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PADDY UPTON - Motivational SpeakerRenowned Mental Conditioning Coach, who has successfully coached Elite sports champions like Gukesh Dommaraju , Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion, The Indian world cup winning 2011 cricket team and the 2024 Olympic medal winning Indian national Hockey team.Looking for Paddy Upton's Fee and Availability? |
PADDY UPTON MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER - PROFILE
addy Upton is a Renowned Mental Conditioning Coach, who has successfully coached Elite sports champions like Gukesh Dommaraju , Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion, The Indian world cup winning 2011 cricket team and the 2024 Olympic medal winning Indian national Hockey team.
Paddy brings over 25-years of experience working with high-performing Sports teams and Champion Athletes in business and sport, across multiple industries and on five continents.
Paddy Upton is a renowned high-performance and leadership coach, mental coach, Keynote speaker, and university professor. and mental coach to Champion Sports teams like the Indian cricket team, where he helped them achieve the top test ranking and win the ICC World Cup in 2011 and and the 2024 Olympic medal winning Indian national Hockey team.
Paddy Upton specializes in mental conditioning and leadership coaching for professional athletes, including those in cricket, rugby, soccer, and other sports. Paddy has Coached Star professional athletes like Virat Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Gukesh Dommaraju from 10 countries and 11 different sports.
Paddy Upton in his Inspirational Keynotes inspires audiences on the importance of authentic leadership, the power of diverse teams, professional mastery, mental toughness, and excellence.
In his Talks for Corporates Paddy shares his key insights from working with world-leading cricketers, Sports champions and World class Sports teams and shares insights and anecdotes from his work with some of the world’s top athletes. Included is the unique approach that he and Gary Kirsten employed in leading the Indian cricket team to the No. 1 Test Team in the world and to win the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.
His over 150 keynotes in 40 cities across five continents, include glowing references from Boeing, Dell, General Electric, Google, Microsoft, Unilever and many more, and ‘consistently being rated the highest scoring speaker’ at conferences in India, USA, Australia and South Africa.
Some of his diverse accomplishments include:
A decade-long search, which included two masters degrees, lead Paddy to eventually discover what he was looking for – modern-day best-practice in leading sports performance.
He was recently appointed as a Professor of Practice at Deakin University’s Business School (Australia), is currently mental coach to professional athletes from multiple sporting codes, leadership coach to business executives and teams, a professional speaker and is Head Coach in four of the worlds premier T20 cricket tournaments, in India (IPL), Australia (BBL), Dubai (PSL) and South Africa (T20 GL).
Paddy claims he does all this to support his surfing, stand-up paddling and fishing habits.
To book Paddy Upton as the Motivational speaker for your event simply complete the online form. For more information regarding any of the Sports Motivational speaker’s on our roster contact Simply Life India Speakers Bureau directly on: +91 8652835000
Paddy brings over 25-years of experience working with high-performing Sports teams and Champion Athletes in business and sport, across multiple industries and on five continents.
Paddy Upton is a renowned high-performance and leadership coach, mental coach, Keynote speaker, and university professor. and mental coach to Champion Sports teams like the Indian cricket team, where he helped them achieve the top test ranking and win the ICC World Cup in 2011 and and the 2024 Olympic medal winning Indian national Hockey team.
Paddy Upton specializes in mental conditioning and leadership coaching for professional athletes, including those in cricket, rugby, soccer, and other sports. Paddy has Coached Star professional athletes like Virat Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Gukesh Dommaraju from 10 countries and 11 different sports.
Paddy Upton in his Inspirational Keynotes inspires audiences on the importance of authentic leadership, the power of diverse teams, professional mastery, mental toughness, and excellence.
In his Talks for Corporates Paddy shares his key insights from working with world-leading cricketers, Sports champions and World class Sports teams and shares insights and anecdotes from his work with some of the world’s top athletes. Included is the unique approach that he and Gary Kirsten employed in leading the Indian cricket team to the No. 1 Test Team in the world and to win the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.
His over 150 keynotes in 40 cities across five continents, include glowing references from Boeing, Dell, General Electric, Google, Microsoft, Unilever and many more, and ‘consistently being rated the highest scoring speaker’ at conferences in India, USA, Australia and South Africa.
