Peak Performance speakers

Why organisations work with Travis Bradberry His four-quadrant EQ model – self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship management – gives HR and L&D teams a structured, easy-to-assess framework that can be integrated into existing leadership development and performance programmes, rather than treated as a standalone concept. TalentSmart’s reach into more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies means Bradberry’s frameworks have been stress-tested at enterprise scale across sectors and leadership levels, rather than drawn from a single industry or a handful of client cases. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 has sold over 3 million copies and been translated into 28 languages – a degree of market validation that signals genuine professional resonance, and that typically eases internal buy-in when positioning an EQ-based leadership initiative. His dual Ph.D. spanning both Clinical and Industrial-Organizational Psychology grounds a high-profile popular message in the research disciplines most directly relevant to behavioural change at work; a combination few speakers in the EQ space hold. With 2.5 million LinkedIn followers and Top Voice designation, his platform reflects an active, senior professional audience and demonstrates Bradberry’s credibility. Biography highlights Dual Ph.D. in Clinical and Industrial-Organizational Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology Co-author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0 – the bestselling EQ title in its category, with over 3 million copies sold and translated into 28 languages across 150+ countries Co-founder and President of TalentSmart (later TalentSmartEQ) – the EQ assessment and training business embedded in more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies Author of subsequent titles including Emotional Intelligence Habits and The New Emotional Intelligence; total book sales across all titles exceed 5 million copies Chief People Scientist at LEADx, a mobile-first leadership development platform applying behavioural science and AI to EQ training at scale LinkedIn Top Voice with over 2.5 million followers; written for or covered by Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and TIME Biography The performance gap that most leadership development programmes fail to close is not a knowledge gap. Leaders who derail by alienating teams, making reactive decisions under pressure, or losing influence at senior levels, rarely lack technical expertise. The pattern that consistently predicts who performs and who struggles sits elsewhere: in the ability to perceive, regulate, and apply emotional information at the moments that matter most. Dr. Travis Bradberry holds a dual Ph.D. in Clinical and Industrial-Organizational Psychology and has spent his career making that domain measurable and actionable for organisations. As co-founder of TalentSmart, he built the dominant infrastructure for EQ assessment and training, working with more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies. The company’s proprietary Emotional Intelligence Appraisal and associated training programmes embedded EQ into leadership development at a scale most researchers and authors never reach. His co-authored book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 became one of the most widely read management titles of its generation, selling over 3 million copies and appearing in 28 languages across 150 countries. The book’s four-quadrant model gave organisations a structured, assessable framework rather than an abstract aspiration. Subsequent works including Emotional Intelligence Habits and The New Emotional Intelligence extend that framework with more recent research in neuroscience and habit formation. As Chief People Scientist at LEADx, Bradberry’s current work focuses on applying EQ research through AI-assisted behavioural coaching at scale; a model increasingly relevant to organisations that need leadership development to produce lasting behavioural change beyond the classroom. His writing has reached a global executive audience through Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fortune, and the Wall Street Journal. Key speaking topics Emotional intelligence and leadership performance Self-awareness and self-management at work Measuring and developing EQ in organisations Behavioural science of decision-making under pressure Leadership effectiveness and derailment Talent development through emotional intelligence Performance culture and workplace behaviour Ideal for CHROs and People leaders designing or refreshing leadership development programmes Executive teams and senior leadership cohorts working on behavioural effectiveness and team dynamics L&D leads building EQ capability into management pipelines Organisations implementing performance culture or investing in measurable behaviour change Audience outcomes A clear understanding of the four-quadrant EQ model and how each domain directly affects leadership behaviour and organisational outcomes Awareness of how EQ predicts performance across roles and levels, grounded in TalentSmart’s enterprise-scale data Practical strategies for developing self-awareness and self-management under pressure – applicable immediately in leadership practice Frameworks for integrating EQ assessment into existing coaching, development, and performance programmes A sharper distinction between EQ as an abstract concept and EQ as a measurable, developable capability – with implications for how organisations design and evaluate leadership investment

Why organisations work with Trent Shelton He reaches people that internal messaging and management cannot. A digital following built over more than a decade lets him speak to a workforce in a register company communications rarely achieve. His argument that self-worth drives ownership sits on a published body of work, including “Protect Your Peace” (Hay House, 2023) and “The Greatest You” (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019). He applies a professional athlete’s understanding of preparation and pressure to how ordinary employees show up at work, rather than to elite-performance abstractions. More than a decade running RehabTime, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, means he has operated the message on ownership and standards, not only spoken about it. Biography highlights Former NFL wide receiver: Indianapolis Colts, Washington Redskins, Seattle Seahawks Baylor University, BA Speech Communications, 2007 Founder and president, RehabTime Organization (501(c)(3) nonprofit, established 2011) Author of “Protect Your Peace” (Hay House, 2023), “The Greatest You” (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019), and “Straight Up” Host of “The Trent Shelton Podcast” (launched 2019) Built one of the largest personal-development digital audiences in the United States Biography Most accountability problems inside organisations are not really accountability problems. People miss the standard because, underneath, they do not believe the outcome is worth their full effort. Skill and systems are rarely the real constraint. Self-worth is. Shelton arrived at that argument from an unusual direction. A wide receiver with the Colts, Redskins, and Seahawks, he left the NFL earlier than planned and founded RehabTime in 2011, a nonprofit that took 501(c)(3) status in 2013 and has run for more than a decade. The work forced a practical question: what makes people keep showing up when the external rewards disappear. That question runs