John Dore

John Dore is a keynote speaker, executive educator and award-winning author whose work addresses one of the defining leadership challenges of our time: how to build organisations where talented people pull together — especially in an era defined by hybrid work, AI-driven disruption, and relentless change.

He is the creator of GLUE — a framework for cohesive leadership that transforms disconnected teams into high-performing organisations — and the author of GLUE: Transforming Leadership in a Hybrid World (Routledge, 2024), winner of Business Book of the Year in the Leadership category. The book is endorsed by Gary Hamel, widely regarded as the world's leading management thinker, and innovation strategist Peter Hinssen.

John spent nine years at London Business School, seven of them as Director of the Senior Executive Programme — the world's #1 FT-ranked open executive programme across 18 consecutive editions. In that role he worked with thousands of leaders from over 50 countries, designing and directing programmes that have shaped how major organisations think about leadership, culture and transformation. Before moving into executive education, he held senior leadership roles at Barclays and HSBC, giving him direct experience of leading at scale inside complex global organisations.

He now speaks and works independently, delivering keynotes and workshops for senior corporate audiences — typically Top 100 and C-suite leadership events — for clients including Grundfos, Arla Foods, Franke, HSBC and Quintet Private Bank. He is also a published novelist and optioned screenwriter, which perhaps explains why his audiences consistently describe him as a storyteller as much as a speaker.

John is based in the UK and available for engagements worldwide.