Some of his diverse accomplishments include:
- Helping lead the Indian Cricket Team to achieve the World’s No. 1 Test ranking for their first time, and then to win the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup for the first time in 27 years.
- Head Coach in 13 global T20 cricket seasons, for five different teams in three of the worlds’ premier tournaments, the Indian Premier League (IPL), Australian Big Bash League (BBL) and Pakistan Super League (PSL). In his first season, he led underdogs Rajasthan Royals (IPL) from four years at the bottom of the log, to both the IPL and then Champions League finals, and followed this by leading Sydney Thunder team, after losing 21 out of 22 games prior to his arrival, to become Big Bash League Champions in 2015!
- To date, he has worked as Head Coach of five different T20 teams in 12 tournaments across three major leagues, the Indian Premier League (IPL), the Australian Big Bast League (BBL) and the Pakistan Super League (PSL)
- He has been mental coach to professional athletes from 10 countries and 11 different sports, including International cricketers, rugby, soccer and hockey players, Olympians, para-Olympians, World Tour golfers and World Tour surfers.
- He has degrees from four different universities, including two masters degrees. In recognition for his innovative leadership and coaching approach, applicable in both sport and business, he was appointed Professor of Practice at Deakin University (Business and Law faculty. Melbourne, Australia)
- Delivered over 100 keynote and conference talks globally, on leadership and high performance
- Coaching business executives and teams in leading corporations across most industries
- Mental game coaching of professional and international athletes from over ten different sports
- Appointed as Professor of Practice at Deakin University Business School (Melbourne, Australia)
- Being awarded four degrees, including two Master’s degrees, in Sport Science and in Executive Coaching
- Paddy is passionate about surfing, stand-up paddling and fishing
- Helping lead the South African Cricket Team to become the first team ever to simultaneously hold the World No. 1 ranking in all three formats of the international game.
- Author of best-selling book, “The Barefoot Coach. Life-changing insights from coaching the world’s best cricketers”
A decade-long search, which included two masters degrees, lead Paddy to eventually discover what he was looking for – modern-day best-practice in leading sports performance.
He was recently appointed as a Professor of Practice at Deakin University’s Business School (Australia), is currently mental coach to professional athletes from multiple sporting codes, leadership coach to business executives and teams, a professional speaker and is Head Coach in four of the worlds premier T20 cricket tournaments, in India (IPL), Australia (BBL), Dubai (PSL) and South Africa (T20 GL).
Paddy claims he does all this to support his surfing, stand-up paddling and fishing habits.
To book Paddy Upton as the Motivational speaker for your event simply complete the online form. For more information regarding any of the Sports Motivational speaker’s on our roster contact Simply Life India Speakers Bureau directly on: +91 8652835000
Meet Paddy Upton renowned Mental conditioning coach who has coached Elite sports champions like Gukesh Dommaraju , Indian chess grandmaster and the reigning World Chess Champion, The Indian world cup winning 2011 cricket team and the 2024 Olympic medal winning Indian national Hockey team.
All of Paddy's Keynote talks are grounded in the science of modern-day best-practices and richly illustrated with anecdotes from coaching some of the world’s best athletes.
Paddy’s talks focus on the human-aspect of team and organizational performance, specifically on leadership, culture, teamwork and individual performance. Today’s competitive advantage mostly lies in ‘people’, and in thus in an organizations ability to attract the best talent, retain them, and simultaneously to get the best out of the rest.
Paddy presents present fascinating, practical and proven insights into contemporary, innovative and out-the-box ways to optimise your team and its individual performers, and thus your results.
His talks are bespoke, in that he will choose from a rich array of stories to meet the unique requirements of your event or organization, addressing the required balance between leadership, culture, teamwork and/or individual performance. Topics include but are not limited to;
• Harnessing the collective intelligence of your team
• Optimising team and individual learning (delivering intelligent performers)
• Playing to strengths
• Building individual and team confidence
• Successfully navigating mistakes and failure
• Unleashing young talent
• Unpacking individual intentions and motives, and how they impact performance
• Managing ego, yours and others
• Healthy and unhealthy alpha leadership, how to recognize and manage both
• Managing fear and pressure
• Building your team ‘bank account’
• Person or performance, character or results, be or do. What’s really important?
