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Leandro Herrero, a psychiatrist by background, spent many years in hands-on leadership positions in global companies before founding The Chalfont Project Ltd, a leading consulting group of organizational architects. He pioneered Viral Change™, an unconventional and very successful change management methodology and leads the Viral Change ™ Global network of companies.
As a speaker, Leandro Herrero has won the highest recognition from many audiences, big and small, at public forums and in-house events.
As an author, he has published several books on management of change and leadership.
As a consultant, he works with organizations of many sizes at different levels: from Board and top management and leadership teams to staff in Business Units. His consulting work focuses on management of change, leadership, human collaboration, organizational branding and innovation.
Industry Expertise (7)
Talent Management
Business Services
Pharmaceuticals
Management Consulting
Corporate Training
Corporate Leadership
Human Resources
Areas of Expertise (9)
Change Management
Leadership
Communications
Leading Change
Behavior Change
Large Scale Behavioral and Cultural Change
Organizational Change
Employee Engagement
Innovation
Education (2)
University of Barcelona: MD & Psychiatry, Medicine & Psychiatry 1972
Henley Management College: MBA, MBA
Affiliations (2)
- Institute of Directors
- Chartered Institute of Management
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Testimonials (4)
Mixture, Mixture | European Communications Summit
The best one speech! Spectacular, a highlight. As interesting for communication people as it would be for CEOs. The man is an absolute inspiration. By far the best speaker at the event. The most inspirational speech in the conference. He was excellent - really engaging. Get him back again! Outstanding speaker. Best presentation by far and extremely thought provoking.
Simon Alldridge, Managing Director | Ashtead Performance Group
A good speaker doesn’t just fill a slot at the event, they should also help to provoke a change in the audience. Dr Hererro hits the spot every time on this criteria.
Jennifer Cerney, Head Consumer Services | Boehringher Ingelheim
We were lucky enough to have Dr Herrero speak at our company Conference on the topic of the power of viral change. Our company goal is to create a winning culture and we believe that culture is created from behaviours. He was a fabulous speaker. Humorous, smart and with plenty of interesting and provocative views. My colleagues and I were inspired to challenge ourselves not only to talk about change but to do and act in every day small actions.
Markus Fuhrmann, Specialist Change Communication | Telefonica Germany Leadership Kick-Off
“Dr Herrero held an inspiring presentation at our annual leadership kick off underlining that leadership is the biggest asset to transform and differentiate.”
Event Appearances (7)
The Age of Activism
European Association of Communication Directors Annual Conference Brussels, Belgium
2012-07-05
“Viral Change ™: will your company survive the epidemic? The new rules of employee engagement and communications”
World Communication Forum Davos, Switzerland
2013-02-07
Communicating, mobilizing, engaging, changing: reinventing the rules of the game
AkzoNobel Company Conference Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013-03-21
Leading Change in VUCA Land
Telefonica Leadership Conference Munich, Germany
2013-01-09
“Viral social engagement in The Age of Activism: how to make it work and how to kill it”
Leet's Do It! World Annual Conference Tallinn, Estonia
2013-02-01
Building Remarkable Organizations
Building Remarkable Organizations, The Chalfont Project Henley, London, UK
2013-06-19
In Praise of Borders
TEDxEastEnd London, UK
2014-01-18
Sample Talks (5)
Viral Change™ : the alternative to the 80% failure rate of ‘change managment’
Highlighting the key concepts of the pioneering Viral Change™ programmes and the book of the same title, this is an insightful tour into the only real alternative to traditional, top-down and mechanistic ‘management of change’.
The Age of Activism: orchestrating large scale behavioural change in organizations and society
There is no difference between micro and macro-social change, a fact largely ignored in business. Organizational change is viral change, an internal social movement, or it isn’t. This keynote addresses ten inconvenient truths about management of change and brings closer to each other social activism and internal activism.
Employee engagement? A company of volunteers.
Employee engagement has become an industry on its own right. The old house of the psychology of motivation has been refurbished and redecorated. But most companies are not going far enough. Would employee self-management be the ultimate goal of employee engagement? This keynote challenges the traditional concepts of employee engagement as commonly accepted.
Leading change in VUCA land
The current business environment across the world is facing unprecedented challenges. Fundamental shifts in the way organizations work have taken place, yet we still use old management and leadership toolkits, created at a time of a more predictable and linear world. Are we equipped for the new VUCA organization? How can we lead in this new environment?
Building Remarkable Organizations
Quality, excellence and having a passion for what you do is the norm, no more than average and certainly not enough to call yourself remarkable. Designed to ‘ask all the right questions’, this keynote examines 10 of the components that can help an organization on its journey towards becoming remarkable. This is about encouraging you to raise the bar for excellence and ask ‘what if?’
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