Want to give your audience a day back, every week?
Paul Holbrook, the Time Rebel, shows organisations exactly where that day is hiding, and shapes the story to your room, whether that's having the time to master AI, make a four-day week work, improve productivity or lead.
“Nothing short of life changing – perfectly suited as the precursor to major change programmes or new business initiatives”
— Jackie Cupper, GSK
Signature Topic: ‘Think You Don’t Have Time? Yes You Do!’
The world is saying they don’t have time.
But here’s an uncomfortable truth lurking in their calendar. 23% of the average week is lost to false productivity – things people are in the habit of doing, but add no value.
In this highly interactive and energising keynote, Paul Holbrook uses the five colours of the Diary Detox® method to help people:
Understand exactly where their time is really going.
Uncover the three reasons their time is accidentally lost.
Learn one simple habit that willreset their relationship with time.
As the audience answers questions live from their phones, the results appear live on screen; creating a moment of “profound clarity” that transforms how they think about their time and starts their journey towards getting a day back in their calendar, every week.
One Keynote, Four Perspectives…
It's one keynote underneath, same live reveal, but opened differently depending on why you've brought people into the room:
Mastering AI – For events built around getting the most from AI, automation, or what's coming next: You do have time, you just can't see it…yet!
Implementing the 4 Day Week – For events exploring flexible or reduced hours: You already are working a four day week, but you're doing it over five.
Finding Time to Lead – For leadership off-sites and senior teams: Your leadership team's calendar is the most honest report on your culture. Find out what your’s is saying.
Productivity Improvement – For conferences, town-halls and team away days: It's not time your people are short on. It's knowing where it's actually going.
Not sure which fits, or got another angle? Tell Paul about your event and he’ll help you tailor things to your audience.
Not just a keynote
Paul’s keynotes don’t just inspire, they provide intelligence about how an organisation uses time.
Using responses gathered during a keynote, you can go even deeper with a Diary Detox® Time Insight Report — a bespoke, anonymised analysis that:
Benchmarks your organisation against global leadership efficiency norms.
Reveals how much time is being lost across each leadership level.
Highlights the core reason time is lost and where your investment should be directed.
Your report can be used to prioritise where AI and automation will have the biggest impact, focus your organisational design efforts and shape your L&D strategy.
Meet The Time Rebel
Throughout 20-years in financial services technology transformation, Paul Holbrook realised the biggest barrier to organisations wasn’t a gap in capability, It was false productivity.
So he walked away from the corporate grind and used what he learned to help organisations reclaim lost time and create healthier, higher performing teams.
As a former managing director in the City of London he created the Diary Detox® – a colour-based productivity method that gives people a day back in their calendar, every week – and more time to lead.
Having wowed audiences of global organisations, he’s now an accomplished keynote speaker and author of ‘What Are You Doing? The uncomfortable truth about how you waste time at work’, bringing fresh insight and humour to the way organisations approach productivity, culture and leadership.
Hear the story behind the Time Rebel
In this episode of the People Purpose Podcast, Paul shares what made him walked away from the corporate grind, how the Diary Detox® method was born, and why he believes time is the most honest measure of culture.
Want to dive deeper?
Paul’s book ‘What Are you Doing? (rated 4.6 Stars on Amazon) explores how leaders waste time at work and how to fix it.
It’s the foundation of his Diary Detox® method and his signature keynote.
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Boost your organisation’s innovation, productivity, leadership and culture
Whether it’s a 20-minute keynote, a company away-day, a panel or a podcast, Paul will tailor his message to your audience’s biggest challenge.
Book a slot with Paul, and he’ll be happy to discuss your brief and share how you can create a memorable moment that will give your audience a new relationship with time.