Most keynotes inform. Some entertain.

Very few actually change anything.

These ones do.

“Richard
Jacobs is
one of the
world’s most
original
voices on
human
behaviour
and change.”
Richard Jacobs
Founder, YESindeed
  • Global Change Expert
  • Olivier Award-Winning Performer
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Richard Jacobs
Founder, YESindeed
These are not keynotes…
they are
pivotal
moments.
Live experiences that awaken thinking, connection, and choice.
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These keynote experiences combine:

Theatre. Behavioural science.

Interactivity. Humour.

and 30 years experience
into moving people into new ways of seeing and behaving.

Designed for audiences

facing real pressure around:

Leadership - Market changes - Cultural issues - Integration

Richard Jacobs has trained

over 400,000 people working with

leaders, teams and organisations at

moments when their mindsets and

behaviours need to shift.

Impact - Interactivity - Humour.

Pivotal Keynotes Experiences

Whether for a leadership summit, company conference, or global event, Richard tailors every keynote to your culture, your people, and your moment in time.
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Richard Jacobs is one of the world’s most original voices on human behaviour and change.
“Richard connects across cultures with humour, heart, and insight. He makes complex topics feel human - and unforgettable.”
Rosemary Koesling, Google
“I have seen many speakers in my time but… nobody impacts a room like Richard”
Coca Cola
“Richard brings mastery, structure, and humanity - no one else delivers impact quite like this.”
Tony White, Coca-Cola & Allianz
“Richard speaks with heart, humor, and incredible presence. He has a rare ability to meet people where they are - switching between languages with ease, navigating delicate topics with sensitivity, and bringing stories to life in ways that stay with you. His theatre background adds a richness that is both engaging and transformative.”
Google
“Narrator, storyteller, facilitator, coach - Richard captivates any audience while guiding them to new levels of awareness. His mastery spans industries from FMCG to high tech.”

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Every company holds an untapped reservoir of human genius - thousands of years of experience, intuition, and creativity waiting to connect.

A company of 1,000 people with an average of 12 years’ experience each holds 12,000 years of human knowledge - almost never fully harnessed. When that power meets AI, something new emerges: Augmented Intelligence - the most valuable, underused asset in business today.

In this keynote, Richard reveals:

  • How to unlock the Collective Intelligence already present in your teams.
  • The micro-behavioural prompts that multiply collaboration and insight.
  • How AI and human intelligence can amplify - not replace - each other
  • Where this fusion leads when scaled across an organisation.

Outcome:
A new way of thinking about intelligence - human, artificial, and collective - and how to harness all three for exponential progress.

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We don’t wake up with a script for our day, our meetings, or our leadership moments.

Every conversation is improvised
- so why not develop your improvisational instinct?

Drawing on decades of experience in stand-up comedy, BBC television, and live InterAct training, Richard shows how improvisation can become a superpower for leaders and teams.

You’ll experience - and practise

  • The principles of Improve-isation™:
  • How to stay present, connected, and spontaneous under pressure.
  • How to listen with precision and respond with purpose.
  • How to transform tension into trust, and uncertainty into creativity

Outcome:
The result? Teams that are more agile, open, and alive
- able to thrive in a world that changes by the minute.

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Are we vastly underestimating our own potential?

Drawing on insights from theatre, neuroscience, and improvisation, Richard reveals extraordinary evidence of what people can do when they step beyond the limits of expectation: think faster, sense deeper, connect intuitively, and access creativity that logic alone can’t reach. This keynote is an invitation a challenge and an experiential way of examining what intelligence really is. To ask: Are we vastly underestimating our own potential?

You’ll discover:

  • Why our definition of intelligence is limited.
  • How to access expanded states of awareness, creativity, and flow.
  • Practical ways to unlock collective potential - on purpose.

Outcome:
‍A radical shift in how you see human potential - and the tools to expand it. Because if our capacities truly outstrip our expectations… it’s time we caught up with ourselves.

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What’s the real Source Code of Organisational Change?

Drawing on 30 years of designing award winning culture change programs, behavioural science and collective intelligence, Richard shows how change actually happens - not through grand programmes, but through precise shifts in how people think, interact, and act together. The real source code of transformation is already inside your organisation. The question is: are you activating it?

You’ll discover:

  • The missing strand in organisational change - and why ignoring it guarantees friction, fatigue, and failure.
  • How culture is formed attitudes and in micro-behaviours, not values statements - and how to rewire it deliberately.
  • What it actually takes to move people from compliance to commitment, and from change fatigue to a self-empowered movement.

Outcome:
‍A radical shift in how you see human potential - and the tools to expand it. Because if our capacities truly outstrip our expectations… it’s time we caught up with ourselves.

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