Matt Johns
Co-Founder AF Drinks | An expert in executing winning strategies and compelling experiences
Profile
Matt Johns has extensive experience guiding and working with leadership groups throughout the Asia Pacific region and beyond.
Drawing on his unique experience, which includes as an intelligence operative in the UK Police, Matt has helped Executive teams and Boards bring clarity to their strategy; defining winning aspirations and making clear choices on where to play and how to win.
Current Work:
Matt is the Co-Founder at AF Drinks – a highly successful social enterprise leading the alcohol-free drinks category in both New Zealand and the USA.
Having also acted as the Chief Strategy Officer at Deloitte, Matt is experienced at separating the important from the urgent. He coaches senior leaders, including CEO’s and Chairs on communication skills and how to inspire and engage employees.
Matt is passionate about deliberately designed experiences – for both customers and employees, and places significant value in understanding how people are feeling and thinking before designing targeted solutions. To achieve this, Matt has developed a unique methodology incorporating ethnography to understand people and their unique behaviours. This approach seeks to understand how emotions and motivations impact behaviour.
Feedback
Matt was a very engaging presenter. Matt understands our business and provided practical steps to improve our approach towards BD tasks. Very valuable insight. Thanks for organising a great session!
Matt was selected by our audience as our top presenter at the conference. He was not only engaging but provided practical examples of how to overcome challenges attendees we’re facing.
I think we just found our new permanent facilitator!
Thank you so much for the great seminar! The feedback has been excellent so far!!
Best workshop I've attended in a long time. Spellbound from start to finish1
Matt was great, albeit a bit scary in pointing out some home truths to us who like to use the excuse “I’m too busy to get out of my comfort zone to interact with our clients and potential clients”. Thank you!
