Chris Roebuck

Authentic Human Leadership for AI

AI is now an almost daily discussed topic. Speakers and experts are talking about its potential. Organisations are starting to adopt.

But most leaders do not understand how AI works, how it compares to our brains, how it’s going to impact their work day to day and what AI will do for them and what it won’t.

It’s vital they understand this so they can apply AI effectively but also continue to develop their personal capabilities in areas where they need to impact because AI can’t.

Personal authentic leadership interactions is the critical area where AI can’t help in real time so leaders must develop capability quickly.

What will you learn and take away for action?

• How our brains authentic intelligence compares to AI
• Where AI is likely able to help you as a leader in your day to day work either now or in future.
• Where AI is unlikely to be able to help.
• In those areas where AI can’t help what are the key actions that you can take to grow your skills.
• Focus on 4 key areas to Accelerate Success :
• Slick Task Delivery
• Getting the best from people
• Alignment to strategic objectives.
• Being entrepreneurial to build the future.
• Your simple action plan to start to make it reality when you leave.

High Performance Leadership

Higher expectations of leaders post COVID, the Great Resignation, potential Quiet Quitting, and Hybrid Working have created a perfect storm. There is an urgent imperative for organisations and leaders beat these challenges by maximising purposeful high performance.

There is a simple powerful solution which will achieve that, in just 3 simple practical steps. It unleashes your peoples experience, to get their best. No models, no new or more things to do, just doing better what you already do to get the best from everyone and focus onto strategic objectives.

Chris is recognised as being at the leading edge of leadership performance globally, eg his award of Companionship of the Chartered Management Institute the highest accolade that the UKs professional management body can award for his role in developing leadership around the world.

What will you learn and take away for action?

• What really engages people to give their best? Growing your high performance culture.
• How are we doing on employee engagement?
• Which insights from your own experience are your lessons to engage everyone?
• High performance task management & delivery.
• What simple day to day actions can you take to get the best from people?
• Your power as an authentic servant leader – potential effort increases.
• How much hidden impact potential is there you don’t know about you can use?
• How you can use psychology and neuroscience to boost your success rate?
• How could this boost overall organisational performance & other key areas?
• Your action plan to start the journey.

Entrepreneurial Leadership

The last few years COVID, Great resignation and economic instability have combined to create a perfect storm of uncertainty. Leaders and organisations who view this as an opportunity will flourish. It’s about leaders being able to scan the environment and identify opportunities, enable their people to do the same, then to implement so their organisations are more agile and successful.

Chris has worked with organisations at key uncertain points in their growth and is a leading expert in this field, eg his work at Global Head of Leadership and Talent at UBS on the first implementation of “entrepreneurial leadership” within a corporate environment, now part of the Harvard Case study.

What will you learn and take away for action?

• So what’s your uncertainty map at the moment?
• Where do you see your greatest challenges?
• How to become a leader for uncertainty.
• Inspiring your team for agility, growth and opportunity.
• Using the big picture to inspire and align to strategic imperatives.
• Transforming the emotion of uncertainty from negative to positive.
• Creating your dynamic plan for action.
• Building team flexibility to make it reality.
• Your action plan to start the journey.

Transformational Leadership

The one certainty is change. Success is about being ahead of the change curve by assessing the change needed, adapting to make it and accelerating ahead of the competition. Every leader must recognise the need for change, even in their own team, present an inspiring vision for change and get everyone behind making the change reality.

Chris expertise in this area is proven through many roles from Global Head of Leadership and Talent at UBS, now Harvard case study on creating a new global bank, to leading culture change on the restructuring of the London Underground and also as Honorary Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership.

What will you learn and take away for action?

• Change is a fact of life – use it to your advantage.
• The hidden power of your experience and perception in leading change.
• Creating a growth mindset for successful change and transformation – opportunity.
• Identifying the optimal changes to make to maximise return on investment.
• Creating a great plan to make it a reality – clear purpose, objectives, milestones and contingencies.
• Making it happen through an inspiring vision to engage everyone to “live” the change.
• Beating challenges that arise on the journey – learning moments.
• Celebrating the power of teamwork and success.
• Your action plan to start the journey.