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Stef Reid
Achieve peak performance with Stef Reid, Paralympic champion and leadership keynote speaker. Stef works with global organisations to build adaptive mindsets, navigate uncertainty, and sustain high performance, drawing on four Paralympic Games and clients including Google, McLaren, and Bloomberg.
Stef Reid is a Paralympian, broadcaster, and performance expert who helps people bend without breaking, showing leaders and teams how to develop the mindset needed to adapt, perform under pressure, and succeed through change.
A four-time Paralympian, triple Paralympic medallist, world champion, and five-time world record holder, Stef competed at the highest level of international sport for nearly two decades. Following a boating accident at 15 that resulted in the amputation of her right foot, she rebuilt her athletic career and went on to represent both Canada and Team GB. Alongside her sporting achievements, she holds a degree in biochemistry, has appeared on Dancing on Ice and BBC2's Pilgrimage: The Road Through the Alps, and serves in leadership and ambassadorial roles across sport and charity.
Stef combines lived experience with more than twenty years of studying the science and psychology of sustained success. Drawing on lessons from elite sport, behavioural science, and personal reinvention, she helps organisations understand how people respond to uncertainty, recover from setbacks, and maintain performance when conditions change. Her Adaptive Mindset Framework translates these ideas into practical strategies that teams can apply immediately.
Audiences to Stef's sessions leave with a clearer understanding of resilience, confidence, habit formation, and high performance. They gain practical tools for navigating change, managing pressure, strengthening wellbeing, and building cultures where people can thrive over the long term.
Book Stef Reid for a grounded, practical perspective on turning challenge into sustained performance.
Topics, sessions and talks
Pressure is constant. Plans fall apart. What separates teams that thrive from those that stall is not the quality of the strategy; it is the quality of the mindset behind it. Drawing on eighteen years of elite Paralympic competition and two decades studying the science of performance, Stef Reid introduces her Adaptive Mindset Framework: a practical approach to spotting opportunities others miss, building the confidence to take calculated risks, and learning to operate with clarity and control through uncertainty. Audiences leave with a way of thinking that holds long after the applause fades.
Motivation is not the secret to change; habits are. Stef Reid draws on behavioural science and the discipline of elite sport to show audiences why relying on willpower alone is a losing strategy, and how to build behaviours so well-embedded that they no longer require conscious effort. The session provides a practical system for reprogramming daily routines, giving audiences a clear process for identifying the habits they want, designing the conditions for them to stick, and measuring progress along the way.
High performers are not born confident. They are people who have learned to act before they feel ready, take on challenges beyond their current capability, and trust they will figure it out along the way. Stef Reid breaks confidence down from a vague personality trait into a series of concrete, learnable behaviours — ones that anyone can practise. The session shows audiences how building tolerance for risk and uncertainty is the real engine of growth, and how experience earned this way quickly outpaces natural talent.
Most people think about communication in terms of what they say. Stef Reid challenges that assumption, arguing that effective communication also means taking responsibility for what the other person actually hears. Drawing on experience speaking to diverse audiences across cultures and contexts, Stef unpacks the gap between intention and impact, and gives audiences practical techniques to close it. The session leaves people with a clearer understanding of how to tailor their message so that it lands.
In a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, the quality of human presence — energy, thinking, perspective — is becoming a genuine competitive advantage. Stef Reid shares the high-performance habits she carried beyond elite sport: the daily routines and physical practices that kept her performing at the highest level for nearly two decades, and how they translate to any professional context. The session makes the case that taking care of the body is not a wellness indulgence; it is a performance strategy, and one that compounds.
Stef's track record, including 3 Paralympic medals, 5 world records, and clients like Google, McLaren, BP, and Bloomberg, gives her genuine authority on high performance under pressure. She pairs that credibility with her Adaptive Mindset Framework, which means organisations get practical tools in addition to a very inspirational story.
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