Prof Chris Roebuck

Chris Roebuck is Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Cass Business School in London. He has held senior roles at London Underground, UBS, HSBC and KPMG, has served in the British Army, and is one of the top 15 Human Resources (HR) thinkers in Europe. He has advised organisations across the world from global banks to the Red Cross, UK National Health Service to Chinese Space Programme, law firms to construction, logistics and transport.

His new approach to leadership - Mach 2 - set out in "Lead to Succeed" allows leaders, via a few simple actions, to transform working lives for staff, enhance their family life, help their organisations succeed, and deliver economic growth to their community. This transformation is simple, low cost, and brings quantifiable benefits quickly, with just two key steps. Anyone who leads people, or wants to, from young students to CEOs of major corporations, can use Mach 2 immediately. This can deliver improvements in not only performance, but also in customer service, managing risk, innovation, managing change, cost efficiency, and the handling of other critical challenges. Harvard Business Review interviewed him about Mach 2 in Beijing in 2014.

As Global Head of Leadership at UBS, 2002-5, he helped deliver leadership and development strategies resulting in one of the most successful corporate transformations to date with UBS boosting profits by 235%, market capitalisation by 51% all with a 3% cut in headcount. UBS also won Best Company for Leaders in Europe 2005, Best New Global Leadership Academy, and several Excellence Awards. Whilst at UBS Chris helped business leaders identify new business initiatives that delivered $12.5m extra revenue enabled by developing Entrepreneurial Leadership. The UBS transformation is now a Harvard Business School Case Study on aligning a large organisation to act as "one" in the delivery of success through optimum customer service and business development.

Since leaving UBS in 2006 Chris has advised major global organisations at board level on improving performance through their people, including the UK National Health Service (1.4m staff), global banks and law firms, and organisations in sectors such as logistics, consultancy, transport, engineering and healthcare, construction, local government and non-profits, including the Red Cross.

In 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014, Chris was voted one of the top 15 most influential HR thinkers. His Masterclasses and speaking regularly take him to USA and Europe, from Moscow to Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar and Hong Kong. He has presented to large groups from 1000 + top retail leaders at World Retail Congress, 500 HR directors with NASSCOM in India to 400 project managers with PMI in Dubai, worked with the top 50 leaders of the Chinese Space Programme and the Chinese Aviation Industry Corporation in Beijing and with invitation only C suite groups such as the Retail Leaders Circle in Dubai and the CEO Group at World Retail Congress. He is regularly asked to judge and present leadership HR and other business awards around the world and chair conferences.

Chris is an often featured in globally recognised publications, interviewed by Harvard Business Review in Beijing in 2014 and quoted as an expert in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Time Magazine, Washington Post, Times of India, Straits Times, China Securities Journal, Gulf Times, and more than 30 other titles. He has also been interviewed on leadership and management issues more than 250 times globally on BBC, Sky, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, Swiss and Russian TV, ITV, CNBC, CNN, Voice of America, the BBC Today programme, and World Service radio. He is a regular author for CEO and HR Magazines, has featured in professional publications including Health Service Journal, Law Society Gazette, Governance, Finance Director, and Management Today, and also writes a popular blog.

"Lead to Succeed", is a "handbook" for Mach 2 Leadership implementation. 20% of the profits of the book are donated to the Red Cross. His new book "Strategic Leadership Development" was published in July 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan and looks at why organisations need a specific focus on strategic leadership and how to deliver it. Too often this is missed with significant consequences. His 2000 other books on key skills, including Leadership, were translated into 11 different languages and were best sellers globally.

Chris has also been an entrepreneur and an innovator, developing the pipe fascine, a new aid to armoured formation mobility, whilst serving as a Royal Engineer Officer in the British Army.

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