Brian Downes Email & Phone Number

Ireland

International

Keynote SpeakerDescribed as "highly engaging," my speaking style centres on storytelling. I use narratives to inspire learning, drive change, and spark action, making complex ideas relatable through personal stories and practical insights.Signature Keynotes:"Unleashing the Competitive Advantage of TEAM"(Leadership, Teams, Performance)How great teams excel through effective leadership and collaboration."The Most Important Clown I Ever Met"(Mental Health… Show more Keynote SpeakerDescribed as "highly engaging," my speaking style centres on storytelling. I use narratives to inspire learning, drive change, and spark action, making complex ideas relatable through personal stories and practical insights.Signature Keynotes:"Unleashing the Competitive Advantage of TEAM"(Leadership, Teams, Performance)How great teams excel through effective leadership and collaboration."The Most Important Clown I Ever Met"(Mental Health, Neurodiversity, Performance)A heartfelt exploration of neurodiversity, mental health, and reaching full potential."The Gift: Mindset Shifts To Transform How We Think & Work"(Mindset, Behaviours, Leadership, Teams, Collaboration)How changing your mindset leads to transformative outcomes in work and life."Drama In Ghana: Lessons From A Jail Cell"(Mindset, Behaviours, Communication)Powerful lessons in communication and resilience from an extraordinary experience."Leadership 101: Don’t Be An Asshole"(Leadership, Behaviours, Communication)Practical leadership advice with humour and hard truths.I cover a range of topics, including leadership, teams, communication, neurodiversity, storytelling, and more. Each talk is tailored for your event, ensuring relevance and impact.FacilitatorI design and facilitate purpose-driven meetings that deliver actionable results. Specialising in teamwork, performance management & enablement, conflict resolution, strategy, and change management.Performance CoachKnown for my "empathetic straight-talking" style, I offer two coaching formats:The Locker Room: Long-term performance coaching for sustained growth (minimum six months).The Laboratory: Flexible, ad-hoc coaching tailored to specific needs like problem-solving or presentations.Fractional Leadership / Chief Performance OfficerAs a fractional leader, I offer experienced leadership on a flexible, part-time basis. This is ideal for businesses needing high-level expertise without a full-time commitment. Show less

International

At Performance Nerds, we lead initiatives to create engaging work environments and develop better people, leaders, and performers. We design and deliver programmatic learning experiences for individuals, teams and leaders that will drive performance, create high performance cultures, support employee engagement & retention.All of our engagements are tailored for the people we are working with. This means we take the time to ask important clarifying questions, to really… Show more At Performance Nerds, we lead initiatives to create engaging work environments and develop better people, leaders, and performers. We design and deliver programmatic learning experiences for individuals, teams and leaders that will drive performance, create high performance cultures, support employee engagement & retention.All of our engagements are tailored for the people we are working with. This means we take the time to ask important clarifying questions, to really understand the need and desired outcomes.Our areas of specialty are:Team frameworks, leadership development, management development, communication, clarity, decision making, performance management and public speaking/ Show less

Brian is an Associate of Predictive Advantage who is a Certified Partner of The Predictive Index.Predictive Advantage is an international Management Consulting company specialising in Talent Optimization. We help clients turn their business strategy into results by ensuring the alignment with their talent strategy. We support our clients through a unique combination of consultancy, training, and world-class talent metrics that are backed by science.The Predictive Index helps… Show more Brian is an Associate of Predictive Advantage who is a Certified Partner of The Predictive Index.Predictive Advantage is an international Management Consulting company specialising in Talent Optimization. We help clients turn their business strategy into results by ensuring the alignment with their talent strategy. We support our clients through a unique combination of consultancy, training, and world-class talent metrics that are backed by science.The Predictive Index helps businesses and organisations all over the globe overcome workplace challenges through a unique blend of scientific behavioural assessments, groundbreaking software, exceptional management training, and professional consulting from the world's top workplace behaviour specialists. The Predictive Index helps companies understand how their people think and work to help employees maximise their productivity. The Predictive Index serves over 8,000 clients across 142 countries. Show less

Emea

We assist Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners and Leaders of Mid-sized Businesses break through their growth challenges, when they've plateaued out and are struggling to grow, or when they're growing rapidly and feel things are out of control. Our methodology is ideally suited for businesses with 10-350 employees.Using proprietary research, spanning 30+ years and covering 1,300 companies in dozens of industries, we use a simple but powerful way to better understand your business… Show more We assist Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners and Leaders of Mid-sized Businesses break through their growth challenges, when they've plateaued out and are struggling to grow, or when they're growing rapidly and feel things are out of control. Our methodology is ideally suited for businesses with 10-350 employees.Using proprietary research, spanning 30+ years and covering 1,300 companies in dozens of industries, we use a simple but powerful way to better understand your business through The Stages of Growth™.We then use the Organizational ReWilding™ framework, to identify and infuse missing key elements into your company’s ecosystem, in order to create a high-functioning and highly profitable organisation. Show less