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Jake Humphrey
Jake Humphrey helps leaders and teams perform at their best without burning out, drawing on The High Performance Podcast's 1 billion views. A leadership and resilience speaker, he fronted BBC F1 and is a Sunday Times bestselling author.
Jake Humphrey is a broadcaster, author, entrepreneur, and host of The High Performance Podcast, one of the world's most influential platforms on leadership and mindset. He speaks to organisations about performance, leadership, resilience, and building a modern mindset that lasts.
The High Performance Podcast has generated over 1 billion views across its platforms and grown into a global brand spanning books, live shows, and corporate programmes. Jake was the youngest ever host of Match of the Day, fronted BBC's Formula One coverage, and led BT Sport's Premier League and Champions League broadcasts for ten years.
His conversations with world-class performers from sport, business, science, and culture give him a deep library of what sustainable success looks like in practice. He's also built it himself: in 2010 he co-founded Whisper Group, now one of Europe's largest production companies. He's the Sunday Times bestselling author of High Performance, and his latest book, Micro-Habits, came out in January 2026.
Audiences leave ready to redefine success without postponing happiness, to treat setbacks as foundations for growth, and to shape the people and environments around them so high standards become normal. Leaders also get a human-centred approach to change, including the cultural side of adopting AI.
Whether it's a keynote, a fireside conversation, or hosting a conference or awards night, Jake brings two decades of live broadcasting and a clear view of what high performance takes.
Topics, sessions and talks
Many high achievers believe happiness sits on the other side of the next promotion, target, or milestone. Jake Humphrey challenges that idea, drawing on his own career and his conversations with world-class performers on The High Performance Podcast. He tackles perfectionism, comparison, and the pressure to keep doing more, and makes the case for ambition without self-destruction. Audiences leave with a definition of success that doesn't postpone happiness, and a clearer sense of the life they want to build.
The hardest part of adopting AI isn't the technology. It's the people expected to use it. Jake Humphrey draws on two decades in high-performance environments, from broadcasting to elite sport, to show how trust, curiosity, creativity, and judgement help teams embrace change. Rather than walking through tools, he looks at how leaders build cultures where people feel secure enough to learn, experiment, and adapt. Leaders come away knowing how to make AI adoption a human project, not a technical one.
Behind every highlight reel sits a set of moments most people would rather keep hidden. Jake Humphrey shares the personal setbacks and difficult experiences behind his public career, and how they shaped his resilience, empathy, curiosity, and determination. He's clear that not everything happens for a reason, which makes the stories more honest and more useful. Audiences are encouraged to stop hiding their own hardest chapters and to see how perceived weaknesses can become foundations for growth.
This candid fireside conversation takes audiences behind Jake Humphrey's career in broadcasting, entrepreneurship, and High Performance. From hosting Match of the Day to co-founding Whisper Group and building a global podcast brand, Jake talks openly about ambition, leadership, risk, and reinvention, including setbacks and moments of doubt. Each conversation is tailored to the audience and event, giving guests an honest account of what it takes to build a career, a business, and a life to be proud of.
Jake Humphrey brings more than two decades of live broadcasting, from Match of the Day to BBC Formula One and BT Sport's Champions League, to awards ceremonies, conferences, leadership events, and product launches. He handles interviews, panel discussions, and complex running orders with warmth and humour, reading the room throughout. His focus is on making the people on stage shine. Organisers get a host who keeps the event moving and makes the audience feel part of something memorable.
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Jake Humphrey builds his keynotes around his own setbacks and his High Performance Podcast conversations with world-class performers, and runs his fireside sessions as candid conversations tailored to each audience.
Jake Humphrey specialises in redefining success, the human side of AI adoption, and resilience through setbacks, alongside candid fireside conversations and live event hosting. He hosts The High Performance Podcast, which has over 1 billion views across its platforms, and presented Match of the Day, BBC Formula One, and BT Sport's Champions League coverage.
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