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.
Speaker at business conference, corporate presentation, workshop, coaching training, news conference, company meeting, public or political event. Public speaking concept.

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