About

Ben's Story

From a young age, I dreamed of serving in the British Army.

At the age of fifteen, I completed the rigorous selection process for potential officers, marking the commencement of a six-year journey dedicated to realising my childhood aspiration.

Not long after completing the gruelling 11-month course at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, I embarked on two demanding tours of duty in Iraq as a Lieutenant and later as a Captain.

It was amidst the trials of my first deployment in 2003, at just 23 years of age, that I grappled with a harrowing decision. A decision that further fueled my interest in leadership.

Returning from Iraq, I began to reflect on what it was that led two young soldiers to complete the horrendous and seemingly archaic request I had to make of them.

Since then, I’ve been committed to understanding and embodying the essence of authentic, effective leadership.

In 2006, I decided to leave the British Army, assuming the Global Head of HR role at World Challenge, later part of Tui Travel, before joining the ranks at Tesco, where I contributed to developing their Leadership Academy.

Throughout these seven years, I continued to reflect upon and amalgamate military leadership principles with the demands of the corporate landscape while delving deep into the intricacies of adult learning and habit formation.

In 2011, I noticed a flaw in many leadership development programmes: an overreliance on tools and models, fostering a contrived, “leadership by numbers” ethos that I found dishearteningly familiar.

Determined to effect change, I drew on the courage and resilience I learned in the Army and set up Ben Morton Leadership.

My mission is to guide us all towards a more authentic style of leadership identity. I want to help you and your people to ‘be’ leaders instead of ‘doing’ leadership.

Alongside my military and corporate career, I have also led soldiers and students on developmental expeditions worldwide to places as diverse as the Himalayas, Malaysia and the Mongolian Steppe. My experience now spans from the battlefield to the boardroom and beyond.

One aspect of exceptional leadership, regardless of the working environment, is an unquenchable thirst for knowledge—a principle I teach and embody in my relentless pursuit of self-improvement.

With my diverse background of military and corporate experience fortified by a profound understanding of leadership, psychology, applied neuroscience and coaching, I offer a unique approach to leadership development, performance coaching, and keynote speaking.

Today, my sole focus is on helping leaders and their teams to move beyond management and ‘leadership by models’ to create a world where everyone is inspired to give their best at work whilst going home to their loved ones feeling recognised for what they do and appreciated for who they are.