Keynotes that change how leaders feel about leading. No recycled clichés. No passive inspiration. Ideas your people are still thinking about a year later, because of the emotion of that moment they first heard them.
Benjamin is not an academic. He has founded companies, lost money, rebuilt, and carries the scars to show for it. A practitioner who happens to write books.
Every talk is tailored to your specific event. Standard prep: discovery call; attendee review; pre-event marketing; professionally prepared one-of-a-kind keynote; resource page for your event.
and that’s why people suck at it.
Most leadership training is a con. It’s management in a better suit, teaching you what to do while carefully never asking the only question that matters: should you be anywhere near power at all? Because here’s the truth nobody on the conference circuit will tell you. Whatever’s unresolved in you doesn’t disappear when you get the title. It gets amplified, and everyone below you pays for it. This keynote doesn’t hand out frameworks or flatter the room. It turns the lights on, names what your ego is doing to your people, and asks if you’re brave enough to change it.
Most people with leadership titles aren’t leaders.
How fearless leaders create extraordinary companies that change everything.
What if your company could become unstoppable — not just commercially successful, but profoundly meaningful? Drawing on two decades of work with transformative organisations, this keynote reveals the framework that makes companies like Patagonia, LEGO and Interface immune to competition. The world doesn’t need more ordinary companies. It needs organisations built to matter — where purpose and profit powerfully reinforce each other.
The world doesn’t need more ordinary companies. It needs leaders willing to build something that matters.
The eight non negotiable rules of champion teams.
What separates truly great teams from those that merely collect talented individuals? The answer lies not in tactics or talent but in eight non-negotiable rules — four for players, four for coaches — and how they interact to create something that is greater than the sum of its parts. Drawn from the All Blacks, Manchester United, and championship-winning organisations across sport and business.
Drawn from the All Blacks, Manchester United, and championship boardrooms.
National conferences with hundreds in the room. Executive off-sites where the real conversations happen between the formal sessions. Sports performance programmes at the county and national level. Universities, lecture halls and leadership programmes. And the intimate dinners that don’t get photographed, the ones where eight people around a table change the direction of a company.
2026
North East / Opening Keynote
2024
Madrid / Leadership Workshop
2026
North East / Keynote
2025
Special Lecture Series
OCT 2026
London / Co Founder Keynote
Most speakers haven’t run a P&L since the talk circuit hired them. Benjamin has founded, scaled, fumbled and started again across seven ventures over twenty years. The frameworks come from inside the work, not from a podcast.
Founder / Growing
Pronounced ‘ooler’
The player development platform built for grassroots coaches and clubs. AI enhanced development plans, voice driven match reports, fixture management, parent and player messaging. Rugby first, every code next. ullrsport.com
2025 / Current
Co-Founder / Launching
A selective leadership movement
Co founded with Kieron Bailey. The annual summit lands at The Manor Hotel, Elstree, October 2026. Insurgent. Small. Deliberately hard to get into. wearecolumnfive.com
2026 / Current
Folded / Lessons paid for in full
Festival SAAS
Event Management
Beer festival management software. Live in production for years, paused as focus shifted to ULLR.
2024 / current
TECH CONSULTANTS
FULL STACk & Product
Fifteen years of development and consultancy work. Wound down to make room for ULLR and the speaking calendar.
2005 / 2020
Dragon’s Den Appearance
Children’s footwear
The BBC Dragon’s Den episode is still on YouTube. The product is no longer on shelves. The story is the gift that keeps giving.
2015 / 2024
Early mobile App
Consumer communication
Ambitious attempt to fix how customer support worked in a always on connected age. Taught Benjamin more about consumer software economics than an MBA.
2006 / 2008
Ben recently opened our Manufacturing Leaders Summit. He was absolutely tremendous. You could hear a pin drop in the room as everyone was captivated by his keynote speech. It was relatable, powerful and perfectly executed. An absolute professional and a pleasure to work with.
Ben stood out a mile. He spots problems, addresses them, and provides the right kind of solutions. Authority without the ego. Book him now.
There’s a reason they call him the Culture Guy. He knows his stuff. Quality content, the ability to engage an audience, and that voice.
He listened to what we needed beforehand and incorporated our direction into the material as the session progressed. Valuable, relevant, full of takeaways we are still using.
A masterpiece delivered with aplomb. Great rapport with the delegates. Communication skills second to none.
Published under LoveTimeDeath imprint, this is body of work behind every keynote, and the reading list every team gets after the conference.
Speaker pack with bios at three lengths, hi res headshots, AV requirements, intro script and brand assets. Built for the planner who has nineteen other speakers to chase, and twenty things on fire.
Benjamin responds personally to every enquiry within two working days. No assistants. No automated chains. One human, one reply, one conversation.
Fees vary by format, audience size, travel and level of preparation required. Tell him about your event, and he’ll come back with a clear, tailored number within two working days. He also holds six dates a year for schools, charities and grassroots sport at reduced or no fee.
Always. Every keynote includes a discovery call with the host, a review of your audience, and is tailored for your specific event. For larger events, Benjamin likes to speak with three to five attendees in advance, so he can ensure the talk meets the attendees where they are, and the room hears itself in the talk.
Short answer, no. The whole point of a Benjamin keynote is the room: the emotion, the energy, the thing that happens between a speaker and an audience who are actually there together. That doesn’t often travel down a webcam, and Benjamin won’t pretend it does. It’s the reason the keynotes land the way they do.
There are limited exceptions for the right event, so it’s always worth a conversation.
Yes. Benjamin regularly delivers half-day and full-day sessions for senior teams, with a structured facilitation guide and follow-up resources. The content from the all his keynotes has been structured into longer sessions for specific clients.
Six to twelve months is now standard, twelve to eighteen for flagship events. Benjamin caps his calendar at thirty engagements a year, by design. He’ll occasionally accept shorter notice for the right brief, particularly when it aligns with current work, and he has adequate time to prepare properly.
Tell him anyway. Six of the thirty annual dates are held for cause-led work at reduced or no fee, for the right audience and the right brief. If yours is genuinely interesting, the conversation is worth having.
