Each keynote is designed to deliver insight, clarity, and actionable strategies—not just anecdotes or motivational platitudes. These sessions give leaders and teams a rare opportunity to explore high-performance principles, leadership, and resilience, and to apply them directly in corporate or high-pressure environments.
Tailored to your objectives: Every session is customized to your team’s challenges and context, ensuring relevance, impact, and tangible takeaways that reinforce identity, alignment, and deliberate decision-making under pressure.
Attendees will gain:
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Strategies to make high-stakes decisions aligned with personal and team values
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Frameworks to cultivate focus, resilience, and psychological stability under pressure
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Tools to translate lessons from extreme circumstances into actionable strategies for teams and organizations
Ready to elevate your team’s performance?
Designed for leaders and teams who operate where clarity, judgment, and performance are critical.
Keynote Speaking
Podcasts
Adam Dikker, S&P Global
It is not every day that you find a speaker quite like Matthew; our employees were so impressed with his resiliency, and the way that he was able to translate rigorous academic concepts in a way that is palatable for a wide audience.
I cannot recommend him highly enough!
His leadership expertise and consultative services can help you in your organization.
Centre for Army Leadership
I really enjoyed the session.
I am deeply passionate about understanding how leadership is taught and connecting people to the underlying thinking and theories. Your lecture was an excellent example of how this should be approached.
I really appreciated how you began with the Doctrine, linked the infographics to real world scenarios, connected academic models, and brought everything to life with engaging stories. It was both very insightful and very I think, inspiring.
Thank you once again.
Dan Lansley, 59 Cdo
His ability to make complex ideas accessible and thick concepts digestible made for a profound period of focussed reflection and learning.
Independently of his professional services as a leadership authority, his own life story is remarkable. I’m very fortunate to have worked with many extraordinary people in my career in the UK armed forces, yet he surely ranks as one of the most extraordinary I’ve ever had the good fortune to meet.
Thank you Matt for the impact you’ve already made on me and my unit.
To anyone reading this, I cannot recommend his services highly enough.
Chris Townsend, Felsted
Matthew Addison Black, Felsted alumnus (1996–2006), delivered a compelling and inspiring talk on leadership, drawing on his experience in the British Army and his reflections on the life and legacy of Lieutenant Walter Hamilton VC, one of Felsted’s most distinguished former pupils. Lieutenant Hamilton’s bravery during the Battle of Fattehabad and his ultimate sacrifice in Kabul exemplify the courage, integrity, and selfless service that Felsted seeks to instil in our community.
Having recently returned from service in Afghanistan and drawing on his own leadership experience in the British Army, Matthew connected these historical acts of courage to modern leadership challenges, offering practical insights for students and staff alike.
Our students and staff were inspired by Matthew’s reflections, gaining a deeper understanding of what courageous, values-driven leadership looks like in practice. His talk reinforced the enduring Felsted values of respect, adventure and inspiration, leaving a lasting impression on the whole community.
Col Shaun Chandler
I was Matthew's Company Commander when he was a young Platoon Commander, even then proximal to the challenges he talks about with Veritas, he led with authenticity, humility, and quiet strength.
To hear him now, openly sharing the raw realities of service, illness, and identity, makes me even prouder to call him a friend.
His journey through cancer didn’t just test his resilience; it redefined it. And now, as a coach, he brings that hard-won perspective to others.
If you need someone who truly gets what growth through adversity means: Matt’s your man.