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Fascinating and relatable; the lessons and experience of one of the worlds leading Special Forces Bomb Disposal Operators.

“On the face of it it’s probably hard to imagine a career that’s less relatable to life in the corporate world. However, at it’s core there is nothing that epitomises the arenas of leadership, high performance, risk management and critical decision making more than leading a specialist team charged with defusing the most dangerous and deadly explosive devices in the middle of a battlefield.”

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Five Three Alpha provides corporate and keynote speeches unlike any you’ve heard before. We believe in motivation and development through the power of shared experience and we promise to share the highs and lows of first hand experiences that few could ever imagine.

Backed by a career spent operating in some of the most extreme situations imaginable, we offer an honest and open insight into the unique leadership and decision making skills as well as the high performance and risk management techniques developed and employed by the most elite special forces in the world; all framed within the fascinating operational context of counter terrorism bomb disposal.

We don’t just offer an interesting story. We have combined experiences and learning from the arenas of military operations, project management, procurement, defence engineering and extreme sports to identify relevant concepts and ideas have real impact across any industry and at any level.

“Your presentation had a real impact on us all – a mixture of admiration and humility mixed with some great practical performance advice in our commercial world. Whilst there’s clearly no real comparison with your experiences and what we do day to day, the feedback from our guys was that you drew out parallels we can apply; exactly the impact we were looking for.”

Steve KingshottCEO Tesco Underwriting

To Lloyd, the most rational place in life is lying nose to nose with with an Improvised Explosive Device.

Major (Retd) Lloyd Davies joined the British Army at 18 and was commissioned as the youngest serving Army officer from the world renowned centre for leadership, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. During a 15 year military career he deployed to multiple operational theatres, including Iraq and Afghanistan, as one of the Army’s leading bomb disposal experts.

Lloyd culminated his extensive operational experience serving as the principle bomb disposal operator within the UK’s most prestigious special forces unit. There he lead an elite bomb disposal team providing counter terrorism and hostage rescue response and advised at the highest levels of the Cabinet Office’s emergency response committee.

As an independent defence consultant, he remains and internationally recognised authority on counter terrorism bomb disposal regularly training, coaching and helping prepare specialist bomb disposal units around the world for life threatening operations.

Framed within the fascinating world of counter terrorism bomb disposal; Lloyd delivers a unique and relatable insight into the criticality of decision making, performance under unrelenting pressure and the impact it has on teams and individuals.