Carl helps audiences across the globe see the world in a new light. His talks are dynamic, challenging, eloquent, informative and full of humour. He is at ease running workshops for small groups or working the stage in front of thousands of people. His audiences range from children, teachers, academics and medical practitioners to entrepreneurs, IT professionals and business executives.

The Wall Street Journal hailed Carl as “an in-demand spokesman on slowness.” ABC TV News called him “the unofficial godfather of a growing cultural shift toward slowing down.” Huffington Post labelled him “the godfather of the Slow movement.” Newsweek described Carl as “an international spokesman for the concept of leisure.”

His speech at the prestigious TED conference was ranked in the Top 10 “Most Inspiring” talks of 2005 by the millions of visitors who vote on the TED website. Others on the list included Bill Clinton and Bono.

Carl’s first language is English, but he can also present in French, Spanish and Portuguese. And Italian (at a stretch…).

Most recent endorsement (click here for more):

“Carl Honoré spoke at the 2010 International Society for the Performing Arts Congress in New York and brought his groundbreaking thinking about our pathology around time to several hundred arts leaders from around the world. Mr. Honore’s witty presentation was intellectually stimulating, highly entertaining, and forced us all to look at how we think about the invisible force that rules our lives: time. Encompassing world history, sociological observation, and a journalist’s eye for accurate detail, his talk was the unquestioned highlight of our conference this year.”

Russell Willis Taylor
President and CEO,  National Arts Strategies
Co-chair, 2010 ISPA Congress

Some of the places where Carl has spoken:

CORPORATE:

Microsoft HQ (Seattle, USA)

Virtuoso Travel Mart (Las Vegas, USA)

Accenture (London, UK)

Barclays Capital (London, UK)

Mayer Brown (London, UK)

Willis Insurance (Copenhagen Denmark)

Unilever (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Sony Forum (Zurich, Switzerland)

Young Presidents’ Organization (Italy, Spain, Austria, USA, Sweden, etc)

Confederación de Cooperativas Valenciana (Valencia, Spain)

Grupo Abril Info CIO conference (Bahia, Brazil)

Fastleader conference (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)

Human Resources Professional Association of Ontario (Toronto, Canada)

Leadership Florida (St Petersburg, USA)

Citibank (London UK)

IDEAS CONFERENCES:

TED (Oxford, UK)

Pop!Tech (Camden MN, USA)

IdeaCity (Toronto, Canada)

Ciudad de las Ideas (Puebla, Mexico)

Thinking Digital (Newcastle, UK)

Bloggcamp (Kristiansand, Norway)

NON-PROFIT GROUPS:

Ontario + Alberta Library Associations (Toronto + Jasper, Canada)

Cambridge Forum (Harvard, USA)

Head Teachers conference (Trowbridge, UK)

Gottlieb Duttweiler Institut - Young Pioneers series (Zurich, Switzerland)

Megalopolis2023 (Helsinki, Finland)

Tavistock Hospital - psychiatry conference (London, UK)

Early Education conference (Edmonton, Canada)

Coloque International sur la Petite Enfance - RCPEM (Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada)

Zaragoza Slow (Zaragoza, Spain)

GLOWING REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST…