Nick Saunders

  • Communication, collaboration and conflict resolution speaker

  • Author of the bestselling book, You Can Choose Your Friends

  • Over 25 years as an international speaker and trainer

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About

Nick Saunders is an award-winning keynote speaker and author specialising in the 3 C’s - communication, collaboration and conflict resolution. Nick delivers powerful messages in a highly entertaining style that is dynamic, fun and unpretentious.

In an era where employee engagement is down to 15% and 4 in 10 of us report some form of interpersonal conflict at work, Nick helps individuals and teams transform how they operate with others - working together more effectively, collaborating more successfully, functioning more professionally.

As a keynote speaker Nick has helped improve relationships in all sorts of organisations, in all sorts of industries, in all sorts of countries – in the corporate world, in education and in the not-for-profit sector.

Inspiring, relevant and fun, Nick is a plain talking, down to earth speaker who avoids (at all costs) any management-speak, highbrow lingo or gobbledygook.

Nick is a force of nature. He draws on personal stories with jaw-dropping honesty and his plain speaking style always goes down well.

Whether working in the business, education or charity sectors, Nick Saunders’ award winning six step model and energetic delivery leaves audiences entertained, inspired… and keen to act on what they’ve heard.

Speech Topics

Nick Saunders has three main speaking topics for his keynote presentations:

Outstanding Teamwork: Many teams are good – but few are great.
Nick demonstrates that achieving a high performance team requires vision, compatibility, drive, commitment and mutual respect. Teamwork is about individuals working together to accomplish more than they could alone. It’s achieved by harnessing, pooling and utilising the resources available to the team – individual strengths, skills and experience.

Outstanding teamwork starts from understanding how to get the best out of people, how to develop stronger relationships and how to get everyone working together. Genuine teamwork increases efficiency, morale and performance.

Clear Communication & Collaboration
Getting on well with people at work is paramount; it gets the job done. In every organisation there will be times when colleagues don’t get on. We’ve all experienced incidents of niggles, frustrations, strained relationships, personality clashes, friction and conflict.

Nick Saunders is the guy who fixes this – by enabling people, colleagues and teams to work together more effectively, collaborate more successfully, function more professionally… all of which leads to improved performance.

Nick shares a powerful, practical, pragmatic 6 step model that enables colleagues to get on with, co-operate with and interact with anyone and everyone.

Conflict Resolution
Conflict at work can cause significant problems, and it’s by no means uncommon. Whilst we all know that organisations would benefit significantly by minimising conflict and finding ways to enable people to work together more effectively, resulting in better results on a day to day basis, it is often easier said than done.

• 4 in 10 of us report being involved in interpersonal conflict at work
• Managers spend on average 20% of their time dealing with conflict issues
• The CBI estimates that conflict in the workplace costs the UK economy £33 billion every year

The good news is there is a way to help colleagues relate to anyone (particularly in tricky situations) which in turn helps maximise the impact and effectiveness they have in their roles.

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Testimonials

Nick Saunders’ time with the team made a positive difference to their approach and it’s amazing to hear them enthuse and fluently using what they’ve learnt. It was really gratifying to overhear an experienced member of the team say “That was the best session I’ve ever attended”

Dan Hawkes, Pfizer UK

Thank you Nick for leading the team building session for my team. I think it went brilliantly – so well done on your side. You quickly won their trust and thus were able to establish a strong bond, allowing the day to be so successful. Well done from my perspective

Achim, Klueber, Europe Arab Bank

Nick Saunders is the ultimate raconteur. He is skilled at sharing experiences from his work and personal life to engage audiences in a way that truly entertains and adds value and benefit to his audience

Alexandra Delmain, The Economist

Nick Saunders woke up the conference, with energy, passion and enthusiasm; a nightmare for the next speaker to follow him!

Ed Gallier, Jury’s Inns

A fantastic session from Nick Saunders, bringing to life a very powerful model for helping organisations get on well together, getting people to be more collaborative and deliver better results

Alex Alder, Barclays UK

Nick. Firstly can I just say that in managing this conference for 10 years and in my 3 years as CEO, we have never had such positive evaluations from across a diverse sector re; your key note speech. You were amazing. Thank you so much

Sue Wilkinson, afPE

What a brilliant keynote conference speech from Nick Saunders who has a fabulous, inspiring style and really makes you think about how your behaviour influences others

Jane McGill, British Airways

We have used Nick Saunders at least five times now and each time he’s been absolutely superb – extremely entertaining and interesting, with some valuable messages that are simple and practical. I would book him more often if I could!

Pam Langmead, Essex Primary Headteachers Association

Books and DVDs

Clients often ask about purchasing books for giveaways and delegate packs. Below you’ll find a selection of products by Nick Saunders. Click the images to view on Amazon's website. For bulk orders, please speak with your Booking Agent.

How to book Nick Saunders for your event

To book Nick Saunders, please submit an online enquiry to booking.agent@nmp.co.uk or contact one of our booking agents on +44 (0)20 3822 0003.

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