Inspiring Minds

Excellence Under Pressure

Delivering inspiring presentations, insightful Q&A sessions, motivational talks, and high-performance strategy workshops to business leaders, conferences, and over 100,000 school children. Highly skilled at meeting your needs and delivering the ideal content to inspire and challenge your thinking!

“You can achieve anything you want in life, if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan and the will to see that plan through to the end” 

Sidney A Friedman

Making An Impact

  • Dear Ian I am finding it very hard to put into words the impact your presentation had on me personally. You have really inspired me to really go for my dreams and make it happen. Everyone I spoke to said similar things. To summarise the audience view - we have never heard a more inspiring story nor a better speaker.

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  • Thank you. Everyone I speak to who attended the lunch has said you were outstanding, so thank you again

    Business Network International

  • Just wanted to send you an email to say a HUGE THANK YOU for being part of the Young Ambassador Conferences this year and the fantastic job you did at delivering the athletes workshops. You make the days really special and it’s clear to see how much the young people love having you there.

    Youth Sport Trust

  • Dear Ian, Thank you so much for visiting our School today. Your speech was inspiring to all who watched and your determination and motivation for sport is obvious. I personally enjoyed your relaxed presence and nature with our pupils, in which they responded well.

    Dover Grammar School for Girls

  • Thank you very much for attending our sports conference and for delivering a really inspiring and thought-provoking presentation. We have already received fantastic feedback; the delegates really enjoyed learning about your aspirations as a talented young 14 year old and the journey you took to achieve your Olympic ambitions.

    Sussex CSP Trust Sports Conference

  • Within seconds of being introduced, Ian instantly captivated each and every one of the audience with his humour, charisma and an overwhelming sense of commitment and determination. His recount of his experience at the 2004 Olympics was compelling and totally inspiring.

    Sandown High School & Specialist Sports College

Learn To Love Adversity

  • Building belief is one of the most critical skills of any leader, coach parent or human. It is this belief which will help you deliver under pressure and rise to meet your true potential.

  • Learning to deliver the best version of you at any given moment will separate you from the crowd and help you succeed when others fail

  • Learn the skills and strategies to achieve consistent optimised delivery by embodying ‘Powerful Equanimity’

At 24, I was written off as too old, having not raced internationally since a mediocre junior career six years earlier. The selection committee and national coaches dismissed me, but I had a vision, a plan, and support from friends, family, and a great coach.

Just nine months later, I became the fastest man in the country, representing Great Britain at the Senior World Championships in two separate events. The hunt for Olympic success and the realisation of a childhood dream had begun.

A dream which almost came undone during the 2004 Athens Olympics, when a freak accident threatened to prevent me from racing in my Olympic final.

Hear the remarkable story of how mental preparation, learning to love adversity and a desire to overcome setbacks helped me face down the biggest challenge of my sporting life.

Learn about embracing a long-term vision, preparing smarter not harder, and how to develop a personal mental protection plan.

Combined with the latest scientific understanding of stress management, these strategies can help you create the optimal mental and physical state when the pressure is really on