Carl Honoré

Leader of the Slow Movement focusing on slowing down to boost performance, creativity, health and leadership

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Carl was great. He was easy to partner with. He ensured that he understood the context of the event to be able to deliver to it. He was able to engage the audience in his speech and was approachable for the audience members to talk to him post the event and get his ideas/ perspectives

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Slow Wins The Race

Keynote speaker Carl Honoré is the world’s go-to expert on the surprising benefits of slowing down. His TED talk has been viewed 2.6 million times. Carl's powerful, entertaining keynotes show how the right amount of SLOW can boost leadership, creativity, productivity, empathy, health and happiness.

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Keynote by speaker Carl Honoré: The Golden Age of Ageing

We are entering a golden age of ageing. From powered clothing to precision surgery, technology influences our lives to a tremendous degree. To make the most out of the longevity revolution, we need a radical rethink of what it means to grow old - from the workplace to our personal lives. Join speaker Carl Honoré who offers you this keynote to find out how we can age better - and feel better about ageing.

Find out how to age better

Make the most out of your longer life

Learn to feel better about ageing

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Keynote by speaker Carl Honoré: Slow Wins The Race

In the 21st-century workplace, faster is often considered better. But that’s not always the case. In this powerful keynote, speaker Carl Honoré shares his important message, which might sound counterintuitive at first: to succeed in a fast-paced world, you need to slow down. Mastering the clock is about choosing when to be fast and when to be slow. During the session, Carl shows you how to do this by telling you how top companies and entrepreneurs of the global economy are speeding up by slowing down.

Find the right balance between fast and slow

Bring more depth, meaning and pleasure to your life

Be more efficient, productive and creative

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Keynote by speaker Carl Honoré: The Slow Fix

Sometimes a quick fix is just the right solution. However, most problems we face today are too complicated for instant remedies: this is where the Slow Fix comes in. Speaker Carl Honoré spent two years to travel the world and research problem solving in politics, business, health and many other domains - and now he is showing you the secret to The Slow Fix!

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Stop falling for quick fixes

Learn to come up with solutions that actually work

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Keynote by speaker Carl Honoré: The Slow RevolutionRaising Children in a Fast World

Slowing down has its tremendous benefits: it can bring more meaning, depth and pleasure to your life. It can boost your health, making you more productive, creative and efficient. And from from parenting to the workplace or exercise to relationships it applies to every walk of life. For this reason, in this keynote, speaker Carl Honoré draws on insightful examples from all over the world to show you how you can live, work and play better by unleashing your inner tortoise.

Boost your health

Make yourself more productive

Give more meaning to your life

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Keynote by speaker Carl Honoré: Raising Children in a Fast World

Childhood has slowly became a race to perfection and as a result, children, teachers and parents are all unfulfilled and exhausted. Thankfully, change is coming! Global movements such as Slow Parenting, Slow Education and Slow Kids are finding their ways to give children enough time to explore the world on their terms and be children again. Speaker Carl Honoré designed this keynote to help reinvent childhood for the 21st century, touching on themes from consumerism to technology and education to extracurricular activities. Note: Carl also offers a special keynote for teenagers.

Help children reach their full potential

Make family life more fun

Find the right balance between doing too little and too much for children

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Customer Reviews

Nikunj Upadhyay Barclays

Many thanks for a superb, insightful, dynamic, fun and fully inspiring presentation! Just had excellent feedback from all participants with no exception!

Gilles Legault Canadian National Railway Company

Getting city lawyers to slow down is impossible surely? Carl was faced with this task at our latest Life With Law event, and succeeded in every way. Carl captured the whole room’s attention with his thoughts on The Slow Movement. His talk resonated with everyone in slightly different ways, but we all left wanting to find our inner tortoise.

Amy Greenham Lawyers on Demand

Carl was captivating! He has a rare blend of polished eloquence and sophistication coupled with vibrant and contagious energy that attendees absolutely fell in love with. Carl captured everyone's attention from the very first second and had us smiling, laughing and nodding in agreement throughout. His appeal is universal and he was the audience favourite!

Sam Makhoul Higher Branch Success Academy

How can we ever thank you for an informative and inspiring two days at Hewitt? I wish you could see my inbox right now (actually, you don’t want to see it, because it’s the opposite of slow). It’s full of thank you messages from parents thanking me and saying that they are going to buy your books and continue thinking and reading about slow parenting. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Tara Kinsey - Head of School The Hewitt School, New York City, USA

Carl Honoré

Learn about the power of Slow in powerful and inspiring keynotes

To achieve peak performance in a fast world, you have to slow down - Carl Honoré

Described by the
Wall Street Journal
as “an in-demand spokesman on slowness,” Carl travels the world to deliver keynotes that put time and tempo in a whole new light. His talks are dynamic, inspiring, informative and full of humour, and his audiences range from business leaders, entrepreneurs and sales professionals to teachers, academics and medical practitioners.

In his global bestseller,
In Praise of Slow
, Carl chronicles the global trend toward putting on the brakes in everything from work to parenting. The
Financial Times
said it was “to the Slow Movement what
Das Kapital
is to communism.” His second book,
Under Pressure
, explores how to raise children in a fast world and was hailed by
Time
as a “gospel of the Slow Parenting movement.” Carl’s latest book,
The Slow Fix
, shows how to tackle complex problems in every walk of life. Translated into more than 35 languages, his books have landed on bestseller lists in many countries.

Carl starred in BBC Radio 4’s
The Slow Coach,
in which he helped frazzled, over-scheduled people slow down. He also presented a television show called
Frantic Family Rescue
on Australia’s ABC 1.

Carl is an advisor to Jack Media, which makes messaging apps, and sits on the Board of Trustees of Hewitt School in New York City.

Huffington Post
called Carl “the godfather of the Slow movement.”
Newsweek
described him as “an international spokesman for the concept of leisure.” ABC TV News called him “the unofficial godfather of a growing cultural shift toward slowing down.” CBC
Sunday Edition
said Carl is ”inarguably the world's leading evangelist for what has become known as the Slow Movement."

Carl’s first language is English, but he also presents in French, Spanish and Portuguese (and sometimes Italian).