Jeremy Blain speaker

Jeremy Blain

Digital, workforce and leadership transformation expert; author of #1 bestsellers ‘Unleash the Inner CEO’ and ‘OpenHR’; Top 1.5% Leadership podcast host; DiversITy-talent social enterprise co-founder; Speaker

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Gender: Male
Nationality: United Kingdom
Languages: English
Travels from: United Kingdom

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Biography Highlights

  • Award-Winning CEO: Leads Performance Works International, known for driving leadership and business transformation in a digital world. Publishes annual research on global digital and leadership transformation trends.
  • International Best-Selling Author: Author of Unleash the Inner CEO, awarded Leadership Book of the Year at the 2024 Global Book Awards. His second bestseller, OpenHR, explores human capital for a blended workforce.
  • Leadership & Transformation Expert: A consultant and speaker with over 30 years of experience transforming leaders and businesses worldwide. Regularly featured in outlets like Forbes, Medium, Inc.com, and CEO Today.
  • Purpose-Driven Leader: Co-founder of DiversITy-talent, promoting diverse and inclusive talent pipelines. Recognized as an award-winning advocate for gender diversity and inclusion.

Biography

International change influencer at strategic and operational levels enabling boards, executive leaders and organizations to succeed in a digital world.

Jeremy is the multi award-winning Chief Executive of Performance Works International (PWI), a modern leadership research and learning journeys company that helps organizations, executive boards, leaders, and teams succeed in the digital climate amidst disruption, opportunity, and uncertainty. He is also Co-Founder of the social enterprise, DiversITy-talent.

Jeremy helps boards, leaders and managers define strategies to implement digital and human transformations for the modern workplace, with buy in, involvement and on a foundation of psychological safety, across the business; through a robust learning and development path.

Jeremy has been recognized most recently for this by The Independent newspaper, UK, and Business their Reporter magazine as winner of the ‘Best of Global Business 2023’ Award for his work in leadership, workforce and business transformation

Jeremy combines business and digital transformation expertise, leadership knowledge and commercial success as an international CEO and executive board officer in the UK and Asia, with his experience as a corporate learning and human capital professional of over 25 years.

In parallel, Jeremy produces and hosts his own multi-platform ‘Rethink Leadership’ Podcast, since 2020, which is now one of the top 1.5% of podcasts globally, also available to watch on YouTube, bringing new leadership and transformation next practices from global experts to an international audience.

He is also a global expert on empowered distributed leadership, backed up by his international #1 best-selling book: ‘Unleash the Inner CEO – Make distributed leadership a reality’ which is available at all online booksellers and on audiobook through your favoured platform.

Jeremy’s second book: ‘OpenHR™ – The human capital manifesto for the blended workforce’ is published in Q4, 2024.

Jeremy is a regular Keynote speaker, researcher, and author of over 30 industry white papers. He is also a media commentator and has received coverage in high profile publications including Forbes, CEO Today, Medium, The Times of London, The Straits Times in Singapore, Dialogue by DUKE CE, Business Matters, HRM, HR Online, and more.

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Jeremy will reveal brand new research as to the state of transformational leadership globally, and highlight case studies, examples and interview outputs from leaders doing it well and those struggling to make progress. Jeremy reveals the modern ingredients for digital-era leadership excellence and the steps to get there quicker, through his current research and global business leader examples (from startup, scaleup, small business, medium and large enterprise next practices).

Available: In person, Virtually

Only 1 in 3 digital transformations succeed. Why is this? And what can be done to improve this statistic?
Jeremy will highlight brand new research for organizations and leaders as to the success factors and the most common barriers getting in the way of success, from organizations globally. Complete with ‘right now’ case studies and brand-new models to help you get to action back in the workplace.

Available: In person, Virtually

The scope and scale of transformational challenges faced by our seniormost leaders are overwhelming. Accentuated by the need for rapid understanding, and in some case mastery, of the needs for an increasingly digital world. We need a new age of empowerment in our businesses to unlock the potential of the many, rather than the few or the one leader at the top.

This session based on Jeremy’s #1 international bestselling book ‘Unleash The Inner CEO – Make distributed leadership a reality’ will provide the why and what and crucial how to make it happen; with tips, watch outs and case studies of organizations thriving through the shift.

Available: In person, Virtually

Based on Jeremy’s new book ‘OpenHR™ – The human capital manifesto for the blended workforce’ this session brings out the latest trends transforming the workforce as we know it – beyond hybrid and distributed work, and into the new blend of an organization’s valued human resource; be they permanent employees, giggers, independent workers or longer-term independent contractors. Complete with the why, what and all-important how-to create the new framework for your organization to accelerate success.

Available: In person, Virtually

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OpenHR - The Human Capital Framework for the Blended Workforce - Jeremy Blain's book

OpenHR: The Human Capital Framework for the Blended Workforce

The workforce is changing fast… More individuals are choosing to freelance and work flexibly, which means organisational teams are now made of both full-time and independent workers. In this book, Jeremy Blain and Dr. Rochelle Haynes build the case for OpenHR and the framework to support it.

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OpenHR: The Human Capital Framework for the Blended Workforce

The workforce is changing fast… More individuals are choosing to freelance and work flexibly, which means organisational teams are now made of both full-time and independent workers. In this book, Jeremy Blain and Dr. Rochelle Haynes build the case for OpenHR and the framework to support it.
Rethink Press Unleash the Inner CEO - Make distributed leadership a reality - Jeremy Blain's book

Rethink Press Unleash the Inner CEO: Make distributed leadership a reality

We have been talking about ‘leadership at all levels’ for over a century – let’s make it a reality for today’s world. This completely updated second edition of the award-winning The Inner CEO provides the tried and tested blueprint to make distributed leadership a reality and tap into the potential of the many.

Read more..

Rethink Press Unleash the Inner CEO: Make distributed leadership a reality

We have been talking about 'leadership at all levels' for over a century - let's make it a reality for today's world. This completely updated second edition of the award-winning The Inner CEO provides the tried and tested blueprint to make distributed leadership a reality and tap into the potential of the many.
The Inner CEO - Unleashing leaders at all levels - Jeremy Blain's book

The Inner CEO: Unleashing leaders at all levels

There are many books on leadership, management, soft skills and business in general, but very few that focus on leadership at all levels. Jeremy Blain has corrected this anomaly and provides an action-oriented, how-to manual for organisations, leaders and those ready to unleash their inner CEO to contribute beyond their job description.

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The Inner CEO: Unleashing leaders at all levels

There are many books on leadership, management, soft skills and business in general, but very few that focus on leadership at all levels. Jeremy Blain has corrected this anomaly and provides an action-oriented, how-to manual for organisations, leaders and those ready to unleash their inner CEO to contribute beyond their job description.

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