Dr Frank Dick OBE

summary

Renowned as one of the best motivational speakers today, Frank Dick’s presentations are highly amusing and anecdotal, challenging and inspirational, making uncomfortable listening for anyone prepared to accept second best. Coaching has been Frank’s raison d’être for decades, inspiring world-beating performances from some of the top names in sport - Daley Thompson, Boris Becker, Gerhard Berger, Denise Lewis, Marat Safin and Katarina Witt. As well as his presentations; ‘Winning’, ‘The Winning Team Advantage’ and ‘Leading Edge’, Frank offers an exciting new approach to training and development for business through his ‘coaching’ methods. His interactive ‘Coaching Workshops’ build on the general desire for improvement and will inspire people to better business performance.

biography

Renowned as one of the country’s best and most consistently inspiring motivational speakers, and the current President of the European Athletics Coaches Association, member of the IAAF Coaches Commission as well as Chair (and architect) of the IAAF Academy, Dr. Frank Dick O.B.E. has combined his talent for inspiring sporting achievement with the business world.  By recognising the synergy between effective coaching techniques on the playing field and in the office, over the years he has developed a range of inspirational keynote speech themes, workshop topics and bespoke employee development programmes that remain as popular and relevant today as ever.

His expertise derives from years of detailed research into individual success and achievement. Frank combines this wealth of knowledge and experience into an informative and motivational approach to achieving long-lasting transformation of both individual and team performance.
Plus, with the recent launch of Loughborough University’s Institute of Excellence, a joint venture between the world class sporting expertise of the University and its Business School, which aims to further cross the boundaries between sporting achievement and success in the corporate world, Frank’s involvement as Chair of the Institute’s Concept Board means even more commitment to bringing these two worlds together.

With a history of sporting excellence through coaching some of the best talent - Boris Becker and Daley Thompson, to name just two - he has, over the past 15 years of speaking to 100’s of companies both in the UK and around the world, recognised six key areas of personal and professional development that, once taken out of a “training room” mentality and put into a different context, can lead to individual and team progress simply by giving a different perspective.
In 2005 Frank launched http://www.wellgoal.com. An interactive tool used as a means of a personal lifestyle system check and a framework for his ‘
WellGoal Workshops’. His new standalone presentation on ‘Managing Your Three Lane Motorway’ offers an insight into these new learning tools and tips on how to improve the management of your health and wellbeing, both in and outside of work.

Author of three major publications, ‘Sports Training Principles’, ‘Winning’ and ‘Winning Lines’, all classics in their fields.
Franks contribution to sport and coaching has been recognised in being awarded an OBE in 1989, induction to the UK Coaches Hall of Fame in 1999 and the prestigious title “UK Sporting Hero” by Sport UK in 2001. 

Presentation Topics
Frank has spoken to audiences in the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia and USA/ Canada. His keynote speeches include:
Those key areas are -
1.    “The Winning Difference ” - creating the right motivational atmosphere in the workplace.
2.    “Team Talk ” - everyone in the team has a value; team achievement is about understanding and developing strength of diversity and not encouraging uniformity.
3.    “Coaching Matters ” - the development of the individual into an effective, inspiring and educational manager can be key to team and business success.
4.    “Leading Edge ” - truly great leaders understand that being a part of the team is more effective than just leading it, and it is the mastering of this challenge that can lead to personal and professional excellence.
5.    “Talent - from Potential to Performance ” - perform better today than yesterday by doing different things and doing things differently; being able to manage the performance of emerging talent increases the potential for growth and success.
6.    “Prepared to Win ” -  we cannot always choose and change our conditions and circumstances, but we can always choose and change our attitude.

New Presentation
“Performing in Adversity – The Lessons to be Learnt From Sport”

Franks new presentation looks at how to coach your team through the difficult climate ahead. Franks speech looks at managing present attitudes and preparation in adversity, increasing light and reducing heat in creating a climate to make progress.

Working closely with companies and events has shown that these six themes work either as individual concepts or collectively, dependant upon the objectives of the occasion.

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Testimonials

Chief Executive, NCB Stockbrokers:
To say you understood our requirements and your messages resonated with the team would be a serious understatement. In my experience the impact of guest speakers in your arena tends to dissipate very quickly when the troops get back to work, but I feel very confident that your extraordinary talented delivery will make its mark permanently. 

Managing Director First Data UK, First Data International:
No-one could fail to get the message that you sent about balancing the pressures of today’s working life with maintaining a fit, healthy body and a positive attitude.

Inspace PLC:
Credible and passionate. Great feedback from delegates and would definitely use Frank again in the future.

AVN:
Frank really got the delegates motivated!

Canada Life
Frank was so nice to work with, very engaging presentation style, content was so relevant to our theme and Frank made it meaningful to everyone in the room. The feedback from within the company has been very positive.

Business Objects,
Frank’s time on stage was enjoyed enormously by the audience of our employees and customers alike - we feel we made the perfect choice of speaker and he exceeded the already high expectations that we had. He told me before his presentation, that IT audiences were one of his top 3 difficult audiences (and he’s right!) - but there’s no doubt that for our attendees he was the highlight of the day. Thank you for organising his attendance and ensuring a smooth run-up to our event

Morgan Stanley:
The feedback from Frank’s speech has been incredibly positive; I have yet to find anyone who didn’t take away something from his words. His wisdom, experience and humour came together to form several powerful messages about individual and team performance.

NCSL:
The feedback from delegates has been extremely positive and there is no doubt that your contribution was seen as one of the highlighted of the day. The tone, pace and content of the presentation was ideal and definitely resonated with an important audience for the College.

Thanks for creating such a hugely positive influence on our staff. The overwhelming response was that your session was the best we’ve ever had at one of our conferences.”
Ian Offer, Chief Executive, Royal Scottish Assurance

“Just a line of thanks for delivering such a splendid speech. You really did capture the spirit of what we are trying to do here at BMW Finance.”
Bill Honeyball, MD, BMW Finance (GB) Ltd

’‘We have been running conferences all over the world and the feedback has shown Frank’s presentation to be the best many people have ever seen.’‘
James Radford, American Express