Simon Hartley
Globally Renowned Sport Psychology Consultant Who Enables Individuals, Teams And Organisations To Deliver World Class Performance.
- The athletes and sports teams Simon has worked with have amassed over 40 world championships and world records.
- Simon enabled a corporate client to 10x a revenue stream inside 12 months.
- His documentary with the Fiji Rugby 7s team has been viewed by an audience of over 50 million people.
Full Profile
About Simon Hartley
Simon Hartley is a globally renowned sport psychology consultant and performance coach, celebrated for his ability to help individuals, teams, and organisations consistently achieve world-class results. He has spent nearly 30 years working at the pinnacle of elite sport, partnering with English Premier League and Bundesliga clubs, Olympic and international rugby teams, Formula One, and champion athletes who together hold over 40 world championships and world records. Through his company, Be World Class, Simon translates these winning principles into the world of business, delivering personal transformation, building resilient cultures, and driving high performance across sectors.
Simon specialises in areas that are critical to success in today’s competitive landscape, including:
- Building world-class teams and collaborative cultures, breaking down silos and enabling high-performing leadership.
- Developing resilience, focus, and a winning mindset to tackle high-pressure challenges.
- Embedding values-driven cultures and genuine leadership, moving beyond management to inspire lasting change.
- Unlocking individual and organisational potential, helping great people fire on all cylinders and navigate rapid transformation.
His practical insights come from working “behind the curtain” with world-leading sports teams and businesses alike, crafting tailored strategies to turn ambition into exceptional, sustainable performance.
Business Challenges Addressed
Simon empowers leaders and teams to address the most pressing business challenges, including:
- Enhancing teamwork and collaboration: Simon helps organisations overcome silos, foster trust, and unify teams towards shared goals.
- Transforming mindsets and elevating performance: He delivers step changes in thinking and execution, converting good organisations into truly world-class performers.
- Leadership development: Simon cultivates genuine leaders equipped to drive progress, culture change, and continuous competitive advantage, not just manage the status quo.
- Sustaining high performance: His methodologies enable leaders and teams to “keep winning,” turning one-off successes into long-term excellence.
- Managing overwhelm and complexity: Drawing on world-class sport psychology, Simon helps individuals and organisations achieve clarity and focus under stress, channeling energy where it matters most.
Simon’s business clients report profound impacts, including dramatic revenue growth, improved team retention and recruitment, and durable culture change that drives both morale and results.
Simon’s ability to deliver measurable, lasting impact is recognised by both clients and audiences worldwide, from top-tier sporting organisations to FTSE 100 companies and ambitious scale-ups. Notable achievements include:
- Enabling a corporate client to achieve a 10x revenue uplift in just 12 months.
- Helping an insurance sales team deliver £1M per head annual sales increase after targeted coaching.
- Reaching over 50 million people with his documentary on the Fiji Rugby 7s team, illustrating the real-world influence of his approach.
Simon Hartley is the author of numerous acclaimed books, including “Stronger Together: How Great Teams Work,” “Hire Great People,” and “Peak Performance Every Time.” His work equips leaders with practical tools and proven blueprints for developing mental toughness, character-driven leadership, and world-class team dynamics.
Talks
Simon shares the essential ingredients of world class teams, and teams who are exceptionally good at operating in volatile environment and navigating the unknown. He gives tangible, practical take aways, drawing on examples of world class teams from diverse fields of endeavour, including the very highest levels of sport.
This session is perfect for Leadership Conferences where organisations need to foster greater teamwork and collaboration.
Much of Simon’s work comes from organisations who are already great but aspire to become the very best. In some cases, they are already the best and want to extend the gap between them and their closest competitors. Simon shares the critical changes in mindset, leadership and teamwork that enable organisations to elevate from good, to great, to world class.
This session is perfect for Leadership Conferences with ambitious organisations who want to create a step change.
Simon shares the key ingredients of a winning mindset and how to instil it across organisations and build it into the fabric of their culture. As always, he provides tangible, practical take-aways that enable people develop a performance mindset and help leaders embed it within their teams.
This session is perfect for Leadership and Sales Conferences for organisations with challenging conditions, significant demands and with highly ambitious targets.