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.
Emily Truelove
Assistant Professor Within the Organizational Behaviour Unit of Harvard Business SchoolEmma Finucane
Olympic Gold Medallist Cyclist & 2023 & 2024 UCI World Champion in Women's Individual SprintGeneral John R. Allen
Retired Four-Star General in the U.S. Marine Corps & Former Commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force & U.S. Forces in AfghanistanGordon Herbert
Former Basketball Player for Finland & Head Coach of the Canada Basketball Men’s National Team & Bayern MunichGreg Wooldridge
Founder of Gregory C. Wooldridge Inc., Co-Executive Producer at Premium United Media Group, Former Naval Aviator in the US Navy & the Only 3X Flight Leader of the Blue AngelsThe 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.
