Build a world-class team culture by design.
Shane Michael Hatton helps leaders build the team culture they want, one conversation at a time. He helps organisations develop the leadership skills that culture demands, and speaks about it on stages around the world.
After years of hearing that culture mattered but rarely hearing what to do about it, Shane commissioned a national study of 1,002 people leaders to understand what culture means to those on the frontline. Almost everyone said culture mattered. Just 3% felt completely confident to do something about it. That gap became his bestselling book, Let’s Talk Culture, and the model at the centre of his work.
With over a decade as a professional speaker, Shane has worked in more than 30 cities across 13 countries. Now based in London with a global voice, he splits his time speaking across the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. He is known for bringing clarity to complex ideas and for sessions that leave every leader and team member knowing exactly what to do next.
Talking Points
Let’s Talk Culture: The conversations you need to create the team you want
Just 3% of leaders feel completely confident to build great team culture. Not because they don’t care, but because nobody ever made it practical. Backed by Shane’s national research with over 1,000 people leaders, this keynote hands your leaders the conversations that turn culture from a poster on the wall into something they build deliberately, week by week. Audiences discover why 95% of people leaders say culture is the outcome of small decisions over time, why the leaders closest to the work matter more than the boardroom, and exactly which conversations move a team from culture by accident to culture by design. Practical, funny and immediately usable. They’ll walk out knowing what to do on Monday.
Let’s Talk Culture: The conversations you need to create the team you want
Culture Karaoke - The keynote that breaks the script
Most sessions ask an audience to sit and listen. Culture Karaoke hands them the playlist. Before and during the event, delegates choose from a songbook of the culture questions that keep leaders up at night, and vote them up the chart. The music rolls, Shane takes the mic, and the room gets sharp, research-backed answers with the energy of a Friday night and the substance of a national study of over 1,000 people leaders. No two sessions are the same, because no two audiences ask for the same setlist.
Culture Karaoke - The keynote that breaks the script
The Language of Culture: The power of communication in shaping a culture by design
Drawing from research with over 1,000 people leaders, this session uncovers the underestimated power of language in shaping a culture by choice. It moves beyond theory and offers a pragmatic approach to cultural design. Audiences explore team memes and mantras: how words, phrases and stories influence and permeate an organisation’s culture at every level. Interactive, research-backed and told through stories, with takeaways people can use the same week.
The Language of Culture: The power of communication in shaping a culture by design
Keeping Culture Human: Building connection in the era of AI
The more machine the work becomes, the more human the culture has to be. As organisations race to embed AI into everything, the question that will separate thriving teams from hollowed-out ones isn’t technological, it’s cultural: will your people still feel connected, trusted and valued while everything around them changes? Drawing on his research with over 1,000 people leaders, Shane makes the case that the human skills of leadership, the conversations, the trust-building, the belonging, are about to become your organisation’s scarcest resource and its sharpest competitive edge. A practical playbook for holding the human centre of a team through the biggest workplace transformation in a generation. Timely, hopeful, and free of both AI hype and AI panic.
Keeping Culture Human: Building connection in the era of AI
Gen Z Uncensored: Five generations, one culture
Gen Z isn’t breaking your workplace. It’s revealing what was already broken. For the first time in history, five generations share the workplace, and the youngest is asking out loud the questions every generation wondered about silently: why do we work this way, who decided, and what do we actually stand for? Drawing on generational research and Shane’s national study of over 1,000 people leaders, this session cuts through the headlines and the stereotypes to show what really matters to the newest generation at work, and how smart leaders use that energy to build one culture that five generations genuinely want to belong to. Expect myth-busting, laugh-out-loud generational truths, and a practical framework for turning generational friction into cultural fuel.
Gen Z Uncensored: Five generations, one culture
Trusted to Lead: The power of positioning in culture change
Culture change moves at the speed of trust in the people leading it. It’s why so many transformations stall: the strategy is right, the values are printed, and yet nothing moves, because only 3 in 10 people leaders strongly agree their leaders actually demonstrate the values on the wall. That gap between what leaders say and what people see is a positioning problem, and this keynote is about closing it. Drawing on his research, where lack of trust ranked as the number one culture killer, Shane unpacks the four elements that determine whether people follow a leader into change: character, narrative, credibility and reputation. Every leader walks out knowing how they’re currently positioned, and what to do about it.
Trusted to Lead: The power of positioning in culture change
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Shane Michael Hatton - Professional Speaker - Global expert on Team Culture and Leadership
Shane has spent the last decade developing remarkable leaders, teams and cultures all across the world. He is a global expert in leadership and culture, blending his experience in business and psychology to help leaders communicate, connect and collaborate more effectively in order to bring out the best in those they lead. Shane is passionate about helping leaders have the conversations they need to create the teams they want. As a speaker, coach and trainer, Shane has partnered with some of Australia’s most well known and loved businesses across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors and his work can be found in publications like the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Australian, HRD and more. Shane is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and author of two books including ‘Let’s Talk Culture – The Conversations You Need to Create the Team You Want’ and ‘Lead The Room – Communicate a Message That Counts in Moments That Matter’.Shane Michael Hatton - IABC Asia Pacific Highlights (Indonesia)
Shane has spent the last decade developing remarkable leaders, teams and cultures all across the world. He is a global expert in leadership and culture, blending his experience in business and psychology to help leaders communicate, connect and collaborate more effectively in order to bring out the best in those they lead. Shane is passionate about helping leaders have the conversations they need to create the teams they want. As a speaker, coach and trainer, Shane has partnered with some of Australia’s most well known and loved businesses across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors and his work can be found in publications like the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Australian, HRD and more. Shane is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and author of two books including ‘Let’s Talk Culture – The Conversations You Need to Create the Team You Want’ and ‘Lead The Room – Communicate a Message That Counts in Moments That Matter’.Shane Michael Hatton - Testimonials
Kochie's Business Builders - Shane Michael Hatton
Shane was extremely engaging and the content was perfect for our team based on the brief we had provided. We had a lot of feedback at the end from attendees with regards to Shane's session, ... keep reading Qantas Airways Limited
The energy was electrifying in the room and every time that he comes he brings something new that you can take and that you can implement straight away. We’ve had a range of people reach out and ask ‘how can I get more from Shane’ and so we’ve implemented more programs that have sold out immediately. Shane is somebody who you can get more and more out of the more he understands your organisation.
Shane is just the master of turning something which could be quite dry into something that's really fun.
I was at a conference where I was speaking after Shane. I like the person before me to not be very good, because then I look great. And I was watching him and thinking I am in serious trouble. This guy is really funny, really clever, there are a million take outs, he’s really interactive with the audience, he’s absolutely brilliant!
Shane’s ability to engage, connect and create an energy in a virtual environment was so impressive. His research and insights, backed by storytelling and humour was a simple and effective way to impact in the session. I have been hosting HR SEEN events for 2 years and Shane’s session was an absolute standout for me. We look forward to working with you again in the near future.
