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Abigail Irozuru is a British Olympian, World, Commonwealth & European finalist, and former Team GB long jump athlete who knows what it means to bounce back.
Abigail’s journey in athletics began in 2004 after being talent-spotted at an Air Training Corps athletics competition. Just two years later, she proudly represented England at the British Schools Championships.
But the path to the top wasn’t smooth. Olympic heartbreaks, several surgeries and even a brief retirement from sport – it is the lessons learned in these seasons, and goals achieved despite the setbacks that Abigail speaks about – high performance resilience.
Though no longer jumping into a sand pit, Abigail continues to live and lead with passion and purpose. She is the 2025 Regional President of the Professional Speaking Association (North-West). She is also currently studying for her full-time MBA at Alliance Manchester Business School, where she serves as Vice President (Academics) on the AMBS Student Council, liaising directly with programme leaders to help shape the future of the MBA. And in 2025, she founded the Entrepreneurship & Sports Industry Club, collaborating with the Masood Entrepreneurship Centre to host inspiring conversations with entrepreneurs from local to global stages.
Abigail also serves as a board member for Greater Manchester Moving, and continues her advocacy in sport through her ongoing roles on both the British Olympic Association’s and UK Athletics’ Athletes’ Commissions.
Driven by a passion for seeing people thrive through life’s inevitable transitions, she works with organisations supporting athlete and career transitions. Her talks centre on embracing uncertainty, reframing failure, and finding joy in the pursuit of success.
The Impact Abigail Creates
Through her talks, Abigail brings an infectious energy, honesty, and joy that empowers people to bounce back from setbacks, reignite their spark, and live and lead with purpose. Drawing from her lived experience of failure, resilience, and ultimately triumph, Abigail equips audiences with practical tools for cultivating an authentic, high-performance mindset that doesn’t compromise mental, emotional, or holistic wellbeing.
Whether she’s on stage, in boardrooms, or with students, Abigail leaves people braver, more curious, and inspired to step into their own unique ‘Olympic moments’ — whatever those may be.
Join Abigail, Team GB Olympic Finalist, three-time British Long Jump Champion, and certified NLP and life coach, as she shares her inspiring journey in “The Long Leap of Faith: Turning Setbacks into Setups for Success.” Drawing from her decade-long quest to make the Olympic team, Abigail reveals the resilience and determination needed to overcome obstacles and transform challenges into opportunities for growth. With her unique blend of athletic experience and coaching expertise, Abigail offers actionable strategies for building a high-performance mindset and achieving personal and professional excellence.
Who will benefit?
This inspiring talk is ideal for team away days, conferences and assemblies to boost the energy and expand the capacity of everybody in the room!
Key Takeaways:
★ Cultivate high-performance resilience to navigate and thrive through setbacks.
★ Learn how to transform challenges into opportunities for growth and success.
★ Gain practical tools from NLP and life coaching to enhance your mindset and performance.
★ Discover the benefits of working with a coach who combines Olympic-level determination with certified coaching techniques.
Embark on this journey with Abigail and leave motivated and equipped to make your own leaps of faith, turning setbacks into powerful setups for success and harnessing the power of marginal gains.
In this inspiring and insightful talk, Abigail — Olympic finalist and British Champion — shares how data and analytics played a pivotal role in her journey to sporting success. Drawing on real-life examples from her career as an elite long jumper, Abigail explores how key performance indicators (KPIs) such as sprint speeds, sleep quality, and biomechanical analysis were used to track progress, build confidence, and reveal opportunities for breakthrough performances.
But beyond the metrics, she highlights an often-overlooked truth: while data informs decisions, it’s how we interpret, trust, and act on that information — especially when results don’t immediately align — that makes the difference.
Abigail will take the audience through a pivotal moment in her career in 2019, when trusting her data — despite initially disappointing competition results — empowered her to advocate for herself, secure selection for a major championship, and go on to achieve a career-best season, including ranking amongst the top ten female long jumpers in the world that year.
Key Takeaways:
★ How data-driven insights support performance, growth, and decision-making
★ Why interpretation is just as important as the numbers themselves
★ The balance between evidence-based confidence and personal belief
★ Questions to reflect on: What are your key metrics? How can you use them to drive your next breakthrough?
In “Career Leaps: Mastering Transitions with an Olympic Mindset,” join Abigail, Team GB Olympic Finalist and accomplished long jumper, as she shares the secrets behind her successful transitions both within and beyond competitive sport. Drawing on her extensive athletic career, which includes transitioning from junior to senior levels and coming out of retirement to return to the sand pit, Abigail offers practical insights and strategies to help you navigate your own career transitions with the resilience and determination of an Olympian.
Who will benefit?
This inspiring talk is ideal for new recruits, emerging leaders, and graduates poised to take their next big leap.
Key Takeaways:
★ Develop an Olympic-level mindset to confidently approach career changes.
★ Learn actionable strategies for turning uncertainty into opportunity.
★ Gain tools to build resilience and adapt to new professional challenges.
Benefit from Abigail’s unique expertise as a resilient athlete, applying the principles of perseverance and high performance to your career transitions. Leave empowered with the skills and mindset to make successful career leaps and thrive in your new professional endeavours.
Abigail was an absolute joy to listen to and played a great part in the panel around positivity, manifestation and goal setting. She was able to adapt her story to the subject matter we were covering and make the Olympian journey true to real life goals, dreams, and ambitions. Abigail’s manner is extremely inspirational but also very authentic. I left wanting to hear more from her and would include her on a panel again without question.
Abigail spoke at a Leadership event for us and managed to weave our key messages into her talk in an authentic and relatable manner. Abigail is very engaging and passionate about supporting others. By sharing her experiences from a very different context to ours, she put across a strong message regarding the importance of resilience in and outside of the workplace.
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