Chris Wild: Changing systems. Changing futures.

Name: Chris Wild
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Chris Wild is a best-selling author, international care reform adviser and campaigner using lived experience to challenge the status quo and help build a better future for care-experienced young people.

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Chris Wild has brought lived experience and care reform into the national conversation through appearances across major television, radio and media platforms.

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Chris's Story

Turning lived experience into systemic change.

Chris Wild has lived the system he now works to change. From growing up in care to becoming a best-selling author, international adviser and campaigner, he has turned lived experience into a powerful voice for reform — challenging what isn’t working and helping build what comes next.

Best-Selling Author · International Care Reform Adviser · Campaigner ·Director of social impact · foster greatness uk

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KEYNOTE SPEAKING

Powerful stories. Challenging conversations. Lasting impact.

Chris Wild brings lived experience, professional insight and a powerful personal story to the stage, delivering keynotes that challenge assumptions, inspire action and create meaningful conversations around care, resilience, leadership and systemic change.

Drawing on his experience of growing up in care, working within the sector and advising on national reform, Chris connects personal experience with the bigger questions facing organisations, professionals and decision-makers today.

His talks are honest, thought-provoking and grounded in one central message: change begins when we listen differently, think differently and act differently.

Change begins when we listen differently, think differently and act differently.

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Lived Experience & Systemic Change

How lived experience can challenge assumptions, influence decision-making and help organisations create systems that work better for the people they serve.

Resilience, Adversity & Opportunity

A powerful exploration of adversity, resilience and what can happen when people are given the support and opportunity to rewrite their future.

Leadership Through a Different Lens

Challenging leaders and professionals to rethink responsibility, decision-making and the human impact of the systems they create.

Lived experience and systemic change · Leadership through a different lens · Turning insight into meaningful action · Resilience, adversity and opportunity · Rethinking care and safeguarding

Books

The Care System: A Blueprint for Change

( 2023 )

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Reforming the Future: Care for Young People

( 2022 )

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Coming Soon...

( 2027 )

“Chris has become a relentless and respected voice for care-experienced children and young people. His ability to take the realities facing young people and bring them directly into conversations with policymakers, professionals and decision makers is exceptional. His campaigning is driven by one thing: making sure lived experience leads to meaningful change .”
Director of Children's Services, Local Authority
“Chris brings together lived experience, frontline knowledge and a determination to find practical solutions. Through his work with Foster Greatness UK, he is helping turn years of campaigning into something tangible - bringing people together around a shared purpose: creating a care system that genuinely helps children and young people thrive.”
Katie Razzall, BBC News
“Chris Wild is an incredibly powerful and authentic speaker. He combines lived experience with professional insight in a way that challenges audiences, inspires action, which stays with you after he leaves the stage. Chris doesn't simply use his story to talk about change, he uses it to create change .”
Scott Henderson, CEO of Doing Good Works

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