Top Growth Mindset Speakers For Your Organisation

To truly excel in any industry, you need more than just staying up to date, you need a winning mindset and the confidence to lead. Lasting success is built on bold strategies, high-performance habits, and the ability to inspire teams to spark fresh energy and achieve more. If you're looking for world-class keynote speakers and actionable ideas to energise your next event, these experts deliver powerful insights on winning mindset psychology, leadership, and high-performance strategies from elite sport and business.

Winning Mindset and High-Performance Speakers

In a fast-changing business environment, a growth mindset is no longer optional. It is a core capability for organisations that want to innovate, adapt, and perform over the long term. Most executives now see a growth mindset as a critical driver of organisational success, because it underpins resilience, learning, and sustained performance.

A growth mindset is the belief that skills, intelligence, and leadership ability can be developed through effort, feedback, and experience. In practice, this translates into higher employee engagement and retention, stronger collaboration, greater innovation, and better responses to disruption. It also plays a central role in leadership development at every level of an organisation, alongside related themes like organisational psychology and building corporate learning curricula.

Embedding this mindset takes more than policy statements. It requires visible leadership, consistent reinforcement, and practical examples that resonate across teams. Growth mindset thinking is most effective when it is brought to life through leadership summits, offsites, all-hands meetings, and targeted development programmes, often built around session formats like a keynote, a fireside Q&A, or a half-day workshop.

Many of the most powerful lessons come from people who have lived these principles under pressure. Here's who to consider booking.

Matthew Syed

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A keynote on how a growth mindset and diverse thinking drive innovation and continuous improvement.

Matthew Syed is a British journalist, broadcaster and author whose work examines how elite performers and organisations turn failure into learning, most notably in his book Rebel Ideas. His BBC broadcasting background gives him a natural ability to bring big ideas to life for a room.

Matthew Syed explores how a growth mindset and divergent thinking fuel innovation and continuous improvement, helping leaders understand why diverse perspectives and a tolerance for controlled failure translate into faster learning and better long-term decisions.

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Kate Richardson-Walsh OBE

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A session on building an inclusive, high-performing team culture, from over a decade captaining Team GB's hockey team.

Kate Richardson-Walsh OBE captained Great Britain's hockey team for more than a decade, culminating in Olympic gold at Rio 2016. That journey, from a career-threatening injury to captaining the team to the top of the podium, sits at the heart of her keynotes.

Kate draws on this experience to show how a growth mindset fuels high-performing, inclusive teams, giving leaders a first-hand account of how culture, trust and shared standards turn individual talent into collective success.

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Darren Edwards

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A resilience keynote built around his own journey from paralysis to leading Antarctic expeditions.

Darren Edwards demonstrates how mindset can drive resilience through his journey from paralysis to leading Antarctic expeditions. His story gives audiences a vivid, first-hand example of what it takes to rebuild and adapt when the plan changes completely.

He offers practical frameworks for navigating uncertainty and change, translating lessons learned in genuinely extreme conditions into tools that leadership teams can apply during periods of disruption or transformation.

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Dame Inga Beale, DBE

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A leadership session on driving institutional change and diverse thinking, from her years as CEO of Lloyd's of London.

Dame Inga Beale brings a corporate leadership perspective from her time as CEO of Lloyd's of London, the first woman to hold the role. Her career has centred on modernising established institutions and championing diversity and inclusion at board level.

She highlights how institutional change and diverse thinking unlock innovation, giving leaders a candid view of what it takes to shift the culture of a large, traditional organisation without losing what makes it work.

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For organisations focused on winning mindset and high performance, the same principles apply. High-performing teams are built through clear standards, disciplined habits, and leaders who model learning and accountability. These speakers are also worth knowing:

Jamil Qureshi

Jamil Qureshi is an applied psychologist who has worked with elite athletes and global businesses on the mindset behind sustained high performance. He shares techniques drawn from elite sport and translates them into practical tools for workplace teams.

Learn more and book Jamil Qureshi →

Kevin Gaskell

Kevin Gaskell built his reputation turning around major automotive brands as CEO, and now focuses on leadership and change, showing how winning mindset habits drive commercial results.

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Mark England

Mark England led Team GB as Chef de Mission across multiple Olympic and Paralympic Games. He translates Olympic leadership and team dynamics into practical lessons for organisations navigating change.

Learn more and book Mark England →

Rasmus Ankersen

Rasmus Ankersen is CEO of Sport Republic and a football advisor whose work focuses on what keeps high-performing organisations sharp. He advises leaders on sustaining performance and avoiding complacency after early success.

Learn more and book Rasmus Ankersen →

Sophie Devonshire

Sophie Devonshire is a CEO and bestselling author who brings a modern leadership and brand-acceleration lens to mindset and performance, with a focus on pace, focus and momentum.

Learn more and book Sophie Devonshire →

Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth is an academic psychologist and MacArthur Fellow best known for her research on grit and perseverance, adding scientific depth and evidence-based strategies for building long-term focus and resilience in workplace cultures.

Interested in booking Angela? Get in touch with the PepTalk team.

Successful growth mindset integration is driven by consistent action. This includes structured learning programmes, leadership role modelling, clear metrics to track behavioural change, and alignment with existing development frameworks. When these elements work together, mindset shifts become measurable and durable.

Organisations can build this capability through conferences, wellbeing initiatives, workshops, and leadership programmes. Combining insight from adventure, sport, corporate leadership, and behavioural science creates a rounded approach that delivers real outcomes rather than abstract inspiration.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does a growth mindset speaker actually cover?

Most sessions combine the speaker's own story (an Olympic career, a corporate turnaround, an extreme physical challenge) with practical frameworks your teams can use straight away, covering resilience, adaptability, feedback, and how to keep learning under pressure.

What session formats are available?

Depending on the speaker, formats typically include a keynote, a fireside chat or Q&A, and a workshop for smaller groups. PepTalk can help you match the format to your event size, audience seniority, and objectives.

How far in advance should we book?

For in-demand speakers, especially around conference season, book as early as possible to secure your preferred date. PepTalk can advise on availability and suggest strong alternatives if your first choice is unavailable.

If you want to inspire a growth mindset or winning performance culture in your organisation, PepTalk can connect you with the right expert for your audience and objectives. Contact hello@getapeptalk.com, message us via chat, or call us on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US). Remember, it's always a good time to get a PepTalk!