Tan Le
Founder & CEO of EMOTIV | Pioneer in Brain-Computer Interface Technology | Top Neurotechnology & AI Speaker | Author of The NeuroGeneration
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Organizational Psychologist | Professor at UCL & Columbia | Bestselling Author of Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? | On Talent, Leadership & AI
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is one of the world's leading authorities on talent, leadership, and the human side of technology. An organizational psychologist, professor at UCL and Columbia, and author of the bestseller Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?, he uses science to reveal who really succeeds and why. On stage, he brings wit and hard data to talent, leadership, and how AI is reshaping what makes us human.
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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic biography
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is one of the world’s leading authorities on talent, leadership, and the human side of technology. An internationally recognized organizational psychologist, he uses science and data to help organizations answer a deceptively simple question, who will actually perform, and why, cutting through bias, gut instinct, and hype to reveal what really predicts success.
Leadership speaker Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is best known for asking provocative questions the business world would rather avoid. His book and TED talk, Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (and How to Fix It), argues that we too often confuse confidence with competence, rewarding arrogance over ability and overlooking the very people, especially talented women, who would lead more effectively. His work spans people analytics, talent management, leadership development, and the human-AI interface, and he is the author of around fifteen books and more than 250 scientific papers. He shares much of his thinking at drtomas.com.
The Science of Talent in the Age of AI
A Professor of Business Psychology at both University College London and Columbia University, Chamorro-Premuzic founded UCL’s Industrial-Organizational and Business Psychology program and co-founded the talent-technology firms Deeper Signals and Metaprofiling. He has held senior leadership roles at leading global talent and advisory firms, including as Chief Innovation Officer at ManpowerGroup, former CEO of Hogan Assessments, and most recently at the leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates. Ranked among the Thinkers50 most influential management thinkers, he writes regularly for Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Forbes. His recent books, I, Human and Don’t Be Yourself: Why Authenticity Is Overrated, examine how we stay valuable, and human, in an age of automation, and why the cult of “just be yourself” may be holding us back.
As a speaker, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic combines rigorous science with sharp, irreverent wit. He speaks on spotting and developing real talent, why so many organizations promote the wrong leaders, the future of work and human-AI collaboration, and how data can build fairer, higher-performing teams. Audiences leave entertained and provoked in equal measure, armed with evidence-based tools to make better decisions about people, the most important decisions any organization makes.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Speaking Videos
Why do so many incompetent men become leaders? | Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | TEDxUniversityofNevada
TED@NYC: The Power of Negative Thinking
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Keynote Topics
In his most famous and provocative talk, Chamorro-Premuzic explains why organizations so often confuse confidence with competence, promoting charisma and arrogance over humility and skill. He shows how better, science-based selection would produce more competent, diverse, and effective leaders, and why fixing this is one of the highest-leverage things any organization can do.
Most organizations are awash in data yet still struggle to identify and grow their best people. Drawing on people analytics and decades of research, Chamorro-Premuzic gives leaders a rigorous framework for measuring potential, avoiding common hiring biases, and building teams that actually perform, replacing intuition with evidence.
As artificial intelligence automates more of what we do, what remains distinctly and valuably human? Chamorro-Premuzic explores how AI is reshaping work, careers, and leadership, and how individuals and organizations can cultivate curiosity, adaptability, and emotional intelligence, the qualities that keep people irreplaceable.
Challenging one of the most popular pieces of career advice, Chamorro-Premuzic argues that our obsession with "being authentic" often backfires. Blending research with cultural critique, he makes the case that the most successful people adapt, read the room, and pay attention to how others see them, offering a counterintuitive playbook for growth, empathy, and lasting success.
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Why Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic?
Booking Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic gives audiences a rare speaker who pairs serious science with genuine entertainment. One of the world's most influential organizational psychologists, he has spent his career studying what actually predicts performance and leadership, and he delivers those findings with wit, data, and a willingness to challenge comfortable assumptions. A professor at UCL and Columbia, author of around fifteen books including the viral Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?, and a Thinkers50-ranked thinker, he helps organizations make smarter decisions about talent, leadership, and the future of work in the age of AI. Provocative, funny, and grounded in evidence, he is an ideal speaker for events on leadership, talent, HR, the future of work, and human-AI collaboration. To bring Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic to your next event, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
Who is Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic?
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is an Argentine organizational psychologist and one of the world's leading experts on talent, leadership, and people analytics. He is a Professor of Business Psychology at University College London and Columbia University, co-founder of the talent-technology firms Deeper Signals and Metaprofiling, and has held senior roles at global talent and advisory firms. He is the author of around fifteen books and more than 250 scientific papers, and is repeatedly ranked among the Thinkers50 most influential management thinkers.
What is Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? about?
It is Chamorro-Premuzic's best-known book and TED talk, arguing that organizations frequently mistake confidence for competence when choosing leaders. The result, he says, is a system that rewards arrogance and self-promotion, often associated with poor leadership, while overlooking humbler and more capable candidates, including many talented women. The book makes an evidence-based case for changing how we identify and select leaders in order to get better ones.
What topics does leadership speaker Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic cover?
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic speaks on talent identification and development, leadership and why organizations often pick the wrong leaders, the future of work and human-AI collaboration, and the science behind performance and authenticity. His keynotes suit leadership, HR, talent, and future-of-work events, as well as organizations seeking to make better, fairer, data-driven decisions about people. To book Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic as a speaker, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau.
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