through his books. “The Greatest You” (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) and “Protect Your Peace” (Hay House, 2023) argue that self-worth is the infrastructure of performance rather than a wellbeing add-on. His podcast, launched in 2019, has produced close to 200 episodes for a large international audience. For a corporate audience, the draw is register as much as content. Shelton speaks to ownership and accountability in the language of people who have stopped listening to management, and he reaches employee populations that internal programmes struggle to move. He is now built around a single keynote, “It All Starts With You,” which puts self-worth ahead of the accountability systems most organisations rely on. Key speaking topics Employee wellbeing and burnout Mental health in the workplace Resilience and recovery from setback Self-leadership and personal accountability Mindset and peak performance Motivation and inspiration Ideal for Corporate kick-offs, leadership summits, and company-wide events where the message needs to reach beyond senior leadership Sales conferences and frontline teams where ownership and consistency drive results University convocations and athletic programmes seeking a performance and accountability message CHROs and culture leads running accountability or culture-change initiatives Audience outcomes A direct case for why ownership follows a high personal standard, not a management instruction The distinction between accountability people hold themselves to and pressure applied from above A reframing of self-worth as the thing that keeps performance steady under pressure A setback-and-rebuild narrative from professional sport that lands across every level of seniority

Why organisations work with Urs Meier He has made the kind of decision most executives describe in hypothetical terms: a single judgement call, contested by 50 million viewers, with no replay, no committee, and no time. The Euro 2004 England vs Portugal aftermath is the case study. He refereed 883 matches, including the 2002 Champions League final and a 2002 World Cup semi-final, and can show how the discipline of decision-making is rehearsed long before the moment arrives. His book Du bist die Entscheidung sets out a working method for acting quickly under uncertainty, drawing on a body of practice rather than borrowed management theory. Two decades as ZDF’s senior football analyst have given him a second skill leaders rarely train: explaining a contested decision clearly, in public, while it is still being argued about. He works in German and English, with a delivery style Süddeutsche Zeitung described as humorous and self-deprecating, useful when the topic is high-stakes mistakes and how to recover from them. Biography highlights FIFA international referee, 1994 to 2004, with 883 senior matches officiated. Referee, 2002 UEFA Champions League final, Real Madrid vs Bayer Leverkusen. Referee, 2002 FIFA World Cup semi-final, Germany vs South Korea. Referee, Euro 2004 quarter-final, England vs Portugal. Author, Du bist die Entscheidung. Schnell und entschlossen handeln, S. Fischer Verlag, 2008. Lead football analyst, ZDF German television, 2005 to 2021. Biography The decision a referee makes in the 90th minute is judged by people who have replays, slow motion, and time. The referee had none of those. That asymmetry, between how a call is made and how it is judged, is the territory Urs Meier has worked in for forty years, first on the pitch and then in front of a camera explaining other referees’ decisions to a national audience. He spent 27 years in active officiating, retiring in December 2004 after 883 matches. The career carried him through a 1998 World Cup, the 2002 Champions League final between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen, and the 2002 World Cup semi-final between Germany and South Korea. Each of those games turned on calls made in seconds, defended for years. His Euro 2004 quarter-final between England and Portugal is the moment that makes the talk land in a corporate room. He disallowed a late Sol Campbell header. The next morning he had roughly 16,000 abusive emails, most from England, and was placed under police protection. He later said he had not seen the foul, but had trusted twenty years of pattern recognition to know one had occurred. That gap, between the visible reasoning and the deeper basis for a call, is exactly what senior leaders wrestle with when they are asked to justify a judgement after the fact. The 2008 book Du bist die Entscheidung sets the practice down on paper: the role of evidence, intuition, and self-trust in fast decisions, and how to convince others once the call is made. He has since worked as ZDF’s senior football pundit through World Cups and European Championships, runs his own Swiss business, and advises on the professionalisation of officiating. The throughline is unusual: a working method for making and explaining hard calls, tested under conditions most leadership case studies have to invent. Key speaking topics Decision-making under pressure Self-leadership and composure Resilience after public criticism Leadership of high-performing teams Fair play and ethics in business Motivation and personal performance Ideal for Executive teams and boards facing high-stakes, time-pressured calls Senior leaders preparing for visible scrutiny, regulator engagement, or media exposure Sales and client-facing leadership groups operating in adversarial environments Annual conferences seeking a substantive keynote on judgement and resilience Audience outcomes A working vocabulary for separating the act of deciding from the act of being right Concrete examples of how trained intuition complements analysis under time pressure A method for defending a contested decision in public without rewriting it Recognition of how to recover composure and authority after a publicly criticised call Renewed confidence to commit when the information will never be complete

Why organisations work with Usain Bolt The credibility here is categorical, not comparative: no other speaker has won the same event at three consecutive Olympic Games, making his perspective on repeat delivery under pressure genuinely without parallel. His career reframes the performance conversation from talent to architecture – specifically, how training structure, mental preparation, and team interdependence produce consistent output at the moment it matters most. The 4×100m relay thread in his career offers a direct organisational parallel: individual excellence that only converts to results through precise coordination and collective timing. He overcame scoliosis to break multiple world records, giving organisations a concrete, non-generic reference point for performance under physical and psychological constraint. Four Laureus World Sportsman of the Year awards and a record six World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year titles are institutional recognitions of sustained performance, not a single peak – the specific distinction that makes this relevant to leadership rather than motivation. Biography highlights Sole holder of both the 100m (9.58s) and 200m (19.19s) world records, set at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin – both remain unbroken Eight Olympic gold medals across the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Games; the only athlete to win the 100m, 200m and 4×100m relay at three consecutive Olympics Eleven World Athletics Championships gold medals – the most by any male athlete in the event’s history Four-time