Ben Hines: Performance Speaker

Ben Hines an expert in leadership, influence, and performance change who transforms leaders and teams through strategic frameworks and actionable insight.

Quick Facts:

Highlights:
  • Leadership development and influence specialist
  • Executive coaching and team transformation
  • Combines behavioral science with strategic thinking
  • Works across sectors, including corporate, nonprofit, and academia
  • Known for pragmatic tools and sustained change orientation

Formats: Keynote (30–60 min), workshop, executive session, panel facilitator

Audiences: Senior leaders, leadership teams, high-potential managers, organizational development professionals

Outcomes:
  1. Gain frameworks to lead with clarity, influence, and emotional intelligence
  2. Shift leadership behaviors to improve team performance and culture
  3. Develop actionable paths for resilience, strategy execution, and adaptive change
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  • Travels from: London, Greater London
  • **Fee range: $20,001 - $35,000

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Keynote Topics:

High performing teams are often talked about in conferences, but rarely experienced first-hand. Imagine your organisation observing a world-class team in person at your conference and leaving inspired to make actionable change. 

Know the Score® is an immersive leadership and team development experience that brings the beauty and power of music, plus world-class musicians into your event. Facilitated by Ben Hines, CEO of Moving Performance, your participants observe and experience how a world-class team of musicians achieves a consistent level of high performance and the role that leadership plays in this process. 

The numerous metaphors from the music world translate directly into actionable ideas that can transform your leaders and team’s performance.  The experience is immersive and inclusive; with the session being masterful facilitated by Ben Hines, who draws in participants and musicians alike to create a memorable learning experience. 

Takeaways:

Numerous actionable ideas for leaders to go and implement straight away with their teams

Leaders are inspired by the experience, having the value of seeing their challenges through a new and fresh lens

Teams of leaders have a share learning experience which can be referenced internally into the future

Optional online-video content and follow-up for the leader to roll-out to their teams (additional cost)

Time commitment: 1 hour (min)

Change can be difficult.

It could be the result of an M&A or perhaps you have a new leadership team. Maybe you’re wanting to shift your business paradigm. Mismanage the transition and your business will lose productivity.

One of the most significant challenges facing businesses today is how to bring your people with you through these times. Most leaders are good at communicating change rationally. But change is also emotional.

We can help you get under the skin of the issue.

Our creative solutions help teams express how they feel about change, and allow them to develop a greater understanding of how they can work together more effectively in a changing environment.

Time and again we’ve seen people embrace change, quickly and more effectively, leading to increased engagement and more productivity. We’ll help you speak both to the hearts and minds of your people, to get everyone singing from the same songsheet.

Communication is the heart of good business.

Listening to needs. Expressing opinion. Voicing solutions. Communication is complex and subtle. And as many leaders will well know, the success of your business can depend as much on the nuance of non-verbal communication as much as it does on clear verbal communication.

We find that in the complexity and nuance of music, there’s a lot of crossover with business.

By creating and performing music together with your teams, we’ll help you take the communication skills of a successful string quartet or a sell-out rock band and transfer them to your teams.

You’re under the pressure of expectation to perform.

The spotlight is on you to empower a large group of exceptionally talented, emotional individuals. You have to lead them in working together as a single, multi-disciplinary, high performing team. Right here. Right now.

How would you do it?

For an orchestral conductor, this is a daily task. We’ll show you and your leaders how conductors lead musicians to play at their very highest capability under pressure. By taking musical leadership as a model for business leadership, and creating role-play scenarios where you are expected to lead and inspire a high performing team, we’ll explore with you how to you can get the highest standards of performance from your teams, and exceed the expectations of your clients.

Teamwork is essential to business success.

Without collaboration in music, you get a cacophony. Without co-operation in business, you get chaos. We know that teamwork doesn’t always come naturally or easily, but we have fun, motivational, rewarding and memorable solutions that will build relationships in your teams.

We’ll help your teams achieve the impossible together.

Keeping your specific business objectives in mind, we’ll get even the least musical of your people writing and performing music with their colleagues. We offer bespoke musical experiences that will stretch your teams and help them learn the vital skills of working effectively together.

The nuance is as important as the note.

Without emotion, music is flat and dull. Many successful organizations have realized that without emotional intelligence, their business is weaker. Strengthening the emotional quotient in your people will help them to lead co-operative and collaborative teams.

Music opens up emotions in a non-threatening and accessible way.

Taking your business objectives, we’ll connect to the heart of the issues you and your people face. Using music we’ll facilitate how emotional intelligence can help to move your organization forward.

“Original Song Writing” Conference Package

Time: 90 minutes output is an original song composed and written by the client and Moving Performance, to capture the essence of the client’s commercial objectives and conference themes. Based on one of the attached topics, an interactive and inspirational leadership keynote is designed to address the key themes and to empower participants to step up and go for it.  From these themes, an original song is created.  The original song is rehearsed and performed by the whole conference alongside a professional band. This is recorded and a final mixed version is sent back to the client for internal use following the event. 