Clients report Paddy’s Inspirational Talks to be Inspirational, thought provoking, insightful, authentic, simple, outstanding and refreshing.
Inspirational Talk clients include:
Aditya Birla Group (India), Dell India, Royal Bank of Scotland, Pepsi Co, Standard Bank of South Africa, Aon, South African Revenue Services, Oceana Brands, Peregrine Group, Acsis Financial Services, HDFC Life (India), Department of Public Works (Western Cape Government), Foodcorp, Axis Bank (India), Cricket South Africa, South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, Citadel Financial Services, Jupiter Drawing Room, Olam (Nigeria), SAP Plant Maintenance.
In consultation with your team, Paddy will design bespoke talks to suit your company or conference needs, specifically in the areas of high performance, leadership, team culture and modern-day coaching approaches.
Each message is richly illustrated with anecdotes, enhancing both learning and entertainment.
Most common words from client feedback are “engaging”, “authentic”, “inspiring” and “common-sense”.
While no two talks are the same, examples of some of the more commonly requested talks or subjects, include:
All of Paddy's Keynote talks are grounded in the science of modern-day best-practices and richly illustrated with anecdotes from coaching some of the world’s best athletes.
Paddy’s talks focus on the human-aspect of team and organizational performance, specifically on leadership, culture, teamwork and individual performance. Today’s competitive advantage mostly lies in ‘people’, and in thus in an organizations ability to attract the best talent, retain them, and simultaneously to get the best out of the rest.
Paddy presents present fascinating, practical and proven insights into contemporary, innovative and out-the-box ways to optimise your team and its individual performers, and thus your results.
His talks are bespoke, in that he will choose from a rich array of stories to meet the unique requirements of your event or organization, addressing the required balance between leadership, culture, teamwork and/or individual performance. Topics include but are not limited to;
• Harnessing the collective intelligence of your team
• Optimising team and individual learning (delivering intelligent performers)
• Playing to strengths
• Building individual and team confidence
• Successfully navigating mistakes and failure
• Unleashing young talent
• Unpacking individual intentions and motives, and how they impact performance
• Managing ego, yours and others
• Healthy and unhealthy alpha leadership, how to recognize and manage both
• Managing fear and pressure
• Building your team ‘bank account’
• Person or performance, character or results, be or do. What’s really important?
Clients report Paddy’s Inspirational Talks to be Inspirational, thought provoking, insightful, authentic, simple, outstanding and refreshing.
Inspirational Talk clients include:
Aditya Birla Group (India), Dell India, Royal Bank of Scotland, Pepsi Co, Standard Bank of South Africa, Aon, South African Revenue Services, Oceana Brands, Peregrine Group, Acsis Financial Services, HDFC Life (India), Department of Public Works (Western Cape Government), Foodcorp, Axis Bank (India), Cricket South Africa, South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, Citadel Financial Services, Jupiter Drawing Room, Olam (Nigeria), SAP Plant Maintenance.
In consultation with your team, Paddy will design bespoke talks to suit your company or conference needs, specifically in the areas of high performance, leadership, team culture and modern-day coaching approaches.
Each message is richly illustrated with anecdotes, enhancing both learning and entertainment.
Most common words from client feedback are “engaging”, “authentic”, “inspiring” and “common-sense”.
While no two talks are the same, examples of some of the more commonly requested talks or subjects, include:
THE ART OF WINNING
Inspiring audiences to create their own extraordinary team culture, where enjoyment and winning happens
In this talk, Paddy offers revolutionary insights into the leadership and high performance approaches that are
helping sport and business teams to be the best in the world. He shares thought-provoking insights and fascinating anecdotes from his work with some of the world’s top athletes and teams.
Included is the unique approach that helped take the Indian and South African teams to the World’s No. 1 positions, India to win the 2011 Cricket World Cup, and then as a first-time head coach, to lead bottom-of-the-log Rajasthan Royals IPL Team to the Champions League final in one season.
This talk will be uniquely tailored to align with the message or theme of your event,
Clients report Paddy’s inspirational talks to be ‘thought provoking’, ‘insightful’,‘authentic’, ‘simple’, ‘outstanding’, ‘refreshing’ and ‘motivational’.
