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
You’re Not the Finished Product Yet—And That’s Okay
By Paddy Upton When Sachin Tendulkar walked out to bat in his very first Test match – at just 16 years old – he was clueless. His words, not mine. “I had no idea what
What do elite sport, startups, scaleups, and corporates have to learn from each other?
By Paddy Upton I’ve been working across all four — and lately, scaleups have taken centre stage Over the past six months, my business focus has pivoted in a way that’s been both interesting and
If hard work is not enough, then what is?
If hard work is not enough, then what is? By now we know that hard work is not enough to achieve success. But it doesn’t mean, like many misinterpret, that you therefore don’t need to