Jim Lawless

A deeply trusted architect of transformation and culture, he has advised senior leaders from Apple and Microsoft to Diageo and carries that gravitas onstage with him.

He has inspired over a million people on stages across five continents and is consistently voted #1 motivational speaker outside of the US in the Global Gurus public vote.

His captivating presence onstage is magnified by his storytelling, his deep lived understanding of the emotions, vulnerability and personal encounters with risk and uncertainty of change to deliver the ‘impossible’ in his own life.

His immense and immediate credibility comes from the fact that he sits at the top table as a trusted advisor to leaders delivering change and that he literally embodies what he talks about. He became the deepest freediver in British history with an incredible dive to 101m without air in just 8 months. He transformed from non-rider to televised jockey in just 12. He is the author of the global Best Seller ‘Taming Tigers’.

A City of London commercial lawyer by training, he went on to study at Guildford School of Acting in his thirties to better understand human connection, communication and storytelling. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in 2008 in recognition of his business writing.

Book Jim to bring your event:

• Fast and lasting change through a clear Framework that the audience intuitively gets
• Workshops that connect the keynote and framework to your strategy to have each delegate leaving the event with a publicly stated bold goal to deliver the plan
• Energy, humour and huge audience credibility that transforms your event and their confidence
• Stunning feedback for the event organising team
• Bespoke Keynotes tailored to meet the challenge you are setting your team to deliver
• A deep and thoughtful intelligence wrapped in wild adventure and the hard topics of fear and uncertainty explored in a deeply human, empathetic – and lived – way

Jim speaks on:

• Fast, courageous change and resilience in uncertainty
• Tools for designing and sustaining high performance under pressure
• Transformational mindsets and culture shifts
• Resilience and decision-making in disruption and transformation
• Architecting culture and results with senior leaders
• The future of leadership to exploit AI and retain / prepare your talent for continuous change, learning and unlearning
• Managing the mechanics and emotions of uncertainty, vulnerability and doubt to deliver outrageous goals with no track record or reasons to believe.