Alan O’Neill is a dynamic speaker renowned for his insightful perspectives and engaging presentations, captivating audiences with his wealth of experience and expertise in business transformation and customer-centric strategies. With a career spanning over three decades in the retail industry, Alan has garnered a reputation as a thought leader and innovator, inspiring organizations worldwide to navigate change and excel in competitive markets.
One of Alan’s most significant achievements as a speaker lies in his ability to distill complex business concepts into actionable insights, empowering his audiences to implement transformative strategies with confidence and clarity. Drawing from his extensive background as a senior executive for global brands such as Selfridges and The Gap, Alan offers invaluable insights into the intricacies of organizational change, leadership, and customer experience management.
Alan’s expertise in business transformation has been instrumental in helping numerous companies adapt and thrive in rapidly evolving markets. His strategic guidance has enabled organizations to streamline operations, enhance customer engagement, and drive sustainable growth. Through his engaging keynote presentations and interactive workshops, Alan equips leaders and teams with the knowledge and tools they need to overcome challenges, seize opportunities, and achieve lasting success.
As a speaker, Alan is highly regarded for his ability to connect with diverse audiences and tailor his message to resonate with their specific needs and goals. Whether addressing executives at Fortune 500 companies or entrepreneurs at industry conferences, Alan delivers compelling insights with authenticity, humor, and passion, leaving a lasting impact on his listeners.
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“Alan’s business acumen, genuine passion for great customer service and his hands-on experience overseeing large-scale change within organisations such as Selfridges is unique. It makes him one of the most impressive speakers on change management and customer experience I have ever come across. Alan is a popular speaker at events around the globe with organisations who want to learn from his insights and his bold tactics to help build a world-class customer-centric culture and ultimately to increase sales.”
-Frances Keane, Managing Director – Personally Speaking
“Alan O’Neill has completed some inspirational work for us at Dalata Hotel Group plc over the past number of years. His insight into customer experience and the customer thought process is second to none. The timing of his content is excellent, as the world of digital collides with traditional hospitality and customer service more frequently.”
– Stephen McNally, Deputy CEO – Dalata Hotel Group plc
“In his unique and compelling manner, Alan O’Neill brings alive one of today’s most provocative subjects for contemporary business leaders. With retail in its most dire state in living memory and the unrelenting charge of the disruptors seeming to have many of the high streets stalwarts on their knees, many have at long last started to realise that this fierce battle for the customer might well mean the death of many of the losers. Alan convinces all businesses that they are as ‘unique as their fingerprints’, but treat their customers just like everyone else. Anyone can copy your strategy but no one can copy your culture – its high time you mobilised and energised these points of difference through the customer experience.”
-Rene Carayol, MBE, International Keynote Speaker, Author and Leadership Guru
“Change Management and Customer Experience are two very relevant topics in today’s world. Every single client of ours is going through change at some level – some more disruptive than others. Within that change, more and more organisations have come to realize that whatever change they make, they must put ‘customer’ at the heart of that. ‘Customer Experience’ is indeed the new battleground and differentiator in this digital world. As a highly experienced Change Agent and Speaker, Alan inspires and challenges audiences with his practical business models and stories.The Selfridges Story is just one that brings all of the concepts to life and resonates with busineses of all types, B2B and B2C.”
-Cosimo Turroturo, Managing Director – Speaker Associates
“Alan is one of the most brilliant minds in department store retailing today. Before engaging him for Rustan’s for a short-term project, I heard nothing but good things on the work he did for Selfridges. I was impressed by the breadth and depth of his knowledge on two critical areas: company culture and the customer experience. I have learned from Alan, that even in this digital era the secret sauce of an organization is people – and stretching it further, relationships. The quality of the experience we deliver, and resilience in this turbulent age is 100% dependent on the quality of our RELATIONSHIPs. Alan said it simplifies to two things that need to be holistically and deeply understood and harnessed not only functionally but also creatively: TALENT and TECHNOLOGY. Alan has this rare skill of helping businesses like ours continue to focus on our very basic purpose of firstly winning loyalty of our employees and then our customers. It’s
still about sincerely and authentically winning and retaining hearts and minds; even in this age of AI, big data, crypto currency, block chain, and other game changing disruptions.Alan has useful insights on how to disrupt yourself but in a way that has clarity, that is still true to your dna, and at the end of the day is still about people. Alan presented at a number of events for us and our industry colleagues in Manila where we picked his brains and connected with his wisdom and passion. That was fascinating and enlightening. I can’t wait to have him back.”
-Donnie Tantoco, President – Rustan Commercial Corporation (Philippines)
“Change and disruption are the new norms in business today. More and more of our clients are coping with that by staying focused on their customers. Customers are changing too, and their expectations continue to grow. That applies to digital and traditional channels. In his talaks, Alan brings us back to basics and challenges us all to refresh our thinking, putting customer experience at the heart of our decision-making. We have worked with Alan countless times as a speaker, and our clients continue to be inspired by his practical tips and stories.”
-Nick Gold, Managing Director – Speakers Corner
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