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Quick Links: Future of Work. Leadership. Sales & Marketing.
Fishy helps driven, accomplished people recognise when achievement has become the shield instead of the substance, when they're performing their presence instead of living into who they actually are.
After 25 years making brands unmistakable in Chief Strategy Officer roles across global advertising networks, Fishy realised he was brilliant at making others clear in what they stood for while being completely useless at doing it for himself. Twenty-five years of performing presence, hiding behind titles and achievements, being the polished version he thought he needed to be. Once he saw the pattern in himself, he couldn't unsee it in others - and how the demands of modern work were making it worse. More visibility, more pressure to perform, less room to just be competent without being seen.
Speaker Bio
His background combines high-stakes corporate strategy with competition-level aerobatic flying and world records in aviation. The combination matters: upside-down at 3,000 feet and in client meetings under pressure to deliver, the same truth holds - when stakes are real, competence and conviction beat putting on confidence.
Organisations bring him in when something fundamental is missing despite everything looking fine. Leaders who are visible but not felt. Teams aligned on paper but disconnected in practice. Communication that's polished but fails to build belief.
Fishy’s keynotes cover these three important territories:
Future of Work, Culture and Connection - view keynotes
What happens to trust, belonging, and human performance when digital saturation, pressure, and uncertainty become the operating environment? How teams show up, how leaders respond, and what we can all do to reclaim more meaningful connection.
Leadership Impact and Visibility - view keynotes
How leaders show up when the pressure to be more visible and chase attention is high, yet everything they're told to do either feels icky, hard, or just isn't working to build authority. What it takes to stand with conviction and show up with presence in moments that actually matter in a world that is becoming saturated with generative content and craving substance.
Brand, Influence and Sales- view keynotes
Why organisations with real substance still struggle to convert when they get caught up chasing attention, playing it safe instead of standing for something meaningful. How to build the internal conviction and external clarity that actually moves clients to take action when they, too, are overwhelmed and nervous.
His approach makes science interesting by combining it with lived experience and the study of human behaviour, naming patterns we instantly recognise and bringing them to life in a way that can only come from someone still navigating them. He doesn't do motivational theatre or hype. but used his dry English wit to keep the room connected.
People leave his sessions with practical language and tools to recognise what's been in their head and in their way, not just inspired to think about change, but motivated and equipped to make it.
“What an insightful keynote it was! We have been doing these conferences for a long time now, and I have never been asked by so many people for slides after the event. You highlight an issue we all relate to, and you have given us a new perspective to navigate the challenges. I look at myself differently now...”
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Future of Work, Culture
& Connection Keynotes
Keynote Quick Links: The Illusion of Connection. The Certainty Leaders Create When the Future Isn't
From digital habits to presence you can feel.
We've never been more connected. We're also lonelier, more anxious, and more unseen than ever.
This isn't a technology problem. It's a human one. Our digital habits have changed how we relate to each other, at work, at home, in the spaces where trust and belonging used to form naturally. Surface-level interactions replace depth, performance replaces presence, and online validation replaces the need for genuine connection.
And quietly, without noticing, we've traded what makes us feel human for what makes us feel good in the moment.
This keynote reveals how digital habits and performance pressure create the illusion of connection while eroding what actually holds teams and relationships together. It's an invitation to reclaim what technology cannot replace: genuine human presence, the kind of connection that's felt, not performed.
Keynote: The Illusion of Connection
Perfect for:
Company-wide annual offsites and all-hands events, association and industry conferences with broad mixed audiences, leadership summits focused on culture and wellbeing, hybrid work and digital transformation forums where human connection, trust, or belonging are key themes, and events exploring the future of work through a human lens.
Audience takeaways:
Recognise the illusion: how digital habits, performance pressure and perfection culture create disconnection at work and in life.
Rebuild trust and belonging: understand the science of human connection and how small moments of presence reshape teams and relationships.
Show up with conviction: learn how to be seen, heard and remembered for who you are, not just what you do.
Why organisers book this keynote:
It's a universally important message for every audience, resonating across all levels, industries, and roles. High empathy without being soft or fluffy. Honest without being critical of the challenges we all face, navigating platforms designed to hijack our attention and keep us scrolling. Perfect for diverse audiences navigating the shared challenge of staying human in a world that rewards performance over presence.
Keynote: The Certainty Leaders Create When the Future Isn't.
How to lead with clarity when there are no clear answers.
The future is less predictable. Change happens faster. Disruption is no longer a one-off event; it's the operating environment.
When certainty drops, people start scanning for safety signals. That search creates second-guessing, hesitation, and friction that quietly erodes performance. The teams that hold together aren't the ones with perfect answers. They're the ones whose leaders create certainty through how they show up in uncertainty.
