Paul Hargreaves has been one of the leading voices for many years encouraging and inspiring businesses to be forces for good putting people and planet before profits.
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Your speech was so valuable as it conveyed all the values and believes that we at Gunner Cooke and I personally share full heartedly.
Dr Dirk Hamann
Gunner Cooke Solicitors Annual Conference
As a pioneering B Corp leader, entrepreneur, and bestselling author, Paul Hargreaves has spent over two decades proving that business can be both profitable and purposeful. Drawing on real-world success from his award-winning companies, he inspires leaders to embed compassion, sustainability, and innovation into their organizations. His keynotes deliver practical strategies and emotional impact, equipping audiences to create stronger cultures, more resilient teams, and businesses that drive positive change.
Keynote Speaker Paul Hargreaves is recognized as one of the UK’s leading voices on purpose-driven business, compassionate leadership, and building organizations that balance profit with people and planet. As the founder of Cotswold Fayre, one of the country’s first certified B Corps and Flourish, a multi-award-winning retail and restaurant concept, Paul brings the credibility of a practitioner who is still leading successful businesses while inspiring thousands of others.
What makes Paul unique as a keynote speaker is his ability to combine authentic business stories with practical strategies. Unlike speakers who only talk theory, Paul shares real-world lessons drawn from over 25 years of experience growing organizations that put values and sustainability at the core. His keynotes empower leaders and teams to redefine success, cultivate more engaged workplaces, and drive long-term growth through purpose.
Author of Forces for Good and The Fourth Bottom Line, Paul challenges traditional business thinking by demonstrating how compassion and love in leadership are not only ethical but profitable. He speaks to both the heart and the mind, leaving audiences inspired to take action and equipped with tools to embed purpose into their own strategies.
For organizations seeking to transform culture, strengthen leadership, and achieve impact beyond profit, booking Paul is an investment in meaningful change. Book Paul Hargreaves for your event and inspire your people to build businesses that matter.
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Your speech was so valuable as it conveyed all the values and believes that we at Gunner Cooke and I personally share full heartedly.
Dr Dirk Hamann Gunner Cooke Solicitors Annual Conference
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A truly heartwarming story on your passion for placing people, planet and purpose at the core of your business, it certainly left a lasting impact on me and everyone fortunate enough to listen. Your narrative was not just a story; it was a powerful reminder of the transformative potential when business is driven by a genuine commitment to positive impact.
Emma-Jane Kerr CISI Annual Conference
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Great to meet you earlier today and thanks again for the inspiring talk – Lots that resonated with me and I took lots away from it, from both a business and personal perspective.
Kelly Smith Head of Brand, Bio Care
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Just wanted to reach out personally and on behalf of the team and say thank you for speaking at Elite Business Live last week. The audience were really engaged, and the content and delivery were fantastic.
Scott English Elite Business Live
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Thank you for your inspiring keynote at the People Puzzles HR conference last year. I have since evaluated my career and life aspirations. Seriously I cannot thank you enough for opening my eyes to B Corps and a whole new world of work where people and planet come before profits.
Lindsey Charlesworth People Puzzles
Keynote by Paul Hargreaves:
In this keynote Paul will tell you are series of stories. Stories, from his own business and others across the UK, that will demonstrate to you how prioritising positive social and environmental impact can deliver faster growth and higher profitability, when compared to those that focus purely on profit.
Keynote by Paul Hargreaves:
In other words, “put down the spreadsheets and give me a hug.” Paul will show how today’s successful leaders are learning to lead with love and compassion and sometimes tears. Your people will hear how vulnerability in leadership creates more empowered people and better organisations and companies. Your delegates will go away inspired and energised to lead with compassion.
Keynote by Paul Hargreaves:
Business for too long has treated people and planet as resources to be extracted from to fuel growth, but there is a better way. Paul will inspire your people and those at your events to act with extraordinary generosity and focus on being extravagantly generous to their workers, communities, and the environment. He will help those attending to change their mindset to one of abundance from scarcity.
Keynote by Paul Hargreaves:
For far too long masculine qualities have been seen as better for leadership roles. And look where that has taken us! A planet that is degrading and more social inequality than at any other time in history. Through his own journey from an overly masculine leadership to a more balanced one embracing femininity, Paul will show you how to lead with more femininity - and that applies to all genders.
Keynote by Paul Hargreaves:
Despite being digitally connected more than ever; we live in an increasingly disconnected world. As a community mammal we are ‘designed’ to connect to each other and to nature and ourselves. Paul will show you how to work on these three connections and help them improve their mental health, their fulfilment, happiness, and their success.
Workshop by Paul Hargreaves:
Starting with how business has had a negative impact on our world over the past 200 years, Paul will tell your group through stories how his discovery of B Corp has transformed his businesses to greater success, award-winning impact, and greater personal happiness.
The five breakout sessions during the workshop will help your group think about what changes they can implement in their own businesses and leadership. Paul often receives feedback after these workshops telling of the changes the leaders have made to their organisations.
Workshop by Paul Hargreaves:
Most of our business activities have been mind-centred. Nothing wrong with that, but Paul has discovered that if we engage our people’s hearts and souls, not only will we have happier people, but better businesses and we will leave a greater legacy.
Your group will receive practical tips of how to do this within a business context and your group will leave with ideas to implement when back in their organisations and companies.
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Watch Paul Hargreaves in action