THE ART OF SUCCESS
(relevant for sport or business audiences)
Inspiring audiences to create their own extraordinary team culture, where enjoyment and winning happens
In this talk, Paddy offers revolutionary insights into the leadership and high performance approaches that are
helping sport and business teams to be the best in the world. He shares thought-provoking insights and fascinating anecdotes from his work with some of the world’s top athletes and teams.
Included is the unique approach that helped take the Indian and South African teams to the World’s No. 1 positions, India to win the 2011 Cricket World Cup, and then as a first-time head coach, to lead bottom-of-the-log Rajasthan Royals IPL Team to the Champions League final in one season.
This talk will be uniquely tailored to align with the message or theme of your event,
Clients report Paddy’s inspirational talks to be ‘thought provoking’, ‘insightful’,‘authentic’, ‘simple’, ‘outstanding’, ‘refreshing’ and ‘motivational’.
THE ART OF SUCCESS
(relevant for sport or business audiences)
- the changes in performance/leadership landscape, from industrial to knowledge era
- harnessing collective intelligence
- creating thinking employees/athletes
- personal mastery
- building confidence, focusing the mind, positive psychology and much more
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Paddy Upton Clients & Testimonials
These are a few of the successful and wide-ranging organisations who have valued Paddy’s inspirational talks and workshops. Please scroll down to view some recent testimonials.
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Having worked full-time in conferences for nearly two decades, I’d place Paddy in the top 1% of international speakers.
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Paddy’s speech at the Dell India Leadership Strategy Meet was extremely insightful. Paddy is a delightfully effective speaker whose style is simple, direct and engaging.
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PRESIDENT
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Paddy Upton’s presentation to the top 500 managers at ABFSG Day was a great success. It was wonderfully illuminating and was rated as relevant and valuable by 100% of the 500 delegates.
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Paddy’s speech at the Dell India Leadership Strategy meet was extremely insightful. The ease with which he was able to relate to corporate issues was simply commendable - a delightfully effective speaker whose style is simple, direct and engaging.
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“Paddy Upton’s presentation to the top 500 managers at ABFSG Day was a great success. It was wonderfully illuminating and was rated at “relevant and valuable” by 100% of the 500 delegates. Some said ˜Paddy’s presentation changed my life”..
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Great presentation at the 2017 London Leadership Summit. It was humble, thought provoking and relevant to today’s business leaders.
TOM BIRD / Author of Brilliant Selling, Europe’s best-selling sales book
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A game-changing message.
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Paddy is one of the best coaches in the world.
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“Awesome talk! Really enjoyed it, as did everyone else.” Jacques Kallis – International cricketer
“Paddy’s leadership tactics transcend the various industries and present a positive, inspiring way to motivate any team towards unprecedented levels of performance. His approach is cutting-edge and his use of “story” drives home the concepts remarkably well.” Teresa Keating - Business Manufacturing Technology Director, The Dow Chemical Company (USA)
"A very interesting and powerful talk. Loved it and very thought-provoking” Alan Dawson –Ex-International cricketer and current business-owner.
“Paddy conducted a performance and leadership workshop for all the staff of RBS Private Banking. Focused on “Building a Winning Culture”, and using his strong foundational knowledge and experience in the areas of teamwork and leadership development, Paddy was able to bring the workshop to life in a practical and well-contextualised manner. This was further enriched by his use of anecdotes, which resonated extremely well with the participants. All participants rated the workshop very highly.” Shiv Gupta – Head of Private Banking, Royal Bank of Scotland Private Banking (India)
“Paddy’s speech at the Dell India Leadership Strategy Meet in 2011 was extremely insightful. The ease with which he was able to relate to corporate issues was simply commendable. Paddy is a delightfully effective speaker whose style is simple, direct and engaging.” Ganesh Lakshminarayanan - President, Dell India.
“Paddy Upton’s presentation to the top 500 managers at ABFSG Day was a great success. It was wonderfully illuminating and was rated as relevant and valuable by 100% of the 500 delegates. Some said Paddy’s presentation changed their life”. Ajay Srinivasan – Head, Aditya Birla Financial Services Group.