This keynote reveals what strategic presence looks like in real time when pressure rises, and the path forward isn't clear. Built around a signature framework for leading through uncertainty.
Perfect for:
Leadership teams navigating transformation, company offsites and divisional forums, AI disruption and change-themed events, sales and delivery kick-offs where momentum matters, and operational environments where trust and clarity drive performance.
Audience takeaways:
Create clarity without certainty: Learn how to provide direction with integrity when you don't have all the answers - and why pretending you do destroys trust faster than admitting you don't.
Build trust through consistency: Understand the three behaviours people watch most under pressure, and the small inconsistencies that quietly erode belief when stakes are high.
Restore alignment when teams drift: Spot the early signals that coordination is breaking down, and use a simple reset to bring clarity, connection, and forward momentum back.
Why organisers book this keynote:
It addresses the universal challenge of leading through uncertainty. Audiences leave with practical language, frameworks, and behaviours they can use immediately, whether navigating AI disruption, organisational change, or sustained pressure with no clear endpoint.
Leadership Impact &
Visibility Keynotes
Building authority doesn't require you to become someone you're not.
In an age where every voice competes for attention, the leaders who stand apart aren't the loudest; they're the most real and relatable. But here's the tension: visibility feels like performance. The polished LinkedIn posts. The personal brand tactics. The constant content machine. It works for some people. For others, it feels like selling out.
This keynote is for the second group. The leaders, consultants, and experts who know they need to be visible but refuse to become someone they're not to get there. It shows how to build authority without the performance, how to be seen without the selling, and how expertise becomes influence when it's grounded in substance, not volume.
Keynote: Stand Out Without Selling Out.
Perfect for:
Executive forums and C-suite summits where visibility and influence are on the agenda, thought leadership and personal branding events, professional services growth and business development forums, sales and marketing summits focused on expertise-led positioning, executive retreats where visibility strategy is a key agenda item, and industry association events where members need to elevate their profile without compromising credibility.
Audience takeaways:
Recognise the performance trap: Understand why chasing visibility through tactics feels hollow, and the pattern that keeps capable people invisible even when they're posting, speaking, and showing up.
Build authority without becoming louder: Learn how to share expertise in a way that shapes conversations, not just joins them, and why relevance beats reach when building trust that converts.
Show up as yourself, at scale: Discover how to be visible online, on stage, and in rooms that matter with the kind of conviction that builds authority without requiring you to perform a version of yourself you don't recognise.
Why organisers book this keynote:
It addresses the elephant in the room that most visibility and personal branding keynotes ignore: what happens when the tactics feel like selling out? Perfect for audiences who need to build authority but refuse to sacrifice substance for attention. Not another "10 LinkedIn hacks" talk, but an honest look at building real influence in a world that rewards performance.
Brand, Influence &
Sales Keynotes
Keynote: Why Great Brands Don't Need to Shout.
When being careful creates the blandness that more attention doesn't fix
We've never had more ways to be seen or more brands saying nothing memorable while chasing attention.
The pattern is everywhere: convoluted stories trying to cover every base. Jargon-heavy messaging chasing predictable trends. Brands that look polished but feel empty. And when the offer doesn't land, the answer is often spend more, be seen more, shout louder.
But volume doesn't fix what's missing. It just creates more noise.
This keynote is a passionate plea for better, braver and clearer messaging. It reveals why brands become invisible, not because they're under-resourced, but because they're over-careful and why playing it safe creates the blandness that more activity can’t fix. And why the brands buyers remember aren't the loudest. They're the ones brave enough to stand for something.
Perfect for:
B2B marketing and brand leadership conferences, business growth and strategy summits, industry association events focused on competitive positioning, SaaS and B2B marketing forums, and company offsites where brand clarity and market traction are strategic priorities.
Audience takeaways:
See the pattern that makes brands invisible: Understand how fear drives the behaviours that create generic, forgettable marketing - and why clients can't tell the difference between one performance and another when everyone's playing it safe.
Build conviction, not coverage: Learn why trying to appeal to everyone leaves buyers with no reason to care - and how to strip away what's been over-crafted to reveal what's actually compelling about what you do.
Invite the market in instead of shouting at it: Discover the shift from pushing your message louder to creating the kind of clarity that makes buyers lean in - because they can finally see what's possible because of you, not just what you offer.
Why organisers book this keynote:
Smart, strategic, and grounded in simple steps every business can apply, it stands out in a sea of generic marketing keynotes that sell services and hype rather than help solve a critical problem.
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