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Leon Bamforth
An award-winning speaker and AI business strategist, Leon Bamforth empowers organisations to harness the potential of AI for growth, efficiency, and innovation. With a bold, engaging delivery style and practical expertise, he helps leaders and teams transform their business strategy, without the hype or jargon. Whether he’s on stage delivering a keynote, running a workshop, or coaching one-to-one, Leon’s mission is clear: to enable businesses to use AI with confidence, clarity, and purpose. His most in-demand keynotes offer clear, engaging frameworks that teams can immediately put into practice.
About Leon Bamforth
Leon Bamforth is a professional speaker, AI strategist, and trusted advisor to forward-thinking companies ready to lead in the AI revolution. Drawing on years of corporate delivery leadership and award-winning public speaking, he specialises in helping you and your audiences move beyond the AI buzzwords and into real-world impact. That means spotting high-value use cases, avoiding common risks, and using AI to amplify what matters most: your purpose, your people, and your customers. It’s not about chasing shiny tools; it’s about embedding AI with clarity, care, and long-term value.
Leon guides organisations to apply AI in ways that simplify work, increase value, and make sense long-term, helping teams understand how to integrate AI tools into their daily workflows. His engaging keynote talks and workshops have helped hundreds of leaders unlock business growth, team effectiveness, and confident innovation in a fast-changing world.
With a career leading on high profile, multi million-pound operations, Leon understands business and helps them successfully adapt while the world around them changes. He works
with organisations of all sizes, from small teams looking to boost productivity, to enterprise clients building long-term AI strategies.
Leon delivers a series of signature keynotes designed to make AI real, relevant and ready for action. One of his most popular talks, “Don’t Just Monkey Around with AI – adding strategic value to your business”, breaks down safe, smart AI adoption using humour, real-life examples, and hands-on takeaways. His talks are known for blending energy with clarity—leaving audiences with both inspiration and immediate next steps.
Beyond the keynote stage, Leon delivers half- and full-day interactive workshops tailored to leadership teams, operational departments, and business change programmes. He also offers 1:1 coaching for executives and professionals looking to lead in the AI era or improve their own speaking impact.
If your team or event is looking for a speaker who can cut through the AI noise and speak with insight, humour, and authority, Leon Bamforth is the one to call. He will leave your audience inspired and ready to act
To book Keynote Speaker Leon Bamford, contact The Speakers Agency on +44(0)1332 810481 or email enquiries@thespeakersagency.com.
Don’t Just Monkey Around with AI – adding strategic value to your business
A playful but powerful keynote that unpacks the serious risks and high-reward opportunities of AI in business. Using a mix of real world examples and behavioural insights, this talk helps leaders and teams use AI to drive change rather than let others set the agenda.
AI: Your Business Genie – Unlocking the Magic and Growth in 2025
This keynote explores how AI is no longer a futuristic fantasy but a powerful business tool available today. Audiences learn how to make AI work like a genie—responsive, empowering, and scalable, by asking the right questions, avoiding common pitfalls, and embedding it into everyday strategy.
The OneTeam Effect: The surprising key to business excellence
High-performing teams don’t happen by accident. This talk reveals the secret to collaborative success in corporate environments, using the “OneTeam” toolbox, a proven framework that demonstrates the essential foundations for getting results in corporations. A high energy, engaging keynote that has you building aligned, empowered, and effective corporate teams with a common goal, the freedom to act, the support to grow, and access to the right tools and knowledge.
4SMART Conflict Resolution at work
Toxic conflict is inevitable but it doesn’t have to derail your team. You’re running your business or leading your teams, then BAM! Toxic conflict hits. It will happen at some point, but it’s still a shock. How do you deal with it? Don’t panic! You equipped yourself and your team with the SMART conflict resolution framework, right? Then you can get back to delivering your world class product or service! In this session we will explore how to resolve conflict so that you can focus on doing what you love.
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"Almost a year later, the project has paid for itself and is now saving £600K a year. Leon was instrumental in bringing this about."
NHS Digital
"We gave Leon the challenging task of delivering the final slot at our company away day with a weary audience who had half a mind in indulging in the summer BBQ just after. Leon had everyone's attention from start to finish. He was funny, engaging and inspirational. My team left on a high with easy to implement take-aways. I would definitely recommend Leon."
AireLogic
"This evening I was privileged enough to see Leon Bamforth who won Speaker Factor. What a fantastic guy. Inspirational and that is from somebody who sees speakers every month with Vistage. He changed his tone, intonation, he paused. Just a master of his art and somebody who's so inspirational because he keeps learning."
Vistage
"I attended the BIAZA annual conference 2025 where Leon spoke on AI and the importance of its use in conservation. he was charismatic, engaging and professional. I am looking forward to learning more from Leon about using AI to make the workplace more efficient."
Chester Zoo
"Leon delivered an excellent keynote at one of our tech leaders lunches in London. He was able to engage the audience with some brilliant insights into the state of AI and the need to act now to capitalise on the array of opportunities it opens up. I was impressed by Leon's professionalism and ability to enable a truly dynamic exploration of the topic of the day."
The Peer Space
"I had the pleasure of meeting Leon at BIAZA, where he delivered an outstanding talk on the role, potential, and impact of AI in our industry. His presentation was nothing short of exceptional, offering a perfect blend of insightful information, practical applicability, and engaging delivery that kept the audience captivated throughout."
AquaZoo Consulting Partners
"Leon gave a really interesting and thought provoking AI Keynote presentation at the recent BIAZA conference. All with some good humour thrown in. I think everyone in the room had some key takeaways from the presentation, which has made us really think about how we approach and harness AI in the workplace.Leon gave a really interesting and thought provoking AI Keynote presentation at the recent BIAZA conference. All with some good humour thrown in. I think everyone in the room had some key takeaways from the presentation, which has made us really think about how we approach and harness AI in the workplace."
Chester Zoo