Talent Short Bio

Ben Hines is a leadership expert, coach, and educator dedicated to helping individuals and teams grow their influence, effectiveness, and impact. Drawing on a depth of experience in organizational leadership, executive coaching, and performance science, Ben works with corporate leaders, emerging talent, and professional teams to embed growth mindsets and elevate culture.

His approach is grounded in practical frameworks, behavioral change techniques, and a deep focus on sustainable development. Across keynotes, workshops, and consulting, he helps clients align strategy, leadership behavior, and results.

Ben Hines is the founder of Moving Performance, an innovative initiative that merges his two lifelong passions: people development and music. Drawing upon over 13 years of experience in the financial and legal sectors, Ben has developed a groundbreaking approach to leadership and team development. His ability to intertwine real-world business insights with his artistry as a semi-professional orchestral French horn player captivates audiences and fosters meaningful transformation.

Through his unique methodologies, Ben empowers individuals and teams to unlock their potential by exploring the profound connection between music and leadership. His work has inspired leaders worldwide to reimagine their roles, improve collaboration, and achieve remarkable results.

Working with some of the world’s leading companies, Ben Hines has used music to help both executive boards and emerging leaders to reflect on their strengths and those of others, to move toward more collaborative and productive outcomes. He works across the world facilitating leadership programs and as a conference keynote speaker.

Ben Hines stands out as a thought leader in leadership and team dynamics, leveraging the universal language of music to drive personal and organizational growth. His expertise was honed during a successful career spanning more than a decade in the financial and legal sectors, where he witnessed firsthand the challenges leaders face in navigating complex environments.

Blending his corporate acumen with his passion for music, Ben founded Moving Performance to address these challenges creatively. His sessions are not just workshops they’re immersive experiences that engage participants on an emotional and intellectual level. Using live orchestral performances and musical metaphors, Ben demonstrates principles of collaboration, communication, and innovation in a way that resonates deeply and leaves a lasting impact.

Ben’s programs have garnered acclaim across diverse industries, helping organizations foster stronger connections, drive creativity, and align their teams toward shared goals. Whether working with a small leadership team or delivering a keynote to a global audience, Ben’s insights and techniques are adaptable, relatable, and transformative.

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Moving Performance — Conferences and Keynotes with Ben Hines

In this 5-minute feature, leadership expert Ben Hines demonstrates how music, movement, and shared experience unlock collaboration, creativity, and performance in organizations.

In Moving Performance: Conferences and Keynotes, Ben Hines showcases his dynamic and unconventional approach to leadership development and team performance. Drawing on his background as both a leadership strategist and accomplished musician, Ben reveals how the principles of music — listening, timing, harmony, and rhythm — parallel high-performing team behaviors in business.

The video interweaves live footage from corporate conferences and leadership sessions where Ben uses live music as a metaphor for organizational dynamics. Through interactive moments with musicians and participants, he illustrates how communication, empathy, and alignment are the core of effective collaboration. His message emphasizes that, just like in an orchestra, success in business depends on trust, adaptability, and the ability to listen and respond to others.

Ben also highlights how his programs help leaders move from transactional management to transformative influence. The energy, creativity, and emotional resonance of music make complex ideas about leadership and culture instantly relatable and memorable. The reel concludes with audience reactions and reflections on how Ben’s experiential keynotes inspire fresh thinking, deeper connection, and real behavioral change.

Key Moments

00:40 – 01:40: Ben introduces the concept — what teams can learn from orchestras

01:40 – 02:50: Live session examples — collaboration through rhythm and listening

02:50 – 04:00: Transforming leadership culture through creativity and trust

04:00 – 04:58: Audience impact and closing message — performance through connection

In this 6½-minute showreel, leadership coach and keynote speaker Ben Hines brings the principles of music and teamwork to life, showing how harmony, trust, and adaptability elevate organizational performance.

This conference showreel highlights Ben Hines’s dynamic keynote delivery, blending live music, storytelling, and leadership science to create transformative learning experiences. Set against the backdrop of an interactive corporate event, the video captures the essence of Ben’s philosophy: high-performing teams function like orchestras — each player distinct, yet united by purpose and shared rhythm.

Ben opens by engaging participants in rhythmic collaboration exercises, illustrating that leadership and communication rely on deep listening and mutual respect. Through his “Moving Performance” approach, he demonstrates how synchronization, adaptability, and emotional connection generate trust and creativity within teams.

Throughout the reel, he draws parallels between conducting an orchestra and leading an organization — where clarity of direction, responsiveness, and confidence in others are essential. Live audience clips show participants smiling, clapping, and contributing actively, reinforcing that learning through experience leaves a lasting emotional imprint.

The video closes with Ben summarizing his mission: to help leaders move from management to movement — inspiring alignment, unlocking potential, and building cultures that perform in harmony.

Key Moments

00:50 – 02:30: Live demonstration — rhythm, teamwork, and responsiveness

02:30 – 04:10: Lessons from the orchestra — leadership through listening and trust

04:10 – 05:40: Audience engagement — collaboration, communication, and creativity

05:40 – 06:40: Closing message — from sound to strategy, transforming performance

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