Dan Cable – PROFESSOR OF ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Topical keynote Speakers & Experts - Communication, Change & Culture
Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School, Bestselling Author & Expert on Employee Motivation, Purpose and Creating High-Performance Cultures
Speaker Overview
Dan Cable is a world-renowned organisational psychologist, bestselling author and Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School.
His work explores one of the most important questions facing leaders today: how can organisations create environments where people feel motivated, energised and able to perform at their best?
Drawing on research from psychology, neuroscience and organisational behaviour, Dan demonstrates that people are naturally driven to explore, learn, experiment and make an impact. Yet many traditional workplace systems unintentionally suppress these instincts through excessive control, bureaucracy and standardisation.
He is the author of Alive at Work, Exceptional and Change to Strange, and his research has been published in leading academic journals as well as outlets including Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review.
Dan’s keynotes combine rigorous research with engaging stories and practical ideas that help leaders rethink motivation, purpose, culture and the employee experience.
Popular Speaking Topics
Alive at Work
Why do so many people become disengaged from work, and what can leaders do about it?
Dan explores the science behind human motivation and demonstrates how organisations can create environments where people feel more curious, energised and connected to what they do.
The Science of Employee Motivation
What actually motivates people to perform?
Drawing on behavioural science and neuroscience, Dan challenges traditional assumptions about motivation and explains how leaders can activate people’s natural desire to learn, experiment and contribute.
Creating a High-Performance Culture
How organisations can create cultures where people take greater ownership, contribute their strengths and feel motivated to perform at their best.
Helping People Find Purpose at Work
How leaders can help employees see the impact of their work and create stronger connections between everyday activities and a meaningful organisational purpose.
Bringing Your Best Self to Work
How organisations can help people identify and use their distinctive strengths rather than encouraging everyone to conform to a standardised corporate identity.
Leading Through Change
Why change becomes easier when employees feel they have agency and ownership rather than feeling that transformation is simply being imposed upon them.
Employee Engagement and the Future of Work
How leaders can rethink the employee experience as expectations around autonomy, meaning, flexibility and personal development continue to change.
Why Book Dan Cable?
Dan brings together world-class academic research and practical insights into one of the biggest challenges facing organisations: getting the best from their people.
Rather than treating employee engagement as an HR initiative or focusing on superficial workplace perks, Dan examines the underlying psychology of human motivation.
His research demonstrates why curiosity, experimentation, personal strengths, purpose and a sense of impact can have such a powerful influence on how people experience work.
This makes his insights particularly valuable for organisations seeking to improve employee engagement, build stronger cultures, navigate transformation and create sustainable high performance.
Dan also has the ability to translate complex academic research into ideas that senior leaders and employees can immediately understand and apply.
Audiences Leave With:
- A clearer understanding of what really motivates people at work
- Practical strategies for increasing employee engagement
- New ways to create greater purpose and meaning at work
- Tools for helping employees use their individual strengths
- Strategies for increasing curiosity and experimentation
- Ideas for creating greater ownership during organisational change
- Evidence-based approaches to building high-performance cultures
- Practical ways leaders can create more energising workplaces
Biography
Dan Cable is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School and an internationally recognised expert on organisational culture, employee motivation, leadership and behavioural science.
His research focuses on how organisations can create environments that enable people to flourish and perform at their best.
A central theme of Dan’s work is what he describes as the human “seeking system”, the part of our motivational system that encourages exploration, experimentation, learning and curiosity.
Dan argues that these natural human instincts can become suppressed inside organisations when work becomes overly controlled, repetitive or disconnected from a meaningful sense of purpose.
His bestselling book Alive at Work explores how leaders can reactivate these instincts and create workplaces where employees feel more enthusiastic, creative and personally invested in what they do.
Dan is also the author of Exceptional: Build Your Personal Highlight Reel and Unlock Your Potential, which explores how people can better understand their strengths by examining the moments when they have performed at their best.
His earlier book, Change to Strange, examines how organisations can create distinctive cultures that encourage employees to behave in ways that support competitive advantage.
Dan’s academic research has been published extensively in leading management and organisational psychology journals, and his ideas have appeared in publications including Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review.
His research and teaching have taken him around the world, working with executives and organisations to understand how leadership, culture and organisational systems influence human behaviour.
Today, Dan helps organisations rethink how they motivate their people and create cultures that allow employees to bring more energy, curiosity and individuality to their work.
Speaking Style
Engaging, intelligent and highly accessible. Dan combines behavioural science, fascinating research and compelling stories to explain why people behave the way they do at work.
His presentations are thought-provoking without being overly academic, giving audiences practical ideas they can immediately apply to leadership, culture and employee engagement.
Ideal Audiences
- Leadership Conferences
- HR and People Strategy Events
- Employee Engagement Conferences
- Culture and Transformation Events
- Leadership Development Programmes
- Future of Work Summits
- Corporate Offsites
- Talent Conferences
- Organisational Change Programmes
- Employee Experience Events
- Senior Leadership Meetings
- Large Enterprise Leadership Teams
Key Takeaway
Dan Cable shows that sustainable high performance does not come from controlling people more closely.
It comes from creating environments that activate people’s natural desire to explore, learn, contribute and make an impact.
When leaders give people greater opportunities to use their strengths, experiment with new ideas and understand the purpose behind their work, employees become more engaged and organisations become more adaptable and effective.
Book Dan Cable For Your Event
Dan Cable delivers engaging, research-led keynote presentations that help organisations improve employee motivation, culture, engagement and performance.
Drawing on behavioural science, neuroscience and decades of organisational research, he explains what people need from work in order to feel energised, connected and able to perform at their best.
His talks are ideal for leadership conferences, HR events, employee engagement programmes, transformation events and corporate offsites where organisations want to create stronger cultures and unlock more of the potential within their people.
Contact us today to check availability and discover how Dan Cable can help your organisation create a more engaged, energised and high-performing workforce.
