More About Andrew McNeill
As co-founder of
Lx Leaders, a leadership consultancy, Andrew McNeill partners with organisations to deliver tailored solutions that enhance performance, psychological safety and employee wellbeing. He is particularly known for enabling teams to collaborate more effectively, communicate with clarity and empathy, and manage conflict constructively. His approach provides leaders with a practical toolkit to reduce stress, prevent burnout and create environments where people can thrive.
Andrew has enjoyed a long and varied career in leadership, during which he has held a number of high-pressure and prestigious roles including being the Workplace and Policy Lead and Projects Advisor for the
Mindfulness Initiative, a charity which emerged from the work of the UK Parliament’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness, is Co-Director of BAMBA, the UK’s mindfulness accreditation body, helped establish the Building Safety programme after the Grenfell Fire tragedy, was Change Director for the Ministry of Justice and was Lead for the UK Government for the Olympic and Paralympic Torches in 2012.
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A Chat with Burnout Speaker Andrew McNeill
As part of our ‘Chat with…’ series at Great British Speakers, our director Jane Farnham, sat down with Andrew to discuss his work, from mindfulness to leadership, stress, wellbeing and more… watch the full interview
HERE. If you’d like to book Andrew McNeill to speak about his personal experience with burnout, and to share some of his techniques to enhance performance and wellbeing in the workplace, please get in touch at
+44 1753 439 289 or email
Great Business Speakers now.
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Andrew’s engaging keynote presentations explore themes such as collaboration and teamwork, leadership and self-agency, psychological safety, burnout prevention and conflict resolution, all through the lens of self-leadership.
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Andrew McNeill – Speaking Topics
Practice Workplace Mindfulness: Andrew talks about the practical application of mindfulness for people in today’s workplace. He explains how this down-to-earth toolkit of techniques can help you manage stress, improve your communication skills and support your decision making. Andrew was never interested in mindfulness until he needed something that would help him cope with the effects of working in an extremely high pressure environment.
He approached it with deep scepticism but found these well established evidence based methods worked in the modern workplace. It vastly improved his wellbeing and delivered a change in his performance which is why he studied to become a mindfulness teacher. Andrew now introduces teams and individuals to these life changing, team transforming skills, in practical, down-to-earth ways.
From this talk you will takeaway:
- Techniques to help you perform in high stress moments
- Ideas to help you communicate more effectively
- Ways to give you more choice in your decision making
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Ethical Leadership: Andrew believes in the need for leadership to be more human, compassionate and uninhibited. In this inspiring talk, you will discover what ethical leadership is, why it is needed particularly in these times when change is the only constant, and why attitudes like non-judgment and kindness are so essential in modern day leadership.
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Psychological Safety – Why It Matters To You and Your Team: Organisations are more likely to innovate quickly, unlock the benefits of diversity and adapt well to change when their employees feel comfortable asking for help, sharing suggestions informally and not being afraid to challenge the status-quo. During this engaging talk, Andrew uses evidence based examples which will give your leaders plenty of reasons to want adopt this transformative team mindset. He will also share powerful examples of how psychological safety can avert risks to your business and enable opportunities to be grabbed. Andrew will discuss the impact it has on team culture, how it can enable teams to thrive under pressure and will give practical tips on how to achieve psychological safety.
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Organisational Mindfulness: When he was a Civil Service Director, Andrew McNeill was frustrated by a lack of guidance for those trying to embed mindfulness at a leadership level. So, drawing on his own experience and understanding of mindfulness, he wrote his own successful guidebook. In this talk, Andrew explores how mindfulness can be introduced to processes, products and people.
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How to Lead Under Pressure: In his many years of service, Andrew McNeill has faced a number of high-intensity leadership situations, from heading up the UK Government’s assurance of the Olympic/Paralympic torches for London 2012, to working on building safety immediately after the Grenfell Fire. In this talk, Andrew talks about his own experience of pressure when leading, what has worked and what hasn’t. Andrew is honest about his successes and his failings, and he shares numerous suggestions that could make a significant improvement to the way you lead and the way you can thrive under pressure.
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What’s Kindness Got to do With It?: In this talk, Andrew compares some traditional standards of leadership with the evidence base of what is needed in today’s organisations. He refers to studies about the value of kindness in the workplace and how it can help your company succeed.
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Finding Your Phoenix – Preventing and Recovering From Burnout: Eleven years ago Andrew McNeill realised he was burnt out. He had to step back from work to find techniques that enabled him to move from being overwhelmed, to being able to thrive in high pressure environments. In this talk, Andrew shares his experience of being introduced to mindfulness and other strategies, why he was very sceptical in the beginning and how they have helped transform his life, his leadership and his career.
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Andrew McNeill | Speaking and Workshop Packages
Collaboration: Enabling Teams to Succeed Together: Effective teams need people with a wide range of skills and preferably a similarly wide range of working styles and backgrounds. But when we see the world differently from our colleagues, ensuring the whole team works smoothly can be challenging. This workshop is about finding the common humanity beneath all our stories and learning how to build lasting connections that overcome communication barriers, enabling teams to succeed.
Overcoming Barriers: Moving From Team Conflict to Delivery: Even the most effective teams hit bumps in the road. Misunderstandings, miscommunications and stress can create conflict, making it hard for the team to deliver and creating a difficult environment for people. Using tried-and-tested techniques, Andrew shares how to create a safe environment where people can face and constructively resolve team challenges enabling them to move from conflict to successful delivery.
Psychological Safety: What Works and How to Implement It: Successful organisations recognise the value of psychological safety for their teams’ effectiveness, as well as their well-being. But creating psychological safety requires self-awareness from leaders, honesty from colleagues and real change. In this practical workshop Andrew facilitates the creation of a safe framework of behaviours and attitudes that can be implemented, ensuring psychological safety isn’t just a buzzword.
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Why Should You Book Burnout and Mindfulness Speaker Andrew McNeill?
- Andrew believes that leadership needs to become more human
- Andrew is a man full of experience
- Andrew’s keynotes are grounded in research and evidence
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To check fees and availability for burnout and mindfulness speaker Andrew McNeill, contact Great Business Speakers on 0044 (0)1753 439289
