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Renowned keynote speaker, executive coach, and business strategy guru. With 25 years of experience and a track record of founding five successful businesses, Dr. Corrie Block combines real-world success with academic excellence. His engaging keynotes deliver cutting-edge insights into leadership and innovation, captivating audiences worldwide. Dr. Corrie is not just a speaker; he’s a transformative force in the world of business.

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Featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and CEO Magazines, Dr. Corrie Block has worked on over 100 organizations and thousands of aspiring leaders around the globe providing actionable “no-fluff” strategies and leadership techniques to improve businesses’ bottomline.

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Six Pillars Of Executive Performance

This science backed and story driven keynote explores a holistic framework that elevates leaders not just to lead but to inspire. It dives into executive fitness, confidence, discipline, connection, rest, and competition, offering a comprehensive view of how these elements collectively shape a resilient and high-perfor...
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Love@Work: The Final Frontier of Empathy in Leadership

Love@Work is a groundbreaking keynote that addresses a crucial yet often overlooked aspect of workplace dynamics – love. This presentation delves into the concept of love in the professional realm, separating it from romantic or sexual connotations. It emphasizes the importance of love as a fundamental human need, the ...
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Evolutionary Psychology and the Metaverse

This insightful keynote explores the intricate dynamics of evolutionary psychology in the rapidly evolving digital landscape of the metaverse. It addresses the 'adaptivity gap'—the divergence between our slow-evolving psychological makeup and the swift pace of technological change. This session is ideal for L&D, HR...
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Business is Personal

"Business is Personal" is a transformative keynote designed to revolutionize workplace culture and discretionary effort by introducing a new layer of meaning at work. It artfully blends strategic principles with a human-centric approach based in evolutionary psychology and neuroscience, emphasizing the synergy between ...
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Human Factors in Digital Transformation

The big-5 consultancies agree that around 84% of digital transformation efforts fail, but why? Based on his viral Forbes article “12 Reasons Your Digital Transformation Will Fail,” Dr. Block’s incisive keynote delves into the core challenges of digital transformation – the human factors. With over 20 years of expertise...

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From delivering organizational training with private and public sector companies to motivational keynotes at global conferences, Dr. Corrie Block’s mission is to unlock human potential by sharing experiences, insights and case studies to empower your audience to take action.

✓ Motivational future-proof talks

The United Arab Emirates’ best motivational keynote speaker, Dr. Corrie draws on over 30 years’ experience providing innovative business strategies and transforming companies, preparing them for a future of artificial intelligence and digital disruption. Data is now doubling everyday. Industry 4.0 is here. Will you be the disrupter, or will you be DISRUPTED?

✓ Improved employee engagement

Not getting the most out of your team? As the leading employee engagement expert in the region, Dr. Corrie Block has “hacked” the brain chemical recipe for happiness to motivate employees… and it’s not by buying your team pizza or by having an office foosball table!

Through sharing his own transformation journey of being a 130 kg overweight and unhealthy business consultant to now frequenting the gym everyday and being champion Spartan racer, Dr. Corrie Block shares what it takes to form healthy habits: “You must do it for more than 21 days for it to become a habit, with no more than 4 days off. Have a motivational thought? You have 40 seconds to get off the couch and make it happen!”

✓ SPARTAN leadership

A proven strategic and transformation leader, Dr. Corrie has coached hundreds of CEO’s, senior leadership and entrepreneurs, one-on-one and in workshops. Drawing from case-studies, antidotes and his own experience, Dr. Corrie Block teaches Spartan leadership, recently publishing a book on it.

✓ Reactive to proactive mode

Dr. Corrie has a proven success formula that takes employees from a reactive firefighting mode to a proactive and engaged corporate community; directly impacting your bottom line.

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Corrie is a focused and dedicated individual who consistently inspires those around him. His work ethic is truly impressive, and he is a great role model for anyone looking to excel in their career. Working with him has been a pleasure, and I would recommend him to anyone without hesitation.

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John Sanei, Keynote Speaker | 5x Best Selling Author
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I wholeheartedly recommend Dr. Corrie for any event requiring a dynamic and impactful motivational speaker.

