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Keynote SpeakerJamil Qureshi

Specialist on the Mindset and Attitude for High Performance

Jamil Qureshi is one of today’s foremost practitioners of performance enhancing psychology and is an expert in high performing teams. Jamil has enjoyed working with a rich diversity of the most talented business and sports people and teams in the world, helping six individuals get to World Number 1. In... Read more

Biography

Jamil Qureshi is one of today’s foremost practitioners of performance enhancing psychology and is an expert in high performing teams. Jamil has enjoyed working with a rich diversity of the most talented business and sports people and teams in the world, helping six individuals get to World Number 1.

In 2006, he was appointed as the first-ever official psychologist to work with the European Ryder Cup team by captain Ian Woosnam. They made history in winning by a record-equalling margin. He has since worked with 5 Ryder Cup captains. Jamil has worked with 22 golfers inside the top 50 in the world, including two world number one’s.

Ranked among the most influential figures in British sport in 2009 by GQ Magazine, Jamil was voted in the top 100 coaches in the world by The Daily Mirror in 2023. He has worked successfully with three English Premiership football clubs, and currently works with a number of players in the Premiership from teams such as Liverpool FC, Manchester Utd and Manchester City.

Jamil Qureshi has worked with two Formula 1 racing drivers and the 2009 England Ashes winning cricketers. In business and industry has worked with business leaders and companies in over 24 different countries last year alone, helping teams to fulfil their potential by developing and delivering change and performance programmes. He has designed and delivered leadership programmes at board level for Coca Cola, Hewlett Packard, Emirates Airlines, Cisco, GSK, and worked across Lloyds Banking Group on their award winning ‘Journey to World Class’ programme.

During Covid, Jamil worked extensively with global leadership teams at a number of companies, such as Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group, GSK, Janssen, and NHS England, to help them make the conversion to leading remote and hybrid teams in a changing environment.

Jamil Qureshi is also a world recognised speaker on all aspects of the psychology of performance, psychology of leadership, leadership attitudes, improving people, cultural change techniques, and team performance.

Interestingly, he is one of only a few external psychologists ever to be allowed to study astronauts on the 2008 NASA Space Programme. Jamil has talked to an audience that included two former US presidents at the K Club in Ireland! Jamil was chosen as the supporting speaker to Tony Robbins at his Dublin event. Jamil’s versatility is illustrated by the fact he has talked at NASDAQ in New York where he shared a stage with General Peter Pace, Joint Chief of Staff, the highest ranking military officer in the whole of the US armed forces, and next day did stand up in front of a celebrity audience at the Groucho Club! He once spoke in six countries in two days!

"I’ve invited Jamil to speak in front of various International teams and every time, he has delivered a thought provoking, energetic and fun performance that has really inspired the audience. For me, the single best outcome, is that after the session people are thinking; thinking about how they feel and how they act in everyday situations and also answering their own “why’ question. Now my teams are better equipped to conquer the challenges ahead and are all seeking to achieve.” Apple
“I was privileged to attend a session Jamil ran on the psychology of high performance. He is an excellent speaker and has the special ability to connect deeply with his audience through an informal, fun and engaging style. His message about the ingredients of high performance is profound but he delivers it through stories which makes it highly accessible and relevant. I have heard many different speakers over the years and would not hesitate to recommend Jamil as one of the very best I've come across." Oracle Consulting
“Jamil is a first-class presenter, host, coach and Learning specialist. I personally learned lots from Jamil that helped me shape my Leadership programme, which has been a great success. As you can see from the clients Jamil has worked with, he is highly respected across many different fields from sports to financial services and is style of delivery is engaging and humorous.” Mortgage Advice Bureau
“Jamil is a hugely compelling and powerful communicator, coach and mentor. He has undertaken several transformational activities, as part of a country-wide roadshow, for my teams which made a huge difference and were extremely well received all round. I am extremely happy to recommend him.” IQE PLC
“Very insightful and able to drive real change.” Telefonica
“Genuinely funny, thought provoking and engaging! It’s not often you see someone you immediately want to book for next year!“ Unilever Ventures
“Jamil Qureshi is a speaker that gives the audience real and relevant learnings that can be used immediately.” Bayer PLC
“Fabulous speaker! What a hit. We couldn’t have asked for more. The best feedback we’ve recorded.” Boots PLC

Popular Talks by Jamil Qureshi

  • Turning Ambition into Achievement

    To do differently, we have to think differently. We all want to be better, but how do we turn our thoughts into powerful drivers of relevant and meaningful actions?

  • Blame looks backwards, Responsibility looks forwards

    How to create genuine ownership within our teams – the real difference between commitment and compliance.

  • Engagement - Rhetoric or Reality

    Understanding the true motivators in the workplace, and how we need to change our view of what we believe an organization is.

  • Responsibility

    Why the key ingredient of success is choice? How to enable people to ‘choose’ their way to more and greater success.

  • Complexity and Uncertainty, so what?

    How to achieve focus and purpose to cut through circumstance. There are no obstructions – just distractions.

  • The Disruptive Leader!

    The only way for leaders to optimize people’s talents is by breaking thinking habits.

  • Sustainable Relationships

    Companies no longer compete against companies; networks compete against networks – we are only as strong as our ability to form meaningful relationships.

  • The Rogue Monkey

    Creativity is something we unlearn! How can we learn it back and see innovation as an asset!