Bruce Daisley
Influential voice on the evolving world of work and former managing director of Youtube
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About Bruce Daisley
Bruce is also the host of the global workplace culture podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat, which ranks in the top 0.1% of podcasts worldwide with over 6 million listens. His popular newsletter Make Work Better reaches 135,000 subscribers each week. In 2024, he was appointed Visiting Honorary Professor at Bayes Business School (City, University of London) with a focus on organisational culture and their MBA programme.
A regular voice in the media, Bruce was a main contributor to BBC Radio 4’s programme Payslip Britain, exploring the state of work in 2025. In recent months he has appeared on Channel 4 News, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, Times Radio, LBC and BBC World Service. His writing has also featured in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Harvard Business Review.
Bruce grew up on a Birmingham council estate and began his working life in fast food restaurants to fund his way to university, becoming the first in his family to attend. After dozens of rejections, he secured his first career role by sending a cartoon CV to 50 employers — an early sign of the creativity and resilience that shaped his career.
Recognised by Campaign Magazine as the UK tech sector’s top leader, and repeatedly voted the “Fantasy Hire” most admired by CEOs (alongside names like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk), Bruce continues to be one of the most sought-after speakers on workplace culture and the future of work.
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The Last Business Advantage in the Age of AI? Workplace Culture
While leaders plan for AI to level the playing field of productivity and efficiency, the real competitive advantage might lie somewhere else – with workplace culture. With Microsoft describing the future of work as having ‘intelligence on tap’ business is quickly going to find that it’s not just the quality of their thinking that sets them apart – it’s the human layer that lies on top of it. Bruce explains how we should think about culture, how we should build it and how to create culture that genuinely differentiated.
Squad Goals – How to Build, Lead and Inspire a Winning Team
Many leaders find themselves whispering an embarrassing feeling: that their team doesn’t feel as energised as it used to be. In this session Bruce breaks down the core reasons for teams to feel bonded and gives leaders clear steps to create their own high performance teams. Drawing lessons from sport, psychology, and business, it shows how leaders can shape culture, foster connection, and unlock performance – whether you’re leading five, fifty or five thousand.
Should we be optimistic about the future of work?
With a lot of discussion about the robots taking over we might wonder if the outlook for humans is bleak. In this entertaining presentation Bruce gives reason to be cheerful – we might be heading to our best time ever.
Finding Fortitude – How to dial up team resilience in tough times
Wanting the people around us to be more resilient is natural – whether our teammates, family or friends. But sometimes expecting individuals to be resilient is a hard challenge, we don’t know what actions we’re meant to take to unlock this inner strength. In this presentation drawing on lessons from his bestselling book, Fortitude, described by the Financial Times as ‘the best business book of the year’, Bruce unpacks resilience and explains how any of us can bounceback better.
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Testimonials
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"Best speaker of the day"
IAB Engage
"Top rated speaker at CBI annual conference. (other speakers included the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition)"
"Bruce Daisley – he was just blooming fascinating. His take on resilience resonated so much with what’s going on at the moment for us and the positivity hit just the right note. His examples and evidence are genuinely fascinating."
"Bruce was so engaging, his ability to cover off so many topics that we wanted to cover in 30 minutes was fantastic and the engagement and questions we had from the audience around this will surely stimulate conversation for the year to come. hoping this will build the culture of the teams. Bruce was so fantastic at dealing with our requests and talking to us twice, and engaging with our CEO too."
Talk for a major UK bank
"Wow! That was exceptional – there’s so much positive feedback in the chat"
Pfizer
