I help organisations build a one-team mindset, through better communication and healthy conflict. Drawing on 15+ years in Olympic high-performance sport.
“100% the most powerful talk I’ve ever attended.”PwC Director
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How to build a learning mindset.
Build a ‘ONE team’ organisational mindset focused on sustainable and repeated winning. Dean shares how leaders and teams can create environments that produce sustained excellence under high pressure and constant change.
More on this keynoteGroupthink is an operational risk.
Dean reveals how healthy conflict and human connection transform workplace tension into a competitive advantage for leaders navigating constant change.
More on this keynoteScale movements, not mandates.
How do you overcome resistance when leading change? Through his three imperatives of trust, clarity and agency, Dean offers practical tools to shift the mindset, adapt to change, think critically and work collaboratively.
More on this keynoteDean’s story of leading 3 Olympic sports to gold medal success (with no technical knowledge) and setting up the frame of what it takes to lead success in life.
Dean shares his sliding doors story of how he stumbled into his career (with a life of severe anxiety, imposter syndrome and fear of public speaking) and a moment of being bold, courageous, and persistent changed his life, and mindset. A story for leaders on the power of vulnerability, how to engineer serendipity, building your luck surface area, and being the change you want to see. You can manufacture success when you are bold enough to be unreasonable.
The unlikely story of a British Olympic sport that had no facilities, no athletes, no funding, to become the greatest nation of all time. The power of leading with clarity, seeing problems as opportunities, teamwork, and building a culture of continuous improvement.
A high energy group exercise to get the group interacting through the power of human chemicals of oxytocin, dopamine, and endorphins, showing the power of leading with connection.
Who do you want to be as a leader? A powerful and provocative moment of self reflection that gets the room looking inwards on how others perceive them. Each participant gets a resource to help them reflect on their individual leadership strengths, and strengths underplayed, and building their own leadership manifesto.
Small breakout discussions between participants on leading with impact. An opportunity for connection, getting to know each other, and thinking intentionally about how they want to show up as leaders at this event, and beyond.
Mental warm up strategy. Every day, you step into multiple performance arenas, and context switch (meetings, one to ones, pitches, client calls). This brain priming strategy will teach you how to step back, before you step in. A five minute exercise you can use before any situation in life. A proven technique to increase performance by 20%.
How to deal with high power people, whilst maintaining respect. Why most of the time our efforts to influence cause people to double down on their agenda. The neuroscience of influencing change. With a short exercise in pairs (and perhaps a demonstration with a participant with me on stage).
Give everyone a ‘leadership pledge’ card. It’s a physical business size card that has space for everyone to write a pledge to themselves: ‘I will… even if… and by doing so’ inviting them to be the change they want to see.
Over 200 talks, impacting 100,000s of people.
Business is a team sport. Most teams have never trained. Start with one day, build the habits over a series, or go deep on your whole culture.
A half day or full day, run like a match day, on the topic your team needs most.
Choose your focus
Every workshop includes
For teams who avoid conflict, and it is costing them trust, decisions and accountability.
Everything in the workshop, plus
Deep dive consulting to build a high performance culture, shaped by what discovery reveals.
Starts with discovery
An immersive leadership offsite at Bylaugh Hall, for teams making high stakes decisions under pressure.
Not sure which fits?Bring Dean a real problem and he’ll tell you honestly what will help.
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Dean speaks on high-performance culture, healthy conflict and disagreeing well, and leading organisations through change, drawing on 15+ years in Olympic high-performance sport.
Keynotes and conferences, fireside chats and podcasts, half day and full day workshops in person or virtual, leadership offsites and retreats, and consulting with leadership teams.
C-suite leaders, executive leadership teams, whole divisions and functions, departments and their teams, and managers and team leaders.
Teams including L’Oréal, PwC, LinkedIn, Mars, IBM, Specsavers, Visa, Rolls-Royce, the British Army, Great Britain’s Olympic teams and UK Sport.
Send an enquiry through the form on this page or email dean@deanleak.com. Dean usually replies within one working day.
Keynotes, offsites, retreats and workshops. Formats and fees on request.