Kevin Riley

4x Founder,  Keynote Speaker and Award Winning Business Consultant

Kevin's Goal Is To Positively Impact the Lives of One Billion People

Kevin Riley Keynote Speaker

About Kevin

Business Growth Specialist, Keynote Speaker, Facilitator, Self Described 'Failed Businessman' and Dad.

A businessman with lived experience scaling eight-figure businesses and a strong belief that being in business should give you more life and a mission to positively impact the lives of one billion people.

Kevin Riley Keynote Speaking

Keynote Speaking

Business Growth Specialist, Keynote Speaker, Facilitator and Dad.

A businessman with lived experience scaling eight-figure businesses and a strong belief that being in business should give you more life and a mission to positively impact the lives of one billion people.

Kevin Riley Scaling Up

Scaling UP

One-to-one and leadership team support for growing businesses that need better alignment, clearer direction and straight-talking challenge to scale effectively.

Better accountability and practical support from someone who has actually been there.

Watch Kevin Riley Speak

Kevin Riley is an experienced keynote speaker known for combining business insight, personal honesty and practical relevance.

He speaks to business owners, leaders, teams and event audiences about the realities of growth, leadership and trust. Not the sanitised version. The real version.

Kevin’s talks connect because they are built on lived experience. He has built a successful business, faced major setbacks, led through challenge and dedicated his work to enabling others to avoid the same mistakes.

His sessions are engaging, thought-provoking and grounded. Audiences leave inspired, yes, but more importantly, they leave clearer on what matters, what needs to change and what leadership actually requires.

Looking for a speaker who brings substance and real business perspective?

If you are planning a conference, leadership event, client event or team session, Kevin Riley brings a rare mix of commercial credibility, emotional intelligence and practical insight.

How Kevin works

Kevin Riley isn’t a speaker who built a career on recycled quotes and clickbait LinkedIn opinions.

He built and scaled a business to £20 million in turnover and knows what it feels like to lose one.

That combined with personal loss, gives Kevin credibility that has been earned the hard way.

Kevin works with business owners, leadership teams and event audiences on the subjects that count when it matters. Trust. Leadership. Growth. Communication. Accountability. Execution. Resilience.

Whether he is delivering a keynote from the stage, facilitating a leadership session or working one-to-one with a business owner, he challenges old thinking, creates clarity and enables better decisions.

Kevin's Values

Kevin works is shaped by three simple values. They influence how he leads, speaks, coaches and builds relationships.

Truth

Better leadership, better decisions and stronger businesses are built on clarity, not avoidance.

TRUST

Trust is a concious choice. It's consistency and doing what you say you will do.

FUN

Kevin brings energy, warmth and humour. People live and work when they feel engaged, relaxed and human.

How Kevin connects with audiences and leaders

Kevin combines commercial experience, emotional intelligence and the kind of honesty that cuts through noise.

He has spoken internationally, coached ambitious business owners, facilitated senior leadership discussions and built a reputation for saying the things people need to hear in a way they can actually hear them.

His style is warm, direct, insightful and grounded in real experience. No fluff. No performance. No pretending business growth is easy.

Just practical thinking, strong stories and ideas that stay with people long after the event ends.

“His enthusiasm and engaging style had the room interested throughout and hungry for more after the hour ended. .”
Kerri C.
Managing Director
“The most recent talk on Truth and Trust took me on an emotional rollercoaster, which I really wasn't expecting. Looking around the room, I wasn't alone and the proof was in what came next - the applause, which was loud and heart-felt.”
Charlotte Pitts
Managing Director
“Hard-hitting, but that is what made Kevin Riley's Keynote unforgettable.”
Kate Harrison
Managing Director

Scaling Up with Kevin Riley

Scaling a business takes more than ambition. It takes aligned leadership, clear priorities and honest conversations about what needs to change. 

As a Certified Scaling Up Coach, Kevin works with business owners and leadership teams through one-to-one coaching and facilitated leadership sessions designed to create clarity, improve communication and strengthen accountability. 

For businesses that are growing but feeling the strain, this work helps bring the right issues to the surface, get everyone moving in the same direction and build stronger foundations for sustainable growth.