Whilst studying economics at the University College London, Chris Roebuck chaired the Students Union commercial enterprises committee, turning over £1 million and employing 32 staff members. He later chaired the Union Council which oversaw the governance process, elections, and negotiations with the University’s senior leadership team.
After graduating, Chris initially served with the Royal Engineer sub unit of the British Army before being commissioned into the Territorial Army. This elite training enabled him to help senior leaders become successful high performers 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.
Fifteen years after graduating from UCL, Chris Roebuck received his MBA from Cass Business School in London, his dissertation on organisational communication was featured in The Times and on BBC TV and was published worldwide in the International Journal of Strategic Management. Chris Roebuck was so successful with his MBA, he very quickly started working with organisations including the Arts Council of England and Wales, the Bank of England, the Bank of New York, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, legal firms and the UK Government.
Since 2006, Chris Roebuck has helped develop leadership and values-based high performance working with or in organisations as diverse as the NHS and in sectors including international logistics, finance, legal, transport, facilities, media, pharmaceutical and not-for-profit.
All of these experiences made him realise one thing:
Leaders everywhere face the same two problems:
- Too much work
- And not enough time
Overcoming these could get you 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. If you don’t that’s what it could be costing you.
That’s why Chris developed his human-centric “Accelerate Your Success” system to help leaders achieve more. Built on 20+ years of guiding and coaching top business leaders beat their challenges → With a proven framework that helps leaders get more time, more performance, more impact. Here’s how it works:
- He will interweave your career insights, his experience, business examples, data and neuroscience to show you actionable steps to achieve more.
- He will uncover your hidden potential to use those to be more successful.
- You leave with a personalised action plan to make it happen.
It works, Thierry Garnier, CEO Kingfisher Group, FTSE 100, said to Chris after hearing him speak “I found what you said really interesting so I took notes to see what action I can take”.
I CARE LEADERSHIP WITH CHRIS ROEBUCK
Chris’ unique experience has enabled him to develop an innovative and highly effective approach for leaders and organisations to achieve success, the I CARE Leadership. Chris shows how simple, practical day-to-day actions can be taken to quickly deliver real improvements at all levels; individual, team and organisation. One company he worked with reported an increase in staff recommending the company as “a great place to work” from 40% to 82%, and an increase of revenue by 40%.
Chris Roebuck has published a number of highly successful books on communication and leadership.
His first book Effective Delegation came out in 1999 and was a simple guide on critical delegation skills, his follow-up Effective Communication (2000) was translated into 11 languages; Effective Leadership followed in 2001, Lead to Succeed came in 2014 and Strategic Leadership Development in 2017.
CHRIS ROEBUCK IN THE MEDIA
Chris Roebuck has been quoted as a leadership expert globally in publications such as Harvard Business Review China, FT, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, New York Times, Business Week, Time Magazine, Washington Post, Times of India, Management Today, Health Service Journal, Chicago Tribune amongst others.
Chris Roebuck can also be seen on TV and heard on the radio, having done over 350 TV and radio interviews on leadership and business on the BBC, Sky, Bloomberg, ITV, CNBC and CNN, BBC Breakfast, World Service and Australian Radio.
A Chat With Chris Roebuck
As part of our ‘Chat with…’ series at Great British Speakers, our director Jane Farnham sat down with Chris Roebuck to discuss his varied career, what he’s learned about success, and how to make leadership simple and efficient. Watch the full interview HERE.
CHRIS ROEBUCK KEYNOTE TOPICS
Chris keynotes will enable you 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 for free!
High Performance Leadership
The two fundamental challenges that leaders face are “too much work” and “not enough time”. These prevent you from achieving your true potential to be a high performing leader.
This then holds you back from getting the best out of your team, which reduces their performance as well as that of the organisation. Chis solves this by showing you how you can become human-centric, and high-performing, and make your team the same through a proven formula to accelerate your success. Amongst other things, this could find you ½ a day extra time a week, and put you in the top 20% of performers compared to your peers in other organisations.
Chris has personal experience of delivering high-performance personally and developing high performing leaders in the military, business, and government. He has worked with the likes of BASF, BD Pharmaceutical, Huawei, UAE Prime Minister’s Office, and the Chinese Space Programme.
Maximise Employee Engagement
Employee engagement – people giving their best – is the engine of success for any organisation. But the reality is, most organisations are significantly underperforming on their potential to get the best from their people because their leaders don’t understand employee engagement well enough.
The real challenge is how you can increase the number of people in your team who are engaged and giving their best by being more human centric. To achieve this, you need to understand employee engagement in more depth, e.g. the difference between engaged, no engaged, and disengaged, and then how to move people to become fully engaged.
