Want your leaders to unlock ten weeks more, every year?
Paul Holbrook (The Time Rebel) shows organisations how to remove the barriers that undermine human efficiency and use AI where it actually works.
“The most interactive presentation I’ve ever attended, it’s revolutionised my thinking about where I’m spending my time.”
— Christopher Smith, COO London Metals Exchange”
Signature Topic: ‘Human Efficiency in the Age of AI’
Organisations don’t have a productivity problem. They have a human efficiency problem. People are busier than ever, yet 23% of their week is lost to false productivity – things they are in the habit of doing, that add no real value.
And while everyone talks about using AI to “save time”, most are trying to automate waste, instead of the activities that will give the greatest return.
In this interactive and energising keynote, Paul Holbrook uses the five colours of the Diary Detox® method to help leaders:
Understand exactly where their time is going
Learn to distinguish between waste, AI automation candidates, and true human value
Reset their relationship with time, AI and leadership using simple strategies that will give them a day back, every week.
As the audience answers questions live from their phones, the results appear instantly on screen — creating a moment of “profound” clarity that transforms how they think about productivity, AI, culture and their own behaviour.
Not just a keynote
Paul’s keynotes don’t just inspire, they generate data about how your organisation uses time.
Using responses gathered during your keynote, you can go even deeper with a Diary Detox® Insight Report — a bespoke, anonymised analysis that:
Benchmarks your organisation against global leadership efficiency norms
Reveals how much time is being lost across your leadership levels
Pinpoints where AI should be applied (and where it shouldn’t)
Calculates the financial opportunity of reclaiming lost time
Your report can be used to prioritise where AI and automation will have the biggest impact, focus organisational design and shape L&D strategy.
Meet The Time Rebel
Throughout 20-years in financial services technology transformation, Paul Holbrook realised the biggest barrier to organisations wasn’t capability, It was false productivity.
So he walked away from the corporate grind and used what he learned to help organisations reclaim lost time and create healthier, higher performing teams.
As a former managing director in the City of London he created the Diary Detox® – a colour-based productivity method that gives people a day back in their calendar, every week – and more time to lead.
Having wowed audiences of global organisations, he’s now an accomplished keynote speaker and author of ‘What Are You Doing? The uncomfortable truth about how you waste time at work’, bringing fresh insight and humour to the way organisations approach productivity, culture and leadership.
Hear the story behind the Time Rebel
In this episode of the People Purpose Podcast, Paul shares what made him walked away from the corporate grind, how the Diary Detox® method was born, and why he believes time is the most honest measure of culture.
Want to dive deeper?
Paul’s book ‘What Are you Doing? (rated 4.6 Stars on Amazon) explores how leaders waste time at work and how to fix it.
It’s the foundation of his Diary Detox® method and his signature keynote.
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Boost your organisation’s productivity, leadership and culture
Whether it’s a 20-minute keynote, a company away-day, a panel or a podcast, Paul will tailor his message to your audience’s biggest challenge.
Book a slot with Paul, and he’ll be happy to discuss your brief and share how you can create a memorable moment that will give your audience a new relationship with time.