Laureus World Sportsman of the Year; record six-time IAAF/World Athletics Male World Athlete of the Year Long-term brand partnerships with PUMA and Hublot; founder of Tracks & Records, Champion Shave and Enertor Founder of the Usain Bolt Foundation, supporting children through education and culture in Jamaica Biography Usain Bolt ran the 100 metres in 9.58 seconds in Berlin in 2009. That record has never been broken. More than the number, it is the context that matters to organisations: he ran it in a championship final, under the weight of global expectation, after having already redefined what was thought possible at two previous Olympics. What makes Bolt’s career relevant beyond sport is the pattern, not the peak. He won the 100m, 200m and 4×100m relay at Beijing, London and Rio – three consecutive Games, the same events, progressively higher scrutiny. The architecture behind that consistency – how preparation, focus, team interdependence and mental control combine to produce results on demand – is precisely what high-performance organisations are trying to build. His record six World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year awards and four Laureus World Sportsman of the Year titles are institutional recognitions of sustained excellence. They are not lifetime achievement honours. They reflect delivery at the moment it was required, year after year, at the sport’s defining events. Bolt also overcame scoliosis throughout his career, a fact that reframes the performance story entirely – from natural gift to deliberate construction. For organisations serious about building cultures that perform under pressure, that distinction is the point. Key speaking topics Sustained elite performance and repeat delivery Mental preparation and competitive focus Performing under extreme pressure and scrutiny Team cohesion and collective execution Personal discipline and long-term conditioning Building and sustaining a global personal brand Resilience and performance under physical constraint Ideal for Senior leadership and executive teams focused on sustained performance culture Sales leadership and high-performance commercial teams CHROs and people leaders building resilience and high-output team environments Global brand and sponsorship events requiring a credible, internationally recognised anchor speaker Audience outcomes A concrete, evidence-based model for what distinguishes one-off achievement from repeatable, pressure-tested excellence Clearer understanding of how individual preparation connects to collective team performance A reframed perspective on talent versus structure – and what organisations can actually control Practical reference points for maintaining focus and composure in high-stakes, high-scrutiny environments Insight into how global brand credibility is built through consistent performance rather than singular moments

Why organisations work with Vicki Anstey She has tested her own thesis in conditions most leaders will never face: 60 days unsupported across the Pacific, 11 days in the Chilean Andes on Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, the Race Across America cycled in under seven days. The frameworks she brings into a boardroom are not theoretical. She translates extreme-environment behaviour into specific decisions a leadership team can act on: how to lead when the team is fatigued, how to make defensible calls under acute stress, how to protect judgment when the operating window narrows. Her commercial track record, two decades in advertising including senior marketing at Eurostar, and a London studio business she has run since 2009, gives her credibility with audiences who default to scepticism about adventurer-speakers. She works with audiences where the stakes are concrete. Booked client list includes JP Morgan, Google, Meta, Avanade, Virgin Media O2 and the LTA, organisations not in the market for inspirational stories detached from operating reality. The Pin Drop Podcast and her TEDxKingstonUponThames talk give buyers and AI tools a verifiable body of public work to reference, beyond the testimonial layer. Biography highlights Two Guinness World Records: unsupported Pacific Ocean row (San Francisco to Hawaii, 2021, with the Girls Who Dare team) and Race Across America (3,000 miles, 6 days 19 hours, 2024). Final stages of Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins, 2019, among the first female finalists in the show’s history. TEDxKingstonUponThames speaker, “Why fear is a choice”, January 2020. Founder of Barreworks, a London barre studio opened in 2009 after a 20-year career in advertising and senior marketing at Eurostar. Host of The Pin Drop Podcast, interviewing operators and leaders on how they perform at the edge. UK Ambassador for Inspiring Girls International. Biography Most leadership development programmes treat composure as a personality trait. It is closer to a craft. The discipline of staying useful when conditions are bad, when recovery time is short and when the cost of a poor call is real, is teachable, but only by people who have been tested by something harder than a workshop. Vicki Anstey arrived at that argument through a long detour. Two decades in advertising, including a senior marketing role at Eurostar, taught her how high-functioning teams hold together under commercial pressure. Founding Barreworks in London during the 2009 recession taught her how an operator behaves when the business is the only safety net. The endurance work came later and is the evidence base she now draws on with leadership audiences. Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins in 2019, the Pacific Ocean rowed unsupported with the Girls Who Dare team in 2021, the Race Across America cycled in under seven days in 2024. Two Guinness World Records, each set in conditions where the failure mode is not embarrassment but injury or worse. What she does with that material in a corporate room is the work. She breaks down how high-performing teams handle fear, fatigue and disagreement under load, how individuals protect their judgment when the operating window narrows, and what separates the people who keep functioning at the edge from those who freeze. Her TEDxKingstonUponThames talk and The Pin Drop Podcast extend the same argument for buyers who want to see the thinking before they book. Key speaking topics Self-leadership under sustained pressure High-performance team behaviours in extreme environments Psychological safety and trust under load Fear, decision-making and the cost of hesitation Resilience as a trainable capability Female leadership and performance Ideal for C-suite and senior leadership teams entering periods of acute pressure: restructuring, integration, crisis response, major commercial bets. Sales, trading and front-line client teams whose performance is gated on composure under repeated rejection or volatility. Leadership development programmes for high-potential managers stepping into roles where the stress profile changes faster than the skill set. Audiences where the brief calls for credibility with sceptical senior operators, not generic motivation. Audience outcomes A working model of how composure is built and lost, with named behaviours leaders can practise rather than aspire to. Specific tactics for protecting decision quality when teams are fatigued or fearful. A concrete view of what high-performing teams do differently when conditions deteriorate. An honest account of failure, recovery and the actual cost of operating at the edge, drawn from named expeditions rather than generic anecdote.

