Richard Jacobs

Richard Jacobs is one of the world’s leading authorities on Change. He has created award-winning programmes for organisations such as Google, Coca Cola, Unilever and Allianz and is currently advising the European Union. He is a dynamic and highly engaging speaker blending comedy, improvisation and theatre with a deep insight into personal and organisational change.
He has a colourful past having started out life as a professional actor in theatre, film and television working alongside household names. He is an Olivier award winner and has danced professionally for the Royal Opera as well as being a part of the BBC’s light entertainment improvisation team, performing live to audiences of 15 million people a night.

At 21 he founded the extreme sports film company Black Diamond Films which became Europe’s leading distributor of specialist films and later went on to publish his book “The 7 Questions to find your Purpose”.  Richard is currently writing “It’s about Time: how to win back 20% of your time at work with better results”.

Richard delivers a variety of keynote talks including:

• How to find and live your Purpose in life.
• The Mojo Dojo: an explosive hour of rampant, unstoppable creativity.
• Change Surfing: The user’s guide to making your organisation ‘change fit’.
• The DNA of confidence: Mindset and behavioural hacks to confidence, clarity and conviction.
• Collective Intelligence:  An entertaining, lively session harnessing the collective intelligence of your group, live, to find new solutions

He also delivers a variety of Super-charged 2-3 hour sessions for audiences of 50 – 1,000 people, including:

• InterAct: using theatre, comedy and professional actors to harness the collective genius of your people and solve old problems in hilarious, new and practical ways. Where people laugh themselves from insight to insight.
• Ideas Market Place: This is ‘the rock concert of brainstorming’ where teams buy and sell ideas with a special currency system.
• The 7 Questions to find your Purpose –  a deeply meaningful session where people emerge knowing their Purpose in life.

SPEAKING TOPICS

• Leading Change
• Universal effectiveness
• The DNA of Confidence
• Time!
• Collective Intelligence

“Richard was very good in understanding what our group was interested in – he tailored his speech exactly to those specifications.  His speech was inspiring with lots of examples.  Our audience were really interested in Richard’s views on the topic of agility and are now thinking about using the tools he presented and booking him for an additional meeting.”  Management Assistant, Sartorium Stedim Systems

“I have never seen anybody ignite a room like Richard Jacobs.”  Head of Learning and Development, Allianz Global

“When Richard talks, you feel like he’s known you all your life.”

“Richard’s approach is the way people will drive change in the future.”

“Every so often a visionary comes along.  Richard is one.”

“How often do you find someone who is as entertaining as they are enlightening?”