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Corrie Block
Tier-1 Executive Coach | TEDx Speaker | Professor, Monarch Business School Switzerland | 2x Amazon #1 Bestselling Author
Dr. Corrie Block is the number one executive coach in the GCC, endorsed by Marshall Goldsmith and praised by Stephen MR Covey. A Master Neuroplastician, two-time Amazon number one bestselling author, and TEDx speaker with two recent talks, he works at the intersection of brain science and boardroom strategy to deliver documented performance outcomes for senior leaders across 30 countries.
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Corrie Block biography
Dr. Corrie Block built his authority as an executive coach the hard way. A serial entrepreneur who founded five businesses, went bankrupt twice, and rebuilt each time, he came to understand leadership dysfunction not from a textbook but from lived experience on both sides of the boardroom. That combination of academic rigor and entrepreneurial reality has become the signature of his practice: an approach that is simultaneously grounded in neuroscience and uncompromisingly practical. Today he is recognized by Marshall Goldsmith as the number one executive coach in the UAE and is one of the fastest-rising global authorities on C-suite performance, with documented client outcomes as high as 900x performance ROI.
Leadership speaker Dr. Corrie Block is the Professor of Strategic Management at Monarch Business School in Switzerland and a Certified Master Neuroplastician with a credentials stack that reflects both academic depth and practical reach: a Swiss Doctorate in Business Administration, a UK PhD in History, Masters degrees in Business and Global Leadership, certificates in Finance from Harvard and in Artificial Intelligence from MIT, and designations as a Certified Performance Neuroscience Coach and Faculty Member at CoachSource and CMI Merrick. He is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and is recognized by Thinkers360 as a global thought leader in leadership and executive coaching.
Four Books, Two TEDx Talks, Thirty Countries
Block is the author of four books, two of which have reached number one on Amazon’s bestseller lists. Spartan CEO: Six Pillars of Executive Performance established his framework for high-performance leadership. Business is Personal: A Blueprint for Finding Meaning at Work drew endorsements from Stephen MR Covey and Mark C Thompson. Love@Work: The Final Frontier of Empathy in Leadership topped Amazon’s Management category in 2024. His most recent title, Chief Executive Coach (2026), challenges the executive coaching industry directly, arguing that most coaching at the C-suite level is underqualified and overpriced, and laying out what genuine coaching impact should look like. He has been published in Forbes, Psychology Today, Entrepreneur, the CEO Magazine, Oxford Journals, and Routledge Academic Books. His two TEDx talks, delivered at TEDxDe Montfort University Dubai (January 2024) and TEDxTralee (November 2024), have extended his reach to global audiences on the themes of meaning at work and empathy in leadership.
As a speaker, Dr. Corrie Block brings the precision of a neuroscientist, the credibility of a practitioner who has coached boards at Microsoft, Mastercard, Rolls-Royce, the United Nations, and the World Bank across more than 30 countries, and the directness of someone who has failed publicly and rebuilt. His keynotes do not traffic in motivation for its own sake. They change how senior leaders understand their own cognition, their organizational culture, and the measurable levers of executive performance.
Corrie Block Speaking Videos
Dr. Corrie Block's Fireside Chat with Dr. Marshall Goldsmith
Corrie Block - Leadership for Millennials
Corrie Block Keynote Topics
The executive coaching industry is flooded with underqualified practitioners charging premium fees for conversations that produce no measurable outcome. Based on his latest Amazon number one bestseller, Block dismantles the status quo and redefines what coaching at the C-suite level should actually look like: advisory-first, neurologically grounded, and ruthlessly accountable to business results. This keynote is as relevant for executives seeking better coaches as it is for organizations trying to assess the coaching investments they are already making.
Empathy is not softness. It is one of the most precisely calibrated instruments a senior leader can develop, and the organizations that deploy it deliberately outperform those that confuse it with conflict avoidance. Drawing on his Amazon number one bestseller and his TEDxTralee talk, Block shows how empathy functions neurologically, how it drives trust, retention, and innovation at scale, and how leaders can build it as a deliberate skill rather than waiting to feel it. This is one of his most requested keynotes with C-suite and CHRO audiences.
Built on Block's flagship framework, this keynote translates his research across 150 companies and 30 countries into a structured model for sustained executive performance. The six pillars address mindset, energy, clarity, influence, accountability, and organizational design. Participants leave with a clear diagnostic of which pillars are supporting their current performance and which are costing it, along with a practical protocol for strengthening each one.
Most executive development programs treat purpose and performance as separate conversations. Block argues they are the same conversation. Drawing on his book endorsed by Stephen MR Covey and his work with leaders across multinational organizations, he shows how connecting professional roles to personal meaning does not trade results for wellbeing but accelerates both. Particularly powerful for organizations navigating talent retention, cultural transformation, or significant leadership transitions.
What separates high-performing executives from the rest? Dr. Corrie Block reveals six core areas that leaders must master to maintain peak performance amid complexity and stress. Drawing on his coaching of top CEOs and extensive research, he shares practical techniques to boost mental clarity, resilience, energy, and decision-making. This session equips leaders to tackle challenges head-on and sustain excellence over the long haul.
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FAQs on Booking Corrie Block
Why Corrie Block?
Booking Dr. Corrie Block for your event means bringing the GCC's number one executive coach to your leadership audience. Endorsed by Marshall Goldsmith as the top executive coach in the UAE, recognized by Thinkers360 as a global thought leader, and the author of four books including two Amazon number one bestsellers, Block delivers something most leadership speakers cannot: a methodology grounded in neuroscience, refined across more than 150 companies and 30 countries, and documented in measurable business outcomes. His keynotes challenge conventional leadership thinking and equip senior audiences with tools they can apply immediately. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to discuss availability and booking.
What is Dr. Corrie Block's approach to executive coaching?
Block's core philosophy, expressed plainly in his book Chief Executive Coach, is that executive coaching should be free to the organization in ROI terms. If the coach's impact does not pay for itself in measurable performance improvement, it is not working. His methodology integrates evolutionary psychology, neuroplasticity research, and executive strategy to address the root causes of leadership dysfunction rather than the symptoms. He challenges the prevalent "hold space and listen" model of coaching, arguing that C-suite leaders need coaches who will expand their thinking, surface blind spots, and tell them what no one else will. Clients including the ADNOC Group, e&, and leaders across multinational boards have credited his work with transformative changes in performance clarity and organizational alignment.
What are Dr. Corrie Block's published books?
Block has published four books. Spartan CEO: Six Pillars of Executive Performance delivers a structured framework for high-performance leadership built on six evidence-based pillars. Business is Personal: A Blueprint for Finding Meaning at Work argues that sustainable performance requires connecting professional roles to personal purpose, drawing endorsements from Stephen MR Covey and Mark C Thompson. Love@Work: The Final Frontier of Empathy in Leadership reached number one on Amazon's Management bestseller list in 2024 and makes the case for empathy as a rigorous leadership practice rather than a soft ideal. Chief Executive Coach (2026), his most recent book, dismantles the executive coaching industry's status quo and redefines what qualified, accountable coaching at the C-suite level should deliver.
What topics does leadership speaker Corrie Block cover in his keynotes?
Block's keynotes address executive performance and the neuroscience of leadership behavior, building cultures of meaning and psychological accountability, empathy as a strategic leadership tool, the performance ROI of executive coaching, human factors in digital transformation, and evolutionary psychology applied to organizational design. His programs are particularly well suited to C-suite and senior leadership conferences, CHRO and HR leadership summits, and board-level strategy events where the goal is measurable behavioral change rather than inspiration alone. For event inquiries, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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