Why organisations work with Vicky Piria She is the first woman to have raced in the GP3 Series and the only Italian woman in the W Series, two facts that make her a credible voice on what it actually takes to enter and survive a closed industry at the top level. She speaks from a current operating reality, not a retired career. She is racing in the 2025 Italian GT Sprint Championship in a Ferrari 296 Challenge while presenting Sky Sport Italia’s Formula 1 coverage. Her perspective on team performance is grounded in the specific mechanics of a motorsport team, where pit-crew coordination, driver feedback, and engineering decisions all run on tight feedback loops under time pressure. She works in two languages and across two cultures (Italian and British), useful for European audiences who want a speaker who reads the room beyond an Anglophone default. For automotive, motorsport, broadcasting, and brand-sponsorship audiences, she brings credibility from inside the sport rather than commentary from outside it. Biography highlights First female driver in the GP3 Series, debuting with Trident Racing in 2012. Only Italian driver in the inaugural 2019 W Series, the Formula 1 feeder championship for women. Sky Sport Italia Formula 1 presenter from 2024, succeeding Federica Masolin. Italian GT Championship competitor; second in GT Cup in 2023 and three pole-to-win victories in the 2024 Endurance GT Cup Pro-Am Division 2. Confirmed driver for the 2025 Italian GT Sprint Championship with Scuderia Ghermandi by Zanasi Racing in a Ferrari 296 Challenge. Former Formula E commentator for Mediaset and presenter on Italia 1’s Drive Up automotive programme. Biography Motorsport is one of the most closed industries in professional sport. The cost of entry is high, the technical knowledge required is unforgiving, and for most of its history the cockpits and the commentary boxes have been occupied by men. Vicky Piria moved through both. She arrived in the GP3 Series in 2012 as the first female driver in its history, racing for Trident. Seven years later she became the only Italian driver in the inaugural W Series, the Formula 1 feeder championship created to give female drivers a serious competitive pathway. Those two facts position her uniquely in European motorsport. The current chapter is what makes her useful to organisations now. She races in the Italian GT Championship, taking three pole-to-win results in the 2024 Endurance GT Cup Pro-Am Division 2 and stepping into a Ferrari 296 Challenge with Scuderia Ghermandi by Zanasi Racing for the 2025 Sprint season. At the same time she fronts Formula 1 coverage on Sky Sport Italia, having replaced Federica Masolin in 2024. She works comfortably in Italian and English, in front of a camera and inside a race team. For audiences in automotive, broadcasting, brand sponsorship, and any sector trying to widen its talent pipeline beyond the obvious candidates, that combination of operating credibility and broadcast craft is genuinely uncommon. Key speaking topics Women in motorsport and male-dominated industries High-performance teamwork under time pressure Resilience in elite competitive environments Brand and sponsorship in motorsport Broadcasting, hosting, and panel moderation Career reinvention from athlete to broadcaster Ideal for Automotive, motorsport, and mobility sector audiences (manufacturers, sponsors, dealer networks). Brand and marketing leadership at organisations sponsoring sport or building presence around motorsport. Diversity, inclusion, and talent leads in technical or engineering-led organisations. Event hosts seeking a bilingual (Italian and English) moderator with motorsport authority. Audience outcomes A first-person account of what it took to enter and compete in the most male-dominated tier of professional sport. A working view of team performance inside a motorsport operation, from driver and crew dynamics to engineering feedback loops. A perspective on the W Series experiment, why it mattered, what it achieved, and what its absence now means for the pipeline. A motorsport-literate voice for sponsorship, brand activation, and event audiences who want substance behind the storytelling.

