Confirmed Keynote Speaker

We are incredibly fortunate that IST Fellow, Professor John Amaechi OBE, FIScT CSci has agreed to give our first keynote at this years Technical Conference.

John Amaechi will be giving the first keynote talk in the morning of the Conference and we are looking forward to hearing from him.

Professor John Amaechi OBE is a respected organisational psychologist, sought after public speaker, author, and the Leadership Transformation Expert at APS Intelligence Ltd, the consultancy he founded in 2008.

Recognised as an influential thinker in HR, John is an honorary Professor of Leadership at the University of Exeter Business School in the United Kingdom. He is a Chartered Scientist, a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. The author of New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller The Promises of Giants, John draws on his early life in Stockport, near Manchester (UK), and his career as the first Briton to play professional basketball in the NBA, to challenge and inspire others. In doing so, he continues to be driven by his mother’s belief that: “The most unlikely of people in the most improbable of circumstances can become extraordinary.”