Chris Britton

Chris Britton is a leading keynote speaker, Group People Experience Director, bestselling author, podcast host and workplace appreciation expert. He is recognised for helping organisations improve performance by creating cultures where people feel valued, connected and supported. His biggest achievement is being named on HR Magazine’s Most Influential List 2026, recognition of his forward-thinking work in employee experience, leadership and the future of work. Chris brings together senior corporate leadership, frontline policing and professional football refereeing to deliver keynote presentations that are practical, engaging and grounded in real experience. His work explores how appreciation can improve engagement, retention, productivity and commercial performance, while giving leaders clear tools they can apply within their own teams and organisations.

Chris began his people leadership career in 2008 and has since worked with some of the world’s most recognised brands, including Virgin, Vodafone, River Island and Reward Gateway. Across more than 15 years, he has used an empathy-led approach to shape employee experience, improve workplace culture and support high-performing teams. Chris now serves as Group People Experience Director at one of the world’s largest technology companies, leading people experience across 44 countries and 12,000 employees. Alongside his corporate career, he has spent more than a decade as a Special Constable with Sussex Police, working in real, high-pressure situations where decisions must be made quickly, responsibly and with limited information.

Chris has become one of the UK’s most distinctive voices on workplace appreciation, men’s health and high-stakes decision making. Drawing on the UK Police National Decision Model, he created the Corporate Leadership Decision Model, a five-stage framework designed to help managers and senior leaders make clearer, more defensible decisions during difficult moments. The framework includes practical tools such as the 70% Rule, the Front-Page Test and the Survivor’s Question. Chris is also the bestselling author of ‘Behind the I’m Fine: The Truth About Modern Day Masculinity’, a deeply personal book shaped by his own experience of post-natal depression and identity struggles after the birth of his first daughter. Through the book and his speaking work, he explores purpose, grief, fatherhood, isolation and the pressures facing modern men.

Organisations hire Chris because he combines research, personal storytelling, humour and practical application in a way that helps audiences think differently and take meaningful action. Chris shows leaders how appreciation can help people feel seen, how belonging can improve resilience and how structured decision-making can create confidence when information is incomplete. His presentations are suitable for business leaders, people managers, HR professionals and teams across both the public and private sectors. With experience spanning global organisations, policing and professional sport, Chris offers a rare perspective that is credible, relatable and immediately useful, making him an excellent choice for conferences, leadership events, workplace programmes and corporate away days.