Why organisations work with Victoria Pendleton A measurable performance record at the top of an objectively scored sport: two Olympic golds, an Olympic silver, and a record-equalling six individual sprint world titles between 2005 and 2012. An unusually candid account of what happens after high performance, including a public testimony on depression and suicidal thoughts that lifts the conversation beyond standard wellness language. Direct experience of the British Cycling marginal-gains environment, useful for leadership teams trying to understand what disciplined, repeatable performance design actually looks like inside an organisation. A second-career proof point in a different sport entirely, racing as an amateur jockey under trainer Paul Nicholls and finishing fifth in the 2016 Foxhunter Chase, which gives her credibility on reinvention rather than on retirement. Biography highlights Olympic sprint gold (Beijing 2008), Olympic keirin gold and sprint silver (London 2012). Nine UCI Track Cycling World Championship titles, including six individual sprint world titles between 2005 and 2012. Appointed MBE in 2009 and CBE in 2013, both for services to cycling. Author of “Between the Lines: My Autobiography”, HarperSport, 2012, co-written with Donald McRae. Trained as an amateur jockey under Paul Nicholls; fifth in the 2016 Foxhunter Chase at the Cheltenham Festival on Pacha Du Polder. 2018 Everest expedition for the British Red Cross with Ben Fogle and Kenton Cool, abandoned at Camp 2 due to hypoxia, later the subject of a published account of post-expedition depression. Biography Track sprint cycling is decided in fractions of a second by athletes whose preparation is measured to the gram, the heart rate, and the watt. Inside that environment, Pendleton won two Olympic gold medals, an Olympic silver, and nine world titles, including six individual sprint world titles in seven years. She is one of the most decorated track cyclists Britain has produced. The performance record is the qualification, not the talk. The talk is what she learned holding her nerve in an Olympic final, and what happened to her psychologically when the structure of elite sport was withdrawn. Her 2012 autobiography “Between the Lines”, co-written with Donald McRae, is unusually direct on the emotional cost of competing at that level. She returned to the public account several years later, describing severe depression and suicidal thoughts following her abandoned 2018 Everest expedition with Ben Fogle. That candour is why corporate audiences book her now. She is not delivering a generic resilience keynote. She is naming what happens to high performers when the supports come off and is willing to discuss it without softening. For leaders managing teams under sustained pressure, or thinking about what comes after a major delivery, that is rare material. She has also rebuilt outside cycling. After retirement she trained as an amateur jockey under Paul Nicholls and rode Pacha Du Polder to fifth place in the 2016 Foxhunter Chase at Cheltenham, having raced competitively for less than a year. Reinvention here is a documented sporting result, not a slogan. Key speaking topics Elite performance and marginal gains Composure under high-stakes pressure Recovery and identity after peak achievement Mental health and depression in high-performing populations Reinvention across careers Goal setting in objectively measured environments Team dynamics inside elite sport Ideal for Leadership conferences and executive offsites focused on performance under pressure Organisations with sales, trading, or delivery teams operating to short-cycle measured outcomes HR and wellbeing leads commissioning serious mental health content rather than wellness theatre Programmes for senior leaders navigating a major transition or post-success identity shift Audience outcomes A first-hand account of the preparation discipline behind two Olympic gold medals and what it costs A clearer view of how composure is engineered, not summoned, in the moments that decide a result A serious frame for thinking about post-peak recovery, including the version that goes badly An honest reference point for leaders who are sceptical of wellness language but recognise the underlying problem

Why organisations work with Vishen Lakhiani He has built and run a multi-country, multi-nationality workforce at Mindvalley, so the cultural practices he teaches are tested inside a company he has scaled, not theorised from a consulting seat. His two books, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind and The Buddha and the Badass, give corporate audiences a shared vocabulary that connects personal development to operating performance. He is a credible bridge between the personal-growth audience and serious corporate buyers, which matters for organisations whose employees already consume this content privately and want it brought inside the company on terms leadership can stand behind. Mindvalley’s recognition for workplace design and culture, including coverage by Inc. for its Kuala Lumpur office, gives the practical workplace argument visible proof points beyond the keynote. Biography highlights Founder and CEO of Mindvalley, the personal growth and education company he started in 2002. Author of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind (Rodale, 2016), a New York Times bestseller translated into more than twenty languages. Author of The Buddha and the Badass (Penguin Random House, 2020), a No. 1 Wall Street Journal Business bestseller and New York Times bestseller. Member of the Transformational Leadership Council and the XPRIZE Foundation Innovation Board. Founder of A-Fest, an invite-only conference series for entrepreneurs working on consciousness, education, and human performance. Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, with early career time at Microsoft before founding Mindvalley. Biography Mindvalley began as a small meditation website in 2002 and now operates as a global learning platform with students in nearly every country. Its founder, Vishen Lakhiani, built it on a single working hypothesis: adults learn faster, and stay longer, when development inside the workplace is treated with the seriousness organisations usually reserve for strategy and finance. That hypothesis sits behind two New York Times bestsellers. The Code of the Extraordinary Mind argues that most of what people accept as adult life is inherited rules they have never tested. The Buddha and the Badass applies the same lens to work, taking the unusual position that compassion and ambition are operating partners rather than opposites. Both books made the bestseller lists, and the second debuted at No. 1 on the Wall Street Journal Business Hardcover list. The corporate relevance comes from Mindvalley itself. Lakhiani has run a workforce drawn from more than fifty nationalities, building cultural practices that survived contact with hiring at scale, remote operations, and a global audience. His memberships of the Transformational Leadership Council and the XPRIZE Foundation Innovation Board place him alongside figures driving long-range thinking on human development and applied innovation. For senior teams, he is the speaker who can make a culture-of-learning conversation feel concrete. He has translated personal-development language into operating practice inside his own company, then sold the result to twenty million people. That gives him a footing in the room that few personal-growth authors hold. Key speaking topics Workplace culture and human development Learning innovation and corporate education design Personal transformation as an operating practice Mindfulness and performance under pressure Goal-setting and motivation systems Entrepreneurship and scale-up culture Future of work and the meaning question Ideal for Chief People Officers and CHROs rebuilding corporate learning around behavioural change. Founders and CEOs of high-growth companies designing culture for a multi-country, multi-generational workforce. Leadership offsites where the brief is to combine commercial ambition with employee meaning. Conferences on the future of work, learning, and human performance. Audience outcomes A working language for connecting personal development to commercial outcomes that senior leaders can use without wincing. A clearer view of why current corporate learning programmes generate completion rates without behavioural change. Practical Mindvalley-tested approaches to onboarding, ritual, and cultural cohesion at scale. A specific frame for talking about meaning at work that does not slide into wellness clichés. Confidence that the personal-growth content employees already consume can be channelled into something the organisation owns.

