Huw Thomas is a speaker and mentor to those navigating growth, change and uncertainty in large-scale, complex organisations. He helps people overcome the fads, friction and ‘change hysteria’ to change what matters.

As an expert in influencing and adapting to change, Huw’s transformational message will inspire your people to think bigger, bolder and beyond the fear and frenzy of our high-velocity world. If your people need their status-quo thinking challenged and practical tools to action real behaviour change, Huw should be your next speaker.

With a forthright, fun, challenger style, Huw’s philosophy is that thinking like the majority gets you average results. Exceptional results require going against the grain, confronting resistance, overcoming fear and disrupting existing norms. As Huw shows, the secret is showing your people that this approach is not to be feared. It is the exciting, fulfilling way to lead and live.

Leading dozens of major change, strategy and leadership development projects across over 100 organisations, more than 15 industries and four countries, Huw Thomas speaker and change expert has become a sought-after thought leader in strategic leadership and enabling behaviour-change at scale, in organisations.

Huw’s free weekly thought leadership articles empower thousands of subscribers to elevate themselves and their organisations. Huw also has real business leadership experience. While delivering his expertise to clients, Huw led the 5x revenue growth of a consulting startup in under five years, founded another successful professional service firm, and leads an NFP company board as the chair and non-executive director.

SPEAKER TOPICS:

Awake at the wheel: help your people take ownership and pursue the opportunities in change.

• Overcome ‘change hysteria’ and other delusions that pervade the modern corporate world
• Raise awareness of how our unconscious psychological tendencies negate our conscious change goals
• How cognitive reframing unlocks the inner beliefs to conquer our innate resistance to change (or any challenge)
• Amplify tolerance of ambiguity and positive expectancy during change and uncertainty.

How to change anything: the five things leaders need to influence change, growth and capability shift.

• Why tech like AI is an enabling tool, not the change itself
• Why problem definition, vision and metrics beats goal-setting
• How to magnify commitment, engage with resistance and conquer fear to inspire change
• Why most change requires ongoing capability support, not once-off training
• Unblock unrealistic expectations about time and priorities during change
• How conscientious habit design turns transitions into sustained change and lasting value.

Know the goal, know your role: help your leaders blend strategic thinking with behavioural psychology to enable change, fast.

• Magnify ambition, elevate ownership, conquer fear, and increase motivation
• Why implementing systems and processes without behaviour-change is pointless
• Why behaviour-change should be measured to ensure it actually occurs
• How re-designing work habits beats training and comms during change.