Andy Edwards

Andy Edwards is an award-winning professional speaker and creator of RELATIONOMICS –leveraging relationships for better business results.  An accredited behavioural psychologist, qualified coach, and author, Andy’s speeches are about understanding people, and leadership behaviour from the follower’s perspective.

Known for his memorable questions “What Planet Are You From?”, Andy helps leaders and teams look at human behaviour as a whole ‘Solar System’ of people, each with their own preferred (and alien) home world.  Using the lens of an imaginary ‘Personality Telescope’, Andy brings people closer together offering a sharp focus on those wonderful differences between our worlds:  “They do things differently there!”

Many organisations suggest that “People are our greatest asset!” So, Andy works with leaders and teams (often together) to show why relationships are the true currency of business.  When connection and trust improve, productivity, engagement, and discretionary effort all rise automatically.  Results can be genuinely “Out of this world!”

Having spoken in over 20 countries to audiences ranging from 30 to 3,000, Andy’s online courses sell in their thousands worldwide and have been translated into 32 languages.

His signature talks, explore, via the ‘home planets’, the direct link between workplace relationships, leadership effectiveness, and organisational culture (the ‘Solar System’) – helping values become lived behaviours rather than simply getting… lost in space.

Andy is trusted across service, professional, hospitality, technical, and industrial sectors. Clients include The Association of British Insurers, Association of Reflexologists, ADNOC (Abu Dhabi), Barclays, Borouge (Emirates), British American Tobacco, Carnival Cruise line (USA), JP Morgan, Liberty Global (Europe), The NHS, Sony, Stannah, RIAD, and many others.

SPEAKING TOPICS

What Planet Are You From? Training Your Telescope on Personalities, Performance, and Company Culture in Your Workplace ‘Solar System.

Overview:
In this imaginative and highly engaging keynote, Andy Edwards swaps traditional personality models for a vivid interplanetary journey through human behaviour.  Instead of labels, delegates explore the idea that we all have a psychological “home planet”  – a natural way of thinking, communicating, and making decisions – and that, at times, we can feel like complete aliens in someone else’s world.

Using the metaphor of a shared ‘Workplace Solar System’, Andy shows how company culture acts as the gravitational force that keeps diverse personalities aligned, productive, and connected.  Audiences discover how misunderstandings, conflict, and disengagement often arise not from incompetence or attitude, but from differing ‘interplanetary’ perspectives.

LEADERSH*T Happens – What Your Followers Really Think of Your Leadership – and How to Change Their Minds

Overview:
LEADERSH*T Happens challenges the traditional view of leadership by turning the spotlight away from leaders and back onto the followers.  Andy Edwards reveals a powerful truth: “You are only a leader when your followers say you are!”  Drawing on behavioural psychology and real-world leadership experience, this keynote explores why many well-intentioned leaders unknowingly create the very behaviours they later criticise.

Audiences gain practical, immediately applicable tools to build trust, raise morale, reduce staff churn, and increase discretionary effort.  Through memorable frameworks and simple but transformative questions, Andy equips leaders to distinguish symptoms from root causes, develop their people more effectively, and create cultures where respect and motivation grow naturally.

Why Can’t People Be More Like Me? Understanding People, Personality, and the Power of Difference

Overview:
In this highly engaging keynote, Andy Edwards – an accredited behavioural psychologist – explores the psychology of human behaviour and the everyday frustrations we experience when others don’t think, act, or communicate as we do.  Rather than encouraging uniformity, Andy shows how recognising and valuing differences unlocks stronger relationships, clearer communication, and higher performance.

Happiness Lessons From Your 101-Year-Old Self: Timeless Wisdom for a Life Well-Lived – From the Future You

Overview:
In this uplifting and thought-provoking keynote, Andy Edwards invites audiences to take advice from the wisest mentor they will ever have — their own future self at 101 years old.  Blending behavioural psychology, storytelling, and practical life philosophy, Andy guides delegates through a powerful mental time-travel exercise that reveals what truly matters in the long run and how small decisions made today shape lifelong happiness.