Inspirational And Authentic

A Keynote Speaker Who Combines Resilience, High-Performance
And The Competitive Edge

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Meet Anna Hemmings MBE

Six time world champion, two time Olympian, and now a world class keynote speaker, entrepreneur, workshop facilitator and leadership & high performance coach.

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

She learnt many valuable life lessons which she has become adept at translating to the business world. She now works with leaders and teams helping them develop the skills, attitudes and behaviours to deliver exceptional performance.

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“Anna told us her story in such a charismatic, authentic, and inspiring way that I am still receiving positive feedback from around the organization and requests to watch it back. Everyone could walk away from this speech with something! Anna listened attentively when we spoke and included everything we had discussed to make her journey so beautifully in sync with ours. It was like she was speaking as part of our organization.”

Garrett Dibon-Smith, Learning Experience Developer, Novartis

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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.

Elite Sport PLUS Business = Success

Anna’s unique combination of experience in elite sport combined with 12 years leading a successful business and working alongside senior leaders, 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 a speaker

Anna's speeches have been enjoyed and valued by audiences in more than 20 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”

Emma Whitaker, Communications Director,
Hitachi ABB Power Grids

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 - resilience, high-performance and resilient leadership – through the lens of business and elite sport.

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.

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

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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.

Anna presents highly effective and practical techniques, these valuable and actionable insights are brought to life through inspiring personal anecdotes from her journey in sport and business.

Learn simple and effective strategies to immediately boost your resilience
Be less reactive, think more clearly and make logical decisions under pressure
Build emotional control
Managing perspective and focus of attention in the face of setback and distractions
Create strategies for balancing stress and recovery and building long term sustainability
Techniques for overcoming adversity and growing from it

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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

“Anna was a joy to listen to, her top tips for ‘getting the competitive edge’, learned from a career in sport, are practical, relevant and directly applicable to any business.”

Anna Achene, Revenue Planning Manager, British Airways

Are you ready to discuss your next keynote?

“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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