Steve Tappin

CEO confidant

Steve is the first global CEO confidant for CEOs. He is a personal confidant on both business and personal leadership for twelve FTSE100 CEOs and also leading CEOs in China and India.

Steve is the international bestselling author of “The Secrets of CEOs”, he is a successful entrepreneur and CEO of Xinfu, he is the most sought after speaker on global CEOs, and is also a philanthropist.

Steve has dedicated his career to being a personal confidant to Global Fortune1000 CEOs on business and personal leadership. He draws on 20 years' practitioner experience of working as a sparring partner and confidant for CEOs across the CEO agenda.

Personally mentored by the late Sir John Harvey-Jones, Steve is currently CEO of Xinfu and has recently become one of twenty five ambassadors for the London 2012 Olympics.

Keynote speaker, conference host and expert media commentator

Steve is a highly sought after media commentator: he has appeared live on screen and on air and in print with the BBC (e.g. Today Programme), CNBC (e.g. Squawkbox), ReutersTV, BusinessWeek, Fortune, FT, New York Times, Telegraph, Mint, Financial Express and Business Today, China Daily and Shanghai times.

Chairing and keynoting at the inaugural Leaders in India CEO business Forum alongside dozens of CEOs and experts including Steve Forbes, Tom Peters, Adi Godrej and Donald Trump Jnr
Annual Conference: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (London)
FTSE100 HR Directors Forum (Channel Islands) • Lecturing at Beijing and Shandong business school
ACCA Global Virtual Conference (Global Broadcast & London)
CelebrAsian 2009 (New York)
Day one keynote and panel host at Leaders in London alongside Jack Welch, Gary Hamel and Daniel Goleman
World Retail Congress, Berlin

Themes have included:

Sharing the secrets of CEOs
Winning: how CEOs should go again after the global economic crisis
Taking the best from the West, China and India to create a new way to lead global businesses
How on earth do you deliver growth and innovation in a major corporation
Hard globalisation: how do you combine the best of Eastern and Western Leadership?
How do you lead a global business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
How do you do all this and have a personal life as a CEO and not burn out?

Read recent media profiles of Steve here.

"Steve's speech was the centrepiece of a major event for our key CEO clients. He didn't disappoint: he spoke with passion, warmth and global insight. He really challenged our clients to think again about how to win."

Vladimir Todorović, Erste Bank Serbia

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Recent speaking feedback

"Steve did a keynote for us on Day 1 of the prestigious Leaders in London forum alongside Jack Welsh, Gary Hamel and Daniel Goleman. He shared his unique experiences of working with some of the top CEOs in the world and gave very practical guidance with both passion and impact."
Colette Leong-Son, Director, Leaders in
London 2008
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Latest from Xinfu

Steve featured on BBC “In Business with Peter Day” – “The modern CEO: hero or scapegoat?
The recession has found a lot of CEOs out. The media has been crammed with reports of corporate set backs or even collapse. Worse, no one seems to know where the global economy is heading. CEOs seem both to be scapegoats and potential heros. Peter Day and the BBC's flagship "In Business" programme wanted understand the truth about CEOs today. How good...

31 August 2010