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.

Denise Lewis

Olympic & European Champion Heptathlete, President of UK Athletics & Commonwealth Games England

Des Powell

Former SAS Sergeant Major, Bestselling Author & Motivational Speaker

Dom Troulan

Former British Army Major & Former Royal Marine

Don Goodman

Former Premier League Footballer & Sky Sports Football Analyst

Dr Aarti Anhal

Founder of Before Nine, Former Partner & UKI Chief Sales Officer for 4C Strategies & Leadership Coach

Dr Anu Arasu

Physician & High-Performance Speaker on the Biology of Leadership, Founder of London Bioidentical Hormones

Dr Derek Redmond

Former World and European Champion, Professional Basketball Player for the Birmingham Bullets & Group Performance Director of Thomas International

Dr James Hewitt

Human Performance Scientist, Founder of The Knowledge Work Lab, Former Chief Innovation Officer at OPTIVIO & Hintsa Performance

Dr Rana Al-Falaki

Co-Founder of NAIL-IT: Achieve The Ultimate & Emotional Intelligence Coach for Oji Life Lab

Dr Steve Bull

Former Team Headquarters Psychologist for GB at Three Olympic Games

Dr. Anders Tegnell

Senior Advisor of the Public Health Agency of Sweden & Former Director of the National Board of Health

Dr. Beth Healey

Medical Doctor Specialising in Extreme Environments & Former ESA Researcher in Antarctica

The 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.