Paddy’s speech at the Dell India Leadership Strategy meet was extremely insightful. The ease with which he was able to relate to corporate issues was simply commendable - a delightfully effective speaker whose style is simple, direct and engaging. Ganesh Lakshminarayanan (President, Dell India)
Recently, over 200 senior managers scored Paddy’s talk an impossibly high and near perfect 4.97 out of 5 for style and content! For me, it was the best session I’ve been to in 17 years! Steve Morris (Managing Partner, The Eventful Group)
Great presentation at the 2017 London Leadership Summit. It was humble, thought provoking and relevant to today’s business leaders. Tom Bird (Author of Brilliant Selling, Europe’s best-selling sales book)
A game-changing message. Prasant Shukla (National Technology Officer. Microsoft, India)
Paddy is one of the best coaches in the world. Shane Watson (Australian International Cricketer)
“Paddy is an exceptional coach and trainer who has the skill and knowledge to transform individuals and teams.” Lindy Rousseau - Marketing Director, Cape Grace Hotel
"After having lost in 17 consecutive games…The group workshops with Paddy worked, we went on to win the final 3 games in a row.” Shukri Conrad – Head Coach of Cape Cobras Cricket Team (Professional Franchise)
“Paddy had an amazing ability to bring out positive energy in our senior management team, which allowed us to solve problems we had.” Nick Stodel – Owner, Stodels Nursaries“We are in the process of merging two offices that were previously in opposition to each other. Paddy's session blew us away and we were left inspired, positive and could take away simple and effective tools to use going forward. Paddy’s style is easy going and even the hardest of nuts were cracked and left the day with a feeling of “this can work”. Not only do I recommend Paddy as a coach, but consider him essential going forward.”Ebbie Rabie – Manager, Aon South Africa.
“Paddy's work has transformed the Constantia Uitsig Team.” Tom Glover – GM, Constantia Uitsig Group.
“Thank you, Paddy! Once again, you have helped us move forward as a team.” Tony Romer-Lee – GM, Cape Grace Hotel.
“You made an amazing impact on the team.” Sandeep Desai - Vice President Manufacturing, Unilever South & Southern Africa.
“Paddy's 'Transforming Teams' workshop at the Mainstream Conference (Texas, USA) was rated an overall 94%. Delegates are still raving about it. I could not recommend a speaker or workshop facilitator more highly.” Steve Morris - Managing Partner Content & Global Production, The Eventful Group
“Very insightful – great storyteller. Most unconventional coach.” Senior Manager, DuPont (USA)
“Excellent! Very inspirational speaker – great perspectives on leadership.” Senior Manager, The Boeing Company
“Paddy’s leadership tactics transcend the various industries and present a positive, inspiring way to motivate any team towards unprecedented levels of performance. His approach is cutting-edge and his use of “story” drives home the concepts remarkably well.” Teresa Keating - Business Manufacturing Technology Director, The Dow Chemical Company (USA)
"A very interesting and powerful talk. Loved it and very thought-provoking” Alan Dawson –Ex-International cricketer and current business-owner.
“Paddy conducted a performance and leadership workshop for all the staff of RBS Private Banking. Focused on “Building a Winning Culture”, and using his strong foundational knowledge and experience in the areas of teamwork and leadership development, Paddy was able to bring the workshop to life in a practical and well-contextualised manner. This was further enriched by his use of anecdotes, which resonated extremely well with the participants. All participants rated the workshop very highly.” Shiv Gupta – Head of Private Banking, Royal Bank of Scotland Private Banking (India)
“Paddy’s speech at the Dell India Leadership Strategy Meet in 2011 was extremely insightful. The ease with which he was able to relate to corporate issues was simply commendable. Paddy is a delightfully effective speaker whose style is simple, direct and engaging.” Ganesh Lakshminarayanan - President, Dell India.
“Paddy Upton’s presentation to the top 500 managers at ABFSG Day was a great success. It was wonderfully illuminating and was rated as relevant and valuable by 100% of the 500 delegates. Some said Paddy’s presentation changed their life”. Ajay Srinivasan – Head, Aditya Birla Financial Services Group.
