Keynote Speaking & Leadership Facilitation

“John Dore gave the best talk on organisational culture I have ever heard.”

Senior Executive, Global Telecoms


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GLUE: The Organisational Advantage How do you build cohesion, deep connection, and competitive edge in organisations where people rarely share the same room? This keynote introduces the GLUE framework — and challenges leadership teams to look honestly at what's holding them back.

What If Everything You Know About Leadership Is Wrong? Why our assumptions about leadership are outdated — and what it takes to lead with clarity and cohesion in a fractured world of work.

Listening Is Your Leadership Superpower. Forget charisma. The most powerful leadership capability in complex, distributed organisations isn't how you speak — it's how you listen. Practical, provocative, and immediately applicable.

You Don't Know Your Most Valuable People. Traditional performance models and HR processes systematically miss the people who hold organisations together. This keynote shows senior leaders how to find them — and what to do when they do.

Award-winning author · Creator of the GLUE framework · Director, FT #1 ranked executive programme · Keynote speaker

The leadership conversation most organisations are having is the wrong one. They're talking about skills, structures, and hybrid working policies. They're not talking about the thing that actually determines whether a senior team performs: the quality of relationships within the firm – in an ‘artificial world’.

John Dore changes that conversation — in keynotes that are thought-provoking, entertaining and consistently described as unlike anything audiences have heard before.

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Format: 30 - 90 minutes. In-Person, Hybrid of Virtual.
You decide how deep you want to go.


The Art of High Performance - creative team build for managers

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Workshops and experiences with Senior Executive teams - create some GLUE

Speaking topics

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What clients are saying:


"Not only was the content fresh and thoughtfully done, you made it come alive in a dramatic way. You truly are a terrific storyteller." Academic Director, Business School

"The team were buzzing. Energy levels stayed high throughout." Director of Marketing, Global Bank

The best and most productive offsite I have been to." Compliance Director, International Bank

John has delivered to thousands of senior leaders across 30+ countries.

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