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Unleash Your Potential with Matthew Syed's Insights on High Performance & Growth Mindset

Matthew Syed

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Matthew Syed is a highly acclaimed author, speaker, and journalist, with expertise in high performance and growth mindset.

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5 out of 5 stars

It highlights the need for a growth mindset in life...It advocates for changing attitudes towards failure, and understanding that the only way we learn is by trying things and altering our behaviour based on the results.

Richard Branson, Virgin Group See all references

Why you should book Matthew Syed for your next event

  • Expertise in High Performance: Matthew Syed is a recognized authority on high performance, having spent years studying and writing about the subject. His insights on growth mindset and cognitive diversity can help individuals and organizations unlock their full potential.
  • Engaging Speaker: Matthew is an experienced and engaging speaker, known for his ability to captivate audiences and make complex ideas accessible. He is skilled at delivering talks and workshops that leave attendees feeling inspired and motivated.
  • Practical Strategies for Improvement: Matthew’s work with organizations and individuals is based on practical strategies for improvement. He provides actionable advice and tools that attendees can use to implement changes and drive higher performance in their personal and professional lives.
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Matthew has written several best-selling books, including "Bounce", "Black Box Thinking," and "Rebel Ideas" and works with organizations to build a culture of continuous improvement. He is a former England table tennis number one and is a founding member of the charity Greenhouse Sports.

Why you should book Matthew Syed for your next event

  • Expertise in High Performance: Matthew Syed is a recognized authority on high performance, having spent years studying and writing about the subject. His insights on growth mindset and cognitive diversity can help individuals and organizations unlock their full potential.
  • Engaging Speaker: Matthew is an experienced and engaging speaker, known for his ability to captivate audiences and make complex ideas accessible. He is skilled at delivering talks and workshops that leave attendees feeling inspired and motivated.
  • Practical Strategies for Improvement: Matthew’s work with organizations and individuals is based on practical strategies for improvement. He provides actionable advice and tools that attendees can use to implement changes and drive higher performance in their personal and professional lives.

An outstanding motivational speaker, Matthew Syed talks about the power of growth mindset, and the profound impact it can have on individual, team and organisation performance. He also discusses cognitive diversity and how it can boost collaboration, creativity and innovation.  Using compelling examples from healthcare, aviation, business, education, sport and the criminal justice system, he explores some of the best-kept secrets of the world’s most successful teams and how leaders play a critical role in creating a culture that drives higher levels of performance.

Matthew has written seven best-selling books on the subject of mindset and high performance – Bounce, Black Box Thinking, Rebel Ideas, The Greatest, and his celebrated children’s books, What Do You Think, You Are Awesome and Dare To Be You. He is a multi-award-winning journalist for The Times and The Sunday Times and presenter of the popular BBC Radio 4 programme, Sideways, currently in its sixth series. Matthew is a regular contributor to television and radio and, in his previous career, was the England table tennis number one for almost a decade.

Matthew is also co-founder of Matthew Syed Consulting (MSC); the company has worked with an impressive portfolio of clients to build growth mindset cultures and drive higher performance in individuals, teams and organisations. Matthew Syed Consulting’s cutting-edge thought leadership programme and digital learning tools are becoming a catalyst for real and lasting change within business and the public sector.

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Keynote by Matthew Syed

Creating a High Performance Culture in a Complex and Rapidly Changing World.

Matthew Syed, best-selling author and Sunday Times columnist, provides a fast-paced analysis of how the best organisations innovate and sustain change, even in a world that is being disrupted faster than ever before. Building upon examples in business, sport and beyond, Syed explains why and how growth mindset and diversity matter, and why learning from mistakes is more important than ever. 

Keynote by Matthew Syed

Harnessing the power of growth mindset and cognitive diversity in order to succeed in a complex and volatile world.

Develop self-awareness around growth mindset, unconscious bias and openness to diverse thinking.

Understand how to create an environment that:

  • encourages people to challenge and speak up 
  • and / or
  • allows for calculated risk-taking and potential mistakes in order to learn, improve and innovate

Gain some practical techniques and strategies for:

  • Building a growth mindset culture
  • Increasing diversity of thought in teams and organisations
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Why you should have your own black box | Matthew Syed | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool

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A gripping read, full of intelligence and perspective.

James Dyson, Dyson

Matthew, Many thanks for yesterday's talk. Covid-19 might have delayed it but it seemed more relevant and pertinent 3 months on. Rebel Ideas is a fantastic and thought provoking read!

Jeremy Lytle, Partner at ECI Partners LLP

Fantastic session Sean and Bobby. Thanks for putting together. Not only hearing from the awesome and inspiring Matthew Syed on a Growth Mind set, but some great take-aways for me on Cognitive Diversity, Rebel Ideas, Social Dynamism and ‘blind spots’. Loved it!

Chris Gunning, Manager Transformation Services, Heineken
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5 out of 5 stars

It highlights the need for a growth mindset in life...It advocates for changing attitudes towards failure, and understanding that the only way we learn is by trying things and altering our behaviour based on the results.

Richard Branson, Virgin Group See all references

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