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Ian Hawkins has been in the business of speaking and presenting for 20 years. He is author of Amazon Bestseller, Insider Secrets of Public Speaking.
On leaving university, Ian wrote for BBC Comedy shows including The News Quiz and Loose Ends before becoming an agent at the UK’s largest speaker bureau where he closed two of the company’s five biggest deals.
As well as speaking and coaching, Ian has worked as a professional stand up comedian, appearing on both sides of the Atlantic and studied improv at the UCB Theatre in New York. As a business journalist, he has worked on films for BBC World, Reuters and CBS on locations including Nicaragua, Morocco, Sweden and the United States.
Today, he is also an in-demand moderator for conferences and events in the UK, US and Europe, resident Quizmaster at The Ivy Club and is gaining a following on the storytelling circuit.
He is a long-term survivor of a rare congenital heart condition, which he credits for giving him license to rip up the rule book and explore all of life’s extraordinary possibilities.
The cause is a failure to connect For years, organisations have treated communication as a "nice to have" soft skill rather than a strategic imperative. In a world saturated by AI, authentic leadership becomes your only strategy for driving real change.
Connect, Inspire, Transform is the definitive masterclass in the human communication skills required to survive the digital era. Drawing on his unique insights from working behind the scenes with the world’s biggest brands, CEOs, politicians and household names, Ian Hawkins pulls back the curtain on how the world’s most influential people make change happen.
Describing stories as “the software human behaviour runs on,” Ian delivers a radical approach to person-to-person connection. In this engaging, interactive session, leaders will gain practical, battle-tested tools to immediately cut through the noise, build psychological safety, overcome resistance to change and inspire profound organisational transformation.
The cause is a failure to connect For years, organisations have treated communication as a "nice to have" soft skill rather than a strategic imperative. In a world saturated by AI, authentic leadership becomes your only strategy for driving real change.
Connect, Inspire, Transform is the definitive masterclass in the human communication skills required to survive the digital era. Drawing on his unique insights from working behind the scenes with the world’s biggest brands, CEOs, politicians and household names, Ian Hawkins pulls back the curtain on how the world’s most influential people make change happen.
Describing stories as “the software human behaviour runs on,” Ian delivers a radical approach to person-to-person connection. In this engaging, interactive session, leaders will gain practical, battle-tested tools to immediately cut through the noise, build psychological safety, overcome resistance to change and inspire profound organisational transformation.
