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Brendan Hall

Brendan Hall helps organisations build high-performance team cultures, strengthening resilience and leadership. A leadership speaker and author of Team Spirit, shortlisted for the Mountbatten Book Award, he has worked with PwC, Toyota, and GSK.

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Brendan Hall

Brendan Hall

London, United Kingdom

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£6–10k

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Brendan Hall's biography

At a glance

  • Expert in high-performance team cultures
  • Trusted coach for global companies
  • Author of Team Spirit on leadership

Brendan Hall is an author and coach who specialises in creating high-performance cultures for teams and organisations. As a creative catalyst, he unlocks the untapped potential within teams, helping to develop resilience, connection, collaboration, and better leadership.


Brendan is trusted by some of the world's most exceptional organisations, including PwC, Toyota, GSK, Nestle, Financial Times, Tesco, and Lloyds Banking Group, to deliver inspiration and achieve desired outcomes. He is also an adjunct lecturer at Ashridge Executive Education and Cranfield Business Schools.


Brendan explores the driving forces behind his team's extraordinary results, focusing on embracing change, psychological safety, emotional intelligence, autonomy, and trust. By fostering a culture of full ownership, he helps organisations create an environment where individuals take responsibility for their actions and outcomes. Known for his superb presentation skills and natural storytelling ability, Brendan's sessions blend psychology, teamwork, and leadership practice, all wrapped in an engaging globe-spanning story that keeps his audience on the edge. He is also the author of "Team Spirit: Life & Leadership on The World's Toughest Yacht Race." This book has become a valuable resource for business leaders, featured in Economia, The Sunday Times, and shortlisted for the prestigious Mountbatten Book Award.

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Topics, sessions and talks

Achieving A Growth Mindset

Simply put, a growth mindset is the belief that our basic abilities can be developed and ambitions realised through dedication and hard work. Learn to acknowledge and embrace imperfections while viewing challenges as opportunities.

Stronger Teamwork In Adversity And Change

In this talk, Brendan draws on his experience skippering a crew through near-death situations at sea to explore how teams stay strong through adversity and change. Rather than focusing on individual leadership, he examines how psychological safety, trust, and a culture of full ownership allow a team to adapt together when conditions turn against them.

Leading Teams Through Uncertainty

In this keynote, aimed at audiences of leaders, Brendan will share the two most powerful strategies he’s learned leading his team to victory though life-and-death situations on the world’s oceans. He wasn’t the greatest leader from the outset, and experience is a harsh teacher – giving the test first and the lesson after.

Why we recommend booking Brendan

Brendan offers your team the unique opportunity to learn from a proven leader in building high-performance cultures. Benefit from his insights on resilience, collaboration, and leadership, all delivered through captivating storytelling. Transform your organisation with strategies trusted by the world's leading companies.

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Trusted by PwC, Toyota, GSK, Financial Times

Testimonials

We used Brendan for 12 events this year – each time a great performance with brilliantly applicable message.

Johnson & Johnson

Brendan was great to work with; he was so helpful, and his content was brilliantly related to the company.

Bright Event Management

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Brendan Hall - Team Spirit: Life And Leadership On One Of The World's Toughest Yacht Races book cover

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What is Brendan Hall's speaking style like?

Brendan Hall structures his sessions around first-person narrative drawn from his experience skippering a crew through the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, using the progression of real at-sea events to illustrate principles of psychological safety, trust, and team ownership.

What topics does Brendan Hall specialise in?

Brendan Hall speaks on growth mindset, team resilience in adversity, and leading through uncertainty, drawing on themes of psychological safety, trust, and full ownership. He skippered a crew to victory in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, an experience documented in his book Team Spirit, which was shortlisted for the Mountbatten Book Award and featured in The Sunday Times.

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