Writing from the stage and the research
Jonathan Griffiths is an award-winning, UK-based keynote speaker on celebrating brilliant humans and workplaces. These are his ideas in long form — the research, the concepts, and the questions that sit behind every talk he gives.
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We are wired for negativity — and the platforms we live inside exploit that wiring deliberately. Jonathan Griffiths explains what his research found when he asked 105 people to describe brilliance, and why the answer almost never trends.
Read the idea →The data from Gallup, Google, and Harvard points in the same direction: the qualities we call soft are the ones that drive the hardest outcomes. This post makes the case in full.
Coming soonNot the loudest. Not the most decorated. The ones who take seriously what the research has been saying for twenty years — and lead accordingly. A piece on the HABITS framework and what it looks like in practice.
Coming soonWhat this section covers
Jonathan Griffiths writes about the things his research keeps surfacing: the qualities that define brilliance in people, the workplaces that bring those qualities out, and the evidence that doing so is commercially as well as humanly valuable.
Posts here are written for people who lead teams, book speakers, run events, and want to think more carefully about what makes organisations worth working in. They are written when there is something worth saying — not to a schedule.
Book Jonathan for your event →Brilliant Humans Research
Original research into what 105 people associate most with brilliance in others — and what that means for workplaces.
Ignore the Algorithms
Jonathan's signature concept: we are wired for negativity, and the platforms we live inside exploit that wiring. The research shows a very different picture of how humans actually behave.
The HABITS Framework
A practical framework for moving from crisis to prosperity — and the habits that separate the organisations that recover from the ones that do not.
Workplace Culture & Leadership
Evidence-based writing on psychological safety, engagement, and the human qualities that the best workplaces build around.
Bring these ideas to your stage
The ideas in these posts are the foundation of every keynote Jonathan Griffiths delivers. If you want your audience to leave with a different understanding of what brilliance looks like — and what it produces — his talks are built for that conversation.
Book Jonathan →Or email hello@jonathangriffiths.co.uk for bureau enquiries