Chris Roebuck

Chris Roebuck helps leaders unlock hidden performance and turn leadership into measurable ROI through practical, evidence-based strategies.

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Chris, I enjoyed an incredibly inspiring and rewarding 'leading with integrity' seminar with you at the UK Defence Academy in March 2016, which I continue to use as inspiration for leading my own high performing teams at sea. As it happens, tomorrow I am using it as inspiration to conduct a workshop with a group of about 10 officers and senior NCOs. We are deployed on operations on the other side of the world in the Asia Pacific on a 10 month deployment, far from home and on strategic tasking - leading and inspiring people could not be more important.

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Why you should book Chris Roebuck for your next event

Recognized 10 times as one of HR’s Most Influential Thinkers, Chris brings award-winning insight and authority to every audience he engages.
Led leadership and culture change at UBS, HSBC, London Underground, and KPMG - delivering lasting transformation at enterprise scale.
Equip your leaders with practical, neuroscience-backed tools to build high-performance teams, boost engagement, and drive measurable business results.

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Global leadership expert helping organisations unlock 10% hidden performance

Most organisations lose significant performance every single day due to ineffective leadership. Chris Roebuck shows leaders how to change that. With more than 40 years of hands-on leadership experience across the military, business and government, Chris delivers keynotes that turn leadership insights into measurable results. His evidence-based Accelerate Your Success roadmap helps leaders unlock hidden performance, recover lost profit and focus effort where it delivers the biggest return. The result is stronger leadership, more engaged teams and organisations moving confidently from “business as usual” to the business of the future.

Chris Roebuck – Global Leadership Expert

Chris Roebuck is a globally respected leadership expert who helps organisations unlock hidden performance and transform the way leaders lead, think and deliver results. His work is based on a simple but powerful insight: many organisations are losing at least 10% performance every day due to ineffective leadership.

In many workplaces fewer than 30% of employees are truly giving their best. The result is lost productivity, disengaged teams and reduced profitability. Many leaders sense that things could be working better but struggle to identify the root cause or know where to start.

Chris Roebuck’s keynotes provide that clarity. He shows leaders how to unlock the hidden potential already inside their organisation and turn it into measurable results.

With more than 40 years of leadership experience across the military, business and government, Chris combines deep real-world insight with practical leadership frameworks that leaders can apply immediately.

He has helped 35,000+ leaders across 31 countries, developed C-suite executives in global corporations and led major transformations, including one recognised as a Harvard Business School case study.

Leadership That Delivers Real ROI

Many leadership events leave audiences inspired for a short time. Chris Roebuck focuses on something far more valuable: long-term leadership impact and measurable return on investment.

His keynotes are built around the 6-Step Accelerate Your Success Roadmap, an evidence-based system that helps leaders recover lost performance and improve organisational effectiveness.

Chris identifies one of the biggest challenges facing organisations today: 80% of leaders have never been taught critical leadership skills in sufficient depth. Without those skills, even experienced leaders struggle to unlock the full potential of their teams.

The Accelerate Your Success roadmap addresses this challenge step by step. It builds leadership capability while helping organisations move from reactive “business as usual” leadership toward a more focused and effective “business of the future” mindset.

Importantly, the system improves leadership performance without adding more work to already busy leaders.

Chris understands the pressure leaders face because he has experienced it himself. As former Global Head of Talent and Leadership at UBS, he worked closely with senior leaders navigating complex global organisations and intense performance demands.

His approach cuts through complexity and helps leaders focus their energy where it delivers the biggest impact.

From Ideas to Action

Chris Roebuck’s keynote sessions are designed to deliver far more than inspiration. Every presentation equips leaders with practical tools and clear next steps they can implement immediately.

Audiences leave with:

Practical leadership tools that can be applied the very next day
A clear personal action plan to begin the Accelerate Your Success journey
Up to half a day per week of reclaimed leadership time through better focus
A post-event “Ideas into ROI” implementation guide, increasing results by a further 10–15%

This focus on implementation is why Chris is often selected for closing keynotes at major conferences, where organisers want participants to leave energised and ready to turn ideas into real-world results.

His sessions challenge leaders to think differently about their role while providing a practical roadmap for turning insight into measurable improvement.

Proven Experience Across Global Organisations

Chris Roebuck’s leadership expertise has been trusted by a wide range of global organisations across sectors including finance, media, healthcare, government and retail.

Organisations he has worked with include UBS, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, KPMG, L’Oréal, BASF, Huawei, Bloomberg, Reuters, the NHS, London Underground, the BBC, World Retail Congress and the Prime Minister’s Offices in both the UK and UAE.

His influence in the leadership field is widely recognised:

Named among HR’s Most Influential Thinkers and inducted into the HR Hall of Fame
Member of the Advisory Board at UCL School of Management
Former Honorary Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership
Frequently featured as the BBC’s “go-to” leadership expert with more than 250 media interviews
Author of five leadership books with over 40,000 copies sold

These achievements reflect decades of commitment to improving leadership effectiveness and organisational performance.

Book Chris Roebuck for Your Event

Chris Roebuck delivers high-impact keynote speeches, leadership conferences and senior team sessions tailored to the specific goals of each organisation.

