Daryl Woodhouse

Daryl Woodhouse helps organisations optimise ROI. He is not your typical speaker, adviser or coach.

As The Smarter Work Pro™, Daryl is a highly rated speaker, business adviser, leadership trainer, and executive coach for strategic performance improvement, work productivity, and burnout prevention.

Daryl equips leaders and teams with the inspiration, skills, and tools to work smarter, achieve more, and live happier without overworking. His proven methods enable today’s business leaders to optimise work performance results whilst preventing team burnout. He is on a mission to create a smarter future of work and life. He equips workforces to achieve more at work and improve life work balance with a culture of high performance and strong wellbeing.

His uncanny ability to provide actionable solutions for today’s business challenges in an undeniably impactful way has put him in front of Fortune 1000 audiences across Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. Daryl is an international business owner, author, executive performance coach, and highly sought-after speaker who combines his C-Suite, entrepreneurship, and life experience, to positively impact tens of thousands of today’s top executives and leaders at all levels of the organisation.

He leads by example in openly sharing his career burnout story and what he has done since to achieve his happiest life and greatest work successes without overworking.

Over several years, Daryl authored his own proven methodology and invented tools with huge client success results whilst attracting multiple awards, and humbling testimonials along his way.

Daryl’s authentic, passionate approach resonates with diverse audiences including those resistant to change. Clients and collaborators describe him as a natural storyteller, who balances anecdotes with his research and success cases to maximise audience engagement and impact.
When he is not speaking, being a hands-on Dad or enjoying other life interests, Daryl spends time helping senior executives at Fortune 1000 companies to overcome the barriers that too often stop them and their teams fulfilling their potential at work, and in life.

Daryl has a unique ability to simplify seemingly complex problems which will provide your audience with a fresh perspective that runs counter to the conventional ‘always on’ long work hours culture. After hearing Daryl speak, audiences leave refreshed, inspired, and confident on how to work smarter, achieve more and live happier without the long-term health risk of overworking.

Daryl’s career began in a high pressure, regulated industry and he became the youngest on record to graduate from a global FTSE top 100 leadership programme.

At age 26 he secured a divisional leadership role at a global corporate. In late 2011 Daryl left the always on, excessive work hours rat race to start his own business helping individuals and teams to achieve a smarter way of working and happier way of living.

Since founding ‘Advantage Business Partnerships Limited’ in 2012, Daryl achieved 7 figure revenues whilst winning many awards from excellent client case studies and rave reviews. He has since successfully launched two new brands under the umbrella of ABP including a first of its kind mobile app showing leaders and teams how effectively they use their time at work with the answers for how to better leverage their time and talent to greater work results without overworking.

Adding to his corporate leadership and scale up entrepreneur experiences, at age 35 Daryl was invited to become one of the youngest executive business school lecturers in the world.

Daryl is in the published author club for co-writing ‘Creating Business Advantage’ alongside Garry Smith, and the more recently acclaimed new eBook ‘4 Epic Life Work Effect Pillars of Smarter Hybrid Working’.

Others like to hear that Daryl is accredited to deliver the ‘Institute of Leadership & Management’ accredited Leadership Advantage Programme, which he designed and delivers with his expert ABP colleagues, for fast growth businesses and corporates who recognise the importance of investing in their people to optimise long term success.

Themes: 

• The Smarter Future of Life and Work
• Business Improvement
• Leadership Development
• Hybrid Working
• Future of Work
• Productivity
• Burnout Prevention
• Employee Wellbeing
• Employee Engagement
• Strategic Thinking and Planning