Colin Ellis
Culture Consultant
I'm a 5 x best-selling author, award-winning speaker and culture consultant with almost 200 recommendations for my work of helping organisations to transform their cultures. I work with some of the world's biggest (and smallest!) organisations to help them create safe, respectful, high performing teams.
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Biography
Colin D Ellis is a global workplace culture expert sought after by organisations around the world to share how they can build vibrant, high-performance teams.
He is the author of five best-selling books, including “Detox Your Culture”, “Culture Fix" and the award-winning “Project Book”. He is a regular speaker at conferences and events around the world, and as an author he has been featured in media outlets such as Harvard Business Review, Sky News and the BBC.
To date he has worked with over 100 different cultures in 20+ countries with clients ranging from Red Bull in Austria, to the US House of Representatives, the Dutch Olympic Team and IAG Insurance in Australia.
Known for his humour and high energy, Colin uses data to support his passionate delivery and also ensures that his speeches provide laughter and practical actions that attendees can immediately take to transform the way they work. He is equally comfortable in front of 5000 people as he is 10.
Originally from the Liverpool, Colin now travels globally to deliver his programs and speeches. He enjoys coffee, a single malt whisky and still allows his football team Everton to ruin his weekend.
What I Currently Do
Publications
Detox Your Culture: Deliver results, retain staff, and strengthen your organization's reputation
The Hybrid Handbook: How To Set Yourself Up For The Future Of Work
Culture Hacks: 26 Ideas to Transform the Way You Work
Speaking Topics
Building and maintaining high performance teams
The requirements of continual high performance Why empathy is critical to motivation How to communicate to inspire The characteristics of high performing teams
How to spot and deal with a toxic culture
What is toxic culture? How to spot if you have one? The actions you can take to prevent toxic culture? The actions you need to take if you have one!
How to build a values-based, vibrant culture of success
The six pillars of workplace culture and how to maintain high performance How to spot where your culture is right now How to start the process of culture change Why evolution, not continual change is the key to success.
Media Appearances
Feedback
"Colin has become an integral partner to Red Bull and will continue to be trusted by our people, globally."
Chris Packwood
"Colin's passion is contagious. His session was inspirational, incredibly impactful, and so much fun!"
Oren Seliger
"Colin would have to be one of the most engaging and passionate people I have met. His enthusiasm and energy is contagious. He knows his stuff and manages to deliver insights in a way that it sticks and your thought processes start working differently."
Paula Brown
"If you are looking for an event and series of interventions, with real and lasting impacts on individuals and team, then Colin is your man!"
Bronwyn Clere
"Colin was superlative in his vibrant cultures speech delivery at our strategy summit. We enjoyed his planfulness, energy in presenting and ability to engage the group. I would not hesitate to recommend Colin."
Katherine Zangari
"We wanted someone who could set the tone for our High Performance conference and get everyone inspired for the following 3 days. We got what we asked for and more. With his highly entertaining, infectious and passionate delivery he energised the audience and got them deeply engaged. The topic of culture is extremely important and relevant to everyone and Colin made it tangible and practical. The feedback from the audience was outstanding."
Asker Jeukendrup
"Colin delivered a session for our senior leadership group on building vibrant cultures and the feedback was absolutely stellar. The participants thoroughly enjoyed Colin's enthusiasm, humour and candidness. Colin was diligent in weaving in our organisational messages and catered the session for our needs with valuable take home actions. Extremely complementary of Colin's work!"
Evelyn Mar
"Colin is one of a kind. You want actionable culture change that employees champion and deliver results, Colin is the man. He is unbelievable, funny, entertaining and he engages large groups and gets everyone involved in making change happen. Every organisation, team needs Colin."
Jo Hands
"Never ever have I seen a speaker so comfortable in their IP that they throw out to the room a Karaoke speaking challenge. The audience wrote on sticky notes what they wanted to specifically hear about on culture, and Colin confidently nailed it. Colin has the ability to hit key messages with stand up comedy pace. Bloody brilliant - 10/10"
Kara Atkinson
"We had Colin speak at a recent event on High Performing Culture and the energy he brought to the event was amazing! We had feedback on the day and post event that it was one of the best keynotes people had seen and throughout the entire session our audience was super engaged. It was a pleasure working with Colin."
Jaskirn Basra
"Colin is easily the best speaker I have ever seen. His unwavering energy, encyclopedic knowledge on business and business culture, and razor sharp wit create a force that is unmatched. I have hosted a wide variety of events and have never seen anything like him. His ability to balance thought leading knowledge with humour allow his field tested gems of information stick with you long beyond the day of the conference - not an easy feat!"
Nick Bartlett
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