Paddy’s speech at the Dell India Leadership Strategy meet was extremely insightful. The ease with which he was able to relate to corporate issues was simply commendable - a delightfully effective speaker whose style is simple, direct and engaging. Ganesh Lakshminarayanan (President, Dell India)
Recently, over 200 senior managers scored Paddy’s talk an impossibly high and near perfect 4.97 out of 5 for style and content! For me, it was the best session I’ve been to in 17 years! Steve Morris (Managing Partner, The Eventful Group)
Great presentation at the 2017 London Leadership Summit. It was humble, thought provoking and relevant to today’s business leaders. Tom Bird (Author of Brilliant Selling, Europe’s best-selling sales book)
A game-changing message. Prasant Shukla (National Technology Officer. Microsoft, India)
Paddy is one of the best coaches in the world. Shane Watson (Australian International Cricketer)
“Paddy is an exceptional coach and trainer who has the skill and knowledge to transform individuals and teams.” Lindy Rousseau - Marketing Director, Cape Grace Hotel
"After having lost in 17 consecutive games…The group workshops with Paddy worked, we went on to win the final 3 games in a row.” Shukri Conrad – Head Coach of Cape Cobras Cricket Team (Professional Franchise)
“Paddy had an amazing ability to bring out positive energy in our senior management team, which allowed us to solve problems we had.” Nick Stodel – Owner, Stodels Nursaries“We are in the process of merging two offices that were previously in opposition to each other. Paddy's session blew us away and we were left inspired, positive and could take away simple and effective tools to use going forward. Paddy’s style is easy going and even the hardest of nuts were cracked and left the day with a feeling of “this can work”. Not only do I recommend Paddy as a coach, but consider him essential going forward.”Ebbie Rabie – Manager, Aon South Africa.
“Paddy's work has transformed the Constantia Uitsig Team.” Tom Glover – GM, Constantia Uitsig Group.
“Thank you, Paddy! Once again, you have helped us move forward as a team.” Tony Romer-Lee – GM, Cape Grace Hotel.
“You made an amazing impact on the team.” Sandeep Desai - Vice President Manufacturing, Unilever South & Southern Africa.
“Paddy's 'Transforming Teams' workshop at the Mainstream Conference (Texas, USA) was rated an overall 94%. Delegates are still raving about it. I could not recommend a speaker or workshop facilitator more highly.” Steve Morris - Managing Partner Content & Global Production, The Eventful Group
“Very insightful – great storyteller. Most unconventional coach.” Senior Manager, DuPont (USA)
“Excellent! Very inspirational speaker – great perspectives on leadership.” Senior Manager, The Boeing Company
Paddy Upton brings a dynamic blend of coaching expertise, motivational insights, and a passion for developing not just athletes, but leaders on and off the field. In his Workshops Participants Delve into discussions on leadership, team dynamics, and the profound impact of coaching in unlocking the full potential of individuals and teams.
CORPORATE ATELETE WORKSHOP SERIES BY – PADDY UPTON
Purpose of the Workshop
The primary aim is to:
The topics for the workshop will be finalized in collaboration with the leadership team to ensure alignment with
business needs, however, key focus areas can include:
Leading Others
High-performing teams require consistent alignment, reflection, and growth. To ensure meaningful progress
beyond the workshop, we do propose the following continuation framework:
o Half- or full-day workshops:
Conducted every 4 to 6 months, focused on emerging leadership challenges, team alignment, and
sustained momentum.
o Small group Zoom coaching:
Monthly or bi-monthly sessions to review progress, address challenges, and refocus priorities.
This phased approach will allow leaders to embed the lessons learned, measure progress, and continuously
evolve as a team and as individuals.
ADVANCING YOUR TEAM CULTURE
‘Culture is King’. Happy employees are 30% more productive than unhappy ones. Conversely 74-84% of employees want to leave their jobs today, primarily because of they are not happy in the workplace.
Imagine a culture that attracts the industry-best employees, keeps them the longest, and gets the best output from rest? Almost every team has capacity to advance their culture, and thus success.
With his experience of building successful teams at the highest level of performance, in different countries and with players of different languages, religions, cultures and levels of experience in the same teams, Paddy will work with you to tailor-make this workshop to meet your teams unique needs.
