Keynote Speaker, Leadership Coach and Mental Game Coach
Leading self - Leading others - Delivering results.
Paddy is a real, down-to-earth and practical speaker, leadership coach, mental game coach and university professor. He has a remarkable and almost unparalleled track record of experience, academic qualifications and success in coaching diverse high profile clients, both on the sports field and in the boardroom.
Using his trademark relatable manner, his gift for story-telling and simplifying the complex, Paddy shares personal lessons of successes and failures from the high stakes world of international sport.
Steeped in common-sense and practical wisdom, his messages inspire new thinking and far-reaching change. His work focuses on the human side of performance, helping leaders, teams and people in high-performing environments to constantly fine-tune their leadership, teamwork, culture, high-performance and/or mental game in the pursuit of healthy and sustainable success.
Contact us about his bespoke interventions, or to find out more about Paddy’s most sought-after programmes, which include:
- delivering talks to inspire your team or conference audience
- mental game series; workshops for athletes and coaches
- A-game series; workshops for individuals and businesses
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Testimonials
Clients
A few of the organisations that have engaged with Paddy’ talks and workshops.










































The latest from my Blog
How to find your own personal Super-Coach!
By Paddy Upton World number one fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah said something fascinating at a conference where he and I recently spoke in Bangalore. He said his unique action, which is one of his superpowers,
The Art of Losing: Why Embracing Failure is the Key to Winning
By Paddy Upton If you want to win at anything worthwhile, you’ll need to learn how to lose. And not just in a “dust yourself off and try again” kind of way, but in a
The Winning Mindset
The Winning Mindset Interestingly, my experience is that a so-called ‘winning mindset’ is not so much about knowing how to win—all top athletes do—but rather about how well they manage and bounce back from loss.