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Chris Roebuck.

High Performance, Engagement & Change Expert

Chris Roebuck is a globally recognised leadership expert who has spent over 30 years helping leaders and organisations – including KPMG, UBS, BASF, and Huawei – break free from the common trap of "too much work, too little time." His human-centric Accelerate Your Success system equips leaders with the critical knowledge they were never taught, boosting individual performance by up to 30% and unlocking significant gains in profit and team engagement. A former British Army officer and senior leader at HSBC, UBS, and London Underground, Chris draws on a unique blend of business experience, neuroscience, and real-world data. His powerful keynotes have impacted over 25,000 leaders in 29 countries and earned him a place among HR’s Most Influential Thinkers ten times.

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Biography

For 30+ years, Chris has helped leaders and their organisations to be more successful in dynamic challenging environments. This has significant negative impacts on individual and organisational performance versus what could be delivered ;
– Individual performance down by up to 30%
– Organisational performance down by 23%
– Profits 10%+ under what’s possible

Research shows this affects around 85% of leaders and organisations — so there’s a strong chance it’s present in yours too, even if it’s not yet fully visible. The good news is that this can be quickly and simply overcome using Chris’s human – centric “Accelerate Your Success” system. In just one hour Chris’ keynote gives you the first proven steps to start the journey to beat it for greater success. This is specifically targeted to solve the fundamental problem – that unknown to most leaders they have not been given the critical leadership knowledge they need to optimise their and their organisations performance.
Here is how it works:
1. Chris will interweave your career experience, his experience, business examples, data and neuroscience to show you the massive untapped potential you have.
2. He will give you insights on how to use all of that to be more successful now and for the rest of your career.
3. That enables you leave with a personalised action plan to make it happen.

And it does work, Thierry Garnier, CEO Kingfisher Group, FTSE 100, said after hearing Chris speak “I found what you said really interesting so I took notes to see what action I can take,” Implementing what you have worked on with Chris could get you ½ a working day a week more time, 30% more effort from 60% of people, transforming performance in all areas, and put you and colleagues in the top 20% of leaders vs competitor peers for the rest of your career.

Chris leadership insights come from his time as an officer in the British Army, at HSBC Investment Bank as Head of Management Development, at UBS as Global Head of Leadership, at London Underground as Head of Culture Change, at KPMG, and others. And he has been named as one of HRs Most Influential Thinkers 10 times in annual awards. Accelerate Your Success, like the 25,000+ leaders across 29 countries so far, to build High Performance Teams, Maximise Employee Engagement, Build a Culture of Success and deliver Change and Transformation to potentially get 10% on bottom line.

Speaking Topics

– High Performance Leadership

Most leaders are held back by having too much work and too little time — Chris helps solve this by teaching a proven, human-centric formula to boost leadership performance, team engagement, and results. With experience spanning the military, business, and government, he’s helped leaders worldwide unlock time, drive change, and join the top 20% of performers in their field.

-Maximise Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is the engine of organisational success, yet most leaders don’t fully understand how to unlock it. Chris gives leaders the insights and tools they need to build human-centric teams that perform at their best — driving real results in engagement, performance, and profit.

-Successful Culture & Change / Transformation in Uncertain Times

Delivering business as usual is tough enough — leading change on top of that can feel overwhelming. Chris helps leaders build the mindset and human-centric skills needed to lead effectively through uncertainty, turning change into opportunity. His work on major transformations at organisations like UBS, NHS, and London Underground has delivered lasting results and is now studied at Harvard.

-Human Leadership and AI

AI offers huge potential, but it’s only as effective as the people behind it. Chris helps leaders understand how to align AI with human intelligence, ensuring teams are engaged, skilled, and ready to implement it successfully. He’s even been invited to brief Chief Digital Officers on the people side of AI adoption — making sure the tech delivers real impact.

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Testimonials

“I found what you said really interesting so I took notes to see what actions I could take.”
– Thierry Garnier, CEO Kingfisher Group – keynote for 1400 business leaders Berlin

“Our SPARK summit started our journey bringing together two BASF businesses as ONE ECMS. Chris worked with our executive leaders on developing the key event outcomes. His engaging keynote aligned to our key themes gave leadership opportunities, developed entrepreneurial thinking and set up implementation, exactly what we wanted to inspire our leaders. Thanks, Chris, for your hard work, insight and inspiration.”
– Andrea McCarthy, Global HR Director ECMS Division, BASF. – 120 top global leaders

“Thanks for your inspiring keynote which was very well received by our Partner Candidates – much appreciated! Plenty of take aways. It’s been a pleasure working with you. We enriched the opening webinar and the value it brings to our candidates.”
– Leif Waller, Director, Head of Learning & Development KPMG Nordic Region

“I wanted to come back with a fast response to say THANK YOU! What you said resonated with people, you were interesting, and it was enjoyable. So so pleased and grateful to you for doing this so well! Absolute star.”

-Chris Webb, Head Fast Track Talent Development Team, Cabinet Office, UK Prime Ministers Office

“Chris came highly recommended as a speaker on leadership. He more than delivered by fully engaging with our delegates. His closing keynote was outstanding, pulling together all the strands from the Congress and setting out clearly some takeaway points that were extremely relevant, thought-provoking and helpful to all of the retail leaders in the audience.”
– Ian McGarrigle, Conference Chair, World Retail Congress.