MARCUS WARRY
Marcus Warry explores how curiosity, creativity and AI are changing what's possible, and how we can use those possibilities to create better businesses, happier lives and a more positive impact on the world.
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Marcus Warry is a speaker, entrepreneur and debate chair whose experience spans advertising, the arts, accountancy, startups and social impact.
He has built ventures, supported entrepreneurs, created spaces for artists and brought people together through debates and creative projects across the UK and East Africa.
His background in Industrial Economics and training as an ACA Chartered Accountant bring commercial understanding to his creative approach.
Curiosity and experimentation run through his work, alongside a belief that ideas matter most when they lead to meaningful action and make a positive difference to people’s lives.
Keynotes to open up a question.
Workshops to work through it.
Conversations to move it forward.
What are we really trying to achieve?
What changes when we consider an organisation’s contribution to people’s lives alongside its financial performance? A constructive, commercially grounded look at what success could mean.
Explore this talkWhy it matters to keep questioning.
When familiar assumptions are changing, curiosity becomes a practical skill. An invitation to listen, question our own certainty and turn uncertainty into a manageable experiment.
Explore this talkWhat could you make in a day?
What have you been putting off because you thought you lacked the skills, resources or right people? Drawing on The Ideas Shed and AI-assisted making, this talk explores how to give an idea a useful first outing.
Explore this talkDaily habits for a healthy and happy mind.
Move. Give. Connect. Calm. Grow. An accessible, evidence-informed exploration of wellbeing, with practical reflection and an honest look at why maintaining habits can be difficult.
Explore this talkSessions shaped around your organisation, with a clear outcome to work towards. Discuss the audience, time available and accessibility needs when you enquire.
Purpose · Leadership · Data · Delivery · Communications
Examine your organisation’s strengths and gaps across five pillars, choose a priority and agree a practical next step.
You’ll work towards: A shared priority and an agreed next action.
Discuss this workshopEvidence · Proportion · Transparency · Balance · Learning
Review example impact claims, question the evidence and rewrite them with greater credibility and clarity. A practical framework, rather than a statutory code, legal certification or independent accreditation.
You’ll work towards: Clearer claims and a plan to address gaps in evidence.
Discuss this workshopChoose a problem → Make a first version → Test it
Select a worthwhile problem, make a manageable draft or prototype and decide how to find out whether it helps. Agree the scope and tools around your team.
You’ll work towards: An initial version, a decision and a next step.
Discuss this workshopMove · Give · Connect · Calm · Grow
Choose practical habits and consider how your team’s environment supports or obstructs wellbeing. Make room for individual differences and the reality of working life.
You’ll work towards: A habit to try and a team condition to improve.
Discuss this workshopPrepared, curious and willing to follow an interesting disagreement. I help speakers find their point, audiences find their voice and conversations find a purpose.
From founding the Lansdowne Debating Society to festival discussions and the occasional debate from a horsebox.
Explore chairing & hosting
There’s never been a better time for creative people to turn their ideas into action.
AI is making it possible for more people than ever to create websites, software, apps and new ventures.
At The Ideas Shed, we love building things for people. But we’re just as excited about encouraging them to have a go themselves.
You don’t need to know how to code to start. You need an idea, curiosity and a willingness to experiment.
With My Social Impact, Marcus helps organisations understand, improve and communicate the difference they make. It’s the practical work behind Human Economics and Social Impact Excellence, and a belief that social impact deserves the same seriousness as financial performance.
Visit My Social Impact
The Wild Ones connects creativity, culture and entrepreneurship in Kampala, part of Marcus’s work in East Africa. Its next chapter is being developed in Muyenga. Wild Futures, digital inclusion and opportunities for young people to explore technology and AI are ambitions being developed, rather than established programmes.
Visit The Wild Ones
As a trustee of Interim Spaces, Marcus helps support the reuse of empty buildings as affordable artist studios, creative spaces and places for entrepreneurs to start. Its work in London and Shepton Mallet shows how underused buildings and high streets can make room for new possibilities.
Visit Interim SpacesThree books taking shape.
Questions I’m living with,
rather than answers set in stone.
What I reckon.
Subject to a better argument.
What are we really trying to achieve?
A BOOK IN DEVELOPMENTBook in development
Economic and organisational success through a more human lens.
Daily habits for a healthy and happy mind.
A BOOK IN DEVELOPMENTBook in development
Everyday habits for wellbeing, and the reality of keeping them.
When is more genuinely better?
A BOOK IN DEVELOPMENTBook in development
Ambition, comparison and the question of when more is genuinely better.
Life as a work of art in progress.
Inspired by Thomas Crum’s invitation to turn a life of work into a work of art. There’s room to experiment, change our minds, learn from what goes wrong and try again.
Inspired by Thomas Crum, The Magic of ConflictA very important use of your time.
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Scores last for this round. No lives, purchases or seriousness.
Tell me about your event, your audience and what you have in mind. We can work out whether I’m the right person for it.
Booked through The Ideas Shed. Your invitation and follow-up use my Ideas Shed account.
Speaker information & print sheetChoose a day and time that work for you.
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A keynote, a practical session, a debate, or something a little different. Tell me what you have in mind.
Speaker agents and bureaux are very welcome.
marcus@theideasshed.com Speaker information & print sheet