Chris Roebuck
Chris Roebuck is a speaker, advisor and executive coach who has a unique approach that helps leaders, teams, and organisations reach their full potential and be successful in just three steps. This is proven to add investor value, deliver better customer service, build the brand externally, develop innovation and entrepreneurial thinking, optimise risk and boost the bottom line by 10% + at no cost. Chris unique experience as a leader in the military, business, government and as a Hon Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership has enabled him to develop this innovative, entrepreneurial and highly effective new approach for leaders and organisations to achieve success: I CARE Leadership. It’s simply about you being the leader people always give their best for empowered by authentic and inspirational servant leadership. Chris shows how building on leaders current knowledge via simple, practical day to day actions can immediately deliver real improvements at all levels; individual, team, and organisation. One organisation who implemented it increased the number of staff happy to recommend it as “a great place to work” to friends or family in 2 years from 40% to 82%, an exceptional change, and increased revenue by 40%. When Global Head of Leadership at UBS, 70,000 staff & 100 countries, his team helped the bank transform organisational performance to increase profitability by 235%, market capitalisation by 50% and win awards. This is now a Harvard Case Study. Chris experience spans many sectors and geographies; from having held senior roles in UBS, HSBC, KPMG & London Underground to advising legal firms and construction, from the UK National Health Service of 1.4m staff and UK Government to the Red Cross in Myanmar, from Investment banks in London to Middle East Telecoms, from the Chinese Space Programme to retail in USA and many more. Chris has been quoted as a business leadership expert globally in the Harvard Business Review China, FT, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, New York Times, Business Week, Time Magazine, Washington Post, Times of India, Straits & Gulf Times and many other titles. He has been interviewed on TV over 350 on leadership and business issues on BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, and other channels and his books have been translated into 11 languages. Chris has been recognised as one of the Most Influential HR Thinkers regularly since 2011 by the HR profession.
Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever explains the Unilever Sustainable Living plan, a strategy to make Unilever environmentally sustainable and contributing to society globally.
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The appointment of Laura Schwab to be President of Aston Martin in the USA, only the second woman after Mary Barra of GM to become an automotive CEO, poses the question why are there so few women leaders in...
Chris compares the leadership styles of Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt as they fight to become the UKs next Prime Minister and the challenges ahead. Is election success more about what you say you can do than what you...
Lord Karan Bilimoria, Founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer gives Chris his perspectives on leadership.
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The past few days have renewed our focus on Veterans through seeing the 75th anniversary of D Day celebrations where the remaining few from then mixed with those who serve today. As an ex British Army Officer who has...
There is a justifiable significant focus on risk management in organisations, in particular in highly regulated or safety critical environments. However, we could make risk management even more effective than it currently is by moving from just focusing on...
But not the one you think. This isn’t all about complex financial perspectives on organisational profitability. There is another cost-benefit analysis few pay attention to but which is a direct driver of the organisational return on investment everyone thinks about;...
The HR entrepreneur has the potential to be the next step on the HR journey to address the problems with the HR business partner.
I spend the majority of my time speaking to groups of leaders around the world on...
Leadership is seen by some as the mechanical execution of tasks, but this mechanistic approach will never get the best from people, never unleash full potential without the spirit of leadership also being present.
During my visit to the Commonwealth...
My in-depth interview by Dr. Linda Sharkey the leadership expert on the challenges of delivering successful leadership from both the organisational and individual perspective with some simple tips for success in both. Recorded for Voiceamerica the leader internet radio...