Ben Hines transforms leadership and teamwork through powerful storytelling, music, and interactive keynote experiences.
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"Ben and his team are AMAZING! Their ability to quickly understand, simplify and orchestrate a 500 person team toward a common cultural mission was beyond my expectations!”
Global CIO
Cisco
Ben Hines delivers keynote experiences that transform the way leaders and teams think about collaboration, communication, and performance. With a rare combination of business expertise and musical mastery, he brings leadership lessons to life in a way audiences never forget. Through storytelling, live music, audience interaction, and practical exercises, Ben helps organisations unlock stronger teamwork and new perspectives on leadership. His sessions are engaging, energising, and highly relevant for leaders navigating complexity, change, and growth.
Ben Hines is a keynote speaker who creates transformational experiences around leadership, teamwork, and performance. His sessions go far beyond traditional presentations. By combining music, storytelling, business insight, and audience participation, Ben delivers experiences that are memorable, practical, and deeply impactful.
Audiences leave his sessions with fresh perspectives on collaboration, communication, and leadership effectiveness. His approach is highly interactive and designed to engage people emotionally as well as intellectually. Leaders and teams are challenged to think differently, work together more effectively, and discover new ways to perform under pressure.
Clients frequently describe Ben as one of the most engaging and impactful speakers they have experienced because he helps people realise that many of the answers they are searching for already exist within their teams.
What makes Ben Hines unique is his ability to use music as a metaphor for leadership and teamwork. Drawing from more than 35 years as a professional orchestral French horn player, he demonstrates how high-performing ensembles mirror the challenges and opportunities organisations face every day.
In many of his keynote experiences, Ben performs alongside world-class musicians and elite orchestras. These live musical performances turn abstract leadership concepts into something tangible and unforgettable. Audiences experience teamwork, trust, communication, adaptability, and collaboration in real time.
By seeing and hearing how musicians work together under pressure, leaders gain powerful insights into how teams can align around shared goals, respond to change, and elevate performance.
Ben’s background combines creativity with deep corporate experience. He holds a degree in music and spent 28 years in the business world, including roles at Barclays PLC in both the UK and Africa.
He later founded Moving Performance, a company that has delivered leadership development experiences across six continents. Over the past 17 years, Ben has worked extensively with both mid-level managers and board-level executives, helping organisations strengthen leadership capability and improve collaboration.
His global perspective allows him to connect with diverse audiences across industries and cultures. Whether speaking to executive leadership teams, large conferences, or virtual audiences, Ben tailors every session to the organisation’s specific objectives and challenges.
Ben Hines is known for creating highly immersive keynote programs that blend performance and leadership development in innovative ways.
His acclaimed program “Know the Score®” has been delivered in collaboration with renowned orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic. The experience gives audiences a unique understanding of leadership, listening, alignment, and teamwork through the lens of orchestral performance.
Another standout program is “Compose to Lead®”, an interactive virtual experience described as “the most dynamic Zoom call you’ll ever have.” This session demonstrates that meaningful engagement and transformational leadership learning can happen both in-person and online.
Each keynote is designed to create lasting impact rather than short-lived inspiration. Participants gain practical insights they can immediately apply to improve communication, leadership, and team effectiveness.
Ben Hines is an exceptionally engaging speaker who brings energy, warmth, and clarity to every stage. His presentations are interactive by design, encouraging participation, reflection, and real-time learning.
Rather than delivering generic leadership theory, Ben creates moments that audiences feel and remember. His storytelling, combined with live musical performance and practical exercises, challenges people to rethink how they lead and collaborate.
This combination of emotional connection and business relevance makes his sessions especially effective for organisations navigating transformation, growth, or cultural change.
Audiences appreciate his authenticity, humour, and ability to make complex leadership concepts accessible and actionable.
Ben Hines has delivered keynote experiences and leadership programs for global organisations across multiple industries. His client list includes: Accenture, BP, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Börse, Grange Insurance, Grupa Atlantic, Jaguar Land Rover, PwC, Telekom Austria, Thames Water and Wise.
These organisations trust Ben to engage leaders, strengthen collaboration, and inspire high-performance cultures.
Organisations book Ben Hines because he delivers more than motivation. He creates transformational experiences that help teams understand what great collaboration truly looks and feels like.
His rare combination of orchestral expertise and business leadership experience allows him to connect performance principles from the concert hall directly to the workplace. This makes his sessions highly original, practical, and relevant for modern organisations.
Whether delivering a keynote for a leadership conference, executive event, company gathering, or virtual session, Ben creates experiences that resonate long after the event has ended.
Book Ben Hines for your event if you are looking for a keynote speaker who can inspire leaders, energise teams, and bring leadership lessons to life through music, storytelling, and real-world insight.
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"Ben and his team are AMAZING! Their ability to quickly understand, simplify and orchestrate a 500 person team toward a common cultural mission was beyond my expectations!”
Global CIO Cisco
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"One of the most intimate, unique, and memorable learning experiences I've ever seen. If you have the appetite for some really unique metaphorical learning - Moving Performance are the best around!”
Director of Global Talent FIS
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“Phenomenal and deeply impactful”
Head of Talent Jaguar Land Rover
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"Your session at our leadership conference was one of the best things I’ve done so far in my career. The brilliance of the musicians combined with your insights on leadership and team work through music is truly inspirational.”
Corporate Affairs Director DP World
Keynote by Ben Hines:
Participants sit “inside” a live ensemble of principal players from leading orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and observe how a complex team of elite specialists achieves consistent excellence.
Through musical demonstrations and facilitated reflection, we:
Themes explored include:
Know the Score® makes the invisible dynamics of performance visible, empowering
experienced leaders to own their insight
Know the Score® Output:
Participants leave with more than inspiration. They leave with a new lens on leadership and team performance.
Typical outcomes include:
The experience creates a shared reference point that can be revisited throughout a wider leadership programme.
Know the Score® combines intellectual rigour with emotional resonance delivering a genuine “wow” moment that is unlikely to be forgotten.
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