Stephen Shortt

Stephen Shortt

DUBLIN, IRELAND
Build a Killer Family Business, without Killing Your Family!

Stephen has spent his entire adult life (and most of his childhood) in family businesses - as well as starting a few of his own. Having bought both family businesses from his parents and growing them internationally, Stephen learned a lot about successful succession planning - as well as making some mistakes along the way...

Stephen is the former global chair of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards which supports young, emerging entrepreneurs in over 50 countries around the world and served on the global committee for EO Accelerator which supports entrepreneurs who want to scale past 250k per year.

Stephen is a strategy facilitator; team development coach; leadership coach and personality profiler.

Stephen has facilitated workshops, delivered keynotes and taught on leadership academies in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia.

Stephen's parents still work with him...

Stephen has spent his entire adult life (and most of his childhood) in family businesses - as well as starting a few of his own. Having bought both family businesses from his parents and growing them internationally, Stephen learned a lot about successful succession planning - as well as making some mistakes along the way...

Stephen is the former global chair of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards which supports young, emerging entrepreneurs in over 50 countries around the world and served on the global committee for EO Accelerator which supports entrepreneurs who want to scale past 250k per year.

Stephen is a strategy facilitator; team development coach; leadership coach and personality profiler.

Stephen has facilitated workshops, delivered keynotes and taught on leadership academies in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia.

Stephen's parents still work with him...

Build a Killer Family Business, without Killing Your Family

If you are a family business or just starting to think about becoming a multi generational business, the perspectives shared in this keynote can help you successfully plan your succession.
Open up the lines of communication, get everyone on board, and keep your family running like a well oiled machine!

Every family business has a professional side and a personal side - both of which can be intertwined and fraught with emotional baggage and personality clashes.

Succession can...

Audience ActivityInspirational / Life-changingHumorous / Funny

Leadership Strategy Workshop

Get your leadership team aligned around shared goals and values to deliver success
Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / Specific

What's Your Leadership Style?

Your natural personal strengths and drivers determine what kind of culture you create as a leader and how you will lead a team, project, or initiative.

This seminar gives you insight into six leadership dimensions that influence leadership style and effectiveness as well as highlight some of your potential unconscious biases.

These dimensions outline how a leader manages themselves; their careers and relationships, the priorities on which a leader will focus, and how he or she...

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The 5 Ps of Leadership

Leadership is not easy - no matter how effortless some leaders make it look...

By definition, a leader has a group, followers or some kind of organisation working to achieve something for the greater good.

In this session we will cover the fundamentals of great leadership starting with you as the leader and your natural tendencies, personality and attributes.

Everything you do as a leader stems from you - how you lead, what environment you create, what team you...

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Hiring the Right People

Letting the wrong people loose on your business is a recipe for disaster! 
Entertainment-basedAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificHumorous / Funny