Leadership
Customer Service
Technology
Innovation

Mike Harris has led companies that consistently stand out from the competition. As founding Chief Executive of First Direct, Mike Harris built a bank with unprecedented levels of customer loyalty.

As founding Chief Executive of Egg Plc. a leading British internet bank known for providing a broad array of financial services with an unprecedented level of excellence, Harris built a financial services organization that continues to experience profitable growth.

Upon leaving Egg, Plc., in August 2005, Mike Harris has taken on two new challenges. He is a co-founder and Executive Chairman of Richmond Informatics Ltd- a start up aiming to build a global consumer business based on next generation internet technology known as the semantic web. He is also Non Executive Chairman of the Innovations Board at one of the world’s top 10 banks. In this role he is providing insight and advice to the CEO and his executive colleagues on the opportunities for new products and services which will be enabled by the next wave of technology driven change.

As a leading authority on approaches to leadership and innovative strategies for growing new businesses and renewing existing businesses, Mike is a sought after speaker for organizations and associations internationally. With his dynamic, interactive and informative sessions, Mike not only motivates his audiences, he provides them with a wealth of practical approaches, real-life examples and stories as well as hands-on techniques, all of which can be immediately applied to the audiences own personal and professional development. His speeches are designed to generate exceptional results – results well beyond those that could be expected from conventional sources.

Mike Harris is highly respected for his new approaches to innovation, strategy and growth including his belief that businesses today need to create business models that fundamentally challenge and transform the industries in which they operate as well as leveraging existing assets to maximize income growth. Additionally, he speaks authoritatively on many critical aspects of leadership including leading for unpredictable results, leadership that creates new business, creating an organizational competence in innovation and the common mistakes shared by leaders. His speeches and seminars have been attended by a wide range of domestic and international businesses including American Express, Colt plc, Edengene plc, JP Morgan, AON Ltd., Boots Healthcare International, Sainsbury’s, Marsh Europe SA, and HSBC. He has been a guest lecturer for the last 10 years on the Global Leadership and Innovation executive programme at the Sloan school at MIT and has participated in many case studies.

Mike Harris has a unique view on business. He is a powerful, engaging, and inspiring presenter. His fast-paced and stimulating style, combined with his “hands-on” experiences in the areas of leadership, innovation, strategy and growth, support presentations that will challenge the assumptions of the most jaded business professional. He is highly motivational and dynamic and always seeks to be provocative and can be counted on to infuse his presentations with the right amount of humour.