Jim Lawless

Jim Lawless is one of the world’s most sought-after motivational speakers on high performance, transformation and change management.

A deeply trusted architect of transformation and culture, he has advised senior leaders from Apple, Airbus, Microsoft and American Express to Diageo, BAE Systems and Sony, and carries that gravitas onstage with him.

Jim has inspired well over a million people with keynotes on his DARE loop framework and Second Strategy architecture on stages across five continents. He’s consistently voted #1 motivational speaker outside of the US in the Global Gurus public vote. Through this and as the author of the global best-seller, Taming Tigers, he provides people facing change with a clear, credible and practical map to the place outside the comfort zone.

Jim’s credo is that performance and change are extremely emotionally testing for the individual and for those who would lead them, with discipline, through uncertainty to bold new ambitions. They are not academic pursuits or cascaded strategy decks.

Transformation demands more than intelligence and strategy. It requires leaders skilled in operating far beyond the familiar, and an organisation that can trust, take ownership and adapt.

Jim operates where leadership gurus and academics, by definition, cannot. He has built a deep lived experience of the courage, discipline and emotion required to work far outside the comfort zone.
 
His captivating presence onstage is magnified by his energy, humour and compelling storytelling with a deep, lived understanding of the emotions, vulnerability and personal encounters with risk and uncertainty that come with change - drawn from his own experience of achieving the ‘impossible’ in his own life.

He tests his frameworks at the extreme edge, designing and executing his own Moonshots. He became the deepest freediver in British history in just eight months with a dive to 101 metres on a single breath; he moved from non-rider to televised jockey in twelve months. 

Both were deliberate applications of the DARE Loop methodology. Both ran alongside his day job and his most important role, fatherhood.

Jim Lawless’ immense and immediate credibility comes from the fact he sits at the top table as a trusted advisor to leaders delivering change and that he literally embodies what he talks about.

Advisory – Each year Jim works discreetly as a coach to a select group of CEOs and elite teams to build high performing teams and to architect and implement large scale cultural transformation.

Jim worked as a City of London commercial solicitor before moving into high-performance and change. He was elected a Fellow of the UK’s Royal Society for the Arts in recognition of his business writing.

Jim Lawless is the motivational speaker trusted by global leaders when a critical keynote speech must ignite fast, courageous change in people facing disruption, embarking on journeys of outrageous ambition or having to lead their teams into uncertainty and transformation.

Motivational Keynote Speeches
You are in highly experienced hands when you book Jim Lawless to speak at your event. One of the most inspiring and sought-after business motivational speakers in the world today, Jim consistently delivers inspiring, challenging, thought-provoking and hugely entertaining keynote presentations.

Audiences engage with Jim’s business experience and insight and the fact that he has personally and successfully tested his theories in business and in high-risk sporting achievements.

Book Jim to bring your event:
• Fast and lasting change through a clear Framework that the audience intuitively gets
• Workshops that connect the keynote and framework to your strategy to have each delegate leaving the event with a publicly stated bold goal to deliver the plan
• Energy, humour and huge audience credibility that transforms your event and their confidence
• Stunning feedback for the event organising team
• Bespoke Keynotes tailored to meet the challenge you are setting your team to deliver
• A deep and thoughtful intelligence wrapped in wild adventure and the hard topics of fear and uncertainty explored in a deeply human, empathetic - and lived - way

Jim Lawless speaks on:
• Fast, courageous change and resilience in uncertainty
• Tools for designing and sustaining high performance under pressure
• Transformational mindsets and culture shifts
• Resilience and decision-making in disruption and transformation
• Architecting culture and results with senior leaders
• The future of leadership to exploit AI and retain / prepare your talent for continuous change, learning and unlearning
• Managing the mechanics and emotions of uncertainty, vulnerability and doubt to deliver outrageous goals with no track record or reasons to believe.

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Clients often ask about purchasing books for giveaways and delegate packs. Below you’ll find a selection of products by Jim Lawless. Click the images to view on Amazon's website. For bulk orders, please speak with your Booking Agent.