Signature Keynote #1 - "Failure: Your Secret Weapon for Success"
Duration: 45-60 minutes | Format: Keynote with inspiring humour The Challenge: Your organisation needs innovation, but your team is afraid to take risks. They've learned that failure means career damage, so they play it safe—and innovation suffers. The Solution: Chris takes audiences on a journey through real personal and business failures, including early losing his company, revealing how each setback taught lessons that success never could. Key Takeaways: -Why children fail fearlessly (and how adults can reclaim that mindset) -The hidden cost of avoiding failure in your organisation -Real frameworks for distinguishing productive vs. unproductive failures -How to celebrate failure without celebrating incompetence -The "Edison Method": turning 1,000 failures into breakthrough success Perfect For: -Leadership conferences and executive retreats -Innovation summits and transformation initiatives -Teams that need permission to experiment Organisations building resilient cultures Audience Experience: Expect laughter, unexpected insights, and practical tools your team can implement immediately. Chris combines authentic vulnerability with business credibility that commands respect.
Signature Keynote #2 "From £7,000 to Fast Track 100: An Entrepreneur's Real Journey"
Duration: 45 minutes | Format: Keynote or fireside chat The Reality: Most business success stories skip the messy middle—the failures, near-bankruptcies, and moments of despair. Chris doesn't. The Story: From starting a telecoms company with £7,000 to ranking #64 in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100, Chris shares the unvarnished truth: the regulatory battles, the catastrophic product launches, the 30-staff-to-10-staff redundancy day, and the Christmas Eve when he thought it was all over. Key Lessons: -How to survive when everything goes wrong simultaneously -The critical pivot that saved the company -Why conventional business advice often fails entrepreneurs -Building resilience when you're running on empty -The counterintuitive strategies that drove exponential growth Perfect For: -Entrepreneurship conferences and start-up events -Business school programmes and accelerators -Scale-up communities and venture-backed companies -Anyone navigating the chaos of high-growth business Audience Experience: Raw honesty about the entrepreneurial journey, with practical insights applicable to any growth business. No sanitised success story—just the truth about building something from nothing to one of Britain's fastest-growing companies.
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