Shay McConnon

Shay McConnon is a psychologist, an author and the founder of People First a ...

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In-person: £3k-£5k
Virtual: £3k-£5k

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Business Management
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Leadership & Peak Performance
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Teamwork & Communication

Shay McConnon is a psychologist, an author and the founder of People First a Training and Consultancy group that specialises in creating winning relationships in the workplace.

People First is best known for its highly acclaimed An Even Better Place to Work, an employee engagement solution which has transformed teams in organisations like Siemens, BAE Systems, Emirates, Environment Agency and other leading organisations globally.

Shay is a regular speaker at conferences, is a Fellow of the Professional Speakers Association and has been awarded best new speaker by Vistage, the world’s largest organisation for chief executives. He is a member of the Magic Circle and he uses magic to illustrate his key messages in a fun and memorable way.

Few speakers have the ability to deliver powerful life changing messages as they make their audiences laugh. Shay McConnon is one of them. He is a psychologist, an author of 18 books and the founder of People First an international training and consultancy group that specialises in leadership and culture issues. He is the creator of An Even Better Place to Work™, which is a unique, online, culture change programme which is transforming teams and organisations such as Siemens, NHS, Heineken, Geneva Police, CERN and other blue chip companies globally.

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First class businesses have first class relationships. Shay brings fresh insights to work and domestic relationships with lots of humour and audience participation. It is a high energy, content rich keynote, packed with practical, workable ideas that will reduce your people problems and create more collaborative relationships across your business. Ideal if you want to improve retention rates.

Suitable for everyone in your organisation.

Organisations are only as effective as their people. People are only as effective as their managers enable them to be. Discover ways to lead and inspire. Learn how to make your leaders a growing rather than depreciating asset. Create special people who will give you special results. Develop leadership, not just leaders.

Suitable those with people responsibility.

In this entertaining and highly interactive keynote, Shay will show you how to handle everyday situations, so you get the best out of your relationships. Learn the secrets to being a master communicator. Replace conflict with openness, trust and collaboration. Understand, predict and influence behaviour. Learn what is the single biggest mistake we make in our relationships and ways to avoid it.

Suitable for everyone in your organisation.

Shay McConnon will share the culture change model he has developed for organisations like Siemens, Environment Agency, the NHS and others. He identifies 7 indicators for making your place of work ‘An Even Better Place to Work’ and outlines a system for growing and tracking these indicators across the organisation.

Embed the “What am I going to do” not “What is management going to do for me?” mindset.

Delegates will be given practical ideas to grow a collaborative model of leadership, create high performing teams and improve the quality of work life for everyone.

Suitable for everyone in your organisation.

What people say

The feedback has been excellent, evidence by our repeat bookings with you for the remainder of our USA and UK staff. You kept the audience riveted and I look forward to the next time.”

Pippa Anderson Head of OPD Glaxo Smith Kline

Have you ever done stand-up comedy? If not, you should. If you make dull subjects sound that interesting just imagine what you could do with topics that everyone likes. You should indeed be the Billy Connolly of the business world.”

Joe Carney, Fife Gov

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