Leon Bamforth
Leon Bamforth – AI Business Strategist & Speaker
Leon Bamforth is an award-winning speaker and AI business strategist, who empowers organisations to harness the potential of AI for growth, efficiency, and innovation. With a bold, engaging delivery style and practical expertise, he helps leaders and teams transform their business strategy, without the hype or jargon.
Drawing on years of corporate delivery leadership and award-winning public speaking, he specialises in helping you and your audiences move beyond the AI buzzwords and into real-world impact. That means spotting high-value use cases, avoiding common risks, and using AI to amplify what matters most: your purpose, your people, and your customers. It’s not about chasing shiny tools; it’s about embedding AI with clarity, care, and long-term value.
Leon guides organisations to apply AI in ways that simplify work, increase value, and make sense long-term, helping teams understand how to integrate AI tools into their daily workflows. His engaging keynote talks and workshops have helped hundreds of leaders unlock business growth, team effectiveness, and confident innovation in a fast-changing world.
With a career leading on high profile, multi million-pound operations, Leon understands business and helps them successfully adapt while the world around them changes. He works with organisations of all sizes, from small teams looking to boost productivity, to enterprise clients building long-term AI strategies.
Leon delivers a series of signature keynotes designed to make AI real, relevant and ready for action. One of his most popular talks, “Don’t Just Monkey Around with AI – adding strategic value to your business”, breaks down safe, smart AI adoption using humour, real-life examples, and hands-on takeaways. His talks are known for blending energy with clarity—leaving audiences with both inspiration and immediate next steps.
Beyond the keynote stage, Leon delivers half- and full-day interactive workshops tailored to leadership teams, operational departments, and business change programmes. He also offers 1:1 coaching for executives and professionals looking to lead in the AI era or improve their own speaking impact.
If your team or event is looking for a speaker who can cut through the AI noise and speak with insight, humour, and authority, Leon Bamforth is the one to call. He will leave your audience inspired and ready to act.
LEON BAMFORTH SPEAKING TOPICS
You + AI: How to amplify your expertise –AI isn’t coming to replace you; it’s here to amplify you. Many businesses have discovered that treating AI as a replacement for human expertise is a recipe for failure. AI is going to revolutionise your world, but what will that look like? This keynote shifts the conversation from “AI vs. Humans” to “Expert + Tool,” showing audiences how to identify how AI can amplify your expertise to make you more efficient, more effective and even more human.
You will learn how to help you use AI to make you more amazing, navigate the dangers and avoid the new AI threats that every business needs to know about whether they use AI or not.
Don’t Just Monkey Around with AI – adding strategic value to your business A playful but powerful keynote that unpacks the serious risks and high-reward opportunities of AI in business. Using a mix of real-world examples and behavioural insights, this talk helps leaders and teams use AI to drive change rather than let others set the agenda.
The OneTeam Effect: The surprising key to business excellence High-performing teams don’t happen by accident. This talk reveals the secret to collaborative success in corporate environments, using the “OneTeam” toolbox, a proven framework that demonstrates the essential foundations for getting results in corporations. A high energy, engaging keynote that has you building aligned, empowered, and effective corporate teams with a common goal, the freedom to act, the support to grow, and access to the right tools and knowledge.
SMART Conflict Resolution at work Toxic conflict is inevitable but it doesn’t have to derail your team. You’re running your business or leading your teams, then BAM! Toxic conflict hits. It will happen at some point, but it’s still a shock. How do you deal with it? Don’t panic! You equipped yourself and your team with the SMART conflict resolution framework, right? Then you can get back to delivering your world class product or service! In this session we will explore how to resolve conflict so that you can focus on doing what you love.
I was really impressed with the amount of background work and research Leon did in the run-up to the talk. He made the effort to truly understand our industry, which was fantastic. As a result, it wasn't just a generic AI talk; he really tailored it to our sector, which really helped the audience engage better
— Jo Judge - Chief Executive at British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA)
Leon gave a really interesting and thought provoking AI Keynote presentation at the recent BIAZA conference. All with some good humour thrown in. I think everyone in the room had some key takeaways from the presentation, which has made us really think about how we approach and harness AI in the workplace.Leon gave a really interesting and thought provoking AI Keynote presentation at the recent BIAZA conference. All with some good humour thrown in. I think everyone
in the room had some key takeaways from the presentation, which has made us really think about how we approach and harness AI in the workplace.
— Tom Owen - Finance Director at Chester Zoo
This evening I was privileged enough to see Leon Bamforth who won Speaker Factor. What a fantastic guy. Inspirational and that is from somebody who sees speakers every month with Vistage. He changed his tone, intonation, he paused. Just a master of his art and somebody who's so inspirational because he keeps learning.
— Ian Windle -Group chair at Vistage
