SERVICES
STRATEGIC FORECASTING
Understanding geopolitics and future trends is fundamental to ensuring that organisations and companies can plan their strategy, investment approach and personnel policy with confidence, identify opportunities and minimise risk in a highly unstable world.
Chris draws on his extensive experience of strategic planning, intelligence insights and risk assessment at international, national and corporate levels, in the Military and in the commercial sector, to help test and future-proof strategies in relation to a volatile and unpredictable future.
Areas of focus include:
Geopolitics, including the dynamics of Great Power competition.
Geoeconomics, and the areas of risk and opportunity.
Demographics and their implications for both economics and geopolitics.
Climate and the Environment; illusions and realities.
Disruptive Technology and what it means for humans.
Defence and Security, exploring the nature of conflict and addressing the causes, features and implications of current and emerging conflicts.
Space and our future.
COACHING, MENTORING AND LEADERSHIP
Leadership is tough and not everyone can lead, especially without the necessary aptitude, training and skills.
He provides insights for individuals, teams or groups at all levels to enable leaders and organisations to make the most of their people and themselves.
Why would anyone want to be led by you?
Learn how to make you companies and organisations go from good to great.
Personal survival skills and resilience – making the best of yourself.
Energising and empowering your people.
Maintaining balance and perspective.
The psychology of leadership and risk.
Delivering outcomes under pressure.
COMBAT AND CONFLICT
Understanding the causes and consequences of war.
The realities of war and conflict.
Current conflicts.
Lessons from operations.
Humour in uniform.
Lessons and examples from history about how to succeed when the going gets tough.
He routinely conducts on-site battlefield team awaydays in the UK and Europe for senior and mid-level executives which include realistic leadership role play, dynamic decision-making and risk assessment.
MARINE AND MARITIME
The Geopolitics of the Sea.
Sea Power in the 21st Century and the future of maritime warfare.
Climate, the Environment and the Sea.
Trade routes and the resources of the Sea.
Energy and the Sea.
Trafficking, criminality and terrorism.
Risks and opportunities at Sea.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Chris is a regular keynote, conference and after dinner speaker, providing authoritative insight on professional and leadership topics or entertaining accounts of Service life and historical events and personalities.
He is frequently asked to speak at commemorative events and awards ceremonies.
‘Thank you for giving such as fantastic presentation. We had clients blown away by the depth of your knowledge’‘
Head of Entrepreneurs, Investec (2024)