Speaking.

Steve has been a keynote speaker for our senior leadership program for several years. He is credible and authentic, blending his considerable business experience with a focus on the human aspects of leadership and change. He made a deep and lasting impression on our leaders, not only because he understands their reality and the pressures of an intense and fast-paced business environment but because he has also experienced the personal impact of those pressures

Liberated Leadership 

Full of practical and real-life examples, Steve discusses his evolving philosophy toward studio leadership, and introduces 7 leadership practices key to leading people and projects that make up the Liberated Leaderships. 

A 90 minute keynote plus Q&A. 

Creating hyper engaged teams

As Daniel Pink notes in Drive “When it comes to motivation, there is a gap between what science knows and what business does.” Learn how Criterion’s operating model was able to achieve one of lowest cultural entropy scores the independent assessor had ever recorded by practically applying the techniques to maximise recognition, autonomy, mastery, and purpose (RAMP).

30-60 minutes plus Q&A. 

Size Matters… the 50, 100, 150 person problems

Something happens when organisations hit multiples of 50 people. Is this just down to Dunbar’s number in effect or is something else going on? In this talk Steve shares real life experience of Starting Up, Growing Up, Scaling Up and why you might want to consider blowing up your organisation.

30-60 minutes plus Q&A. 

Public Talks

Steve has spoken about Liberated Leadership at conferences in London, Manaus, Kiev and San Francisco.