Motivational Speaker, Coach, Expert on High Performance, Teamwork, Change & the Psychology of Performance, Non-Executive Board Member of Chelmsford City Football Club & Voted One of the Top 100 Most Powerful Men In Golf

Jamil Qureshi started coaching and speaking in the early 2000s. Back then, he worked mainly with top names in sport (particularly golf). Very soon his services were also being asked for by businesses and industries all over the World. In 2006 Jamil started work as a psychologist for the European Ryder Cup team, helping them with a historic win.

Today, Jamil describes himself as a Performance Coach, a Psychologist, an Author and a Keynote Speaker.

Companies and people who book and benefit from Jamil Qureshi’s highly motivational talks, regularly appear in the lists of the US’s Fortune 500 and also the UK’s FT 100 top companies. He has been described as, genuinely funny, engaging and also provocative. His re-booking rate is nothing short of exceptional.

Ranked among the most influential figures in British sport in 2009, Jamil was voted in the top 100 most powerful men in golf. He actually worked directly with twenty two of the top fifty golfers in the world.

He has also worked successfully with three English Premiership football clubs, one of which reached a record position from its halfway point in the season. Also, two Formula 1 racing drivers, David Coulthard and Eddie Irvine and the 2009 Ashes winning, England cricketers.

In business and also industry Jamil has worked from CEO and board level to middle management in a variety of sectors. He has worked with business leaders and companies in over 24 different countries, helping teams to fulfil their potential by orchestrating change and performance programmes.

Brands Jamil has worked with:
Jamil Qureshi developed and delivered management and leadership programmes at board level for Coca Cola, Hewlett Packard and Emirates Airlines. Also, Serco, Marks and Spencer, and the Royal Bank of Scotland. He has worked across Lloyds Banking Group on their ‘Journey to World Class’.

He has led teams responsible for change management in several high-profile areas, such as Lloyds Banking Group’s substantial integration strategy, and with The Post Office to create The Post Office Way as they separated from the Royal Mail.

Jamil is also a world recognised speaker on all aspects of the psychology of performance, psychology of leadership, leadership attitudes, improving people, cultural change techniques, and team performance.

He is one of only a few external psychologists ever to be allowed to study astronauts on the 2008 NASA Space Programme.

Jamil has also talked to an audience that included two former US presidents at the K Club in Ireland!His versatility is illustrated by the fact he has talked at NASDAQ in Times Square. This is where Jamil shared a stage with General Peter Pace, Head of the Joint Chief of Staff. The General was the highest-ranking military officer in the US armed forces. The next day Jamil was performing stand up in front of a celebrity audience at the Groucho Club!

Jamil use to be a regular at London’s prestigious Comedy Store. He spent two years working with TV’s award-winning mind reader, Derren Brown!

Jamil also lectures on the prestigious World Program, in the US, UK and China. This is through Ashridge and Fordham Business Schools and Qing Dao University.

In December 2025, Jamil became a Non-Executive Board Member of Chelmsford City Football Club.

Jamil’s Speaking Topics:
TURNING AMBITION INTO ACHIEVEMENT
To do differently, we have to think differently. We all want to be better, but how do we turn our thoughts into powerful drivers of relevant and meaningful actions?

BLAME LOOKS BACKWARDS, RESPONSIBILITY LOOKS FORWARDS
How to create genuine ownership within our teams –the real difference between commitment and compliance.

ENGAGEMENT – RHETORIC OR REALITY
Understanding the true motivators in the workplace. How we need to change our view of what we believe an organization is.

RESPONSEABILITY
Why the key ingredient of success is choice? How to enable people to ‘choose’ their way to more and also greater success.

COMPLEXITY AND UNCERTAINTY, SO WHAT?
How to achieve focus and purpose to cut through circumstance. There are no obstructions –just distractions.

THE DISRUPTIVE LEADER!
The only way for leaders to optimize people’s talents is by breaking thinking habits.

SUSTAINABLE RELATIONSHIPS
Companies no longer compete against companies; networks compete against networks. Also, we are only as strong as our ability to form meaningful relationships.

THE ROGUE MONKEY
Creativity is something we unlearn! How can we learn it back and see innovation as an asset!

Why Hire Jamil Qureshi?