Coming Soon – Curiosity
Richard Gerver came to prominence when, as a headteacher he turned around a failing school in the UK in under two years. Richard now works with the world’s most demanding organisations on the problem that nobody else is solving: how to give your people back the curiosity, courage, and creativity their education and their industry trained out of them.
In July 2027 his new book “Curiosity: Nurturing your Superpower for Discovery, Joy and Success’ is published and is now available for Pre-Order.
This is a little preview about the book
ABOUT THE BOOK
Curiosity transforms fear in to a question, and a question into progress.
Curiosity is today’s superpower. In times of profound upheaval and uncertainty, it enables us to evolve and to gain control of our lives and organisations. We are witnessing increasingly fractious times economically and politically, but when we lean into curiosity rather than recoil in panic or freeze in fear, something powerful happens: we begin to learn.
Learning isn’t about accumulating facts, information or even simply knowledge, it’s about building the capacity to adapt. The skills we need today – empathy, creativity, collaboration – aren’t mastered in order to subsequently be forgotten; they grow and evolve through the practice of curiosity. Each question we ask becomes a tool for navigating uncertainty, change and evolution.
In Curiosity: Nurturing your Superpower for Discovery, Joy and Success acclaimed public speaker and bestselling author Richard Gerver unifies his decades of experience in education, change, leadership and innovation to show you how you can ignite your curiosity and realise your full potential.
With his unique insight into our development from infants to adults, Gerver helps us understand the nature of our personal and professional responses to risk, change, creativity and development and how, by rediscovering our childish curiosity, we can regain a sense of control over our lives and those we impact both personally and professionally.
From opening ourselves up to failure and looking foolish, to the power of mentorship in modelling inquisitiveness, this book illustrates how curiosity is not just how we grow, it’s how we connect, how we solve and how we heal. Curiosity is how we remember what it means to be human in an age of Artificial Intelligence, machines and metrics.
Curiosity won’t just save us all – it will help us finally understand who we can still become.
MORE ABOUT RICHARD SPEAKING WORK
Some of Richards keynote speeches include –
Reawaken Change
For the last decade we’ve been told change is a programme, a strategy, a transformation initiative. A thing leadership does TO the organisation, and the organisation endures. Then came AI. The pandemic. Hybrid work. Generational reset. Geopolitical whiplash. Markets reorganising in months instead of decades. And every change framework your organisation has built in twenty years has stopped working.
This keynote is how you stop managing change — and start authoring it. The organisations thriving today are not the ones with the best change-management frameworks. They’re the ones whose people stopped seeing change as something done to them — and started seeing it as something they get to write.
Re-Awaken Curiosity
Your organisation is full of people who were once five years old. They were curious. They were creative. They had courage. Then they went to school, then to university, then to work — and somewhere along the way they were taught to stop.Now you’re asking them to innovate. To adapt. To lead through complexity. To outpace AI. To stay human in a world that’s accelerating faster than any of us can comprehend.
This keynote is how you give them back what was taken.The organisations thriving today are not the ones with the smartest people in the room. They’re the ones where people feel safe enough to wonder, challenge, play, experiment — and learn.
Reawaken Simplicity
Every organisation says it wants to move faster, decide better, and respond to a world that won’t slow down. So it adds another framework. Another OKR cascade. Another tool. Another committee. Another transformation programme.Then AI arrived — and revealed what your people already knew. Your organisation is drowning in complexity that nobody can name, nobody designed, and nobody can unwind. The systems were supposed to make things simpler. They made everything heavier.
This keynote is how you stop hiring more complexity to manage the complexity you already have.
The organisations winning today are not the ones with the most sophisticated systems. They’re the ones whose people know which questions actually matter — and which complexity is just noise dressed up as work.
For more information please visit his webpage.