Every engagement is aligned with client objectives using his proven three-step client alignment process, ensuring that the keynote supports the wider strategy of the event.

He delivers presentations both in-person and virtually, frequently broadcasting from his dedicated professional studio to create an immersive and interactive digital experience for global audiences.

Whether speaking to senior executives, leadership teams or conference audiences, Chris focuses on one outcome: helping leaders convert insight into action and action into measurable results.

Chris Roebuck’s message is clear. Leadership should deliver real performance, real engagement and real return on investment.

His keynotes change how leaders think, how they lead and what their organisations achieve as a result.

Customer Reviews

Senior Royal Navy Officer on Active Service

We had the pleasure of inviting Chris to our annual leadership conference this year which was absolutely fantastic and a really pertinent part of the 2 days his presentations were interactive, plenty of "light bulb" moments, tasks for the participants and a great deal of food for thought. I've found out how to save half a day a week and even though Im in communications learnt some new tips on better communication! All in all a really great experience and thanks very much Chris.

Head of Marketing & External Communications

We had a fabulous session with Chris. He really worked his magic to bring servant leadership to life. It's great to hear these messages from our leaders but when you have someone come in and read the audience and understand what we need out of them to be successful is really inspiring. He has done an excellent job of reading the teams, given us something that we can take home that's concrete, that's actionable and will help us all be better leaders.

Head of Communications Global Logistics Equipment & Software Supplier

Just wanted to pass on my sincere gratitude for giving your talk yesterday. It certainly met all my expectations, even having heard some of it back in May, and feedback I have received from many is extremely complimentary.

Offshore Safety Awards & 25th Anniversary

It was the first of such an event, so I am absolutely delighted that it was so well received by the participants.

Huawei

Chris came highly recommended to us as a speaker who would be able to address the topic of leadership which we had identified as a critical issue for retailers in this period of unprecedented change. He more than delivered on this by fully engaging with our delegates and led an important panel discussion on the main stage. His keynote address however was outstanding in 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.

World Retail Congress

Thank you once again for delivering excellent discussion and insights at 'The Great RESIGNATION or the Great RE-THINK?' digital event.

CMI

I think I'm getting goose pimples. You've really inspired us today as always. The energy is still there and the message that you bring across I'm sure people all over the world have watched you today will find benefit.

Global DIY Industry DIY Summit

This was an amazing presentation that absolutely resonated really well with what we are about at BD and with what I am trying to do with the leadership team. Your message was so crisp, so clear, so easy to understand, so relateable. Your message resonated so much to be a true enabler to help us create value for the business going forward using some of your great examples. It was fantastic. Thank you for your insights and message we can use so well.

Pharma CEO

I wanted to come back with a fast response to say THANK YOU! everything I have heard so far is universally positive. What you said resonated with people, you were interesting, and it was enjoyable. You seem to have pushed the boundaries of what staff usually come to expect from a speaker, which is great and sets a new baseline. So so pleased and grateful to you for doing this, and so well! Absolute star.

Cabinet Office

Keynotes

Keynote by Chris Roebuck:

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 from your people, which then reduces the performance of your team and the organisation. Chris solves this problem 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 for the rest of your career.

Chris has personal experience of both delivering high performance personally and developing high performing leaders in the military, business, and government. In business he’s worked organisations as diverse as BASF, BD Pharmaceutical, Huawei, UAE Prime Ministers Office and the Chinese Space Programme to help their leaders become High Performing.

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Keynote by Chris Roebuck:

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 simply 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 probably need to understand employee engagement in more depth, eg the difference between engaged, not engaged, and disengaged. And then how to move people to become fully engaged. Quite simply most leaders have never been told what they need to know about employee engagement to be successful. Chris gives you that vital information and shows you how to maximise engagement.

Chris has studied employee engagement, written articles on it, featured it in his books, and shown leaders how to improve it for many organisations such as KPMG, Tata Communications and HSBC. It works – a house construction company he worked with in two years moved the engagement score for “I would recommend this as a great place to work for friends or family” from 40% to 82%. And significant performance and financial benefits also followed.

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Successful Culture & Change / Transformation in Uncertain Times

Often even doing “business as usual” presents 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 environments requires leaders to think differently and to have excellent human centric leadership and management skills.

Chris has led work on several successful major transformations in organisations as diverse as London Underground, UBS and UK National Health Service. The transformation at UBS is now a Harvard case study on successful integration and change in uncertainty. Chris was Hon Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Cass Business School 2009-22.

He enables you to create an environment of certainty amidst the uncertainty which then allows individuals and teams to be more motivated, effective, resilient and aligned to what needs to be done. Within this Chris shows how Entrepreneurial Leadership can be developed so leaders can use change and uncertainty as an opportunity not a threat to envision and then deliver a better future.

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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 that AI will never be optimised without HI (Human Intelligence).

Not only that but perhaps the greatest challenge with making AI work its effective implementation. That requires leaders and people in your organisation to see the benefit which AI can bring them, to understand how it works, to be able to identify optimum use cases and then have the skills and capabilities 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.

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