Keynote Talks
As the world faces a period of transformation driven by geopolitical uncertainties and macroeconomic challenges, René specialises in helping many blue-chip businesses chart a path for growth and inspired leadership.
René tailors each keynote to fit the challenges and opportunities faced by his clients – embracing regional differences and cultural nuances learned from his years of experience working across the globe.
Why Rene
In times of growing
global uncertainty,
we need more
inspiring leaders.
Empower, energise and inspire people and businesses to do the things that others said could not be done
Inspired leadership
René believes leaders today must create environments where everyone can flourish no matter what their background. The biggest driver of business performance today is leadership.
In today’s volatile and unpredictable times, the focus for the senior leaders shifts to vision, people, teams, and culture. Every leader requires the support of a diverse and high performing team.
All keynotes, case studies and workshops are tailored to address the unique opportunities and obstacles your. From René’s experience coaching numerous CEO’s in the FTSE 100 and Fortune 500, he has acquired compelling stories that demonstrate, and role model the leadership behaviours that deliver the best performance possible. Every time. He doesn’t do failure.
This essential commitment for inspired leadership within business is more about Culture than it is about Strategy.
This requires a little more leadership with a little less management.
When every team member takes some ownership for performance, collaboration, morale, team spirit and values, so much more can be realised. It starts with an inspirational role model that energises the team both individually and collectively.
We all need someone to believe in and something to belong to. We must try and create an environment where difference is respected, valued, and encourages an approach that when we all come together, we can create vibrant and innovative teams.
CULTURE IS MORE POWERFUL THAN STRATEGY
In most western developed economies, business leaders spend necessary time preparing and articulating the strategy for the business. This is obviously key and integral to its success.
However, just as important, is the culture of the business, but it gets nowhere near as much attention as it deserves – until now.
Progressive businesses have now learned how to fuel and oxygenate their culture, ensuring it is fit for purpose, and a key competitive advantage, a must in these rapidly changing times.
René will share his extensive experience and exposure to some of the worlds’ leading corporate cultures, telling his inspiring stories with his deft sense of humour whilst challenging everyone in the auditorium to think again about culture.
He will close this fascinating and challenging talk by leaving 10 pragmatic top tips on how to transform your corporate culture in a manner that will leave the audience excited and prepared for the transformation of their teams and the business.
MANAGE A LITTLE LESS, LEAD A LITTLE MORE
The world of work has gone through the most fundamental of changes, and we will never go back to the traditional method of running business. Demographic shifts, changes in global power structures, and disruptive innovation have completely transformed the business landscape forever.
Traditionally, a good enough management team, a good enough strategy, and a good enough brand, was good enough. This is no longer the case. The certainty of the recent past has been replaced by the uncertainty of contemporary times. The blunt instrument of Management alone just doesn’t cut it anymore. It is the time for Leadership, and Inspired Leadership at that.
René delivers real case studies, and stories that will make an authentic approach to Leadership both understandable and entertaining for your audience.
He always sets out 10 top practical tips that will enable every attendee to practice a different approach to Leadership within the workplace.
This is no lecture, but very much an informative performance, using his distinctive sense of humour and some hard hitting and provocative messages to deliver the understanding and importance of inspirational leadership.
COLLABORATION IS THE NEW LEADERSHIP
“Nothing is best done alone anymore” – no one leader can make all the tough calls on their own anymore. In today’s unforgiving markets, every leader requires the support of a diverse and high performing team. The business world is moving way too fast and many are weighed down with huge uncertainties and inherent risks. Building a collaborative and collegiate culture demands a new approach to leadership and a change in mindset.
René shares case studies and stories from the front line to the Boardroom. He shares stories of abject failure, and of those who have stalled, but most of all, how many have succeeded.
His decades of experience collaborating with world leading businesses and executives is demonstrated through his second to none delivery of advice and tips on how everyone in the room can move tangibly towards a more collaborative approach to drive transformational leadership and business performance.
EXTRAORDINARY TIMES DEMANDS EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP
Extraordinary times demands extraordinary leadership, this must become the era where we look for the best people for the team to lead appropriately.
As Mark Twain pithily points out, leaders today have to handle constant pressure well and need to allow their people the room to grow by making mistakes and learning from them.
What’s needed in these turbulent times is the feeling that our boss cares for us and supports us especially in times of uncertainty. Leadership today is altruism.
They tend to do this with no hierarchy, and only implicit authority. Today, being the leader doesn’t mean behaving like the ‘boss’.
