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Paralympic champion & performance coach

Danny Crates

Transform resilience and performance with Danny Crates, speaker, Paralympic gold medallist and media personality. Danny works with organisations to overcome adversity, build mental toughness and achieve peak performance, delivering powerful insights as a BAFTA-winning presenter and high-performance coach.

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Danny Crates, Speaker | Keynote, Author, Coach
Danny Crates

Danny Crates

London, United Kingdom

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£2k–5k

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Danny Crates's biography

At a glance

  • One of the UK’s most decorated Paralympians
  • Personal performance and career development coach
  • TV Presenter and Media Personality
Danny Crates is a renowned keynote speaker, event host, published author, TV presenter, and owner of 1404 Performance, a high-performance coaching business. He is also a personal performance and career development coach. Before his accident in 1994, Danny was on the path to a career in sport, representing Essex and the Eastern counties of England in rugby. Losing his right arm in a car crash did not dampen his spirit, and he was back playing full-contact rugby within a year. He then qualified as a scuba diving instructor, working on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and later as a shark display diver, a highlight of his presentations. Danny gained recognition for his talents on the track. Over 12 years, he captured 400m bronze at the Sydney 2000 Paralympics. Not content with bronze, he won 800m gold at the Athens 2004 Paralympics. His Paralympic success included numerous wins at European and World levels. He was honoured to carry the British Flag at the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, leading the ParalympicsGB team. Danny has also become a leading media personality, notably playing a lead-presenting role during Channel 4's BAFTA-winning coverage of the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. He continued his media career, working at the 2017 BDO World Darts Championships and as a morning presenter at the World Para Athletics Championships in London.

Topics, sessions and talks

The Power To Perform
Every individual possesses the capacity to excel in their chosen field; what's needed is simply unlocking the code. In this presentation, Danny Crates will delve into the traits of high-performance individuals and teams and demonstrate how you can integrate them into your daily life.
Unleash Your Inner Athlete
In this impactful keynote, Danny Crates shares his personal journey to success, highlighting the qualities exhibited by elite athletes. He will illustrate qualities such as drive, goal orientation, resilience, and a winning mindset are not exclusive to sports stars but are strengths accessible to all. Danny will show how these qualities can be utilised to deliver your success.
Creating Your High-Performance Team
During this Keynote Danny Crates will explore the characteristics of high-performing teams and share the steps needed to take your team from good to great. Danny will show the importance of creating a culture of high performance and how to create it and maintain it for long-term success.
No Hurdle Is Impossible To Overcome
Through his unique journey Danny Crates will demonstrate that resilience and adaptability to change are an essential key to success. Danny will share the steps that have enabled him to overcome huge obstacles in his life and how to turn these into a recipe for success.

Why we recommend booking Danny

Book Danny for your event to inspire and motivate your team with his incredible journey from overcoming adversity to achieving Paralympic gold. His engaging storytelling, media experience, and high-performance coaching will leave your audience energized and ready to conquer their own challenges.

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Testimonials

I just wanted to get in contact to say a huge thank you for your presentation and talk on Thursday evening. The content and messaging was extremely relevant to the sales team in the room and an excellent mixture of sentiment and humour, and everyone learnt a lot around motivating themselves, breaking down big goals into easy to manage milestones. All of the feedback has been very positive and you set the launch off to a brilliant start and got everyone into the winning mindset, so for that I am very grateful.

Heather Lindsay

Product Manager, Johnson & Johnson

Since being in Lockdown and working remotely we have being trying to drive our employee engagement and boost morale within the company, we contacted Danny to host a 'virtual' event for all of our International employees. The event was seamless from start to finish and the presentation was truly inspiring and it was great to hear about his positive outlook on life leaving us all on a high. As a result of the event the feedback we received was phenomenal and we will definitely be planning another in the near future. I couldn't recommend Danny enough.

Olivia Wilkinson

Marketing & Distribution

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Email danny.crates@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Danny's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.
What is Danny Crates's speaking style like?
Danny Crates draws on his personal trajectory — from losing his right arm in a 1994 car crash to winning 800m gold at the Athens 2004 Paralympics — to illustrate how traits such as resilience, goal orientation, and a high-performance mindset are transferable from elite sport to professional and organisational contexts.
What topics does Danny Crates specialise in?
Danny Crates speaks on high performance, resilience, elite athlete mindset, team culture, and personal development. He won 800m gold at the Athens 2004 Paralympics and carried the British flag at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony, and has presented Channel 4's BAFTA-winning Paralympic Games coverage.
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