Roderic Yapp

Roderic Yapp is an accredited coach and a specialist in developing resilience and leadership skills. He is a former Royal Marines Officer,who led Marines on combat operations including Afghanistan in 2007 and the evacuation of civilians from Libya during the Arab Spring.

Roderic also led the recapture of the 55,000-tonne MV Montecristo from pirate control in 2011, as part of a NATO counter-piracy task force off the Somali coast.

In 2012, Roderic Yapp left the Royal Marines to embark on a new career with the aim of using his experience to develop leaders in the corporate world. He joined the Urenco Group where he was responsible for assessing the level of leadership capability within the organisation and coaching leaders to create high performing teams with a focus on delivery and execution.

Given his background Roderic is well suited to developing people in sectors and situations where leadership failure can pose considerable systemic risk. He also works with clients across the world helping them to establish a more resilient human system as a driver to individual and organisational performance.

Roderic Yapp has delivered a TEDx Talk on Adaptive Leadership Techniques from his experiences on military operations in Afghanistan. He is also a keen writer.

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More About Roderic Yapp

After a 20 year career as a Royal Marine, Roderic left to take on a new challenge, of using his skills and experience with the aim of developing leaders in the corporate world.

He believes simplistic approaches to leadership rarely work and developing the ability to lead requires regular periods of reflection coupled with a desire to serve your team and the wider organisation.

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Today Roderic brings his significant coaching experience to supporting leaders and delivering leadership development and resilience workshops across a multitude of sectors including Professional Services, Asset Management, Banking, Retail, Rating Agencies, large complex UK plc and the NHS.

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Roderic Yapp | Speaker

A sought-after international public speaker, and executive coach, Roderic believes leadership is about behaviour. Great leaders behave in a way that generates the best outcome for the people being led and contributes to the delivery of the organisation’s goals. He believes that simplistic approaches to leadership rarely work and that developing the ability to lead requires regular periods of reflection coupled with a desire to serve your team and the wider organisation.

Roderic Yapp | Speaker Topics

Roderic Yapp has three main keynotes:

Adaptive Leadership

Leadership is about behaviour, but behaviour is based on context. How you behave at a funeral is different to how you behave at a wedding. You are the same person but your behaviour changes because the context has changed. In this speech, Roderic explains the importance of understanding the context and then making a choice about how you behave so you can match your aims and intent with what happens in reality.

Executing in Complexity

The world is becoming more and more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. This is leading to a pace of change that is relentless and only going to get faster. Executing in Complexity is a challenge for all leaders. In this speech, Roderic will outline a framework for helping us to understand complex environments and share some insights on how we need to operate in them in order to thrive rather than simply survive.

Mental Agility

All of us will face setbacks and challenges at some point in our lives. Our ability to be resilient and keep moving forward when faced with setbacks is one of the differences between great and world class performers. In this speech, Roderic outlines the ‘facts, perception and action’ model that helps people to think differently about setbacks so that they can recover quickly and execute their plans.

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Roderic Yapp Clients include: HSBC, Charles Stanley, UBS, Partners Capital, THCP, Salesforce, Allianz, NATO, Boatfolk, THI Investments and Stirling Square Capital Partners

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Testimonials

‘Clear, articulate, and thoughtful. Roderic shared the lessons he learnt duringhis experience in Afghanistan. He was asked to share some insights on navigating through complexity which he did extremely well, we would strongly recommend him to anyone considering an external speaker.’

Partner and Head of Private Equity — THI Investments

‘Roderic has a very interesting background and delivered a brilliant keynote on Adaptive Leadership at our conference in Rome. He took the
time to understand the audience and share practical takeaways that people are still using on a day to day basis within our Organisation. ’

Partner — Three Hills Capital

‘We are lucky to benefit from lots of external speakers at Salesforce. Roderic has been amongst the very best we’ve had. He strikes a good balance of confidence and humility. He captured the attention of the audience quickly and managed to hold it throughout his speech. When people aren’t looking at their phones, you know the speaker is doing a good job!’

Senior VP — Salesforce