Speaking Engagements
Every breakthrough starts with a spark—a moment when information transcends mere words and becomes a catalyst for change. Our insights aren't just data points; they're rocket fuel for your ambitions.
Dive into a world where:
Information Empowers
Insights Inspire
Action Becomes Inevitable
"Building and scaling a business isn’t just about having a great idea — it's about turning that idea into something real. Success lives in the balance between smart planning and trusting your instincts."
What do I talk about?
Big Ideas for the Future of Business and Leadership
Actionable insights to build resilience, drive innovation, and empower high-performing teams.
- Future of Disruptive Technologies – Unpacking how emerging technology is reshaping work, redefining industries, and creating new opportunities for business and leadership.
- Scaling Founder-Led Companies – How to grow your business without losing the identity, culture, and entrepreneurial spirit that fueled its success.
- Mindset and Strategic Growth – Real-world lessons from startups and investment-backed businesses on how to scale intelligently and build future-proof strategies.
- High Agency and Empowered Leadership – Unlocking the critical role of agency in driving innovation, ownership, and transformational outcomes across organizations.
- Resilience and Leadership in Business – Understanding why grit, flexibility, and emotional resilience are non-negotiables for navigating today’s volatility and uncertainty.
- The Future of Business: Trends That Will Redefine Success – Exploring the megatrends shaping the next decade and how leaders can stay ahead of disruption and opportunity.
- Building an Intrapreneurial Culture – How to foster innovation from within, empowering teams to think and act like entrepreneurs inside established organizations.
Specific Topics and Themes
"Big ideas for the future of business and Leadership — Actionable insights to build resilience, drive innovation, and empower high-performing teams."
High Agency: How to Drive Empowerment at Every Level
Learn what high agency is, why it’s the key differentiator for today’s most successful individuals and teams, and how to foster it in your organization. This session covers the mindset shifts, leadership behaviours, and cultural systems needed to empower people to act decisively, drive innovation, and take ownership of outcomes to propel organizations forward.
Future of Business: Trends That Will Redefine Success
Explore the megatrends shaping the next decade of business, from AI and automation to decentralized work and stakeholder capitalism. Learn how forward-thinking leaders can anticipate shifts, turn disruption into opportunity, and build companies that thrive in the future landscape.
The Grit Factor: Building Resilience for a Changing World
Discover the science and strategies behind grit and resilience. Learn how to build personal and organizational resilience in the face of uncertainty, setbacks, and rapid change. This session shares practical tools for strengthening persistence, adapting to challenges, and transforming adversity into long-term advantage.
Intrapreneurship Unleashed: Ignite Innovation Within
Learn why the future belongs to companies that think like startups—and how to cultivate intrapreneurs inside your organization. This session covers practical frameworks for encouraging creativity, giving teams ownership over new ideas, and creating systems that reward risk-taking, experimentation, and execution.
Topics and Themes
Let me turn complexity into clarity and lead the way forward!
- Future of Disruptive Technologies – Unpacking how emerging technology is changing the future of work and creating entirely new industries.
- Scaling Founder-Led Companies – How to grow your business without losing what made it special in the first place.
- Mindset & Strategic Growth – Real lessons from the world of start-up investing and business building.
- Resilience & Leadership in Business – Understanding how grit, flexibility and agency can make or break your success.
- Business Transformation & Digital Innovation
– Staying ahead when markets and industries are changing faster than ever.
Let’s Connect!
Want to bring some fresh thinking to your team? Book a meet, and let’s see how we can shake things up and unlock your organization's potential.
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Speaking Formats
Dynamic experiences designed to inspire, engage, and drive Action. We've got flexible formats to share insights that fit exactly what your team needs:
- Keynote Speeches – High-energy talks that get people thinking and excited.
- Panel Discussions & Moderation – Conversations that spark new ideas about what's happening in your industry.
- Conference Chairing – Setting the tone, keeping the energy high, and weaving the sessions together to create a cohesive, engaging experience for your attendees.
- Workshops & Masterclasses – Hands-on sessions where you'll dig deep into strategy and leadership.
- Executive Retreats & Private Consultations –Focused time to work through your specific challenges.
- Virtual Speaking Engagements – Live online sessions that bring insights right to your team.
Why Book Me?
This isn't about fancy theories or textbook advice. Everything I share comes straight from my own life, working with real businesses and solving real problems. I am not a theorist, I am a practitioner. I have tried and I have failed. But I have succeeded in scaling businesses and persevering through challenges to achieve the impossible. And it is this lived experience that I want to share with you. So that you are inspired to take the most direct path along your journey.
The goal is simple: give you practical tips you can use right away.
How Can I help Your Organization?
1. Transformative Insights, Unparalleled Expertise
Leverage cutting-edge strategic thinking to translate complex challenges into actionable breakthrough strategies and provide you with a roadmap for organizational transformation.
2. High-Impact Storytelling that Inspires Action
Experience keynotes that are more than presentations—they're immersive journeys blending real-world case studies, personal narratives, and practical frameworks that motivate audiences to reimagine their potential and drive meaningful change.
3. Customized Intellectual Firepower
Each keynote is meticulously tailored to your industry, organizational goals, and audience dynamics. Maxim doesn't deliver generic talks, he crafts precision-engineered intellectual experiences that resonate deeply and provoke strategic thinking.
4. Global Perspective, Localized Relevance
Drawing from extensive international leadership experience across multiple continents, he bridges global insights with local context, offering nuanced perspectives that challenge conventional wisdom and spark innovative approaches.
5. Performance-Driven Inspiration
Beyond motivation, Maxim will provide you with concrete methodologies and frameworks that translate inspiration into measurable organizational performance. Audiences leave not just energized but equipped with tactical tools for immediate implementation.
6. Thought Leadership that Transcends the Stage
Booking Maxim means accessing a comprehensive thought leadership ecosystem. His keynotes serve as entry points to ongoing learning, accompanied by supplementary resources, follow-up materials, and strategic consultation options that extend the impact far beyond the speaking engagement.
Let’s Connect!
Want to bring some fresh thinking to your team? Book a meet, and let’s see how we can shake things up and unlock your organization's potential.