Why organisations work with Will Dalton Live-broadcast instincts. Eighteen years of Champions League, Olympics, and Premier League coverage means he reads a room the way he reads a touchline, with the timing of someone used to going out live. Interview craft built on names like Pele, José Mourinho, Andy Murray, Steven Gerrard, and Jackie Stewart. He gets executives, panellists, and customers to say something worth hearing. A presenter who has worked Chelsea TV since 2010 and Premier League Productions at top-flight grounds across England. Stage nerves are not part of the equation. After-dinner range that uses sport as material, not metaphor: dressing-room access, locker-room moments, the texture of elite events told with a journalist’s eye. Irish broadcast presence through Virgin Media Sport, useful for clients running Dublin events or wanting a host who reads as international rather than purely UK domestic. Biography highlights Presenter and reporter, Virgin Media Sport Ireland. Chelsea TV presenter since 2010, covering senior team and academy. Premier League Productions reporter at top-flight English club grounds and Champions League fixtures. Olympic Broadcasting Service coverage at Youth Olympics Nanjing 2014, Rio 2016, and Pyeongchang 2018. Reporting credits at ITV News, ITN, Setanta Sports News, and Reuters. Post-graduate qualification in Broadcast Journalism and Media Communications. Biography Going out live is a specific skill. Eighteen years of Champions League nights, Olympic Games, and post-match interviews at Stamford Bridge train a presenter to think in seconds, hold a room with one talkback voice in the ear, and recover when the running order falls apart. That is the craft Will Dalton brings to corporate events. His broadcast home is Virgin Media Sport in Ireland, where he fronts UEFA Champions League, Europa League, and Nations League coverage. Alongside that, he has been a Chelsea TV presenter since 2010, reported for Premier League Productions from grounds across England, and covered three Olympic Games for the Olympic Broadcasting Service. Earlier roles took in ITV News, ITN, Setanta Sports News, and Reuters. The interview list reads as a who’s who of sport: Pele, Andy Murray, José Mourinho, Mark Cavendish, Eden Hazard, Steven Gerrard, John Terry, Jackie Stewart. That work is the underwriting for his stage presence. Buyers booking him for a host or moderator role are buying a journalist’s instinct for questions, not a celebrity name on a poster. For after-dinner and keynote briefs, the material is sports storytelling with a working broadcaster’s access: what elite performers actually say off camera, how teams behave under pressure, how a manager’s first thirty seconds in a press conference tells you whether the dressing room is intact. The themes connect to business audiences, but the value is in the texture and specificity, not in claims to leadership theory. Key speaking topics Conference hosting and moderation After-dinner sports storytelling Live broadcast interviewing High-performance sport culture Communication and audience engagement Champions League and Olympic event reporting Ideal for Corporate conference organisers needing a professional broadcast host or MC Awards nights and gala dinners seeking a sports-led after-dinner speaker Panel moderation for sponsor activations, sports partnerships, and broadcast-adjacent industries Irish or UK events wanting a host with cross-market broadcast credibility Audience outcomes A live programme that runs cleanly: tight transitions, sharp introductions, controlled Q and A. Panel sessions that produce useable answers because the moderator knows how to ask follow-ups. After-dinner content with first-hand sports detail rather than recycled inspirational tropes. Interviews on stage with executives, customers, or guests that read as conversations, not scripted exchanges.

