Eugene Sadler-Smith Keynote Speaker

Professor of Organizational Behaviour and one of the world’s leading researchers on intuition in business.
Consulted for high-profile clients including the UK Home Office, Tesco, and Forbes.
Author of influential books such as "Intuition in Business" and "The Intuitive Mind."

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Eugene Sadler-Smith's Biography

Eugene Sadler-Smith, is a distinguished Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Surrey Business School at the University of Surrey. He is widely recognized for his pioneering research on intuition in business and hubris in leadership, making him one of the foremost authorities in these fields. Eugene is known for bringing intellectual rigor, insight, and interactivity to his speaking and consulting activities where he engages and enlightens audiences.

He is the author of: Intuition in Business (Oxford University Press), Trust Your Gut (Pearson), The Intuitive Mind (John Wiley, shortlisted for the CMI Management Book of the Year Award), Inside Intuition(Routledge), The Hubris Hazard and How to Avoid It (Routledge), Hubristic Leadership (Sage) and Human Resource Development (Sage). His research has featured on BBC Radio 4, Sky TV, Forbes Magazine, and other media outlets.

Eugene is recognised widely both by his peers and in terms of citation metrics as one of the world’s leading researchers on intuition in business and hubris in leadership.

He has worked with executives and leaders around the world on: how to harness the power of intuition in business decision-making, and he can talk about how to become more intuitively intelligent both in business and in personal life; how to avoid the perils of hubris in leadership in business and politics, and he can talk about how to make organizations and institutions more resilient in the face of the ever-present hubris hazard.

Eugene brings practical experience to his speaking and consulting; prior to becoming an academic he was a manager in the energy industry for the best part of a decade. His clients have included UK Home Office, Tesco, Scottish and Welsh Governments, Forbes, Care Quality Commission, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Board Intelligence, The Agency Partnership, The Mind Gym, Alix Partners, Ambrosetti European House, Daedalus Trust, ICSA: The Governance Institute, Chichester Festival Theatre, Metropolitan Police, Surrey Police, Association for Coaching, Surrey Chambers of Commerce, Medact, Royal United Services Institute, and other business and professional organizations.

He is a Fellow of the prestigious Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

Harnessing the Power of Your Hunches

Intuitive intelligence is a rich but often untapped source of decision-making power inside every one of us. Discover how Eugene de-mystifies intuition, showing how to develop the intuitive muscle power that will enhance your professional and personal decision-making.

The Hubris Hazard and How to Avoid It

Hubris is a societal-level risk to be avoided at all costs; nevertheless leaders and organizations continue to fall foul of the grandiosity, irrational exuberance and over-weening pride that are the hallmarks of hubris. Explore Eugene's insights on the characteristics, causes and consequences of hubristic leadership and shows how individuals and organizations can become more resilient to hubris risk.

Human Intuition in the Age of AI

In spite of the claims being made about its powers and potential, AI faces significant challenges if it is ever going to outperform human intuition in the workplace. Understand how this rhetoric can be separated from reality by exploring how employees can use their uniquely human intuition to add value in the age of AI and remain competitive in the workplace of the future.

Hybrid Intelligence in the Workplace of the Future

The secret to success in the workplace of the future will be an intelligence that is a hybrid of the human and the artificial. Discover how Eugene explores the combination of human analytical intelligence, human intuitive intelligence and machine artificial intelligence for optimum performance through ‘hybrid intelligence’.