Steve Radcliffe

Steve Radcliffe (www.steveradcliffe.com) is one of Europe’s top leadership experts. In the last 20 years, he has provided leadership coaching to over 50 chief executives and heads of the Civil Service, the NHS and other government departments. He is most well known for his powerful leadership development approach, Future – Engage – Deliver, that The London Times describes as ‘the no-nonsense approach…. shaking up the world of leadership’. Steve has summarised his approach in the UK’s top leadership book, Leadership Plain and Simple, published by the Financial Times. With his colleagues in Steve Radcliffe Associates, Steve has designed and delivered leadership development, people engagement and culture-change programmes that have impacted tens of thousands of people in organisations of all kinds and on all continents. Steve is also an inspiring conference speaker having given a TED Talk and shared the stage with the likes of David Cameron, Seb Coe, Lord Gus O’Donnell, William Hague, General Sir Mike Jackson, Michael Johnson, David Walliams and more. Steve is also a family man, a music lover and decent landscape photographer. More about Steve

Wigan, Whelan, TED and FED!

What a week of strong high and low emotional energy. It started with serious upset!

I was thrilled to be giving my first TED Talk last Sunday in Durham; it was going to be the best ever opportunity to get the FED messages out globally via the video of the talk on the TED website. Just as I was being introduced, I saw the video lad sitting on his chair […]


Who really gets you?

A brief chat with a young lad really got me thinking the other day. He’s close to breaking…


Olympic Mums, the John Lewis Snowman and FED!

HI, I’m just back from helping run the excellent annual Marketing Society Leadership Programme. It’s a wonderful mix…


Latest news: Steve will be doing a TED Talk

Hi, I’m really chuffed to say that I’ll be doing a TED Talk soon which will be a…


Leadership research that made me smile

I don’t often have a laugh when I’m reading about leadership. But I did smile when I read…


Do you Engage or Engage??

The other week, I spent time with two chief executives who most of us would say are engaging…


Who are you deciding to be?

  For the tenth year, I was co-leading The Marketing Society Leadership Programme last week. It’s a fabulous…


To what extent are you ‘Unbridled while Corralled’?

  A leader of an organisation once said ‘I want our people to be “unbridled yet corralled”‘. That…


“Why we should leave companies more often!!”

  I’ve just come off the phone from a client, Barry, who said ‘I should leave companies more…


How big was your 2012?

I always find time around now to sit down and reflect on the year and in particular make…