Tom Hines · Keynote speaker
Talks about the things we're all thinking about but rarely say out loud.
Not another hour about "embracing change."
Tom challenges audiences and leaves them looking at their work differently. Some talks are high-energy and funny; others give a room space to think more deeply. Big rooms, small rooms, leadership offsites and main stages.
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The Behaviour Paradox
"Why do capable people keep doing things they know aren't helpful?"
Tom's most research-led keynote draws on behavioural psychology and work across three continents. Training, feedback and advice can tell us what to do; they can't always make it possible to do it. People respond to what their environment rewards, expects and makes safe. What if behaviour is a signal to understand, not just an individual problem to fix? Where are we asking people to change while keeping the conditions that created the behaviour? A slower, more searching talk that leaves a room with a different question.
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Failure Killed My Ego
"Failure isn't the problem. What we believe failure says about us is."
Why failure affects us so powerfully, what happens psychologically when we fail, and how fear of failure shapes behaviour and decisions. Understand failure differently, and our relationship with it can change too.
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Pissing Off Your Potential
"Your potential is fuming."
The uncomfortable gap between what people are capable of and how they actually behave. Comfort, growth, self-awareness and what it takes to stop drifting.
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Not Waving, But Drowning
"What leaders ignore emotionally, organisations pay for operationally."
Emotionally tone-deaf leadership and the cost of failing to notice what's happening beneath the surface.
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Leaders, Dinosaurs & Rebellion
"Experience is not the same as evolution."
Why leadership behaviours that once worked quietly become liabilities — and why leaders need to keep evolving, not just accumulating experience.
Bespoke talks are built around behaviour, leadership, failure, uncertainty, human performance and the future of work.
- A shared language for the things nobody's been saying.
- Permission to talk about fear, failure and ego at work — properly.
- One specific thing to do differently in the next conversation.
- A room that's still talking about it at dinner.
His delivery style and presence are unmatched — as is his energy.
“Hinesight designed a leadership day for around 50 of our leaders. Tom created an inclusive, energetic and genuinely challenging environment, and brought our organisational strategy to life through activities that made people own it rather than just hear it.”
“A professional, collaborative partnership from start to finish. Participant feedback was fantastic — the development was immediately applicable, and Tom's energy and enthusiasm made it engaging and thought-provoking. We'd work with Hinesight again without hesitation.”
Tom Hines is a behavioural performance consultant, leadership development specialist and founder of Hinesight. He has spent more than 15 years in learning, leadership and people development across the UK, US and Middle East.
His work explores a simple, stubborn question: why do capable people keep doing things they know aren't helping them? On stage he's informal, challenging, warm and very hard to ignore.
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