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Keynote SpeakerSally Earnshaw

Chief Oompher, Culture, Change Leadership and Keynote Speaker

Sally Earnshaw, known as the Chief Oompher, is a renowned expert in leadership effectiveness and organisational culture. For over 20 years, she has been helping top teams from globally recognized brands, as well as important but lesser-known companies and rapidly growing small businesses, energize their strategies, cultures, and people to... Read More

Biography

Sally Earnshaw, known as the Chief Oompher, is a renowned expert in leadership effectiveness and organisational culture. For over 20 years, she has been helping top teams from globally recognized brands, as well as important but lesser-known companies and rapidly growing small businesses, energize their strategies, cultures, and people to achieve high performance. Sally’s expertise lies in her ability to bring out the best in people and organisations by focusing on clear, practical, and impactful communication and leadership tools that deliver immediate results.

In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive economic environment, speed of execution is a must. Sally emphasises that “your strategy is worth nothing if you can’t communicate it.” Effective communication in leadership fosters resilience, boosts productivity, and enhances overall performance. With increasing demands on leaders to navigate complex changes and drive their teams towards success, Sally’s insights on the importance of clarity, how to get everyone aligned and engaged and tools to drive execution have helped hundreds of organisations build a high-performance culture.
Sally’s keynotes are highly interactive and engaging, offering practical tools that can be immediately applied in both professional and personal contexts. Her sessions are known for their real-life examples, humour, and human science hacks. She focuses on delivering the greatest hits of tools, strategies, and approaches that have proven successful over two decades. Unlike many speakers, Sally does not rely on personal triumph stories but instead delivers actionable insights tailored to the needs of her audience.

Sally has worked with a wide array of prestigious ‘giants’ across many sectors, including Retail, Financial Services, Utilities, Hospitality, Telecommunications and Technology. Her ability to navigate complex contexts and personalities has earned her high praise across various industries, from honing her strategic direction messaging and ensuring effective communication to colleagues, to a Director at Amazon highlighting her ability to navigate a complex global strategic facilitation with high-energy, impact and pace.

Sally’s credibility is backed by numerous testimonials from top executives and industry leaders. Her clients consistently praise her for her infectious energy, effective facilitation, and ability to drive transformational change. Notable endorsements highlight her capability to work with both CEO-level executives and frontline teams, her expertise in organizational culture and behaviour, and her knack for delivering substantial returns on investment through activated culture change.

Sally Earnshaw stands out as a keynote speaker who not only inspires but also equips leaders with the tools needed to succeed in today’s dynamic economy. Her extensive experience, engaging speaking style, and proven track record with top-tier companies make her an ideal choice for events focused on leadership and organizational excellence. With Sally, audiences gain actionable insights, increased motivation, and the confidence to drive significant positive changes within their organizations.

Sally is a TEDx speaker, a published author and top tier leadership facilitator and coach.

“Her ability to deliver a keynote and engage a room is off the scale. Funny, informative, thought-provoking and most importantly – memorable.” Barclays, Director
“Working with Sally not only on our leadership programme, but also on our strategic messaging has been extremely uplifting and beneficial. Her energy is contagious and more importantly her content sticks.” CEO Construction
“I have had the pleasure of witnessing Sally's effectiveness firsthand. She is not only great at what she does but also has a remarkable ability to get the job done efficiently and effectively. Her commitment to excellence is evident in every project she undertakes. I wholeheartedly recommend Sally for any role involving developing leadership teams.” CEO/NED
“Sally is without doubt the most consistently energetic and positive person I have worked with in a long time and I don’t say that lightly. Careful with messaging, real in assessment and packs a huge punch in execution. Fabulous in all her delivery. Having worked with Sally at various points, I cannot recommend her enough if you want someone with a huge amount of sass, substance and style to come in and drive change in your leadership teams. Sally's natural enthusiasm takes leadership teams on a transformational journey and she is always happy to call how it she sees it which you don’t often see in consultants. A true partner and passionate about leadership & driving transformational change.” Director Telcos
“Sally did amazing work with our leadership team in helping us achieve a clear articulation of our strategy and being able to tell our story both internally and externally with real vision and purpose. As Chief Oompher :) she really inspired our team to plant that flag on the hill and go for it ! Thank you Sally, we couldn’t have done it without you.” Director FS
“Sally has run two challenging day long strategy facilitation session for me at Amazon this year. Both involved navigating complex contexts and personalities to arrive at actionable outcomes. Sally delivered brilliantly - not only in terms of the outcomes attained but perhaps most importantly, through ensuring the process itself was high energy, engaging and fun! I would recommend her wholeheartedly for large or small scale event facilitation on virtually any topic.” Director Amazon

Popular Talks by Sally Earnshaw

  • Leading Change
    In today’s fast-paced world, the demands on leaders have never been greater. Leading change is a critical skill that, when mastered, can drive remarkable outcomes. Humans are naturally adept at change when they know where to focus their efforts. This keynote introduces three powerful toolsets that leaders can use to...
  • Bold Leadership

    Our rapidly evolving world is volatile and uncertain, yet brimming with opportunities. Research shows that the future favours the bold. Bold leadership encompasses bold thinking, bold execution, and bold communication.

    This keynote provides tools to enhance boldness across the six dynamics of bold leadership.

  • Customer-Focused Leadership
    Customer-focused leadership is fundamentally about cultivating the right culture. Companies that excel in this area focus on key things that drive measurable difference in customer outcomes. Effective customer-centric leadership starts at the top and demands unwavering commitment. This keynote reveals the distinct strategies of top-performing customer-centric companies, organised into actionable...
  • Communicating with Impact

    Effective leadership hinges on powerful communication. Leaders must be compelling and courageous to navigate the ever-changing landscape. Being a meaningful, memorable, and motivating communicator accelerates performance and execution.

    This keynote offers leaders a series of tools to enhance engagement, motivation, and performance through impactful communication.

  • Women in Leadership
    Women are exceptional leaders, and we need more of them in senior positions. There are straightforward tools to unlock potential and help individuals thrive (men also benefit from these tools). This keynote inspires both current and aspiring leaders to seize opportunities, enhance personal presence, and become skilful, impactful, and courageous...
  • Be the Best You Can Be

    Everyone has the potential to achieve their goals and ambitions. Simple tools can unlock personal effectiveness and impact. Small changes can lead to significant improvements.

    This keynote presents a set of quick wins for anyone aiming to be clear, focused, effective, resilient, positive, and impactful.

  • High-Performing Mindsets

    In any field, human performance follows a bell curve. High performers think differently, and these mindsets and behaviors can be emulated by anyone.

    This keynote outlines the ways in which high performers think differently to achieve their goals and provides tool to lead a high performance culture.

  • Inclusive Leadership
    Organizations recognize the importance of diversity, but true inclusivity goes beyond a checklist. It requires valuing people for their uniqueness and fostering a sense of belonging. Inclusivity can be challenging and requires leaders and the teams they lead to engage in honest, sometimes uncomfortable conversations. This keynote provides practical tools...
  • Workshop: Strategy into narrative

    As a leadership team, you have clear ambitions and goals, but may struggle with alignment and communication. Our five-step, 1-2 day facilitation process ensures you gain a decisive execution advantage. We help you create alignment, clarity, and a compelling narrative that energizes and motivates your entire organization.

  • Workshop: Accelerate Change Execution
    In today’s fast-paced world, the demands on leaders have never been greater. Leading change is a critical skill that, when mastered, can drive remarkable outcomes. Humans are naturally adept at change when they know where to focus their efforts.   This workshop covers the 9 crucial toolsets that leaders can...