Speaker

For leadership events and leadership groups

Everyone has leadership credentials that go far beyond their job title and formal qualifications. What they've actually done with their lives, the real pressure they've navigated, the unconventional learning they've picked up along the way, this is where the real capability sits. Most organisations look only at the formal side and they miss this critical connection with their people.

Matt's keynote walks audiences through the simple but powerful framework of The Second Look, how to notice the leadership potential already inside your organisation, name it clearly, and back it so it can grow. Matt shows that the most valuable leaders often come from the places organisations aren't looking. By the end, audiences have a clear framework they can apply immediately to their own teams and the conversation shifts: who in your organisation do you risk losing because you haven't given them a Second Look?

Available as: 45-minute keynote and an optional 3-hour interactive workshop.

For internal company conferences

Most organisations say their people are their greatest asset. Then they go shopping for strangers. The new external hire becomes an internal announcement that says "We looked beyond you." People stop offering ideas, then their engagement starts draining away. This is the cost of overlooking the leadership that's already inside.

This keynote challenges organisations to see their existing people through a Second Look, to recognise the leadership they've already forged through real decisions, real pressure, real stakes. Matt shows how giving people this recognition transforms engagement, develops stronger internal leaders, and builds the kind of loyalty that external hires can't buy. Teams leave understanding that the colleague they haven't properly looked at yet might be the leader who keeps the organisation thriving.

Available as: 45-minute keynote and an optional 3-hour interactive workshop.

For entrepreneur and business founder groups

Maybe it's a map you can't fully read, a team member you haven't tested yet, or a destination you're not sure about, sound familiar? That's the feeling every entrepreneur and founder has on day one. The difference is, most business leaders forget they're on an adventure. The map gets buried under spreadsheets and the relentless noise of running a company.

Matt takes audiences on a quest to find Treasure Island. Identifying the map, choosing the crew, addressing a potential mutiny. Finally, you sight land and ask whether the treasure was what you thought it was. Every stage is brought to life through unconventional leadership lessons from building and selling two businesses and rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic. But the power of this talk is that your audience starts mapping their own journey alongside it. They see where they have drifted, where the crew needs attention, and what the treasure actually looks like for them.

Available as: 45-minute keynote.

Your leadership team applies The Second Look directly to their business, separating what's earned on paper from what's proven in practice. Delegates don't just hear about it. They use it to assess their own commercial gaps and build a plan to close them.

These workshops are often booked as follow-ups to keynotes, or as standalone sessions for leadership teams preparing for growth, exit, or succession.

Young audiences hear a frank, honest account of what happens when you reject the conventional path and enter the workforce at sixteen. But more importantly, they are encouraged to look at their own experiences, the challenges they have already faced, the setbacks that felt like failures, the moments of happiness and disappointment, and to see that life is already teaching them how to lead. The session emphasises empathy, compassion, and kindness, and reassures young people that exam results do not dictate lifetime success, while being completely honest about the challenges along the way.

All required protocols are adhered to at all times.