Clayton John Ainger is a certified professional speaker, performance coach and business consultant with over 15 years of business experience in developing people and transforming performance.
He is the author of the award-winning and bestselling book, The ego’s code: understanding the truth behind your negativity.
Once a corporate tax specialist with Deloittes, Clayton is now a sought-after international consultant and speaker who helps senior leaders and executive teams create engaging cultures, transform performance, and achieve sustainable growth by unleashing passion, nurturing natural talent, and bring vitality to the workforce.
Clayton specialises in understanding the reasons for negativity and why it causes people and companies to sabotage success, relationships, health, well-being, and finances. To understand is to ultimately overcome.
His work consistently delivers significant business impact, ROI, and positive bottom line benefits. For example, the following results for three different clients: a 40% increase in employee engagement, £166: £1 ROI, and an average 30% increase in profitability across all contracts.
Clayton works with a variety of companies in both the public and private sectors from owner-managed businesses through to FTSE 500 and Fortune 500 companies such as EE, O2, The Lloyds Banking Group, BT, Rackspace, EasyJet, Severn Trent Water, Imperial Tobacco, Hewlett Packard, and the Ministry of Defence.
Every year Clayton spends on average 1,200 hours speaking, training and facilitating front-of-room. His thought-provoking questions, in private dialogue and in stimulating classes, help individuals, teams, and companies to grow beyond the confines of their perceived knowledge and capabilities.
Clayton loves to be different, to challenge the status quo and to inspire the people and companies with whom he works, to explore new ways of thinking and provoke altered behaviours to transform lives and results in the long term. He has been described as someone who “speaks the truth, shares from his heart, and genuinely cares about people.”
An audience member said of her experience of Clayton:
“I heard Clayton speak publicly for the first time this summer and was inspired by what I heard. He is one of those people who just lights up a room and you know that he is a genuine, humble and gracious spirit”.
Clayton regularly delivers workshops, training events and keynotes beyond the UK, including Switzerland, Denmark, Monaco, The Netherlands, Finland, Estonia, Iceland, and the US.
