Elvis C. Umez

Speaking and workshops

Speaking, workshops and mentoring

Elvis works with events, organisations, teams and individuals on leadership, purpose and personal development.

Formats

Three ways to work together

  • Speaking

    Talks on leadership, purpose and personal development for your event, conference or organisation.

  • Workshops

    Practical sessions for teams and groups working on leadership, purpose and potential together.

  • Mentoring

    Working with individuals and leaders to discover their purpose and lead from within.

Talk topics

Signature talks

  • The leader within: leading yourself first

    Why self-leadership comes before leading anyone else, and how discipline, integrity, responsibility and self-awareness build the foundation for influence.

  • Discover your design: purpose by discovery

    Purpose is uncovered, not manufactured. Drawing on his 10 Purpose Portrait Archetypes, Elvis shows how strengths, values and motivations reveal the design behind a life.

  • It should be Leadership Common Sense

    The thinking behind his daily Dear Leader letter and books such as The 16 Secrets of Unstoppable Leaders: practical leadership principles that move people from insight to action.

  • Choosing purpose over opportunity

    Elvis’s own story of walking away from a promising music career, and why purpose is often revealed by the opportunities we decline as well as those we accept.

  • Developing people, transforming communities

    Why infrastructure and technology alone cannot produce lasting progress without people of capacity, character and competence, and how understanding strengths, values and potential helps individuals, teams and organisations grow.

  • Mentoring for thought leaders

    From his book of the same name: the three phases of mentoring (before, during and after) and how a mentor helps a protégé grow into a fellow master, drawing on the Igbo mentoring tradition.

Where Elvis has spoken

Opening speaker, on excellence and careers, at a gathering of medical laboratory scientists (January 2025)

For hosts

Introduction for hosts

Please feel free to read this introduction as it is.

Please welcome Elvis C. Umez, a leadership strategist, mentor and the author of more than thirty books on leadership, purpose and personal development. Based in Colchester, United Kingdom, he is the Founder of Life Assess Limited, whose Evolve365 framework and app help individuals and organisations identify and develop their potential.

Elvis C. Umez standing with arms folded in a photography studio

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Speaker one-sheet and media kit

Elvis C. Umez: speaker one-sheet

Two A4 pages: about Elvis, formats, books, introduction for hosts, full biography, ventures, photos and logo files. PDF, about 1.3 MB.

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Enquiries

Invite Elvis

To ask about speaking, a workshop or mentoring, email hello@elviscumez.com or call +44 7950 960366. It helps to include the date, the place, who the audience is and the format you have in mind.

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