Challenging outdated business thinking, helping businesses redesign the employer-employee relationship for the modern world.
Challenging outdated business thinking, helping businesses redesign the employer-employee relationship for the modern world.
Forget dry, forgettable keynotes. Toby delivers high-energy, humorous, and thought-provoking talks that challenge outdated business models, employee experience, and leadership mindsets. Expect bold ideas, humor, and practical takeaways that reshape how organisations think about work, talent, and innovation.
Toby brings a dynamic, adaptable, and highly engaging presence to panels, fireside chats, and live events. His ability to read the room, challenge speakers, and inject humor and energy ensures that every discussion stays engaging, insightful, and relevant.
Toby designs and facilitates hands-on, interactive sessions that help leadership teams and organisations rethink business structures, talent strategies, and the employer-employee relationship in a way that drives both performance and purpose.
AI isn’t just making individuals more productive—it’s reshaping entire organisations. Businesses stuck on AI for personal efficiency are missing the real shift: AI is redesigning work itself. This keynote explores how AI moves from boosting individual productivity to transforming teams and reinventing business models. The companies that embrace this won’t just work faster—they’ll work differently.
For decades, businesses have relied on HR to manage employees—but what if that thinking is outdated? Most HR structures were built for compliance, not performance. This keynote challenges leaders to ditch traditional people management and build business-first, experience-driven teams that actually drive results.
Leadership has changed—but most businesses haven’t caught up. The best leaders today don’t operate from hierarchies and long-term plans—they thrive in fast-moving, high-feedback environments where real-time adaptability and engagement matter. Esports coaches, content creators, and online communities master influence in ways most executives never will. This keynote breaks down what business leaders can learn from the world’s best digital leaders and how to apply their playbook to the workplace.
Surveys are lazy measurement. They track satisfaction and engagement, but not what actually matters: business performance. Most companies collect vanity metrics that don’t drive results. This keynote introduces Mutual Lifetime Value—a new way to measure what employees contribute and what they get in return. If you’re still relying on annual engagement scores, you’re looking at the wrong data.
Most workplace training is over-engineered, ineffective, and completely disconnected from real performance. But in wrestling and stand-up comedy, training happens in high-stakes, real-time environments where you either adapt fast or fail hard. This keynote challenges how businesses approach learning, coaching, and upskilling—showing why real-world practice beats polished content every time.
Human-centered design has revolutionised product development and customer experience. Yet most businesses still ignore these principles when designing work itself. Workplace learning, onboarding, and internal systems are built for compliance, not human needs. This keynote challenges leaders to apply design thinking to employee experience—just like they do for customers.
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