David Meade International Corporate Speaker Emcee & Host Veteran BBC Broadcaster

David Meade

International Thought Leader & Veteran BBC Broadcaster Expert in High-Performance Psychology, Leadership and Mindset

why book david?

  • David Meade brings a rare combination of business psychology expertise, global corporate experience and veteran BBC broadcasting skills, delivering circa 150 high-impact events each year for clients seeking world-class energy and insight
  • He has earned the trust of leading organisations including Apple, Harvard University, Deloitte and Meta, designing evidence-based, behaviour-changing sessions that challenge conventional thinking and unlock high performance

  • David leaves audiences with a proven, actionable toolkit that drives immediate improvement in decision-making, communication and leadership effectiveness, ensuring lasting impact long after the event concludes
David Meade International Corporate Speaker Emcee & Host Veteran BBC Broadcaster

Biography

Renowned for his captivating keynotes, David Meade is an award-winning international thought leader on high performance. As a veteran BBC broadcaster, he has become one of the most recognisable faces in his native Ireland. He’s earned a reputation as an electrifying world-class corporate speaker and emcee.

Today, he travels the world helping organisations like Apple, Harvard, Deloitte, and Meta improve performance through proven psychological tools.

His sessions are highly interactive, blending fun and education, and packed with actionable tools and techniques that delegates can immediately apply to grow their business, grow their teams, and grow themselves.

Fascinated by mentalism and mind reading, he can incorporate these elements as vehicles and metaphors for how the mind operates at work. David blends laughter with learning, making his sessions both insightful and entertaining for audiences of all sizes.

Leadership teams and event planners worldwide have described his presentations as “truly unforgettable” and “game changing.” His expertise is highly sought after across industries and event types – with David every session is guaranteed to be compelling, energetic, and engaging.

David Meade International Corporate Speaker Emcee & Host Veteran BBC Broadcaster

With a primary career as an academic in the business faculty at one of Ireland’s leading universities, his passion has always centred around the psychology of leadership, motivation, mindset, persuasion, and high performance.

By combining his research expertise with a captivating presentation style, he has become one of the corporate world’s most sought-after speakers and emcee/hosts, renowned for his innovative approach that challenges audiences to think critically about the obstacles they face.

Topics

Mind Your Business

This interactive session challenges delegates to think differently and offers them a practical, transferable toolkit.

Key Takeaways:

  • Dramatically improve decision making
  • Drive ownership and accountability
  • Develop leadership and motivation skills

Engage for Success

This energetic session will introduce delegates to the psychology of management and leadership, and provides them with a practical toolkit to make them a more effective leader.

Key Takeaways:

  • Empower and engage managers and leaders
  • Develop leadership and motivation skills
  • Improve communication skills

Growth Mindset

This high-octane session looks at the role of mindset and the drivers of decisions that achieve engagement. Delegates are given a transferrable toolkit that they can use to motivate and engage those they work with.

Key Takeaways:

  • Understand the growth mindset
  • Lead engaged and motivated teams
  • Utilise flexible thinking skills

Principles of Persuasion

This fast-paced session will equip delegates with persuasive trading, and language techniques to help them persuade and influence others, and/or increase sales.

Key Takeaways:

  • Communicate clearly and persuasively
  • Use trading techniques and power words to boost sales
  • Understand the best ways to pitch a product or service

David Meade

Masterclasses

You may want to go deeper with your audience. Masterclasses can be tailored and developed to suit your audience needs, be it a 90-minute Masterclass, a half-day or full-day workshop or a full online or face-to-face programme. Please contact one of our expert team to discuss.

Resources

testimonials

“From the moment he stepped on stage, David’s high-energy motivational speech generated an amazing buzz for the entire session, one that we have never experienced from an external speaker before. Attendees came with no expectation and left highly motivated and engaged and are still talking about David’s session with high praise 4 weeks later.”

Meta

“We engaged David to provide the main after dinner entertainment at the Annual Dinner of our Association. And David provided entertainment with a capital E as he wowed the audience with his mentalist acts. David is magnificent in what he does, he oozes personality and brings a tremendous amount of humour. Our dinner was now a month ago and I still have people coming up to me and talking about it. It was probably the best after dinner entertainment we have had in all 29 years of existence of our association. In our preparations and during the evening I also found David a very friendly and warm person to interact with.”

Remco de Vries, Irish Association of Treasurers

 

“I had the pleasure of working with David on our 2015 global sales kickoff- a critical event given the integration of two distinct sales teams from different corporate cultures.   David’s intellectual, humorous, and personal approach had a positive impact far beyond my expectations.  More importantly, our global team thoroughly enjoyed David’s session, and took away valuable ideas along with an extra bounce in their step heading into a new exciting year.  I will absolutely use David again, and would recommend him to anyone looking to make a memorable impact at their event.”

Phil Saunders, Senior Vice President Worldwide Sales, Gemalto

 

“David delivered an incredibly insightful session on his work. His tips made a genuine impact on the audience who couldn’t scribble them down fast enough.  There’s been loads of positive feedback. Awesome stuff.  Educational, insightful and fun. I couldn’t think of a better way to start a Monday morning.”  

Charles Pym, Business Development Director, 

 

“Wonderful – We are STILL talking about it – have had loads of emails about how great it was. I’m really grateful .  Thanks again!!!!!!”

James McCullagh, Event coordinator, Saatchi & Swatch

“A standing ovation that seemed to last forever. I have never seen so many open mouths. Over three months later the staff are still talking about David.”

Apple Inc.

 

“The energy in the room is beyond anything I have ever experienced at a conference.”

PWC

 

“I’d heard about David from colleagues but didn’t really believe the hype until I experienced it – fascinating and utterly priceless.”

UK Cabinet Office, Westminster

 

I don’t think we’ve ever had a presenter be remembered in such high regard for such a long period of time. We continue to rave about the contribution you made and were astonished that you managed to raise the bar two years running. I can’t recommend you enough.”

Harvard University

The feedback has been incredibly positive and I have no doubt our staff are better equipped to carry out their vital role of training and educating doctors as a result of meeting , learning and being inspired by David Meade.”

Dr Leonard JP O’Hagan CBE DL, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

 

“David’s contribution as an emcee is world-class, lifting not just the energy, but the quality of the content too.”

Steve McNally, Deloitte, London

 

“As an emcee, David makes our internal team shine, making sure every vital message lands perfectly.”

Dean Banks, Ventia, Sydney, Australia

 

“As host, David has helped us reinvent our 10,000 attendee event–with him in front, it’s more successful than ever.”

Katie McCormick, NECA,Washington DC