Speaking and workshops
Speaking, workshops and mentoring
Elvis works with events, organisations, teams and individuals on leadership, purpose and personal development.
Formats
Three ways to work together
Speaking
Talks on leadership, purpose and personal development for your event, conference or organisation.
Workshops
Practical sessions for teams and groups working on leadership, purpose and potential together.
Mentoring
Working with individuals and leaders to discover their purpose and lead from within.
Talk topics
Signature talks
The leader within: leading yourself first
Why self-leadership comes before leading anyone else, and how discipline, integrity, responsibility and self-awareness build the foundation for influence.
Discover your design: purpose by discovery
Purpose is uncovered, not manufactured. Drawing on his 10 Purpose Portrait Archetypes, Elvis shows how strengths, values and motivations reveal the design behind a life.
It should be Leadership Common Sense
The thinking behind his daily Dear Leader letter and books such as The 16 Secrets of Unstoppable Leaders: practical leadership principles that move people from insight to action.
Choosing purpose over opportunity
Elvis’s own story of walking away from a promising music career, and why purpose is often revealed by the opportunities we decline as well as those we accept.
Developing people, transforming communities
Why infrastructure and technology alone cannot produce lasting progress without people of capacity, character and competence, and how understanding strengths, values and potential helps individuals, teams and organisations grow.
Mentoring for thought leaders
From his book of the same name: the three phases of mentoring (before, during and after) and how a mentor helps a protégé grow into a fellow master, drawing on the Igbo mentoring tradition.
For hosts
Introduction for hosts
Please feel free to read this introduction as it is.
Please welcome Elvis C. Umez, a leadership strategist, mentor and the author of more than thirty books on leadership, purpose and personal development. Based in Colchester, United Kingdom, he is the Founder of Life Assess Limited, whose Evolve365 framework and app help individuals and organisations identify and develop their potential.

Press
Featured in
THISDAY · 21 September 2026
Elvis C. Umez: The Purpose Architect Helping People Find Their Design
“A motivated person may run faster. A purposeful person knows where to run.”
Vanguard · 25 September 2026
Umez emerges as African voice in personal development, leadership
Independent Newspaper Nigeria · 2 October 2026
Elvis C. Umez: Why He Walked Away From Music To Pursue Purpose
“Purpose is often revealed not only by the opportunities we accept but also by the opportunities we decline.”
Daily Trust · 14 October 2022
Elvis C. Umez: The Author Who Writes for the Leader Within
“For Umez, leadership is not merely about influence over others. It begins with influence over oneself.”
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Speaker one-sheet and media kit
Enquiries
Invite Elvis
To ask about speaking, a workshop or mentoring, email [email protected] or call +44 7950 960366. It helps to include the date, the place, who the audience is and the format you have in mind.