Activator.
Reawakening creativity, curiosity & human potential.
You hired curious, creative, courageous five-year-olds. The world trained it out of them. Now you’re asking them to innovate.
I’m here to reawaken what was always theirs.
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Microsoft
Visa
UNESCO
Telefónica
England Rugby
Harvard
Cisco
We squander human potential.
The work is to reawaken it.
Every person in your organisation was once five years old. Curious. Creative. Courageous. They didn’t lose those qualities. They were trained out of them — by school, by work, by the world.
I don’t run change programmes. I don’t sell frameworks. I reawaken the human potential your organisation already has — and forgot to use.
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction."
Richard Gerver is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers in the world — not because he tells organisations what to do, but because he reawakens in their people the capacity to figure it out themselves.
He doesn’t run change programmes. He doesn’t sell systems. He walks into a room and gives back the curiosity, courage, and creativity that the organisation hired and somewhere along the way forgot it had.
Across six continents and inside the organisations of Google, Microsoft, Visa, Harvard, Olympic teams and governments, his argument has remained the same: the problem is never the market, the technology, or the strategy. The problem is that organisations consistently squander the human potential they were built to develop.
Sir Ken Robinson called him “the practical embodiment of high-thinking on unleashing creativity and potential.” His clients call him back.
Three talks. One verb. Reawaken.
Reawaken Curiosity
Reawaken Change
Reawaken Simplicity
Professional troublemaker. Bestselling author. The speaker your people will still be quoting six months later.
In Mexico City, at a festival of ideas, an elementary-school headteacher from the East Midlands walked onto a concert-sized stage to Kings of Leon. The crowd of several thousand executives had been expecting something institutional. They gave him a standing ovation.
It began with a school in the bottom 5% of national rankings and a seven-year-old who told a government inspector, unprompted: “This school is famous — and I made it famous.” Within two years, the school was in the top 5%.
That is where the work started. The full profile explains where it went next — and why the method has not changed.
The work, in other people's words.
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