2 x Olympian
6 x World Champion

Empowering Leaders and Teams
To Achieve and Sustain High Performance

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Anna Hemmings MBE

“Empowering leaders and teams to reach and stay at the top of their game is at the heart of what I do. For over 15 years, I’ve specialised in high performance, delivering the strategies required to excel in high-pressure environments.

As Britain’s most successful female marathon kayaker my work draws on the rigor of world-class sport combined with a deep understanding of human behaviour to create lasting change.

At my career peak, I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. Told I would never race again, I battled my way to full recovery…and three more world titles.

I’ve lived resilience and high performance. Today, I partner with organisations to build the skills, behaviours and culture needed for sustained excellence.”

 

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KEYNOTE
SPEAKING

Energise your event with a keynote that activates real change. Anna delivers high-impact speeches that move beyond inspiration to provide practical, high-performance strategies. Your audience will leave with the confidence, clarity, and behavioral tools needed to thrive and sustain peak performance.

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LEADERSHIP COACHING

Unlock your potential by investing in Leadership Coaching, to help you achieve outstanding results. Designed to empower leaders, by enhancing skills and developing the behaviours for outstanding performance.

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WORKSHOPS & MASTERCLASSES

We build solutions that are tailored to the culture and needs of your business and people; from masterclasses to 6 month long development programmes. We promise to deliver a high impact programme personalised for you.

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Anna Hemmings MBE, 6 times world champion and 2 times Olympian Kayaker

“Anna’s speech was the highlight of the conference. Her storytelling was compelling and her authenticity really drew the audience in. Her material is something that we are using to help build on post conference with some very clear and tangible actions leaders can take for themselves and their teams to enable high performance.”

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Resilience & High Performance Specialist

Olympian & 6 X World Champion

Anna knows what it takes to get the competitive edge and compete at the highest level.

High performance coach and resiliency specialist

She speaks from personal experience of hard-won success and overcoming adversity.

Practical takeaways and actionable insights

Anna presents more than just an inspiring story, in her keynotes she reveals the thinking, methodology and techniques she used to become a world champion 6 times and how those strategies can be applied directly to the business world.

Follow-up workshops, breakouts and 1:1 coaching

Build on Anna’s inpsirational speeches with an interactive masterclass or 1:1 coaching to embed learning and explore key themes in greater depth, helping delegates to apply them to their own lives for enhanced confidence and exceptional performance.

Elite Sport PLUS
Business = Success

Anna’s unique combination of experience in elite sport combined with 15 years as a high performance specialist, working alongside senior Directors in blue chip companies, gives her a broad understanding of the challenges that leaders and teams face and how to overcome them to deliver outstanding results.

Tailored keynote for your organisation

Anna works with you to tailor her content for maximum impact at your event.

18 years of experience as an Inspirational Speaker

Anna’s speeches have been enjoyed and valued by audiences in more than 40 different countries and across a variety of industries.

It was one of the best motivational talks translating high performance in sports into the business world that I’ve heard. We are all going into the weekend with many wonderful insights and a spring in our steps.

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

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

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.

  • 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
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Anna not only impressed but inspired +4000 people around the world with her amazing story and powerful messages. She is a great communicator and above all, someone who has a strong capacity to connect with people.

Anna Hemmings MBE, 6 times world champion and 2 times Olympian Kayaker, now a Resilience, High-Performance And leadership Keynote Speaker

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YOUR NEXT INSPIRATIONAL
SPEAKER?

“My mission is to make a positive impact on everyone in the audience, to provide them with simple yet powerful and practical strategies that they can take away and apply immediately in their world.”

If you are ready to discuss your next event and understand more about how Anna can work with you, then get in touch.

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