bruce daisley

• Fortitude: Redefining Collective Resilience in the Workplace
  Based on his award-winning book, Daisley exposes the myth of individual resilience. He explains why asking employees to become "tougher" often masks deeper structural issues like burnout and poor management. He shares actionable insights on how to build resilience as a shared, collective team property, fostering mutual trust and psychological safety.

• The Joy of Work: Boosting Engagement in the Hybrid Era

  Drawing on his extensive experience leading global tech divisions and his hit podcast, Daisley addresses the ultimate modern challenge: how to design a thriving hybrid work culture. He provides leaders with a practical, science-backed playbook to eliminate burnout, design highly engaging environments, and inject energy and purpose back into daily collaboration.

• Psychological Safety and Team Cohesion Under Pressure

  High-performance teams aren't built on rigid policies, but on social connection and trust. Daisley shares tactical lessons from tech giants and creative networks. He details how leaders can establish deep psychological safety, align team efforts without micromanagement, and create robust cultures that remain highly productive during intense market transitions.

speaker Bio: 

Bruce Daisley is a globally respected workplace culture pioneer, bestselling author, and corporate consultant who spent over a decade leading major divisions of the digital technology sector. He served as the Vice President (VP) of EMEA for Twitter, where he guided the company’s business footprint and organizational culture across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and previously held senior leadership roles at YouTube and Google. He is the host of Eat Sleep Work Repeat, one of the world's leading business podcasts on workplace culture, and the author of the international bestsellers The Joy of Work and Fortitude: The Myth of Resilience and the Secrets of Inner Strength (Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year 2022).

Daisley’s strategic authority is built on the front lines of high-growth technology. Throughout his corporate executive career, he successfully balanced intense commercial delivery with cutting-edge cultural innovation, building teams recognized for outstanding engagement and resilience. A frequent writer and public commentator, his work has been featured in The Guardian, The Times, and The Telegraph. Based in the United Kingdom, Daisley is a highly sought-after advisor to executive boards and HR leaders worldwide, helping them design humane, highly productive, and future-proof organizational strategies.

Summary (Core Conviction):

Daisley’s core conviction is that corporate resilience is not an individual capability, but a social construct. He rejects the traditional view of grit and toughness, demonstrating instead that the strongest organizations are those that prioritize team connection and mutual support. His signature framework, The Collective Resilience Model, equips leaders with practical, structural tools to dismantle work silos, reduce organizational stress, and design high-performing cultures where employees feel trusted and inspired to perform.

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