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.

Helen Sharman

First British Astronaut To Travel To Space

Helga Hengge

First German Woman to Summit Mount Everest & Seven Summits Achiever

Ian Windle

Amazon Bestselling Author of 'The Leadership Map' Named Vistage International's Most In-Demand New Speaker

Inge Huijbrechts

Chief Sustainability & Security Officer at Radisson Hotel Group, Former Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Toyota Motor Europe, & Top 100 Women in Sustainability

Jack Green

Double Olympian, Former Global Wellbeing Lead at The BBC & International Performance Coach

Jake Dearden

Elite 15 HYROX Athlete & Former Men's Doubles World Champion

Jake Humphrey

Co-Founder of Whisper & Co-Host of The High Performance Podcast

James A. King

Elite Performance Advisor, Proud Author of ‘Accelerating Excellence: The Principles that Drive Elite Performance’, & Deleivered MBA programmes at Harvard University

James Clear

Author of #1 New York Times Bestselling 'Atomic Habits'

James Haskell

77-Cap England Rugby Icon & Elite Performance Strategist, Author & Team-Leadership Specialist

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.