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Keith Antoine is a performance coach, speaker and former GB National Sprints Coach, who spent a decade working across both the Olympic and Paralympic pathways.
But sport is his way in, not his subject. His understanding of performance comes from much more than elite sport. Before and alongside his coaching career, Keith worked as a project manager within a multinational voice and data communications business, giving him first-hand experience of organisational life, teams and the challenges of performing in the workplace.
That combination of elite sport and corporate experience is at the heart of his work. Keith explores the balance between the person and the performance, helping individuals and organisations understand what enables people to perform at their best, particularly when expectations are high and the pressure is on.
His track record includes coaching athletes to World, Olympic and Paralympic competition, personally coaching more than 20 international athletes, and working with European and World Junior medallists. Within organisations, he has coached and delivered development interventions from operational teams through to Board level, as well as designing and delivering a proprietary conversation-skills programme. He has also been a professional keynote speaker for 30 years.
Keith’s approach is not about telling audiences what to think. It is about making them think. Through targeted, thought-provoking challenge, he encourages people to question accepted thinking, look at issues from their own perspective and turn insight into practical action.
His sessions are highly interactive, personal and deliberately funny. Rather than simply delivering an engaging hour, Keith creates experiences that encourage audiences to do the thinking for themselves, so the ideas are owned rather than simply heard.
What sets his approach apart is the discipline behind it. Every session is designed to move people from provoked thought to owned action, giving them practical ideas and actions they can take away and apply.
Most underperforming leaders don’t lack talent or technical knowledge. That’s often what got them there. To continue to elevate their and others’ performance requires additional skills and behaviours. Systems, strategy and process all matter, however people are central.
In that regard, leaders really have two jobs; deliver performance through their people and develop their people. Over-emphasis on the first and neglect of the second doesn’t end well. Everyone claims to take development seriously, however that seldom proves to be the case.
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The fundamentals for successful collaboration are not complicated, however in today’s complex and rapidly changing workplaces, they end up hiding in plain sight. Using a simple to understand sporting analogy that readily translates into every organisational setting, Keith brings the key fundamentals into sharp focus in a highly interactive session with sufficient process to illuminate your existing friction points and generate immediately applicable and measurable actions.
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In any performance context, talent will only get you so far. Your mindset and level of resilience will determine whether you fulfil your potential. Mindset and resilience are connected. Mindset determines Beliefs determine Resilience. Developing both while navigating daily pressures is a challenge.
This session simplifies straightforward strategies used at Olympic level. Strategies that you can implement immediately to start making a noticeable difference.
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For me your session was very unique – I am very thankful for your insights and thoughts. And I liked your humorous way of leading us through the session. So thanks a lot for your spirit, your work and for letting us be part of it!
It was a real pleasure working with you. The session was amazing, and I truly appreciate your time and for joining us in Rome. I’m glad we had the chance to meet and I also hope we’ll cross paths again in the future. Thank you so much for everything,
