Omar Sharif speaking to a packed conference room
Keynote speaker on change, resilience and leadership

Your people leave ready to change. Not just inspired.

I help your people stay resilient, take ownership and lead through change. The human side of restructures, new targets and AI. Trusted on stage by LinkedIn, Accenture and National Grid.

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  • Pride of Britain, 2018Delivered in person by HM King Charles III
  • 250+ keynotesAcross 15 industries, in the UK and worldwide
  • National Grid, FTSE 100Booked four times. “The best feedback we have received for a keynote speaker”
  • Hachette authorBreakthrough, Amazon Top 100 in its first week
Pride of Britain Award✦250+ keynotes✦FTSE 100 and S&P 500 clients✦Oxford University Press✦Hachette author✦4.5M+ Insider views✦The High Performance Podcast✦BBC · ITV · Sky News✦Pride of Britain Award✦250+ keynotes✦FTSE 100 and S&P 500 clients✦Oxford University Press✦Hachette author✦4.5M+ Insider views✦The High Performance Podcast✦BBC · ITV · Sky News✦

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On stage

Don't take my word for it. Watch the room.

15industries, from energy to tech
250+keynotes delivered
100,000+people in the room
“He engaged even our notoriously reserved tech and product teams. His human-ness and relatability really resonated.”
Roisin CoxEvent organiser, Citation Group

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Clarence House and YouTube HQ
“I have had the pleasure to hear Omar deliver two very powerful speeches at YouTube HQ and Clarence House, both with HM King Charles present.”
Ronan HarrisVice President and Managing Director, UK and Ireland, Google
HM King Charles III speaking about Omar Sharif's Pride of Britain award

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The signature keynote

Leading Through Change.

For organisations facing change, uncertainty or pressure. Your people learn to build resilience and take ownership first, then to lead others through change. One keynote, shaped to your room, built on one belief: what you don't reinvent, you repeat.

01
THINK

Break through the stories that hold you back.

02
SHOW UP

Back yourself before you see the results, and come back stronger from setbacks.

03
LEAD

Understand what really drives people, and lead them better.

Every person leaves with one story to drop, one action for the next seven days, and one conversation to have this week.

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National Grid
“The best feedback we have received for a keynote speaker.”
Phillip Roberts, Senior Safety Leader, National Grid
LinkedIn
“A genuine ability to connect with people.”
Adam Hawkins, Staffing Industry Consultant, LinkedIn
National Sales Conference
“One of the best decisions we ever made.”
Steve Lindsey, Event Director, National Sales Conference
The Trade Desk
“The frameworks were directly applicable.”
Tom Andrews, Senior Director, The Trade Desk
Dassault Aviation
“A powerful and thought-provoking session.”
William Batty, Director, Dassault Aviation
Citation Group
“We couldn't have anticipated the response.”
Roisin Cox, Event organiser, Citation Group
Enterprise Mobility
“Refreshing and immediately applicable.”
Laura James, Talent Development Manager, Enterprise Mobility
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Your people are facing a moment of change.

A restructure or mergerHelp people move with the change, not around it.Check availability An AI rolloutThe human side of new tools and new ways of working.Check availability A sales kick-offA reason to go again, and standards that win the quarter.Check availability A leadership offsiteLeaders who set the pattern everyone else repeats.Check availability
Why reinvention matters now

Reinvention isn't starting over. It's choosing what you stop repeating.

Most organisations don't struggle with change because of a bad plan. They struggle because people quietly repeat the old patterns: the same thinking, the same habits, the same conversations avoided. AI, restructures and new targets only make it louder. Reinvention is the work of breaking those patterns on purpose, before a crisis forces it.

Think74% → 43%

People have run out of appetite for change. In 2016, three in four employees were willing to back change at work. By 2022, fewer than half were, while the number of changes they faced went from two a year to ten.

In your room: people waiting to be told who they are after the next restructure.

Gartner, 2022
Show up4 in 5

Most people are going through the motions. Only one in five employees worldwide is engaged at work, the lowest level since 2020.

In your room: capable people doing enough, not their best.

Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2026
Lead57%

Most people keep their best ideas to themselves. More than half of employees are often afraid to voice ideas to their managers about how the business could be better.

In your room: the idea that would have saved the project, said in the car park instead of the meeting.

Vevox workplace survey, 2019

What would change in your organisation if your people stopped repeating what holds them back?

  • Imagine a team that tells a better story about the next change, instead of waiting to be told. Think
  • Imagine people who back themselves on the hard days, not just the easy ones. Show up
  • Imagine leaders who understand what drives each person, so the best ideas get said in the meeting, not the car park. Lead

That's the power of reinvention. And it starts with a decision, made on purpose.

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Omar Sharif smiling, leaning on a railing in front of a block of flats
My story

Seven minutes from Buckingham Palace. A world away from it.

I grew up on a London council estate with a stutter. By eighteen I'd been groomed into a gang, stabbed more than once, made homeless and turned down for more than 75 jobs.

When you've been knocked down that many times, it's easy to stay down. I had no great leaders growing up, and I never once saw myself as one.

What I didn't know then: I wasn't just going through it. I was growing through it.

Every time I got back up, I had to reinvent something: my habits, my decisions, the story I told myself. That's where I learned leadership. Not from a title, but from leading myself out.

So instead of university, I spent twenty years studying people and studying leaders: why capable people stay stuck, and what makes them move. I built businesses, then walked away from the safe one to chase the stage.

At Clarence House, HM King Charles III told me in person I'd won a Pride of Britain Award. Today I'm booked by organisations like LinkedIn, Accenture and National Grid.

Most of your audience will never face what I faced. But almost all of them know what it feels like to be capable of more than they're doing right now. That's who I'm talking to.

  • Built for your roomA planning call with me before every booking, and the content agreed with you in advance.
  • Safe on any stageSenior leaders, sales floors, mixed audiences. Honest, never graphic, always ending on a way forward.
  • Proven by organisers“On time and delivered professionally.” Steve Lindsey, Event Director, National Sales Conference

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For organisers

Booking me should be the easy part of your event.

You tell me the date and the room

I read every enquiry myself and come back within one working day to check your date and set up a short call.

We shape it together

A call with me about your people, your theme and what you want them to do differently afterwards.

It's handled

Contract, travel, tech rider and a check with your AV team, all handled directly with me.

Pitching me internally? Formats, travel, bios, and a one-pager to forward to your team.

Everything organisers need
A conference room on its feet during one of Omar's keynotes

Give your people an hour they'll still be talking about next year.

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Enquiries

Let's make your next event the one they talk about.

Tell me the date and the room, wherever in the world it is. You'll hear back within one working day to check your date and arrange a short call with me.

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Prefer email? bookings@omarsharif.me

“He took the time in advance to really understand our business, our audience, and the intention behind our session, which made a noticeable difference on the day.”
Laura JamesTalent Development Manager, Enterprise Mobility

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