High Performance Speakers
In business, teamwork and leadership are key indicators of high performance. Senior leaders and managers spend several hours a week investing in their employees’ performance; one study even found that managers spend over 210 hours a year on performance management. This equates to a large expense for any business, so it is natural to expect a return on investment.
High performance speakers have the necessary experience and expertise to take your workplace performance to the next level, by inspiring your employees and educating your managers. Their public speeches are filled with personal anecdotes and accounts of hardship and adversity, psychological frameworks, and other approaches to high performance.
Jonny Huntington
First Disabled Person to Ski Solo & Unsupported to the South Pole & Elite Para-AthleteJonty Warneken
4x Guinness World Record Holding Para/Disabled Ice, Channel & Endurance SwimmerJuliet Barratt
Co-Founder of Grenade, Mentor for Virgin StartUp, & Awards Intelligence's Top 100 Influential PeopleJustin Hughes
Managing Director of Consulting for Mission Excellence & Former Fighter Pilot of the Royal Air ForceKatarina Johnson-Thompson
2x World Champion Heptathlete & Olympic & European Silver MedallistKeely Hodgkinson
Olympic Gold & Silver Medallist in the 800m & British 800m Record HolderKevin Phillips
Former Professional Footballer for Sunderland, Aston Villa & West Bromwich Albion, Former Head Coach for Hartlepool United & AFC FyldeThe benefits of high performance are not just visible in the results, but also in the absence of workplace stress. Stress Awareness Week is an annual event that recognises the impact of stress, and in 2026, it will be celebrated from the 2nd to the 6th of November. Events recognising Stress Awareness Week often feature a mental health speaker; however, high performance speakers offer just as much insight and engagement. They focus on the impact of stress on performance and teach audiences how to manage their workplace wellbeing.
