Dan Cable – PROFESSOR OF ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

Speaking Topics

• What Do You Bring To Work?
• Creating a Growth Mindset Culture
• The Psychology of Sustainable Change
• Authentic Leadership and the Role of Purpose
• Best Self Activation
• The Power of Purpose
• How Do I Create a Culture of Innovation?

How do you inspire people to inject more passion into what they do? 

The author of Alive at Work and a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School, Dan Cable spends his working hours trying to understand how to spark passion in an organization and make your work life feel more “real.” 

How? 

By tapping into what neuroscientists call our “seeking systems”—our core biological desire to explore, learn, and develop. 

With simple, actionable redesigns, you can activate employees’ seeking systems and transform your organization into one that harmonizes with your employees. 

Backed with actionable steps and real-life examples from around the world, Dan helps you ignite the curiosity and passion that lives within each of us.

Dan Cable is a leading expert on organisational behaviour, having shared his expertise as a professor at the London Business School since 2009.

In his role as Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the London Business School, Dan helps students to navigate the complexities of workplace culture and how humans behave in organisational settings.

Now booked as a keynote speaker, Dan shares his expertise of organisational culture with leading companies, including the likes of Coca-Cola and PwC, focussing on topics such as creating a growth mindset culture, the power of purpose and the psychology of sustainable change.

Dan Cable is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School.

He has also been a professor at Georgia Tech and the University of North Carolina.

His research and teaching focus on employee engagement, change, organisational culture, leadership mindset and the linkage between brands and employee behaviours.
In 2020, Dan won London Business School’s Excellence in Teaching Award and he was selected for the 2018 Thinkers50 Radar List.

The Academy of Management has twice honoured him with Best Article awards and the Academy of Management Perspectives ranked Dan in the Top 25 Most Influential Management Scholars.
Dan’s latest book, Exceptional, appears in September 2020 with Chronicle.

His last book, Alive at Work, appeared in March 2018 through Harvard Business School Press.
Dan’s first book was Change to Strange and he has also published two edited books and more than 50 articles in top scientific journals.

His most recent research was published in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Journal and Administrative Science Quarterly. This research has been featured in The Economist, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, The New York Times and Business Week.

Dan has worked with a broad range of organisations – from high-tech start-ups to the World Economic Forum. His recent clients include Carlsberg, Coca Cola, Estée Lauder, EY, HSBC, IKEA, McDonalds, MS Amlin, Prudential, PwC, Rabobank, Roche, Sanofi, Siemens and Twitter.

Talks & Topics

How to create exceptional performance through empowerment

Lancefield on the Line

‘Leaders like to be able to look out over their people and say ‘Yes, they’re working’. It’s kind of like: if I can see you, then I don’t have to trust you…’

How to bring your best and bravest self to work

The Marketing Society

‘Fitting in versus standing out – I think that we are a very social species and there is a huge urge to conform and to get your head down…’

Make a life, not just a living

‘We have, inside of us, an innate need or drive to explore our environment – to learn new things and understand our cause and our effect…’

Bring your best self to work

London Business School

‘What if you got a chance to hear your own eulogy while you were still alive? What would that be like?’

Psychology – The Psychology of Sustainable Change

Learning is not failure—but sometimes it can feel like it in the middle of the process.

In fact, this is why so many personal and organizational change attempts fizzle out.

Dan will reflect on the “chatter” that our brain uses to “talk to us” during episodes of change, and the emotions we feel during this experience.

As we talk about making change “the new normal,” we will cover three practical underlying principles of change as “make or break” investments:

1) the power of purpose,
2) learning mindset and investing in good pain, and
3) celebrating early wins.

The key part of the discussion is the distinction between growth and achieving mindsets, and how achievement today using comfortable behaviors may lead to irrelevance tomorrow.

Mental Health and Fitness – Confident Vulnerability

How can you put your self-doubts to work for you?

When leaders reveal their trip-ups and failures, they build a culture of psychological safety and are seen as more approachable.

But being vulnerable isn’t easy.

Dan looks at evidence-based approaches to showing vulnerability and building trust, without losing employees’ confidence.

He’ll discuss the power of sharing some of your personal developmental journey, when you personally received constructive feedback that you needed to improve and adapt, which normalizes learning.

The Power of Purpose

We will discuss why purpose is important to humans, and why stories about purpose are so critical in inspiring employee commitment and resilience, particularly when change, innovation and creativity are necessary.

Purpose also promotes health and well-being: when we feel a sense of purpose, our immune cells are more effective, leading to longer, better lives.

Dan discusses how leaders can help themselves and employees feel more purpose by enabling them to

1) play to their strengths and innovate at work
2) balance urgent work with important work, and
3) personalize their stories about purpose in their work.

Dan will introduce methods to expose the stories we are currently telling ourselves about the why off the work, and to think about other stories be more inspiring.

Neuroscience and Change

What does neuroscience tell us about creating sustainable change in our habits and our cultures?

How can leaders trigger the helpful emotions of curiosity and excitement instead of anxiety and fear?

We’ll discuss how our brains tells us that new activities are “not authentic” and what we can do about it.

Finally, Dan can talk about how the brain “holds” its image of a self and we can activate our best selves more often.

Future of Work – What Do People Bring To Work?

Great leaders inspire people to apply the best of themselves – their hands, their heads, and their hearts – toward a shared vision about how the organization excites customers.

Great firms invest heavily making sure that their people reliably act and make decisions in ways that differentiate them from the competition.

They implement ‘strange’ workforce systems that make employees act in noticeably better ways.

Client Testimonials from previous events

His engaging way of teaching has made a big difference for the managers attending the training. The eye-opening points he makes on how we lead and what motivates people is something which is remembered long after the training.

Head of Leadership & Talent Management, Nordea

What separates Dan from the rest is his non-conventional delivery. By intelligently using a powerful arsenal of concepts, relevant real-life examples and analogies he was able to engage a team of very senior leaders from start to finish.

Group HR Director, Coca-Cola Asia Pacific