Gordon Tredgold

CEO & Managing Consultant
Leadership Principles LLC

Gordon works with organisations that want to equip their leaders with the tools to drive engagement, performance, and profits.

He is a former corporate warrior who successfully delivered complex $100m projects, ran $300m departments, and led global teams of 1000 staff. He has helped clients reduce operational costs by $350m and increase performance by 50%-500%, and he has enabled entrepreneurs to triple their revenue in just 12 months.

Now, Gordon is a sought-after keynote speaker on Leadership, Employee Engagement, and Operational Excellence. He was recognised by Global Gurus as a ‘Top 30 Leadership Expert and Speaker’ for 2020. He has one of the top 5 leadership blogs, where has shared over 1300 articles. Gordon’s work has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Inc., Entrepreneur, Fortune, CEO World, Chicago Tribune, and Addicted 2Success, and his articles have been translated into 21 languages.

Gordon’s latest book, FAST: 4 Principles Every Business Needs to Achieve Success and Drive Results, was a finalist in the Chartered Management Institute Management Book of the Year.

At university,Gordon studied Mathematics and this gave him an innate ability to analyse complex situations. He realised early in his career that the ability to simplify solutions has a huge positive impact on the outcome. As a result, Gordon preaches simplicity in everything he does. He helps make solutions accessible, which empowers and excites people and gets them to start to take action.

Gordon has developed the FAST Approach, which helps simplify solutions, increase engagement and accountability, and deliver results. He has shared it with clients including Accenture, GE Aviation, Allianz, Baxter International, Arizona Department of Child Safety, American Airlines, and many others.