Chris Roebuck

In May 2014, Roebuck published a combined guide to both organisational and individual leadership introducing a new model of leadership – Mach 2 leadership – in his new book 'Lead to Succeed - The Only Leadership Book You Need.' Mach 2 leadership enables the maximisation of employee effort and the application of that effort onto activities that maximises organisational performance. The book also focuses on the effective, engaging, ethical and entrepreneurial elements of leadership that underpin world-class performance.

Roebuck is asked to present and run masterclasses on leadership and organisational performance focused on his new approach to leadership – Mach 2 leadership – at international conferences, business schools and to professional and management groups such as NHS Chief Executives, the Institute of Directors CEO Summit, Confederation of British Industry, the All Party Parliamentary Committee on Management and other groups across the world. These have been in the US, Europe, India and Asia, including for the Red Cross in Myanmar, the China Aeronautical & Scientific Corporation (Chinese Space Programme) in Beijing, NASSCOM Congress in India and the Project Management Institute (PMI) Congress in Dubai.

Roebuck has held senior human resource and organisational transformation roles at London Underground, KPMG, HSBC, and UBS. In 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018, he was nominated by HR Magazine as one of the top 20 Most Influential HR Thinkers. Roebuck advises the Chartered Management Institute, and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, business groups such as the Corporate Leadership Council, and the media, such as The Times, Wall Street Journal and he is interviewed on leadership and business issues by the BBC and other television channels.

Chris Roebuck, FCIPD, CCMI is a British economist, focusing on leadership and organisational performance. He is an honorary visiting professor of transformational leadership at Cass Business School in London, a position he has held since 2009. He advises organisations on maximising performance through effective leadership, in particular developing lean leadership and entrepreneurial leadership.

Since 2006, Roebuck has helped develop leadership and values-based high performance working with or in organisations as diverse as the British National Health Service (1.4m staff), and in sectors including international logistics, finance, legal, transport, facilities, media, pharmaceutical, and not-for-profit.

At UBS, Roebuck and colleagues led the delivery of a new development and leadership strategy for the bank's top 500 leaders. They subsequently co-ordinated the strategy via the business divisions for the other 70,000 employees. This underpinned a new corporate alignment, culture and brand, improving the bottom line and the position of UBS in the global banking rankings through entrepreneurial leadership. In 2004, he was appointed Global Head of Talent and Leadership. The project at UBS progressed well with top management support and, as a result, in 2005 UBS won the title "Best Company for Leaders Europe" and the "Best New Corporate University" awards, the "Corporate University Best Practice" and "Excellence" awards in 2006/7, and was ranked one of the top 10 best companies in Europe in 2007.

After roles with the executive team at London Underground developing the Public Private Partnership, the largest Public Finance Initiative to date in the UK, he then worked to build a new business line for KPMG based on providing outsourced services. He then moved on to building a business-driven core leadership management system for HSBC investment bank. In 2002, Roebuck moved to Zurich at the request of UBS where he worked until 2006.

In 1999, Roebuck was invited to be a member of an expert panel on improving leadership in British business in order to enhance competitiveness, reporting to the UK government

When he was 11, he joined Carlton Childrens television workshop, and starred as Fergus in the programme, Bernard's Watch (1997).

In 1992 he received his MBA from Cass Business School in London. His final dissertation on organisational communication was featured in The Times, on BBC Television and was published worldwide in the International Journal of Strategic Management.

He attended Haddon primary school 1991-1998, and The Gedling school, from 1998-2003.

In the late 1990s Roebuck lectured at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Joint Services Command College on utilising the best of both military and commercial leadership techniques for the benefit of military officers. In 1996, he also advised on updating the course at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Christopher Roebuck was born in 1986. He has lived in Gedling, Nottingham in England, all his life.

Roebuck studied economics and geography at University College London where he chaired the Students Union commercial enterprises committee, whose operations turned over in excess of £1m in 1976 and employed 32 staff. He later chaired the Union Council, overseeing the constitutional governance process, elections, and negotiations with the UCL senior leadership team and Provost. Roebuck graduated in 1977.