Why organisations work with Will Greenwood His book World Class is built on interviews with more than 100 elite performers across sport and business, including Sir Clive Woodward, Rio Ferdinand, and Dame Carolyn McCall, giving his framework (celebrating difference, forging togetherness, accelerating growth) a research depth that distinguishes it from speaker anecdote. He was joint-top try scorer in the 2003 World Cup and central to the squad’s performance, not an observer of a winning culture but a direct participant in building one, which gives his account of accountability and standards an authority that is hard to replicate. His role as Chief Customer Officer at Afiniti means his thinking extends into live commercial application; AI-driven customer experience strategy, giving him credibility with boards and executive teams beyond sport. His named concept TCUP (Think Correctly Under Pressure) gives leaders a transferable mental model for individual and collective performance under stress: a specific takeaway rather than an inspirational experience. An Economics degree from Durham, a career as a City trader before turning professional, and more than 15 years as a Sky Sports analyst add analytical credibility that supports board-level conversations on performance, leadership, and organisational change. Biography highlights 55 England caps, 31 international tries: England’s third-highest international try scorer; joint-top scorer at the 2003 Rugby World Cup Three British & Irish Lions tours: South Africa (1997), Australia (2001), New Zealand (2005) Co-author of World Class: How to Lead, Learn and Grow like a Champion (Penguin/Ebury Edge, 2021), with Ben Fennell, former CEO of Bartle Bogle Hegarty; built from interviews with 100+ elite performers across sport and business Long-standing rugby analyst and presenter, Sky Sports; weekly rugby columnist, The Daily Telegraph Chief Customer Officer (UK), Afiniti: an AI company focused on customer experience optimisation, since 2020; earlier career as a financial trader at Midland Global Markets (HSBC) MBE; Doctor of Civil Law honoris causa, Durham University; BA in Economics, Durham University Biography England’s 2003 Rugby World Cup squad produced one of the most studied high-performance environments in sport. Will Greenwood was not a bystander: he was joint-top try scorer at the tournament, central to the team’s culture and to the trust structures that drove its performance. That first-hand experience of what a winning team actually looks and feels like from the inside is the foundation of everything he brings to organisations. Greenwood developed that thinking further in World Class: How to Lead, Learn and Grow like a Champion, co-authored with Ben Fennell, former CEO of Bartle Bogle Hegarty, and published by Penguin in 2021. The book is built on interviews with more than 100 elite performers, from Sir Clive Woodward and Rio Ferdinand to Dame Carolyn McCall, and identifies three organising principles: celebrating difference, forging togetherness, and accelerating growth. It is a framework, not a memoir. His credibility in the room is reinforced by a career that has never stayed still. He read Economics at Durham, traded at Midland Global Markets in the City before turning professional, and has held a C-suite role at AI company Afiniti since 2020. More than 15 years as a Sky Sports analyst, and a long-running column in The Daily Telegraph, have built a discipline of translating elite performance into clear, repeatable language. His concept TCUP (Think Correctly Under Pressure) sits at the centre of his speaking framework: the idea that in the critical moments, individual responsibility and mental clarity are the things that separate teams who deliver from teams who don’t. It is the kind of practical, named concept that organisations can take back into the room and use. Key speaking topics High-performance team leadership Standards and accountability culture Trust and cohesion under pressure Peak performance and mental discipline Learning, growth and continuous improvement Change management and mindset shift Leadership lessons from elite sport environments Ideal for Senior leadership and executive teams building or re-setting high-performance culture Chief People Officers and HR Directors leading culture transformation programmes Sales and commercial leadership audiences where team dynamics directly affect performance Boards and C-suite audiences on sustained organisational performance and resilience under pressure Audience outcomes A named, research-based framework (celebrating difference, forging togetherness, accelerating growth) drawn from 100+ interviews with elite performers across sport and business Practical understanding of the specific behaviours, standards and trust structures that distinguish high-performing teams from merely capable ones The TCUP model (Think Correctly Under Pressure), a transferable tool for individual and collective performance in high-stakes situations A reframed perspective on how organisations respond to setback, injury to performance, and the change of pace that comes with transition – grounded in lived experience, not theory Language and reference points that leadership teams can take back into internal conversations on culture, accountability and performance

Why organisations work with Willie Kirk He has done the work that most leadership speakers describe. Four head-coach appointments across the women’s professional game, each with a different brief: build, promote, contend, restructure. He speaks from inside the professionalisation of women’s football, one of the fastest organisational transitions in modern sport. The lessons on growth without losing coherence are first-hand, not theoretical. He won a domestic cup in his first full season at Hibernian and was named Scottish Women’s Football Manager of the Year in 2013, which is a useful early signal that the results travel with him. He took Everton Women to a 2020 FA Cup Final from a position outside the elite tier, the kind of overperformance that buyers want to understand mechanically, not anecdotally. Biography highlights UEFA Pro Licence coach with over 15 years in senior management Former head coach of Hibernian, Bristol City, Everton and Leicester City Women Scottish Cup winner and Scottish Women’s Premier League Cup winner with Hibernian Scottish Women’s Football Manager of the Year, 2013 FA Women’s Super League Manager of the Month, November 2019 (Everton) 2020 FA Cup finalist as Everton head coach Current head coach, Djurgardens IF Women, Swedish Damallsvenskan Biography Bristol City Women had just been relegated from the Women’s Super League when Willie Kirk took the job in 2015. A year later they were promoted back. That sequence, inheriting a side