Phil Lewis
Energy provider
Leaders: do you recognise these signs of low organisational energy?
Crucial projects stall or fail
Teams working harder but achieving less
Ideas falling flat before they’ve had time to take flight
Cynicism replacing curiosity
A generalised sense of ‘oh god, what now?’ in the ranks
These are all red flags, warning of a systemic energy deficit. Organisations aren’t made of metal, so they hit problems if they’re run along machine principles and not organic ones. They’re living systems with rhythms, cycles… and limits.
Think people, not parts
The good news is that low organisational energy can be revitalised. If you mend the metabolism, you release the energy. And that’s Phil’s specialism. He works with senior leaders to unblock energy at a systemic level. His work helps organisations recover momentum, rebuild belief and move forward together.
Phil’s keynotes are a lively and empowering experience that take an experiential approach to reframing energy not as a matter of personal wellbeing, but as a core organisational asset.
These sessions are ideal for Board meetings, senior leadership events and leadership development programmes that are looking to help an organisation shift gear or raise its game.
Biography
Phil’s a coach, consultant and keynote speaker whose work solves eight- and nine-figure business problems and transforms performance in organisations worldwide.
His client list includes Lloyds, Sony Music, Google, Nationwide, the Financial Times, the BBC and KPMG. He has also worked extensively with PE- and VC-backed high-growth businesses across the UK, Europe and the US.
Phil specialises in helping leaders and their teams:
Build high-performance ‘impact cultures’
Identify and overcome significant performance barriers and blockers
Transform leadership and managerial effectiveness
Plan and execute large-scale transformation processes in ways that mitigate or repair factors that can impact team morale and performance
Address unresolved conflict and the consequences of organisational trauma
Build more humanistic, empathetic and creative workplaces
Phil's work has won multiple awards for business transformation, cultural innovation and consulting excellence (BCAs 2023, 2021, 2020). He has also been recognised as one of the UK’s leading innovation consultants by the Management Consultancies Association.
Energy at Work keynote
An intensive hour that reframes the concept of energy to benefit organisations systemically.
Half-day Energy session
A deeper, more personalised exploration of organisational energy, incorporating the Energy at Work keynote as well as opening up space to explore the energetic state of your teams and organisation.
Full-day Energy session
An invigorating day that gets into the fundamentals of organisational energy, personalised to your organisation. Work through a diagnostic framework to pinpoint energy blockages that are slowing progress.
Topics
You can’t tighten bolts on culture. High-performing organisations are not fuelled by fear, top-down or distended hours. Like people, they run on energy, and that energy can be enhanced (or depleted) at a systemic level as well as individually.
Phil’s primary focus is on the power and potential of organisational energy, and his chosen topics all speak to this. Within that, there are three alternative angles to engage with the subject:
Regaining balance
Mergers, acquisitions, restructures, changes in leadership: events like these can create disquiet, disrupt team dynamics and slow progress. Discover tactics that help you to regain control and restore balance to businesses undergoing complicated change.
Recovering optimism
Change fatigue, churning cycles of strategy and unresolved conflict can drain the energy from your people and your organisation. But energy doesn’t simply disappear. It hits blockages, failing to reach the parts that need fuel to operate well. Energy Sessions show you where those barriers are, and how to dissolve them. So you can begin to restore the belief that progress is possible.
Building high-energy cultures
Culture is the central nervous system of a business. Like the human central nervous system, a healthy culture regulates responses, deals with changes and enables development. Discover the attributes of a high-energy, high-performing culture and find out how augmenting different cultural attributes can help your team thrive.
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Everything you get when you book Phil
Phil’s an experienced, generous speaker who works with you to make your event a success. As well as delivering the keynote on the day, Phil’s also happy to contribute to promotional material before and/or afterwards, such as:
Pre-event video
Co-operation in PR and media interviews
Contributed articles or blogs
Sessions also include bespoke workbooks and reflection exercises. These practical resources turn the keynote into an ongoing conversation within your organisation, extending the value of the sessions beyond a one-off event.
Feedback
“Phil brought clarity and thoughtful challenge to our workshop, [helping] us cut through the noise and have the conversations that really mattered. A great partner for any senior leaders navigating change.”
Natasha Wood, Head of Strategy, FT Live
“Incredibly responsive and empathetic to our specific challenges and ambition."
Darina Garland, co-CEO, Ooni
“Phil and team shone a light on the art of the possible and offered a practical framework which we knew we could use with confidence to get to where we wanted to be. It allowed us to focus on the things that would genuinely make a difference and to spend our time on these most important drivers of change. The results have been genuinely impressive.”
Matthew Heath, CMO Americas & EMEA, Invesco
“A coherent, practical, and non-fluffy approach to tackling major organisational change barriers.
Sue Bonney, Partner and Board Member, KPMG
