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One of only 12 people in the world to lead the winning team in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race – an epic 40,000 mile ocean sailing race around the planet where the most resilient, unified team always wins.
Brendan helps organisations who have teams seemingly pulling in different directions. Their people are committed to the vision, and understand their part of it, but face challenges in working together as a unit to achieve it.
Acting as a performance catalyst, he unlocks the latent potential within teams, helping develop resilience, a growth mindset, collaboration and more inclusive leadership.
Brendan is trusted to deliver inspiration & outcomes by some of the world’s most exceptional organisations – PWC, Toyota, GSK, Coca-Cola, HSBC & McKinsey.
In his speeches, Brendan shares the driving forces behind his team’s winning result: Embracing change, building psychological safety, leveraging multiplier effects, overcoming adversity, maintaining trust and creating a culture of full ownership.
In every speech, Brendan’s aim is to bring about positive change. He gives clear calls-to-action, memorable ‘sticky phrases’ and useful models, tailored entirely to his audience’s organisational journey and all available to be shared & reused internally post event.
An energetic presenter and a natural storyteller, these take-aways are wrapped in an engrossing, emotional, cinematic story that keeps his audience on the edge of their seat.
He is the author of Team Spirit: Life & Leadership on The World’s Toughest Yacht Race. Team Spirit has become a valuable resource for business leaders and has been featured in Economia, The Sunday Times and shortlisted for the prestigious Mountbatten Book Award.
For teams who: Need to need to innovate & challenge “We’ve always done it that way” thinking.
Timeless Principle: Teams fail or succeed based on the quality of their conversation, which involves a degree of conflict.
Apply Now: Use structured, psychologically safe conflict to make better team decisions. Assign a “red team” in meetings.
For leaders who: Have large scale change and transformation plans to deliver
Timeless Principle: Leaders need to make the reward for change feel greater than the cost of change
Apply Now: Increase frequency of communication about progress, which helps individuals see what’s been accomplished and gain clarity on next steps
For teams who: Need to transform from a group of talented individuals into a high-performing unit with a single focus
Timeless Principle: There is great strength in diverse perspectives, once clear, focussed and aligned
Apply Now: Team members need feel invested-in and growing individually, to keep their full engagement to the team mission
For leaders who: Want to create an upbeat, consistent high-performance personal presence for their team
Timeless Principle: We cast a ‘mood shadow’ on the people around us, and it’s larger than we think. In times of high pressure & uncertainty, our team derive more of their emotional cues from us.
Apply Now: Remember, Your mood = Their mood.
For organisations that: Want their people to speak up, take risks and innovate, without fear of retribution
Timeless Principle: Psychological safety is the cradle of creativity.
Apply Now: Use the downloadable psychological safety chart at the start of meetings where you know there could be Defensiveness or reputation management in play.
For organisations that: Are navigating uncertainty in the marketplace, with high performance expectations.
Timeless Principle: Think long term victory, not short term glory.
Apply Now: Use data to assess additional performance, adjusted for the additional risk it carries.
Brendan delivers an engaging experience that translates directly into meaningful business & team building learnings that will help our team stay ahead of the competition.
Brendan carefully weaved the key themes of our conference agenda into his speech. The way he brings the story to life so you feel it and how he skilfully translates these into practical leadership lessons is inspiring.
