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Chris Roebuck shows leaders how to unleash the 10% of hidden performance that exists in almost every organisation. Research shows 80% of leaders have never been given the critical fundamentals to be truly effective, meaning businesses suffer from disengaged employees, ineffective implementation, lower profits and overworked managers.
Chris Roebuck helps leaders reverse this fast, transforming “business as usual” into high performance and preparing organisations to be “businesses of the future.”
Through his proven Accelerate Your Success roadmap, Chris demonstrates how effective leadership can deliver game-changing results: 30% more effort from 60% of people, 30% more effective transformation, and 10% or more on the bottom line without extra cost.
With over 40 years of leadership experience across the military, corporate and government sectors, Chris has led and advised major transformations at organisations including UBS, HSBC, KPMG, London Underground, the NHS and the UK Government. As a keynote speaker, he has helped more than 30,000 leaders across 30 countries unlock their hidden potential, working with clients such as Huawei, Tata, BASF, the UK and UAE Prime Minister’s Offices and even the Chinese Space Programme.
Recognised as one of the world’s leading leadership experts, Chris is a ten-time “HR Most Influential Thinker,” a member of the HR Hall of Fame, and the BBC’s go-to business leadership commentator with nearly 250 interviews. He has authored five books, been featured in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Time, and interviewed by Harvard Business Review in China.
Chris’ Accelerate Your Success keynotes are practical, interactive and tailored for maximum impact. He focuses on five key drivers:
High Performance – Deliver excellence and add 10%+ on the bottom line
Employee Engagement – Gain 30% more effort from 60% of people
Change & Transformation – Make change 30% more effective
Leadership for AI – Use human intelligence to maximise AI impact
Entrepreneurial Leadership – Build the “business of the future”
Known for his engaging style, Chris ensures every audience member leaves with a clear plan to unleash their hidden 10%. Drawing on his experience as a senior HR leader, he works closely with event organisers to tailor content to fit seamlessly into agendas, reinforce leadership messages, and deliver real outcomes.
The reality most leaders are under performing by at least 10% on what’s possible but they can’t because they haven’t been given the knowledge they need. That locks them in a “too much work” and “not enough time” vicious circle. The impact is significant –
Accelerate Your Success gives leaders a road map to become high performing and recover this lost 10%+ in 3 powerful steps.
Chris is an expert on high performance leadership and has personal experience of both delivering this himself and developing high performing leaders in the military, business, and government. In business he has worked organisations as diverse as BASF, BD Pharmaceutical, UBS and the Chinese Space Programme on this topic.
How will your leaders perform better ?
They will be able to :
At present less than 20% of employees in organisations are giving their best from Gallup data. So 80% aren’t. In UK its 10%, costing the country £260bn.
That has massive implications for all areas of organsiational activity – team performance, customer service, cost efficiency, risk management, strategy implmentation, profitability.
Organisationally it potentially means :
Beating the problem is built into the Accelerate Your Success system – Chris has studied employee engagement, written articles on it, featured it in his books, and shown leaders how to improve it for many organisations such as KPMG, Tata Communications and HSBC.
What will better employee engagement deiver for you ?
Accelerate Your Success has been proven to enable leaders to significantly boost employee engagement, eg in a UK house construction company where in two years the engagement score for “I would recommend this as a great place to work for friends or family” went from 40% to 82%.
Also error rates down, quality assessments up, profits up.
Chris shows your leaders how to take action which will grow engagement to deliver :
The often quoted line that 80% of change initiatives fail is actually a misquote. It’s that 70% fail to deliver the benefits expected.
To be able to move from “business as usual” to “business of the future” requies a positive culture for effective change, but the problem is that in most organisations the demographics are against that happening:
That’s a problem. Only having 15% who want to implement is not a critical mass to deliver success. More are needed because 4 undecided for every 1 happy is not enough to get everyone to adpot.
Chris has led work on several successful major transformations in organisations as diverse as London Underground, UBS, UK National Health Service. The transformation at UBS is now a Harvard case study on successful change in uncertainty. Chris was Hon Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Cass Business School 2009-22.
How can Accelerate Your Success make change and transformation work ?
Effective leaders who engage people create a culture where increased effort, up to 30% from 60% of people, can be aligned onto your transformation. This can then move the demographics of your employee population to :
This now gives you only 2 undecided for every 1 happy to implement. This is now likely to be enable success.
AI is being implemented with varying degrees of success. Harvard Business Review suggests a current 80% failure rate.
Where a valid use case exists the potential is there for AI acheive significant benefits. But two critical problems are appearing – failure to accurately identify good use cases and then failure to implement.
AI will never be implemented effectively without HI (Human Intelligence). Leaders need to be able to :
Leaders need to take a Human Centric approach to AI to be successful.
Chris has spoken on the human challenges of AI implmentation to audiences such as HR leaders and Chief Digital Officers.
How can Accelerate Your Success help with AI implementation ?
By equipping leaders with the skills to create an environment where :
This was amazing. It absolutely resonated with what I am trying to do. You were so crisp, so clear, so relatable, a true enabler for us create value for the business in future. It was fantastic.
