Felix Riley

Felix Riley is a Business Strategist, author and speaker on Brilliant Thinking and How to think Bigger in Business and Life.

Felix Riley started out as a comedy writer at the BBC and was part of the ‘crew’ on Zoe Ball’s Radio 1 Breakfast Show, before embarking on a career in the City. He then set up his own company which he later sold to an NYSE-listed American brokerage where he worked as a Managing Director as well as joining their Global Executive Board.

In a varied career he mined copper in Zambia before helping to turn around a friend’s business here in UK and having several thrillers published with Penguin.

For the past decade Felix has been a Business Strategist, working with a wide variety of companies – from media agencies to e-Commerce to health and social care to start-ups to agricultural consultants to creatives.

His role has been as a coach, mentor, and motivator – with a heavy focus on creative thinking, which Felix believes is key to accelerating growth and turning around struggling companies.

Felix’s approach with clients is to take them from a ‘Good enough’ mindset to a ‘What’s the absolute best we can do here?’ mindset.  This is done through three steps – agitation, imagination, and motivation:

• Agitation.  Ask the difficult questions that take clients out of their comfort zone, to break through the thinking they find themselves stuck in.
• Imagination.  Put every idea on the table with a boundary-pushing brainstorm that arrives at bigger and bolder decisions.
• Motivation.  Give clients the confidence required – the shot in the arm – to go and execute on their new plans.

FELIX RILEY SPEAKING TOPICS 

• Brilliant Thinking – How To Think Bigger In Business (And In Life)  In this talk, Felix explores why we default to a surprisingly defensive mindset too often and how not only to escape that but how to do your very best thinking to maximise your opportunities in business, the arts, and life.
• CQ – The Secret Of Great Leadership.  In this talk, Felix draws on his experience of working with leaders across various fields to talk about the Caring Quotient – how great leaders care about their teams – and how caring leaders see greater growth and profitability.
• Run Towards Your Fears – How To Live A Fearless Life  A shocking amount of decisions are made through fear and Felix explains the evolutionary and psychological factors behind this and how we can not only conquer fear, but use it as our rocket fuel to transform our lives.
• How To Reboot Your Business (And Your Life) In 2025  Felix challenges you to confront your dreams and explains what is holding you back, before laying out methods to change that mindset and to launch yourself into the business, career or life you know you deserve.