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.
Darren Bent
Former Professional Footballer for Aston Villa Turned TalkSPORT Radio Presenter & Sky Sports Football PunditDave 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 Murrin
Co-Founder & CIO of the Emergent Asset Management & Financial Markets & Geopolitical ForecasterDebra Searle
Founder of MIX Diversity Developers LTD, Inspirational Explorer who Led an All-Female Traverse of Baffin Island in the Arctic Circle & Youngest-Ever Trustee of The Duke of Edinburgh’s AwardDenise Lewis
Olympic & European Champion Heptathlete, President of UK Athletics & Commonwealth Games EnglandDerek Redmond
Former World and European Champion, Professional Basketball Player for the Birmingham Bullets & Group Performance Director of Thomas InternationalThe 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.
