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Change agent Chris Hirst is a speaker focussing on the power of great leadership, building world-class cultures and business transformation.
With more than a decade of experience in Global and UK CEO positions, Chris is widely recognised as an innovative and inspirational leader with a proven track record of successful business transformation – guiding businesses to record growth and lasting repetitional change. He is author of the best-selling and award winning book No Bullsh*t Leadership. His second book, No Bullsh*t Change is out now.
As Global CEO, Havas Creative Group, Chris led more than 10,000 people across all Havas’ global territories, taking the business from an ‘also ran’ to second place in Campaign Magazine’s global network of the year rankings in three short years. He oversaw three years of record growth and profits (with a brief pause for covid!) and was shortlisted by Campaign Magazine as global CEO of the year in 2022. He led the launch of the Group’s sustainability practise, Havas Genus and oversaw multiple B-Corp accreditations including in the UK, US and the Netherlands. Under his tenure Havas UK’s industry leading DE&I strategy was adopted across the global by Havas group.
A graduate of Brasenose College Oxford (MEng Engineering Science) and Harvard Business School (Advanced Management Program), Chris writes a monthly column for Management Today, has over ½ million listens for his No Bullsh*t Leadership podcast, and is a regular commentator in press and broadcast media.
Based on the best-selling and award-winning book of the same name.
Leadership is difficult but not complicated. Chris wipes aways the guff and bullshit to get to the heart of modern leadership: the life-changing, career-transforming power to get stuff done.
The only constant we now face is change, and the demand for those who can grasp its opportunities has never been greater.
Drawing on over a decade of experience leading successful change programmes around the world, Chris shares his proven strategies for team, organisational and cultural transformation.
Culture is the environment the leader creates in order for their teams to out-perform.
The defining experience for people in organisations big and small is the culture yet it is so often miss-understood, or even forgotten about all together. Culture is the environment the leader creates in order for their teams to out-perform. The ability to change, nurture and sustain a world-class culture is a leader’s superpower, here Chris shares the secret to how to do it time and again.
Chris has mastered the art of communicating advanced leadership concepts in a very digestible format that is memorable and effective.
Chris skips the theory and gets into real world applications to transform business to be the best it can be.
