Felix Riley
Who is Felix Riley?
Felix Riley is a keynote speaker, facilitator and author whose career spans BBC comedy writing, City finance and high-stakes international negotiation.
What are Felix Riley’s main achievements?
Felix spent a decade writing for BBC radio and television, with credits including The Zoë Ball Radio 1 Breakfast Show, The News Quiz and The Rory Bremner Show, and performed stand-up at The Comedy Store.
He moved into finance at Cantor Fitzgerald before founding ChoiceOdds, a financial binary betting business he sold to American brokerage MF Global, where he joined the Global Executive Board as Managing Director. He then took on the role of lead negotiator for a copper mining operation in Zambia, working at the highest levels of a politically complex environment.
Felix has written two financial thrillers for Penguin, The Set Up and The Inside Job, both rooted in his experience of markets during the financial crisis, with the screen rights subsequently sold. He has contributed market and business commentary to Bloomberg, MSNBC and BBC Radio 5 Live.
What kind of topics does Felix Riley cover at events?
The Flea Jar: What Traps Our Thinking, How To Untrap It, And How To Do Brilliant Thinking Instead – Felix shows how organisations drift into safe, predictable thinking and gives leaders practical tools to challenge assumptions and unlock genuinely imaginative ideas.
Failing Upwards: From Fear to Resilience – Rewriting Your Relationship with Failure – Felix reframes failure as useful information rather than something to avoid, helping teams take smarter risks, recover faster and build real momentum.
- Lawyers vs The Machine: How AI Will Change Legal Work, What It Will Never Replace, and How to Out-Think the Algorithm – Felix cuts through the noise on AI and professional services, showing where human judgment, creativity and client trust become more valuable, not less.
- Local Minds, Global ROI: How to Break National Silos and Use Your Global Network to Learn Faster and Win Bigger – Felix examines why knowledge stays trapped inside national teams and how leaders can build the habits and structures that turn global scale into a genuine advantage.
- Once Upon A Business… The Storytelling Secrets That Turn Strategy into Persuasion and Purpose – Felix shows why narrative is the leadership skill most strategies overlook and how to craft a message that travels through an organisation and changes behaviour.
- Home Is Where The Hope Is: Why a Safe Home Changes Everything – Felix makes the case for the importance of stable housing for health, education and employment.
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Why should you hire Felix Riley for your next event?
Few speakers offer a comparable range of lived experience, from professional comedy writing to running businesses, closing deals and navigating genuine political pressure. Felix is known for talks that are both genuinely funny and practically rigorous, leaving audiences thinking differently about the problems in front of them.
How to hire Felix Riley for your next event?
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