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.
Dame Katherine Grainger
Five-Time Olympic Medallist, World & Olympic Champion RowerDamian Hughes
Owner of LiquidThinker Ltd & Former HR Director of UnileverDamian McGrath
Former Head Rugby 7s Coach for Canada, Germany, Samoa & KenyaDamon Hill
1996 Formula 1 World ChampionDan Hunt
Former Sports Director for Team Sky & Performance Director of GB SnowsportDarren Bent
Former Professional Footballer for Aston Villa Turned TalkSPORT Radio Presenter & Sky Sports Football PunditDarren Edwards
Adaptive Adventurer & Author of 'Strength Through Adversity'Dave Coplin
Founding CEO of The Envisioners & The Original Chief Envisioner Officer at MicrosoftDavid Coulthard
13 x Grand Prix Champion, 2x Winner of the Race of Champions, & President of the British Racing Drivers' ClubDavid Jones
Super Sunday and Monday Night Football Host & Leading Sky Sports PresenterDavid Murrin
Co-Founder & CIO of the Emergent Asset Management & Financial Markets & Geopolitical ForecasterDebra Searle
Global Top 3 Motivational Speaker, Founder of Five Businesses, BBC Presenter & Leading High Performance Mindset & Resilience ExpertThe 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.
