Speech Topics
Professor Adrian Furnham is an engaging and entertaining keynote speaker and a widely published journalist, as well as one of HR Magazine’s 20 Most Influential People in HR.
Professor Adrian Furnham is an engaging and entertaining keynote speaker and a widely published journalist, as well as one of HR Magazine’s 20 Most Influential People in HR.
Choosing and changing different jobs.
The consequences of job fit and misfit.
Passion at work.
How to define and measure intelligence?
What is EQ?
Which is more important when and why?
How many styles are there?
Are some “better” than others?
Can you change your style?
How to describe the different generations.
The “problematic millennials”.
The aging process.
All the personality disorders.
The dark triad.
The Psychopath next door.
How to define it.
Types and categories of illness.
Which therapies work and why?
What is alternative medicine?
Who chooses it?
Does it work?
How to test it.
How to define and measure it.
Happy and unhappy people.
Ten myths and ten pieces of advice.
The problems of futurology.
New and old jobs.
Ten major world changes.
Team-role types.
Team vs individual decisions.
Healthy and unhealthy team dynamics.
What causes office politics?
Savvy as opposed to politics.
How to measure it.
Six strategies of persuasion.
The phases of negotiation.
Nudging and tricks to use.
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
Money madness.
Financial literacy.
Time types and cultural differences.
Chronobiology.
Views of the past and future.
Types of shoppers.
Retail therapy.
The tricks of shops and websites.
What Freud really said.
Psychology of dreams.
Oral, Anal and Phallic types.
Christmas cards and letters.
Present giving and receiving.
Eating and drinking.
What is a good joke?
Types of humour.
The functions of humour.
Types of traveller.
Cultural differences.
How to cope with culture shock.
Can we define and measure creativity?
The creative person and process.
How to increase creativity.
What is Body Language?
Verbal, visual and vocal communication.
Cues to lying.
Can we define beauty?
What men look for in women and vice versa.
Types of love.