Andrew McNeill

Andrew McNeill: Author and leadership consultant teaching organisations to adapt to a constantly changing world.

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“Andrew McNeill gave a powerful and inspiring keynote address alongside a panel of business leaders at the launch of the MWC at HSBC's Canary Wharf headquarters in February 2020. This launched the creation of a paid member community. Andrew's keynote left the audience wanting to hear and learn more with many of them signing up to join the Community.”

Theresa Dzendrowskyi

Community Director, The Mindful Workplace Community

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Why you should book Andrew McNeill for your next event

Andrew believes in the need for leadership to be human and uninhibited. He explains why this style of leadership is needed, particularly now.
He is a man of experience; Andrew has faced many high-intensity leadership challenges through his career to thoroughly equip him to educationally deliver relevant, problem-solving keynotes.
His keynotes are grounded in research - Andrew refers to studies about the value of kindness in workplace situations enabling organizational success.

Andrew McNeill believes leadership must change! As a leadership consultant and author Andrew works with leaders and teams teaching them techniques which have a real impact both at a human and organizational level. He believes that adopting a contemporary leadership style is essential for businesses to thrive in an increasingly fast paced, challenging environment. Through Andrew's keynotes, he showcases how.

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Keynotes

Keynote by speaker Andrew McNeill: Leadership through Change

Andrew believes in the need for leadership to be more human and uninhibited. In this talk, Andrew explains what empathetic leadership is and why it is so urgently needed now, especially with the multiple pressures we currently face. Andrew will discuss how attitudes such as being non-judgmental and showing kindness are essential to modern day leadership.

Why leadership is so urgently needed now and what a leader needs to be effective today.

How leaders can create the space they need to see if what they’re doing is right for them

Andrew will share examples of empathetic leadership and the benefits it brings.

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Keynote by speaker Andrew McNeill: Performance Under Pressure

Andrew has faced numerous high intensity leadership situations, from heading up the UK Government's assurance of the Olympic and Paralympic torches for London 2012 to being a Director on the Building Safety Programme immediately after the Grenfell Fire tragedy. Here Andrew talks about his own personal journey with pressure. What worked and what didn't.

In this honest account, Andrew shares numerous suggestions that could make a significant difference to the way you lead and outlines ways that will help you thrive under pressure including:

Advancing the way you thrive under pressure.

From his own experience Andrew will provide life hacks to help you navigate the challenges of leadership.

Andrew will share his own special techniques which will help you and your team thrive

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Keynote by speaker Andrew McNeill: Psychological Safety – Why it Matters to You and Your Team

When employees feel comfortable asking for help, sharing suggestions informally or challenging the status quo without fear, organizations are more likely to innovate quickly, unlock the benefits of diversity and adapt well to change! In this engaging keynote, Andrew uses evidence based examples to give leaders reasons to want this transformative team mindset!

Andrew will share powerful examples of how psychological safety can avert risks to your business and enable opportunities to be grabbed!

The key indicators that show whether the workplace is psychologically safe or not.

He will explain the impact it has on team culture and how it can enable teams to thrive.

Andrew will give practical tips on how to achieve psychological safety.

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Keynote by speaker Andrew McNeill: What's Kindness got to do with it?

Andrew compares some of the traditional archetypes of leadership with the evidence base of what is needed in today's organisations. He refers to studies made about the value of kindness in the workplace and how it can help your organisation succeed. In this interesting talk Andrew will discuss.

Why kindness is not for the faint hearted.

The difference it will make for your team and the workplace.

How kindness will lead to success.

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Keynote by speaker Andrew McNeill: Finding our Phoenix - Preventing and Recovering from Burnout

Eleven years ago Andrew realised he was burnt out. He had to step back from work to find techniques that enabled him to move from being overwhelmed, to being able to thrive in high pressure environments. In this talk, Andrew shares his experience of being introduced to mindfulness and other strategies, why he was very sceptical in the beginning and how they have helped transform his life, his leadership and his career.

This talk will give you:

Interesting neuro-scientific findings and insights.

An introduction to mindfulness.

Tools to help you integrate these into your life.

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Keynote by speaker Andrew McNeill: Tools to Thrive in Leadership

Andrew talks about the practical application of mindfulness for people in today’s workplace. He explains how this down to earth toolkit of techniques can help you manage stress, improve your communication skills and support your decision making.

Andrew was never interested in mindfulness until he needed something that would help him cope with the effects of working in an extremely high pressure environment. He approached it with deep scepticism but found these well established evidence based methods worked in the modern workplace. It vastly improved his wellbeing and delivered a step change in his performance which is why he studied to become a mindfulness teacher. Andrew now introduces teams and individuals to these life changing, team transforming skills: in practical, down to earth ways.

From this talk you will take away:

Techniques to help you perform in high stress moments.

Ideas to help you communicate more effectively.

Ways to give you more choice in your decision making.

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Customer Reviews

Theresa Dzendrowskyi Community Director, The Mindful Workplace Community

"We’ve finally had our first keynote of our development program hosted by Andrew McNeill and I wanted to share with you the positive feedback that we received from our participants. It was a very lovely keynote, inspiring and easy going. Some of them really appreciated the opportunity to have mindfulness practices as a part of the keynote and were able to relax and calm themselves. Andrew was very flexible with all the logistic and briefing preparation, and so nice and kind with our participants. Overall, it was a success!”

Sofia Innocenti - Employee Experience Expert Allianz Technology

“Overall, I thought Andrew’s presentation was unusual for our team because he was asking us to slow down! But his message of being mindful and recognizing that the concept of ambiguity is and has always been with all of us in our lives was a key point that maybe we all don't realize, but should. I think the team welcomed the invitation to slow down and be in the moment. In the times we're in, the topic was “spot on” to quote one of the team members.”

Andrea Dell Technologies

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Prior to setting up LX Leaders, Andrew spent 20 years in senior leadership, most recently as a Director in the UK Civil Service. He is also an accredited mindfulness teacher and brought these two worlds together in his book Organisational Mindfulness - a How-to Guide in 2019, which has sold in 4 continents.

Andrew is the Workplace and Policy Lead and Projects Advisor for the Mindfulness Initiative, a charity which emerged from the work of the UK Parliament’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness and is Co-Director of BAMBA the UK’s mindfulness accreditation body.

Andrew believes leadership needs to change. With the multiple pressures our teams face, he sees that organisations will only thrive if their leaders can guide with inclusion, compassion and awareness. Andrew works with a range of organisations training teams and helping them connect, hear each other and develop their empathy. His techniques have helped individuals and teams navigate very real challenges and communicate with honesty and kindness. Andrew also offers executive mindfulness tutorial programmes.