Dr Guy Champniss

Dr Guy Champniss

Behavioural Scientist Sparks Consultant

Guy Champniss is an award-winning consultant, social psychologist and behavioural scientist who has worked globally with clients across healthcare, technology, consumer goods, energy and education to apply behavioural science to real organisations, products and teams. His work has been recognised internationally for its potential to deliver behaviour change at scale, including 'market transformation' recognition in the US for energy behaviour.

Guy is a strategic advisor to US cleantech company Enervee, has previously advised the US Department of Energy and the UK Government, and advises Cambridge University-based operational VC Carbon13. He is a visiting professor at IE Business School, teaching innovation, sustainability and behavioural science, and has been nominated for Professor of the Year three times. He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times and The Times, and has been published in Harvard Business Review.

Guy holds an MBA from IE Business School, postgraduate study with Stanford Graduate School of Business and the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in experimental social psychology from Cranfield School of Management. He is a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Day 1 | 20th October

11:00 AM Workshop 1 - TAKING AIM AT MOTIVATION: Decoding HCP Behaviour

Somewhere in Schiphol Airport is a tiny piece of design that quietly changed how thousands of people behave every day, without a single instruction, incentive, or request. You've probably walked past it. You may even have used it. We'll tell you where to find it, and why it matters more to your HCP strategy than most engagement plans do.


Because engagement without behaviour change is just noise. Behaviour starts with motivation: understand what an HCP actually wants from you, and you can design interventions that give them the same nudge that small piece of design gives visitors to Schiphol.


Hosted by Seb Dreyfus, MD, Sparks, and led by Dr Guy Champniss, this short, practical session takes a quick tour around the mechanics of HCP motivation. We'll get concrete about what a behaviour actually is (and isn't), and introduce a decision-making framework you can put to work on your HCP strategy straight away.


Then we'll turn the science into design. Trin Basra, Executive Creative Director, will show how the right design decisions can turn understanding a motivation into actually shifting a behaviour. A science-based experience is a repeatable one: it travels across your markets, your events programme, and flexes for your audience.


For brands that lead, never follow.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Guy.

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