RONAN HARRINGTON
International Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speaker on Resilient High-Performance​
Trusted by the Big Four, Meta, L'Oréal and the world's leading firms
I'm a keynote speaker on Resilient High Performance: the art of delivering results under pressure while adapting to constant change.
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As a former Futurist to the UK Foreign Office, I advised senior government leaders on geopolitical risk and predicted many of the disruptive forces now reshaping the corporate landscape.
Today I work with industry leaders navigating AI transformation, market volatility, and organisational restructuring, helping their people perform under pressure and lead with clarity through uncertainty.
The Resilient Performance Method™
Generic leadership advice and one-off inspiration won't cut it.
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I'm the creator of the Resilient Performance Method™, a practical model of performance under pressure developed in collaboration with Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG. It gives leaders and teams a clear pathway to performing at their best through sustained pressure and change, proven as a win-win for productivity and wellbeing.
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Your team needs more than armour. They need a battle plan.
Clients include Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG, Meta, L'Oréal, A&O Shearman, DLA Piper Sky, Sage, Aviva, Kellanova, TUI, EDF Energy, Kimberely-Clark, Aviva.
Ronan is a world-class resilience teacher. His ability to connect leaders with themselves and each other is rare.
John Waterfield
HEAD OF STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIPS
The Talk They're Still Quoting on Monday
Nobody changes how they work because a slide told them to.
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That's why my keynotes are built on story first. Audiences laugh, then recognise themselves, then get honest about pressure in a way most workplaces never allow. That honesty is the doorway. Once it's open, the science and the tools land.
This is why I am ranked as a Top 10 Speaker on Resilience by London Speaker Bureau and a Top 8 Speaker on High Performance by Chartwell Speakers.​ It's also why clients bring me back for company-wide rollouts: keynotes and workshops that cascade a shared language of high performance from graduate intake to executive board. A message people enjoyed hearing is a message they repeat. That's how culture actually shifts.
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Your people leave with tools they use the next morning, and a story they retell at dinner.
Ronan gave the key-note speech to all 200 of our Senior Financial Services Consulting Leaders on the topic of ‘resilience versus endurance’. Our Leadership Team are still talking about it and it has prompted a very healthy and open discussion about how we build resilience for ourselves and our people.
Thank you Ronan – you were brilliant.
Scott Wheatley
HEAD OF FINANCIAL CONSULTING
A Story Reported From the Front Lines
Most speaker stories follow the same arc: that was then, this is now. I struggled, I overcame, here are my five lessons.
Mine doesn't. After crashing and burning in the limelight of national politics, I received a life-altering chronic health diagnosis. I'm still in it, seven years and counting. I report from the front lines.
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That's what moves an audience from the head into the heart. When the speaker is visibly in the messy middle, people stop evaluating the talk and start recognising their own struggles in it. Something opens. And in that opening, they find a deeper source of strength than any technique can reach.
That's the keynote people are still talking about weeks later. Not because it was polished. Because it was true.
I left Ronan’s talk truly speechless and determined to take better care of myself. He tells his resilience story through sharing deeply moving lived experiences, anchoring it with compelling science, breathing it to life with humour and relatability – a rare, powerful alchemy that goes so far beyond a typical “keynote speaker” it seems a miss to even refer to it as that.
Essential. Inspirational. Human.
Julia Jahn
Director of Employee Experience, AKQA.
My top 8 keynote offerings for conferences, webinars, away days and in-house leadership programmes. They can be viewed in detail on my topic page.
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Resilient High-Performance: The Industry Leader Playbook
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Accelerate or Evaporate: Winning the AI Transformation Race
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Agile Resilience: Adapt to AI Disruption and Relentless Market Pressure
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Transformative Leadership: Building Resilient, High Performance Teams
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Extraordinary Productivity: From Busyness to Brilliant Impact
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Open To Change: Building Resilience During Organisational Restructuring
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Relational Excellence: Psychological‑Safety as the Path to High Performance
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Boundless Growth Mindset: Shatter the Success Ceiling ​​​
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On my topic page, each keynote and workshop has full list of key take aways so you can assess if they will meet your learning objectives. I also conduct in-depth research to create bespoke keynotes on any industry specific problem you are facing, so reach out if you have a specific brief in mind.
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Keynote and Workshop Topics
I left Ronan’s talk truly speechless and determined to take better care of myself. He tells his resilience story through sharing deeply moving lived experiences, anchoring it with compelling science, breathing it to life with humour and relatability – a rare, powerful alchemy that goes so far beyond a typical “keynote speaker” it seems a miss to even refer to it as that. Essential. Inspirational. Human.
Julian Jahn, Director of Employee Experience, AKQA
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Ronan gave a very inspiring and engaging speech and touched everybody in the room – intellectually and emotionally. He organised a very good mix between presenting facts & figures, giving practical tips and initiating short breakout-sessions to ensure full engagement of all participants.
Ronan fulfilled 100% of our expectations.
Thomas Holstein
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
