Dan Cobley

Speaking

I speak occasionally on topics I know from direct experience: building fintech companies, technology-led disruption, and what innovation culture actually looks like inside organisations.

Topics

Disruption in Financial Services

What fintech has actually changed — and what incumbents keep getting wrong about it. Based on building ClearScore and Salary Finance from the ground up.

Learning How to Fail

How to build an organisational culture where failure is a learning mechanism, not a career risk. Drawn from experience at Google, Blenheim Chalcot, and beyond.

Second-Order Impacts of Technology

The changes technology creates aren't always the obvious ones. A framework for thinking about what really shifts when a new platform or behaviour takes hold.

What Physics Taught Me About Marketing

My TED Talk — connecting classical physics principles to how brands build and lose momentum. Viewed 1.5 million times online.

Selected talks

What Physics Taught Me About MarketingTED
2010
Fintech Opportunities and ChallengesMEA Fintech Forum
2019
In Search of DisruptionTM One Keynote
2019
Learning From FailureWavelength
2018
Agility and Organisational ReadinessKPMG
2019

Enquiries

I speak selectively at events aligned with my areas of focus. If you're organising something relevant, get in touch via LinkedIn.