BEHAVIOUR.
EXPLAINED
DIFFERENTLY.

Matt White translates behavioural science into something audiences can actually use โ€” on leadership, cybersecurity, AI, health and why smart people keep making decisions that confound them.

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A New Framework

Audiences leave with a mental model they'll recognise and use for years.

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Actually Memorable

Humour and honesty over motivational poster energy. The kind of talk people talk about afterwards.

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Immediately Applicable

Practical frameworks that work in the real world, not controlled conditions.

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Cross-Industry

Health, tech, finance, leadership โ€” the Snack Monkey is sector-agnostic. Behaviour doesn't care what industry you're in.

What Matt Speaks About

Flagship Talk

The Snack Monkey

The talk that started everything. Why discipline fails, why willpower is the wrong framework, and how to understand the real mechanics of behaviour โ€” in health, leadership, and life.

  • The Captain vs the Snack Monkey โ€” what's really happening
  • Decision fatigue and why evenings are dangerous
  • Environment design over willpower
  • The Fuck It Button โ€” and how to disarm it
  • Practical frameworks that hold up outside the seminar room
Cybersecurity

The Human Firewall That Isn't

Every major breach has a human at the centre of it. Not because people are stupid โ€” because behaviour is predictable, and the people attacking you know that better than your security team does.

  • Why "security awareness training" mostly doesn't work
  • Social engineering and the behavioural science behind phishing
  • The Snack Monkey in your security culture
  • Friction, defaults and environment design for secure behaviour
  • What actually changes human security behaviour
Artificial Intelligence

The AI Adoption Gap

Organisations spend a fortune on AI and then watch their people not use it, or use it badly. That's not a technology problem. That's a behaviour problem โ€” and it's entirely predictable.

  • Why adoption stalls at the human layer
  • Trust, scepticism and the Snack Monkey's role in AI resistance
  • Cognitive offloading and what we lose without noticing
  • Incentive design for genuine AI adoption
  • The behavioural risks nobody is talking about yet
Leadership & Decision Making

Why Leaders Make Predictably Bad Decisions

The same cognitive patterns that drive biscuit eating also drive procurement disasters, failed change programmes and the meeting that keeps happening. This talk applies the framework to leadership.

  • Decision fatigue at the executive level
  • The Tomorrow Lie in project planning and strategy
  • Accountability frameworks that actually hold
  • Environment design for better team decisions
  • The Fuck It Button in organisational culture
Health & Wellbeing

It Was Never About the Biscuits

Why people who understand nutrition still don't eat well. A talk that permanently changes how audiences think about health decisions โ€” and why every wellbeing programme is probably solving the wrong problem.

  • The science of habit formation (the real version)
  • Stress eating, reward loops and the bliss point
  • Why knowledge alone never changes behaviour
  • Practical environmental interventions
  • What "healthy culture" actually requires
Resilience

The Long Game

How the compound effect, the Accountability Mirror and the Foxhole Crew apply to performance and leadership. Drawn from Matt's experience as a GB Paraclimbing team member living with chronic pain.

  • Motivation vs habits โ€” why the wrong one gets the credit
  • The compound effect and invisible progress
  • Recovery speed over perfection
  • Building your Foxhole Crew
  • What chronic adversity teaches about peak performance

Talk Formats

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Keynote

45โ€“60 minutes

The full experience. Ideal for conferences, away days and annual events. Audience leaves with a framework they'll recognise for years.

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Workshop

Half-day or full-day

Deeper dive with practical exercises and team application. Ideal for leadership teams and corporate wellbeing programmes.

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Fireside / Panel

Flexible

Conversational format. Matt brings the framework; you bring the questions. Works alongside other speakers or as a standalone Q&A.

"The Snack Monkey doesn't just eat biscuits. It procrastinates. It avoids difficult conversations. It approves the budget for the thing everyone knows won't work. Sound familiar?"
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Who Books Matt

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Technology & Cybersecurity

CISOs, security teams and tech leaders who need their organisations to behave differently โ€” not just be told to.

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Corporate & Leadership

Away days, leadership development, wellbeing programmes. The Snack Monkey framework applies directly to team productivity and decision-making culture.

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Conferences & Events

Health, wellness, AI, leadership and technology events. A talk that's genuinely memorable โ€” which is the thing most conference talks are not.

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For keynote enquiries, availability and fees, get in touch directly. Matt speaks internationally and is available for conferences, corporate events and leadership programmes.

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