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I teach on the KPMG Executive Leadership Programme and advises world leading companies on how to create resilient, high performance teams 

 

I have delivered world-class keynotes to Deloitte, KPMG, EY, Aviva, Sky, IHG, Kellogg's, L’Oreal, Sage, the UK Government and Oxford University. 

 

I reveal the secrets to being a high performer with a low risk of burnout. This makes me the ideal speaker if your focus is on driving both productivity and wellbeing. 

 

In my keynotes, audiences are introduced to a new way of working grounded in the cutting edge science of resilience, with practical tools to shift to a model of sustainable high performance.

 

I have gained industry recognition: A LinkedIn Top Voice on Public Speaking, Highly Commended as Best Live Speaker and voted the top 5 Best Story Tellers at the 2023 Speaker Awards.

Industry leaders work with me because I have a true gift for inspiring audiences. My jaw dropping story is a cautionary tale about the pressures of senior leadership and the lasting consequences when we get it wrong. 

With real vulnerability, I share how I went from the corridors of power to being diagnosed with a lifetime chronic pain condition. Clients often describe being deeply moved by my story of burnout and credit me with inspiring a deeper commitment to change. 


Now more than ever, we need guidance on how to keep going in the face of adversity. I show how we can make it through even the most difficult of circumstances. 

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Ronan
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Harrington

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Apr 20, 20266 min
Ronan Harrington: The Go-To Keynote Speaker for High-Growth Teams Under Pressure
If you are organising a leadership off-site or company-wide event and your brief sounds anything like this: "our people are exhausted, we have big targets to hit, and we're going through a lot of change" — this article is written for you. That brief lands in my inbox more than any other. And it makes sense. The organisations I work with, including Deloitte, EY, PwC, KPMG, Meta, L'Oréal, Sky, Aviva, IHG, Siemens Energy, Kimberly-Clark, HM Treasury, and the University of Oxford, are not...

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Aug 27, 20255 min
Resilience, Performance and Psychological Safety: A New Leadership Playbook for Law Firms
A leadership talk show I ran for Partners at Farrer & Co. Nothing like your expertise being put to the test by 4 partners with a combined 80 years of experience! A Proven Model for Law Firm Resilience and Performance Law firms are full of high-functioning, brilliant people. But the systems they operate within are often unsustainable. A 2023 Thomson Reuters report found that 66% of legal professionals say their time in the profession has been detrimental to their mental health. The Law Society...

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Aug 4, 20255 min
What Makes a Great Motivational Keynote Speaker on Resilience and Leadership
High performance is often understood as unrelenting output, but this outdated model is unsustainable. Truly high-performing...

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Jun 24, 20252 min
DLA Piper: how to serve your client and focus on value.
Speaking to senior partners at DLA Piper in Frankfurt, I posed a question: what is the right kind of available for your client? You...

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Dec 31, 20242 min
Surviving the shake up: Resilience during a restructuring.
Restructuring is a sink or swim moment. The difference is your attitude. The first attitude is anxious and resentful: Restructurings are deeply unsettling. Much loved people are let go, and it can be easy to spin out about how you're going to pay the mortgage if you're next. You're under immense pressure to up-level your performance with slashed budgets. You doubt if you can do it. Restructurings activate our worst impressions about the cold realities of business, and the leaders that...

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Sep 25, 20249 min
Building Resilient High Performing Teams: Unlocking Sustainable Success
This article explores what it takes to build resilient, high-performing teams that can thrive in any environment.

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Sep 22, 20241 min
How to reclaim productivity under fire
Here's a 2 min video on how to reclaim WOW moments for impact. Faced with a digital avalanche of tasks, we resort to a type of...

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Sep 10, 20241 min
Delivering for the UK's next Nuclear Power Plant
I'm back! Took two months off work this Summer to reset and find my inspiration again. I had so many keynotes on April-July, I was...

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May 26, 20241 min
New Research Alert! 🚨
I surveyed 1,500 professionals and the average person has 5 out of 9 burnout risk factors. The bad news: If you have 3 or more, you are...

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May 22, 20242 min
What I learned hosting my leadership talk show with Farrer & Co.
I interview four partners with a combined 83 years of experience. The theme was High Performance Leadership. I asked them for their hard...

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Apr 12, 20241 min
I'm overdue a hair cut
I had to take this photo multiple times at different angles so it wasn’t blocking out EY Ireland’s fab entrance sign! I’d be happy to do...

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Mar 19, 20241 min
The last taboo in every corporate office. 
If you honour your capacity, you are uncommitted. As a resilience keynote speaker, I invite audiences to see that this taboo lives inside...

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Feb 19, 20242 min
How to embed sustainable performance behaviours
As a motivational keynote speaker, I'm aware that it's a common experience to be at an inspiring away day and committing to a new way of...

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Feb 13, 20242 min
Mental Resilience is a sham
Experts say you just need a mindset shift to turn a difficult situation around. Wrong. Mental Resilience is our ability to process...

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Jan 1, 20241 min
KPMG Case Study
How excessive workload management can address burnout and mental health. A case study from KPMG, covered by the FT. "January to the...

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