactive Talk packed full of tools, tips & techniques on how to deal with & navigate through change when times are tough, challenging and uncertain: Helping you to keep perspective, maintain your levels of happiness and keep going – safe in the knowledge that whatever we are currently experiencing is never Society’s 1st Rodeo:
“Never let the future disturb you. Because you will greet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason, which today arm you against your present” – Marcus Aurelius
The ‘What’ and the ‘How’ of Effective Leadership: “How to communicate so that others want to listen and how to lead so that others want to follow”
To ask the question: “What type of Leader do I want to be?” How to communicate with Impact, Presence, Clarity & Vision.
A 360 degree lens on how you are currently calibrating and communicating as a Leader. In this highly interactive Keynote session, delivered in Chris Grimes’ inimitable Workshop style, you will explore the specific skills and behaviours required to inspire and lead others through the values that you transmit and the story that you tell to evoke LOYALTY
“The clearer we can be about who we are and the story that we tell, the easier it is for those around us to know exactly what it is in you that we are meant to follow”.
“Be More Spartacus! The Art of Self Advocacy & How to Go About Giving Yourself ‘More Permission’ as Global Head of Yourself!”
For Leaders & Teams who want to build more Confidence & Capability in Storytelling, whilst leveraging their Personal Impact & Presence to influence key Stakeholders in order to deliver better business results.
Delivered in Chris’s trademark highly interactive Confidence Boosting Workshop Style with plenty of ‘muscle memory ’exercises to practice and implement.
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Chris was, hands down, the most energetic, effective, and inspiring speaker that we have ever hired…
Chris absolutely pulled this off… high impact, very memorable and enormous fun.
