Global keynote speaker for business

Speaking for business

Danny Crates is a former international 800m athlete and seasoned performance coach who partners with businesses, leaders, and teams to help them unlock the habits, mindset, and behaviours that drive high performance.

Blending insights from elite sport with over two decades of experience supporting global organisations, Danny understands that success is never a straight line. Resilience, adaptability, and focus are often the true difference-makers.

Before every session, Danny takes the time to understand the goals, culture, and challenges of your business. Every presentation is tailored to your needs and crafted to energise, challenge, and equip your people to raise their game.

Whether on stage or in more intimate team sessions, Danny delivers practical strategies and powerful storytelling that leave a lasting impact.

Resilience in High-Pressure Environments
Rapid Recovery After Setbacks
Performing Under Pressure
Leadership Resilience & Clarity
Creating High-Performance Teams
Popular Topics Include:
Danny’s 5 Pillars of Performance
Incremental Gains & Continuous Improvement
Learning from Setbacks & Failure
Controlling the Controllables
Growth Mindset in Action
Embracing Discomfort & Stretching Limits
Maintaining a Positive, Proactive Mindset

Signature Keynote presentations:

Resilience – The Foundation of High Performance: Thriving in Change and Uncertainty

What this keynote is for:

Teams under pressure
Change and uncertainty
Low morale
Missed targets
Transformational periods
Kick-off and leadership events

The Message:

In an unpredictable world, performance depends less on talent and more on the ability to recover fast when things go wrong.
Danny gives teams a practical, repeatable framework for resilience built from his Paralympic journey and his work with high-pressure teams globally.

Attendees Will Learn:

A simple method to reset quickly after setbacks
How to maintain focus when pressure spikes
How to rebuild confidence and momentum
How to stay composed in the face of uncertainty
How to embed resilience behaviours every day

Outcome:

Teams leave with a resilience system they can apply immediately improving performance, confidence and clarity across the organisation.

The High-Performance Blueprint: Leadership & Team Performance

What this keynote covers:

Elite performance habits
Discipline in uncertainty
Focus and execution
Individual & team high performance

Danny reveals the mindset, behaviours and systems used by elite athletes — and how leaders and teams can apply them to achieve consistent, sustainable high performance in any environment.

Attendees Will Learn:

How high performers think and act under pressure
The power of marginal gains and micro-improvements
How to create a winning team environment
How to maintain performance without burnout

Outcome:

A clear, actionable blueprint for individuals and teams to raise their performance standards — every day.

Leading Through Change: Resilience for Modern Leadership

What this keynote covers:
Leadership through uncertainty
Team resilience
Confidence & clarity
Leading with composure

Change doesn’t break teams uncertainty does. In this keynote, Danny gives leaders a clear, practical framework for guiding their people through high-pressure periods with clarity, composure, and confidence. It’s a session built for modern leadership: straightforward, grounded, and immediately applicable.

Attendees Will Learn:
How to lead teams through ambiguity

How to build psychological resilience

How to keep teams focused when plans shift

How to support people emotionally and operationally

Outcome:
Stronger leadership capability, clearer communication, and a more resilient team culture.

Why Organisations Book Danny

He’s lived high-pressure performance , Paralympic gold medallist, world champion, global speaker.
He brings practical tools, not vague inspiration.
His message is universal, leadership, culture, resilience, performance, wellbeing.
He connects instantly, warm, real, engaging, funny, powerful.
He tailors every keynote to organisational goals.
He leaves teams with a system, not just a motivational feeling.

Danny is a “safe pair of hands” for high-stakes events, someone team members remember, quote, and continue to apply long after he leaves the stage.

Testimonials

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