TRANSFORM YOUR TEAM
Raise your game, get ahead of the rest, become extraordinary
Where a keynote address is a one-way sharing of knowledge, the workshop is an interactive format presenting the opportunity for your team to dialogue and then own Paddy’s teamwork and performance concepts. Workshops are
practical, interactive and experiential and focussed on facilitating your team transformation via:
Dialogue and gaining an in-depth understanding of cutting-edge team-work and performance concepts
SPORT COACHING MASTERCLASS
This half- or full-day master-class is for progressive sports organisations invested in their coaches learning more empowering and effective ways of leading players and performance. Learn how to practically navigate from the old-school command-and-control (industrial age) coaching towards an empowering player-centred coaching approach that is commensurate with the knowledge era.
Outcomes include delivering sustained success, increased enjoyment, longer-term participation, and smarter performers with greater confidence and increased self-esteem.
Depending on duration of master-class, topics could include:
Purpose of the Workshop
The primary aim is to:
- Align leadership around shared goals and vision.
- Explore relevant aspects of high-performance teams.
- Foster collaboration and collective intelligence.
- Enhance leadership practices to drive engagement and productivity.
- Strengthen individual mastery for consistent high performance.
The topics for the workshop will be finalized in collaboration with the leadership team to ensure alignment with
business needs, however, key focus areas can include:
Leading Others
- Navigating evolving leadership requirements.
- Enhancing teamwork and collaboration.
- Building a positive, high-performance team culture.
- Managing challenges and failure for growth and accountability.
- Managing pressure, fear, and anxiety with techniques inspired by top athletes.
- Connecting purpose to performance.
- Developing habits for personal and professional success.
High-performing teams require consistent alignment, reflection, and growth. To ensure meaningful progress
beyond the workshop, we do propose the following continuation framework:
o Half- or full-day workshops:
Conducted every 4 to 6 months, focused on emerging leadership challenges, team alignment, and
sustained momentum.
o Small group Zoom coaching:
Monthly or bi-monthly sessions to review progress, address challenges, and refocus priorities.
This phased approach will allow leaders to embed the lessons learned, measure progress, and continuously
evolve as a team and as individuals.
ADVANCING YOUR TEAM CULTURE
‘Culture is King’. Happy employees are 30% more productive than unhappy ones. Conversely 74-84% of employees want to leave their jobs today, primarily because of they are not happy in the workplace.
Imagine a culture that attracts the industry-best employees, keeps them the longest, and gets the best output from rest? Almost every team has capacity to advance their culture, and thus success.
With his experience of building successful teams at the highest level of performance, in different countries and with players of different languages, religions, cultures and levels of experience in the same teams, Paddy will work with you to tailor-make this workshop to meet your teams unique needs.
TRANSFORM YOUR TEAM
Raise your game, get ahead of the rest, become extraordinary
Where a keynote address is a one-way sharing of knowledge, the workshop is an interactive format presenting the opportunity for your team to dialogue and then own Paddy’s teamwork and performance concepts. Workshops are
practical, interactive and experiential and focussed on facilitating your team transformation via:
Dialogue and gaining an in-depth understanding of cutting-edge team-work and performance concepts
- Analysis of how and where the concepts are uniquely relevant to your team
- Identifying and overcoming current obstacles to your success
- Generating practical and relevant plans-of-action to take your team to the next level, and then
- to consistently deliver at these new levels
- Workshop topics will be designed in collaboration with you, to ensure that they are relevant to your team and its current needs. Some topics could include:
- Becoming extraordinary
- Designing your own dream team
- Aligning organisational purpose, team direction and personal meaning
- Optimising team and individual intelligence
- Growing confidence, increasing success
- Playing to strengths
- Innovation - Unshackle and advance your team
- Being your best self, move towards self-mastery
SPORT COACHING MASTERCLASS
This half- or full-day master-class is for progressive sports organisations invested in their coaches learning more empowering and effective ways of leading players and performance. Learn how to practically navigate from the old-school command-and-control (industrial age) coaching towards an empowering player-centred coaching approach that is commensurate with the knowledge era.
Outcomes include delivering sustained success, increased enjoyment, longer-term participation, and smarter performers with greater confidence and increased self-esteem.
Depending on duration of master-class, topics could include:
- Successfully navigating the currently changing leadership terrain
- A new model of learning
- Building players’ confidence
- Playing to strengths
- Coaching for maximum impact
- The processes of winning
- Navigating pressure
- Developing players’ self esteem
- Being the best coach you can be
