SPEAKING & MASTERCLASSES

SPEAKING & MASTERCLASSES

Sam Conniff: Speaker Showreel 2023

“Sam inspires teams to do more than they ever thought possible.”
- Google

“Read it. Applied it. And achieved positive irreversible change within my team and the results we deliver!” 
- Sony Europe

“Being able to lead a team through major change by inspiring them to see opportunities and create advantages often feels impossible, but Sam’s passionate accounts of what can be achieved, told through historical references to Pirates, make anything seem possible.”
- Mercedes Benz

“Sam's workshop turned us all into pirates and gave us a mantra we can all live by – needed now more than ever.”
- Nomad Foods

“Sam is a brave and inspirational leader. A true trailblazer. He has influenced my thinking and many other leaders too.” - Penguin Random House

“Sam led us to positive, irreversible change”
- Sony

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Keynotes & Masterclasses

My work typically has three parts.

  • Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity

    In these uncertain and rapidly changing times, open mindedness, comfort with ambiguity and divergent thinking are essential skills for high-performing teams and the leaders of the future. Backed with research by Neuroscientists and Psychologists from UCL, my mission is to galvanise teams to make better decisions,  confidently solve complex problems and take inspired action. I can turn your people into experts in uncertainty with the skills and capacity to not only navigate uncertainty, but to use it as a tool that drives innovation, growth and opportunity.

  • Inspiring Innovative Leadership


    It’s never been more difficult to make meaningful, strategic and creative plans, decisions and bold moves. Yet at the same time, brave creativity is more important than ever. I work with leaders and teams to shift mindsets and behaviours, learning to lead more creative and confident crews, as well as overcome our internal barriers. I will leave your team with a fresh sense of courage, determination and energy, along with a commitment to take responsibility to push for a better way of doing things.

  • Navigating Change; Making & Breaking Rules


    Change has always been hard, and right now it’s harder than ever. In a world where 'normal' is often part of the problem, rule-breaking is no longer always a risky thing to do, but sometimes the responsible course of action. I work with teams to help them emerge with a new mindset and set of behaviours, so that they become catalysts for change across the business. The aim is for them to infuse each of their departments with the attitude and ability for thinking and doing differently, and raise the roof on creativity.

  • Uncertainty Experts


    Uncertainty Experts is the world’s first Entertainment Based Therapy immersive experience. Scientifically-backed, it is proven to increase your teams’ uncertainty tolerance, empowering people to move from fear to excitement, inertia to action and anxiety to emotional resilience.

    In a fast-paced, rapidly-changing world, the only thing that’s guaranteed is more uncertainty. A first-of-its-kind programme, Uncertainty Experts will equip your teams with the tools needed to not just survive, but thrive in uncertainty and be ready to embrace an uncertain future. Drawing from what is now the world’s most extensive research study on the human impact, Uncertainty Experts is guaranteed to reduce anxiety, increase creativity, unlock innovation and will teach your teams how to turn uncertainty into opportunity.

  • Be More Gangster


    It’s been said that it would be easier to colonise Mars than it would be to fix work. The problem is that reinvention is hard when the only insights on offer are coming from the bucket of ‘business as usual.’ Be More Gangster cuts through the stale jargon of most keynotes on success in business to offer inspiration and strategies from an unexpected source: the outer edges of the informal economy. It asks what we could learn from one of the most enduring, successful, innovative and profitable icons of enterprise that has ever existed: the gangster.

    Be More Gangster offers a shot in the arm for anyone trying to engineer more meaningful, innovative or effective businesses. If you’ve ever dreamt of cutting through the crap in your office, organisation or just your own head so you can focus on the activities that make a difference, now you can.

  • Be More Pirate


    Being more pirate is a shift in your mindset; a willingness to think differently, to challenge and be challenged, and to stop asking for permission to do what you know is right.

    It’s never been more difficult to create meaningful change and at the same time, bold creativity is more important than ever. Be More Pirate will help you and your teams to shift mindsets and behaviours, leading to more creative and confident crews as catalysts for change.

    From the first sessions immersion in the true, hair-raising inspirational story of pirates, the crew inherit a new level of excitement, agency and self-belief.

    “On completion everyone has internalised powerful tools of Being More Pirate; Responsible risk-taking, bold decision-making and creatively navigating the unknown. The crew have a deepened emotional connection, and an increased sense of ‘having each others back.”

    Polly Cochrane, CMO, Warner Bros UK.

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