With over 25 years’ experience coaching international elite athletes—from leading cricket legends to Olympic contenders—Paddy Upton has transitioned his unique blend of sport psychology and strategic leadership into the corporate world. As a sought-after keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and Professor of Practice, he brings the high‑performance mindset cultivated on the field into business, helping organisations unlock collective intelligence, foster resilient teams, and build authentic leadership cultures
Courses to take your mindset, confidence, and performance in sport to the next level.
Be entertained, inspired to think differently, and to gain practical take-away value.
High-performance insights to help you show up as your best self in sport, business, and life.
Stories and strategies from elite sport to help you lead, perform, and grow with authenticity.
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.
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A few of the organisations that have engaged with Paddy’ talks and workshops.
By Paddy Upton When researchers asked children why they played sport and asked them to rank their reasons, winning came in eighth in one study and eleventh in another. What came in first in both
Paddy Upton, 70% of kids stop playing organised sport by the age of 13. One of the most common reasons given is simple: it’s no longer fun. And when asked what makes it not fun,
Paddy Upton, AI is moving quickly into most areas of business and performance. For many, it brings excitement. For others, uncertainty. In most cases, it brings a sense that those who use it best will
