Sustaining excellence

Anna helps leaders and teams perform at their best – and keep doing it. Drawing on her background in world-class sport combined with her experience as a high performance and leadership coach, she equips teams with the clarity, tools and confidence needed to sustain high performance under pressure.

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I’ve had the privilege of working with many speakers and Anna’s speech was one of the best! Her compelling story was enthralling, engaging, funny, and, most importantly, relatable to our entire audience across 90 countries. The way she connected the winning mindset to both our culture and performance was seamless.

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Resilience & High Performance Specialist

ELITE CREDENTIALS, PRACTICAL TOOLS

Anna is a 6 x World Champion and 2 x Olympian – credentials earned through relentless focus, resilience and a winning mindset.

What matters for your team: she’s spent over a decade refining those elite strategies into practical, business-ready tools that leaders and teams can use immediately.

Her keynotes don’t just inspire, they provide the clarity and habits needed to thrive and stay at the top of your game.

What you’ll get: 

  • Relevant, actionable frameworks for long term success
  • Real insight into what separates good teams from great ones
  • A fusion of proven strategies from elite sport and behavioural science
  • High impact, engaging delivery that blends heart and humour and is refreshingly honest
  • Optional break-out sessions or follow up masterclasses to embed learning

HIGH PERFORMANCE SPECIALIST

Anna is an accredited high performance coach with a strong track record working alongside Senior Directors in global organisations.

She understands the intensity of your environment: stretch targets, fewer resources, constant change, higher stakes. Her work helps leaders and teams develop the skills, behaviours and mindset to deliver exceptional performance over time.

What makes Anna different:

  • A unique blend of lived high performance experience and expert leadership development training
  • Focus on strategies for sustained performance, not just inspirational stories
  • Deep understanding of team dynamics and organisational reality
  • Tailored content, designed specifically for your context and challenges
  • Proven impact across 40+ countries and diverse industries
Anna Hemmings MBE, 6 times world champion and 2 times Olympian Kayaker, now a Resilience, High-Performance And leadership Keynote Speaker

Keynote excellence tailored to your needs

Infusing the business world with the
secrets of sporting success

Anna knows what it takes to perform – in sport, in business, on stage. She brings a wealth of experience and delights in talking about her core subjects – high performance, world class teams and resilience – through the lens of business and elite sport.

Speech Topics

Getting The
Competitive Edge

Exceptional individuals are not born they are made. Anna’s mission is to provide clients with the key skills and mindset required to succeed at the highest level. She shares simple, practical and powerful tools to help others perform at their best and become exceptional in everything they do.

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  • What does a winning mindset look like and how to develop it
  • The performance cycle – embedding this in the heart of a high performance culture in order to deliver enhanced performance and better results consistently
  • Techniques for thinking correctly under pressure
  • Top 10 attitudes that champions adopt  and the behaviours and actions that bring them to life
  • Strategies for sustaining high performance and constant and never-ending improvement

Anna was a joy to listen to, her top tips for ‘getting the competitive edge’ are practical, relevant and directly applicable to any business.

Anna Achene Revenue Manager, British Airways

Resilience: Success In
The Face Of Adversity

Helping individuals, leaders and teams to build resilience in order to sustain high performance and deliver results in the face of pressure and adversity.

Having had her own struggles, overcome adversity and performed under the highest levels of pressure, Anna presents highly effective and practical techniques. These  actionable insights are brought to life through inspiring personal anecdotes from her journey in sport and business.

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  • Learn simple and effective strategies to immediately boost your resilience
  • Be less reactive, think more clearly and make great decisions under pressure
  • Build emotional control
  • Managing perspective and focus of attention
  • Build long term sustainability through strategic recovery
  • Strategies to overcome setback and thrive in adversity

We were looking for a speaker to showcase resilience and give an empowering message to our employees – Anna wholeheartedly fulfilled this objective. She brought a number of skills-based techniques and solutions to dealing with challenges and building resilience. It was highly engaging, meaningful and motivational!

Anna Kenton Deloitte LLP

The Resilient
Leader's Toolkit

The businesses who survive and thrive through periods of adversity and rapid change are the ones who have resilient leaders who drive them forward. Resilient leaders are more effective under pressure, have the ability to think clearly and strategically in the face of challenge and create opportunities for growth. Using her journey as an Olympian, Anna will explore the Resilient Leaders Elements model to reveal the behaviours and strategies that leaders need to deliver outstanding results.

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  • Handle pressure and make great decisions when it counts
  • Create clarity of direction so that people know where they are going and why
  • Develop leadership presence
  • Build confidence to navigate uncertainty and change
  • Understand the internal motivational drivers of those you lead

Your insights into the importance of a unifying purpose and the power of true team leadership were incredibly motivating. I appreciated your high level of engagement, your honesty and the practical stories from your journey. You’ve given us a lot to reflect on about how we can lead and succeed together.

Andreas Butz Talent Leader Germany EY

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A fantastically engaging and inspirational speaker! The audience loved her, her energy, and her messages. I really appreciated how she tailored the talk to the specific audience. An absolute delight of a person and speaker, couldn’t recommend her more!