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Nigel Risner

Peak Performance Expert

A company turnaround specialist whose advisement is sought out by FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 delegates
A respected organisational thought leader who is also an author, television presenter, and award-winning speaker
A highly entertaining and unreservedly direct speaker who inspires audiences to action by sharing the techniques and tools for how to break through the boundaries around us

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Nigel Risner is one of today's leading high performance enhancing, motivational and communication speakers. He is the only speaker in Europe to have been awarded Speaker of the Year by all major CEO groups including Vistage Academy for Chief Executives and YPO.

Nigel is an expert in coaching high performing teams and CEO’s and has enjoyed working with a rich diversity of the most talented business and sports coaches as well as teams around the world. These include a Deputy Prime Minister, England’s national football coach and the UK's top Olympic Coaches.

Nigel has worked successfully with more than half the FTSE 100 companies, as well as numerous pharmaceutical companies across the globe. In business and industry. Some of his clients include: Pepsi Cola, Compaq, British Airways, Pfizer, Marks and Spencer and Royal Bank of Scotland.

Nigel has worked from CEO to board level to middle management in a variety of different sectors. As well as, school business leaders, National Health leaders and Ofstead.

He is the author of The Impact Code which has been translated in more than 10 languages and It’s a zoo Around Here which has been an Amazon No1 best seller many times over the last 20 years.

His background running a successful finance Company and being one of the youngest CEO’s in the city at age 26 means he knows business and all the pitfalls that can occur when running several offices.

Nigel has created a unique communication programme and has licenced trainers around the world, sharing the message of 'How To Be An Effective Zookeeper'.

He is better known as the Chief Zookeeper due to his programme of dealing with the different animals in the workplace.

After 25 years and 3000 paid speeches in over 50 countries Nigel is a firm favourite to close many international conferences.

It’s a Zoo Around Here! Lions, dolphins, elephants and monkeys? An office bouncing around the roaring, clicking, trumpeting and babbling of your workforce — it sounds like a zoo! Dynamic monkeys are trying to joke around with the analytical elephants and the single minded lions are frustrated with the ever-patient dolphins. Your office is a mess of confused communication in all the different languages and styles. And guess what, it’s the same with your customers.
To talk with the animals you need to understand them. You need to become the zookeeper — and Nigel is here to tell you how to do just that. Over thousands of talks, Nigel has helped many more thousands of people pick up the wandering parts of their business and pull them together with a new energy and passion. Drive collaborative communication — drive sales — drive success.

The I.M.P.A.C.T. Code: Too many of us settle for steady dissatisfaction rather than striving for success. Competition is only increasing, yet enthusiasm is going the other way. It is time to register this and to make changes happen. Nigel’s approach is direct, dynamic, and devastatingly honest. He will have you question your past motivations, consider your present, and create your future, ensuring that you make an IMPACT. “No one can make a brand-new start, but everyone can start now to give a brand-new ending.” The choice is yours. It always has been.