Anna Hemmings MBE
Build resilience and sustained high performance with Anna Hemmings, leadership performance coach and 6x World Champion. Anna works with senior leaders and executive teams to strengthen clarity, accountability, and decision-making under pressure. Founder of Beyond the Barriers, she delivers transformational programmes across 40+ countries for FTSE 100 companies.
London, United Kingdom
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As Britain’s most successful female marathon kayaker, Anna won eleven World and European Championship medals, nine of them gold. After being diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome at the peak of her career and told she might never race again, Anna returned to win three more world titles, shaping her understanding of what resilience, mindset, and sustained high performance truly mean.
Since retiring from professional sport, Anna has founded Beyond the Barriers, a high-performance training consultancy helping organisations build resilience and sustain excellence under pressure. An accredited leadership and high-performance coach, she has worked with CEOs, Senior Directors, and FTSE 100 organisations across more than 40 countries, translating the rigour of world-class sport into business-ready tools that address stretch targets, resource constraints, and constant change.
Audiences learn impactful frameworks for decision-making under pressure, specific techniques for building team trust and accountability, and strategies for maintaining performance during setbacks. Anna combines lived experience from elite sport with research-driven performance psychology, translating world-class principles into tools tailored to each client’s environment and pressures.
Book Anna to help your organisation embed the behaviours, culture, and resilience needed to perform at its best when the pressure is on.
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Anna Hemmings draws on her journey as a 6 x World Champion and Olympian to explore what truly separates good from exceptional. She examines the mindset, attitudes, and behaviours that underpin consistent success, alongside practical tools for performing under pressure. Blending elite sport insight with business relevance, Anna shows how to embed a performance cycle that drives continuous improvement and sharper results.
Anna Hemmings shares the realities of rebuilding her career after chronic illness to reveal how resilience is developed. Through practical strategies and honest reflection, she explores emotional control, perspective, recovery, and decision-making under pressure. Leaders and teams discover how to remain focused, respond rather than react, and sustain performance even when circumstances are challenging.
Anna Hemmings translates lessons from elite sport into the dynamics of high-performing corporate teams. Drawing on her experience as both an individual and doubles world champion, she explores trust, accountability, alignment, and constructive challenge. Grounded in performance science and real world application, Anna demonstrates how cohesive cultures are built and how collective standards drive stronger, more consistent results.
Anna Hemmings examines the behaviours that enable leaders to remain clear-headed and effective during uncertainty and change. Using insights from her Olympic career and coaching practice, she introduces practical strategies for handling pressure, building confidence, and creating clarity of direction. Her Resilient Leaders Elements model provides a structured approach to leading with presence, focus, and purpose when it matters most.
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