AN AUTHORATATIVE VOICE ON ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE

Sarah Lewis, author of
Positive Psychology At Work
and
 Positive Psychology And Change
delivers engaging, interactive keynotes and presentations at conferences and private events regularly. She is a great addition to any positive psychology, appreciative inquiry or change themed event. See below for more.

Sarah Lewis: Conference Keynote Speaker

"Sarah is up there as one of the most engaging speakers on the HR/L&D circuit – she always does a great job of communicating in a straightforward and practical way, even when the issues are complex.  Highly recommended – Sarah motivates practical action and you leave her sessions feeling as though you can make a difference." - Paul Brewerton, Managing Director, Strengths Partnership

 Sarah is a knowledgeable, engaging and lively speaker. She has the ability to establish a quick rapport with an audience with her friendly, welcoming style.

Sarah encourages active engagement, involving the audience in the conversation through short exercises and direct interaction. The hour long lecture with PowerPoint just isn't enough any more - get a speaker who engages and responds to her audience!

She doesn’t do magic tricks, she hasn’t broken any Olympic records and she hasn’t endured incredible hardship. Instead she’s worked with many different organizations and their leaders for over 20 years on problems of production, engagement, performance and most particularly, organizational change. She has stories to tell of what works and what doesn’t. She knows what sounds good in theory and what works in practice. She can help you avoid mistakes and short cut to effective change.

Career and experience

Sarah is the Founder and Managing Director of Appreciating Change and has been for over 20 years, after leaving a career in social services. She works as a consultant for international and UK clients, helping them with organisational change. She also hosts regular well-received public masterclasses in Britain and abroad and presents at international and British conferences on positive psychology.  

Sarah has taught at post-graduate level at Birkbeck College,  University of East London and Anglia Ruskin University. She is the author of a number of highly regarded books in this area and is also a member of leading professional bodies in the UK for consultant psychologists.

 

Don’t just take our word for it

Watch our videos to get a sense of Sarah in action

Read Sarah’s books to get a sense of her style and knowledge

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Previous Speaking Engagements

  • HR Conference, Tallinn Estonia, 2022

  • Bucks IMAPP Festival, UK, 2022

  • ARU IMAPP Festival, UK, 2022

  • Global HR (Virtual) 2021

  • Positive Psychology in Practice, Utrecht, 2019

  • Positive Psychology Summit, UK 2019

  • Global Conference on Positive Change, Amsterdam 2018

  • European Conference on Positive Psychology Budapest 2018, Iceland 2022

  • Positive Psychology in Practice London 2018

  • Change Management Institute 2017

  • EU Parliament Wellbeing Week - 2017

  • Hosting the EU AI Network meeting - 2016

  • Australian/NZ speaking tour - 2016 - spoke at: Auckland University of Technology; The Australian institute Of Project Managers; The Positivity Institute; The Langley Group; The Society Of Professional Social Workers; and The Training Consortium (arm of the Tasmanian State Government)

  • CIPD Applied Research Conference - 2015

  • The World Appreciative Inquiry Conference - 2015, 2019 and previously in 2013

  • The World Positive Psychology Conference - 2015

  • The British Psychological Society DOP Annual Conference - 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 and many previous years

  • The Association of Business Psychologists Annual Conference - 2015, 2020 (virtual) and many previous years

  • Publisher's Internal International Sales Conference - 2015

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