at its lowest point and returning it to the top flight, is the pattern that has defined the rest of his career. He is a turnaround manager who arrives where the standards have slipped and the dressing room has stopped believing in itself. He had done it earlier at Hibernian Women, where his first season produced a Scottish Cup and where he was later named Scottish Women’s Football Manager of the Year. He did it again at Everton, reaching the 2020 FA Cup Final with a club that had been a long way off that conversation, and picking up a WSL Manager of the Month award in the process. The work is repeatable because the method is repeatable. What organisations get from him is the operating detail of that method. How to read a room of senior performers who have stopped trusting each other. How to set standards that hold under pressure rather than collapse on the first hard week. How to grow a function quickly without losing the discipline that made it work in the first place, which is the live problem facing any business scaling a high-performing team. His career has run alongside the most rapid professionalisation any sport has seen in a generation. Women’s football has gone from semi-professional to broadcast asset inside his coaching lifetime. He speaks from inside that change, with the credibility of someone who has had to manage talent, expectations and infrastructure all at once. Key speaking topics Turnaround leadership in underperforming teams Building team culture under scrutiny High performance and accountability Talent development in fast-growing organisations Resilience and composure for senior leaders Standards-setting and behaviour in elite environments Ideal for CEOs and executive teams inheriting underperforming functions HR and talent leaders responsible for performance culture Sales leadership and commercial teams under quota pressure Leadership development programmes for mid-to-senior managers Audience outcomes A clear picture of what high-performance culture actually requires in practice, not in slogan The specific behaviours a leader uses to reset standards without losing the team A working sense of how elite coaches manage performance, recovery and pressure across a season Permission to lead with clarity in environments where ambiguity has become the default

Why organisations work with Yogi Roth Co-authorship with Pete Carroll of Win Forever, a New York Times bestseller, gives him direct authority on the “Always Compete” philosophy now used widely in sport and corporate culture programmes. Two decades inside elite football locker rooms, first as a USC quarterbacks coach, then as a Big Ten, Pac-12, ESPN and Fox analyst, gives him a first-hand evidence base most culture speakers do not have. He brings a filmmaker’s command of narrative into the room. As producer and narrator of The Drive on the Pac-12 Networks since 2013, he has spent his career studying what actually makes high-performing cultures cohere on camera. Track record speaking for Nike, World Surf League, Capital One, Dignity Health and JCPenney, alongside major college athletic programmes, means he reads both commercial audiences and team-led organisations without recalibration. Biography highlights Co-author with Pete Carroll of Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion, which reached number seven on the New York Times bestseller list. Los Angeles Emmy winner in 2020 for Fight On: A Jackson Family, produced for the Pac-12 Networks. College football analyst across the Big Ten Network, Pac-12 Networks, Fox, ESPN and NFL Network, joining Big Ten Network in 2024. USC football quarterbacks coach under Pete Carroll, 2005 to 2009, following a playing career as a wide receiver at the University of Pittsburgh. Master’s degree in Communication Management from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, graduating magna cum laude. Elite 11 quarterback coach and host since 2009; producer and narrator of the documentary series The Drive on Pac-12 Networks since 2013. Biography Pete Carroll’s Win Forever philosophy did not stay inside USC’s football programme. The book that codified it, co-written with Yogi Roth in 2010, reached number seven on the New York Times bestseller list and has since travelled through corporate culture programmes, athletic departments and leadership offsites. Roth is the storyteller who shaped how that philosophy reads on the page and how its central idea, “Always Compete,” lands in a room. His route to that work was unusual. He walked on as a wide receiver at the University of Pittsburgh, earned a full athletic scholarship, then moved into coaching at USC under Carroll from 2005 to 2009. He studied alongside that work, completing a master’s in Communication Management at the USC Annenberg School. Coaching gave him the inside view of how an elite competitive culture actually behaves. Annenberg gave him the craft to translate it. The translation has been a 20-year career across broadcast and film. He has been an on-air college football analyst for the Big Ten Network, Pac-12 Networks, Fox, ESPN and NFL Network, and has produced and narrated The Drive since 2013, the long-running documentary series on the Pac-12 Networks. In 2020 he won a Los Angeles Emmy for Fight On: A Jackson Family. He also coaches and hosts the Elite 11, the country’s premier high school quarterback competition. That body of work is the substance behind his keynote practice. He has spoken for Nike, World Surf League, Capital One, Dignity Health and JCPenney, applying the same idea: organisations perform when leaders make what matters specific, repeat it relentlessly, and reward the behaviours that show people are competing for it together. The Latin root of compete, he points out, is “to strive together.” Most culture programmes forget that part. Key speaking topics Culture and the “Always Compete” philosophy Storytelling as a leadership tool High-performance team dynamics Personal brand and authentic communication Coaching and feedback in competitive cultures Purpose, clarity and discipline in winning organisations Ideal for Sales leaders and commercial teams running culture or kickoff events HR and people leaders building engagement programmes around purpose and team behaviour Athletic departments, sports organisations and performance-led businesses Marketing leaders and brand teams working on internal storytelling and identity Audience outcomes A working definition of what their team is actually competing for, beyond the stated mission Specific stories they can carry back into their own teams to make values concrete A clearer sense of where culture is real in their organisation and where it is decoration Renewed conviction that the behaviours leaders model in small moments are what shape a winning culture