Chris has studied employee engagement, written articles on it, featured it in his books, and shown leaders how to improve it for organisations such as HSBC, KPMG, and Tata Communications.
A house construction company he worked with moved the engagement score for “I would recommend this as a grief place to work for friends and family” from 40% to 82% in just two years.
Successful Culture and Change/Transformation in Uncertain Times
Even doing “business as usual” can present a challenge for most leaders as they are under pressure to deliver. Then, if change and transformation needs to happen, it not only adds to the pressure but also creates uncertainty.
To be able to deliver business as usual and successfully deliver change in uncertain times requires leaders to think differently and have excellent human centric leadership and management skills.
Chris enables you to create an environment of certainty amidst the uncertainty which then allows individuals and teams to be more effective, motivated, resilient, and aligned to what needs to be done. Within this, Chris shows how entrepreneurial leadership can be delivered so leaders can use change and uncertainty as an opportunity, not a threat.
Chris has worked on several major transformations in organisations as diverse as the London Underground, UBS, and the UK NHS. The transformation at UBS is now a Harvard case study on successful integration and change in uncertainty.
Human Leadership and AI
AI can bring significant benefits to both leaders and organisations. However, AI professionals are clear that it is not a silver bullet for success as its application must be based on optimal use cases.
The reality is, AI will never be optimised without HI (human intelligence). Not only that, but perhaps the greatest challenge with making AI work is effective implementation. That requires leaders and people in your organisation to see the benefit that AI can bring to them, to understand how it works, to be able to identify optimum use cases, and then have the skills to implement it.
Chris has spoken to audiences on how this can be achieved and even been asked to address Chief Digital Officers on the people challenges around AI so that they can better understand their role in enabling AI to achieve its potential through people as well as tech.
CHRIS ROEBUCK PREVIOUS SPEAKING TOPICS
– General Leadership
– Innovation
– Change
– Financial
– Customer Focus
– Brand and Marketing
– M&A and Integration
– Human Resources
– Risk Management/Legal
Chris Roebuck is happy to present at international conferences, business schools, professional summits, masterclasses and keynote speeches. He usually presents one-hour keynotes, 3 hour workshops and one-day and two-day masterclasses. Chris is very interested in how audiences of all sizes can achieve growth and success in their lives and careers by using a unique mix of his insights, real-world stories, hard data, neuroscience and their own inspirational moments.
Chris has helped 24,000 + leaders across 27 countries achieve more – from Huawei, BASF, Tata, UK & UAE Prime Ministers Offices, Goldman Sachs and NHS to Red Cross, Reuters, Chinese Space Programme and many others.
And he has been named as one of HRs Most Influential Thinkers 10 times in annual awards, is BBCs “go to” business leadership expert and has been featured in Newsweek, FT, Wall St Journal, Business Week and other major publications.
So if you’re ready to make the leap from stressing to achieve more and succeeding, check Chris topics, and let him Accelerate Your Success!
CHRIS ROEBUCK CLIENTS
Abbot (International Healthcare), Adecco, Allegis, Arabian Society of Human Resource Management, Arts Councils of England, Scotland & Wales, Avant Homes, Bank of England, Bank of New York, Barclays Bank, British Nuclear Fuels, Cancer Counselling Service, Capsticks LLP, Cass Business School – London, Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, Chartered Management Institute, Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, CHEP, China Aviation Industry Corporation, China Aeronautic & Scientific Corporation, China Life, City of Westminster, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Credit Suisse, CT Partners, Danish Age Association, Delphi Automotive, Deutsche Bank, DG Bank, Dubai World Trade Centre, Duncan Lawrie Limited, Ernst & Young, Eurostar, Food Standards Agency, GE Healthcare, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Hudson Talent Management, Kingswood Mallensons, Lloyds Banking Group, London Underground, London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, Man Group, Masons LLP, Mouchel, UK National Health Service, Derby County PCT, UK Department of Health, Cambs & Peterborough Workforce Group, East Midlands SHA, Maybank – Malaysia, New York Institute of Management, NHS North West Leadership Academy, NHS Employers, NHS London, National School of Government, N. M. Rothschild, NorthgateArinso Human Resources, Omantel, Oman Society of Human Resource Management, Prince Mohammad University Saudi Arabia, Project Management Institute, Prudential, Punch Hospitality, Rabobank, RBS Global Banking & Markets, Royal Bank of Canada, Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Shurooq – Sharjah Investment & Development Authority, Saudi American Bank, Skandia Insurance, Thales, UAE Prime Minister’s Office, UBS, UK Defence Academy and UK Government Prime Minister’s Office.
