Brendon Burchard
Most senior teams do not fail at strategy. They fail at the daily behaviours that separate sustained performers from those who burn out or plateau. The gap between a leadership team’s ambition and what it actually produces is usually a habit problem, not a talent problem, and it compounds quietly until results slip.
Brendon Burchard is a performance researcher and coach who helps executives and their teams install the specific habits that separate sustained high performers from the rest, grounded in one of the largest studies of elite performers ever conducted.
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Why organisations work with Brendon Burchard
- He brings a named, testable framework. The six High Performance Habits (clarity, energy, necessity, productivity, influence, courage) are drawn from his research with the High Performance Institute and its validated High Performance Indicator Assessment.
- The research scale is unusual in this field. Survey work across more than 30,000 respondents in 190 countries, followed by structured interviews with the top-scoring subjects, gives leaders a source of advice that is not anecdotal.
- He has built and run the organisations he speaks about. Founder and CEO of GrowthDay, founder of the High Performance Institute, architect of the Certified High Performance Coaching programme operating across 100 countries.
- His content travels inside companies. Fortune 500 leadership teams and Vistage member groups have used the High Performance Habits material as a shared language for team standards, not a one-off keynote.
- Three-time New York Times bestselling author with a fourth title, High Performance Habits, selected by Amazon editors as a Top 3 Business and Leadership Book of 2017.
Biography highlights
- Three-time New York Times bestselling author: The Motivation Manifesto, The Millionaire Messenger, and further titles, with High Performance Habits reaching Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.
- Founder and CEO of GrowthDay, a personal development platform, and founder of the High Performance Institute.
- Architect of Certified High Performance Coaching, operating across 100 countries with over 150,000 logged coaching sessions per Institute figures.
- Led the research programme behind High Performance Habits, including survey work across 30,000-plus respondents in 190 countries and more than 100 structured interviews with top-scoring performers.
- Twice profiled on the cover of Success magazine; named by Success and O, The Oprah Magazine as one of the most influential leaders in personal growth.
- Earlier career at Accenture before moving into performance research and executive coaching.
Biography
Most leaders know what to do. The harder question is why capable teams, with the right strategy and the right people, still underperform their potential. Brendon Burchard’s research argues the answer lies in a set of daily habits that sustained high performers practise and that most organisations leave to chance.
That research is the backbone of his work. With the High Performance Institute, Burchard surveyed more than 30,000 people in 190 countries using the High Performance Indicator Assessment, then ran structured interviews with the top-scoring subjects. The output is a six-habit model (clarity, energy, necessity, productivity, influence, courage) published in High Performance Habits, selected by Amazon editors as a Top 3 Business and Leadership Book of 2017 and a Wall Street Journal bestseller.
He has also built the organisations he talks about. As founder and CEO of GrowthDay and founder of the High Performance Institute, Burchard runs the Certified High Performance Coaching programme, operating in 100 countries with over 150,000 logged sessions according to the Institute’s own figures. Earlier books, including The Motivation Manifesto, The Charge, and The Millionaire Messenger, each reached New York Times or Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, giving him a readership and coaching network few performance researchers can match.
For an executive audience, his value is specific. He gives leadership teams a shared vocabulary and a measurable standard for what sustained performance looks like, then ties it to the decisions senior people actually make: where to spend energy, what to cut, and how to hold a team to a clearer standard than comfort allows.
Key speaking topics
- High performance habits
- Executive and team performance
- Personal and organisational productivity
- Leadership development
- Motivation and behavioural change
- Coaching culture and performance standards
- Influence and communication
Ideal for
- CEOs and executive committees setting performance standards for a full leadership team
- Heads of sales and revenue leaders running large annual kick-offs or incentive events
- Chief learning officers building a coaching culture or leadership development programme
- Founder-led businesses scaling from owner-operator mode into managed performance
Audience outcomes
- A shared six-habit model leadership teams can use as a common performance vocabulary
- A clearer view of which habits correlate with sustained results versus short-term output
- Specific daily practices senior people can apply to protect energy and clarity during high-load periods
- Language for holding teams to a higher standard without defaulting to pressure or burnout
- A research-backed case for treating performance as a set of trainable behaviours, not a trait