Adrian Simpson

As an extended HR leadership team, we were pleased to host Adrian Simpson to delve into the topic of "what makes a high-performing organisation." Adrian shared invaluable insights from leading companies worldwide, focusing on HR practices aimed at accelerating performance. Personally, I found the session both inspiring and thought-provoking.

Thank you to Adrian Simpson for visiting us at Lilly House this week to share his insights on high performance organisations! Adrian is an encyclopaedia of incredible anecdotes from across the globe from many incredible businesses and leaders… getting to hear those first hand and reflect on this ‘outside-in’ view is invaluable! I would thoroughly recommend Adrian and his team at Wavelength for professional development sessions and programmes, their contacts across the world are extensive which provides a deep bed of expertise to learn from!

Adrian worked with us to deliver a virtual session covering the traits of high performing businesses and lessons from the Wavelength 10 with a group of our senior leaders and talent from 20 countries.

The content is like nothing else - I've never worked with a presenter that has so many brilliant stories and examples from a who's who of the world's best businesses. Our people came away inspired and privileged in equal measure to have got so much insight from so many iconic brands.

The delivery also worked fantastically well and transferred seamlessly from stage to online (using our own internal virtual classroom platform via Google). The slides and content bring the whole thing to life and Adrian's passion and engagement get people hooked. If anything, the virtual setting works even better as it feels more intimate and enables people to engage and debate rather than just watch - which is perfect for this subject.

An awesome session, delivered flawlessly in the virtual setting by an absolute rock star of leadership development.

Adrian was one of the best speakers we have had at our staff leadership conference. He absolutely knocked it out the park and stimulated thinking and action on what makes a high performing organisation. Would definitely recommend him to any organisation wanting to stretch their thinking.

Adrian's session was extremely thought provoking and enabled great debate, providing us the opportunity to step back and think about how we can address the challenges that are being seen across the talent landscape and shift in people’s behaviours since the pandemic.  Adrians's ability to navigate all the different external perspectives across multiple industries, whilst making it relevant to our sector was brilliant.

Adrian will inspire your colleagues, ignite your organisation and instil a sense of urgency and transformation. He has his finger on the pulse of the world’s best organisations and he will get you very close to their beating hearts!

Adrian managed to engage the entire team spellbound for about 90 minutes with fascinating case studies from Silicon Valley, Asia, Europe and other markets. His stories are awesome, his insights fascinating and his presentation very energetic. He helped us to connect the dots between banking to biotech to robotics to space, and took us on a roller-coaster ride through different industries and countries. I would highly recommend Adrian as a motivational speaker at corporate meetings, customer presentations and strategy offsites – he is guaranteed to send pulses racing and get ideas bubbling!

Adrian - You are indeed the biggest champion and understand what we are doing more than many others in the company. You live it and breath it. To now make the knowledge available to many others, and hopefully create the momentum for biggest change is a very noble cause. Thanks for doing that. Purpose is indeed closely linked to wellness and not many people see this yet. Again you are a pioneer here. You will enjoy the challenges and opportunities and you are well prepared for it. We will see each other still but already thanks for all you have done for this great institution. We will benefit from it for years to come.

Adrian’s presentation to my top team was truly excellent. He speaks with such authority, gravitas and insight about the key issues in leadership and business - service, innovation, disruption and resilience. The leadership team at Metro Bank are very busy people - so if we give up our time to listen to an outside speaker it better be good. And Adrian was very good indeed.