At our recent leadership retreat “Dare to Dream,” he delivered a one-hour speech (sans notes), captivating and energizing the entire audience with impeccably relevant and original content. Dr. Corrie’s natural ability to connect, engage, and inspire was powerful, eliciting a spirited response from our 100+ attendees. The sincerity and expertise with which he communicates are genuinely transformative, leaving a lasting impression of motivation and unity on our team.

A truly remarkable speaker. Thank you Dr. Corrie for your time with us.

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Aamer Sheikh, Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo Middle East
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Corrie is a true visionary in the realm of meaningful work and an impressive Neuroplastician!

His passion for helping individuals find purpose in their professional lives is not only inspiring but also backed by impressive results. In a world where we spend a significant portion of our lives working, Corrie’s dedication to making that time meaningful is truly commendable.

He understands that when work is meaningful, it leads to greater happiness, improved health, and a longer life. His commitment to adding value to people’s lives through meaningful work is a testament to his character and the positive impact he seeks to create.

Corrie’s work has far-reaching effects. Companies with employees who find more meaning at work experience significantly better safety records, customer ratings, productivity, and profitability. His programs yield an impressive ROI of 814%, a clear indication of the transformative power of his approach.

I wholeheartedly recommend Corrie for his exceptional dedication to helping individuals and organizations find purpose and meaning in their work. His expertise and passion are evident in every facet of his work, making him a true leader in the field of meaningful work.

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Dr. Justin James Kennedy, TEDx Speaker | Behavioural Neuroscience Professor
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I have had the privilege of working with Corrie as my coach for a while. He has provided me with invaluable advice, guidance, and tools, which I have used to make continuous, incremental improvements in my professional and personal life. We have covered many topics including health and wellness, productivity e.g. daily routines, networking.

He is also very knowledgeable and well connected in the MENA region, and I have been able to leverage that to build my regional network. As a CIO/CTO, this has enabled me to find more leaders who need tech leadership advisory or executive help.

Corrie is very responsive to his clients, and his style is clear, direct, and focussed, which I like.

I would definitely recommend Corrie to anyone who wants to accelerate their journey.

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Richard Steward, Founder & CEO, Value Mastered
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Dr Corrie Block has been one of the most positve influencers in my career. I have been coached by Dr Corrier on multiple occassions and he has helped me achieve great clarity on my personal vision and future aspirations. With his support, Imanaged to achieve one of my life-long dreams of becoming a published author. I would highly recommend Dr Corrie for leadership training and personal development. He is also a great moderator and strategist.

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Marwa Kaabuour, International Best Selling Author | CMO
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I was delighted to welcome Dr. Corrie as the opening keynote speaker for the ATD Summit 2023 in Kuwait recently. He has such a compelling speaking style, and easily engaged and challenged our packed house of L&D and HR professionals from across the GCC. His keynote, “Business is Personal: Driving Sustainable Impact Through Employee Engagement” was delivered without notes or slides, and yet was armed with powerful science and energizing stories that gave our audience practical and easily implementable tools for creating meaning at work that drives performance and profitability. Everyone learned from Dr. Corrie and enjoyed his philosophy on business. I believe now that business is truly personal. I look forward to working with him into our future events.

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Hamza Taqi, Master Performance Consultant
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It was with great pleasure we welcomed Dr. Corrie Jonn Block, PhD, DBA 🧠 to Atlantis Resorts this week, to run his #BusinessIsPersonal program for our leaders.

This thought provoking program provides an honest and insightful journey into human-centered leadership. You can expect to rediscover the very essence of who you are, the kind of person you intend to be, while also helping you establish new meaningful connections to the people in our lives, both personal and professional.

An overall powerful and life altering experience. This program enabled us as a team and a business, to truly connect to our mission, vision and values, leaving every leader to walk away from this program with a new profound sense of purpose in life.

Thank you again Corrie and we hope to welcome you back to Atlantis in the near future!

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Nicole Murray, Food and Beverage Training Manager, Atlantis Dubai
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Dr. Corrie is an exceptional top-tier executive coach. While working with him I was able to build more intentional and impactful relationships with difficult stakeholders, achieve every career goal I aspired to, and maintain healthy work-life balance in the process. His strategies for time and task management added several hours to my busy weeks and helped me to accomplish more with less time-cost and better focus. I highly recommend Dr. Corrie as a coach for any executive.

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Alberto Araque, CEO e& enterprise IOT & AI