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
Workshops and coaching to take your mental game of 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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Paddy Upton I’m careful with the language I use in performance environments. I don’t tell an athlete, “I believe you’re good enough.”If anything, that can sound like encouragement without foundation. Instead, when the preparation supports
Paddy Upton I often hear coaches and leaders say, “Believe in yourself.” It sounds supportive. It sounds encouraging. But I’m cautious of the word belief. Belief, by definition, is an idea that lacks factual evidence.
By Paddy Upton At the start of each year, there’s a noticeable shift. Plans are made. Goals are written down. Declarations are shared. It feels productive. But I sometimes wonder whether the timing says more
