Anna Hemmings

Six-time world champion Anna Hemmings equips teams with the mindset to thrive under pressure and deliver sustained high performance.

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The team were totally blown away by Anna! The focus on the importance of mindset, ambitious goals and team work was inspirational for the team. Seeing how an Olympian athlete addresses the challenges we all face day to day opened everyone's minds to the power of mindset and team collaboration. I would definitely recommend Anna to any team who are looking grow & improve performance!!

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Why book Anna Hemmings for your next event

With 11 World and European Championship medals, Anna converts her elite athletic experience into practical, actionable strategies for performance, leadership, and resilience.
Anna’s incredible comeback from chronic fatigue to win three more world titles exemplifies the resilience and mindset she now teaches to empower corporate teams worldwide.
Unlock the high-performance mindset of a world champion to help your team overcome setbacks, stay motivated, and deliver consistent, measurable results that drive long-term growth.

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The Mindset Behind World-Class Performance

Empower your team with the mindset of a six-time world champion and Olympian. Anna Hemmings delivers high-impact keynotes packed with proven tools for resilience, focus, and peak performance. Her strategies help leaders and teams thrive under pressure, overcome challenges, and achieve consistent, exceptional results. Book Anna to transform your organization’s potential into sustainable success and a winning performance culture.

Keynote Speaker Anna Hemmings is a six-time world champion, two-time Olympian, and Britain’s most successful female marathon kayaker. Renowned for her exceptional sporting achievements, Anna has become equally celebrated in the corporate world for translating her elite performance mindset into powerful strategies for business success. Her journey from world podiums to corporate stages is a compelling testament to resilience, mental toughness, and the mindset required to excel under pressure.

Throughout her career, Anna overcame significant obstacles—including being told she wasn't strong enough to succeed and later battling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a diagnosis that nearly ended her career. Against all odds, she returned to win three more world titles and compete in a second Olympic Games. Today, she brings that same mental grit to business leaders and teams across industries, showing them how to perform with clarity, confidence, and consistency in high-stakes environments.

Anna’s keynotes are not just inspirational—they are packed with science-backed tools and practical insights that drive lasting change. She specializes in resilience, high performance, and mindset, empowering professionals to overcome challenges, stay focused, and deliver measurable results.

Customer Reviews

Rhian Emnanuel Coutts Bank

Anna’s speech was the highlight of the conference and really helped to elevate the mood and boost energy after a full day of content. Her storytelling was compelling and her authenticity really drew the audience in. Her material is something that we are using to help build on post conference with some very clear and tangible actions leaders can take for themselves and their teams to enable high performance.

Samantha Evans Civil Aerospace Rolls-Royce

Anna Hemming's keynote speech was an absolute triumph! Her captivating storytelling, combined with her remarkable journey as a world champion marathon kayaker, left our audience in awe. Her well-structured and rhythmic narrative held everyone spellbound, as she effortlessly inspired each and every one of us. Anna's ability to seamlessly connect her story with the day's theme, 'The Next Chapter,' and the underlying subject of resilience was truly masterful. We couldn't have asked for a more impactful and inspiring speaker. Thank you, Anna, for an extraordinary experience!

Bernard Robins NLMK Clabecq Europe

One of the highlights of our event was a powerful keynote speech from Anna Hemmings! She shared her inspiring journey, emphasising mental toughness, and the mindset needed to deliver exceptional performance — lessons that resonate deeply in both sports and business leadership. Her insights and the framework for a high performance culture were truly impactful and sparked great discussions amongst our guests. Thank you to Anna for delivering such an engaging and motivating talk.

Andrew Worsley-Tonks SAP EMEA Business Consulting, IBM

A fantastically engaging and inspirational speaker! I had the pleasure of working with Anna for an internal event for high-level execs at Danone. The audience loved her, her energy, and her messages. I really appreciated how she tailored the talk to the specific audience. An absolute delight of a person and speaker, couldn't recommend her more!

Sabrina Gaber Danone

Anna not only impressed, but inspired +4000 people around the world with her amazing story and powerful messages. She is a great communicator and above all, a person who has a strong capacity to connect with people. I really look forward to continuing to work with her! Thanks Anna for your openness, vulnerability and for agreeing to collaborate with us.

Mariana Ponce The Coca Cola Company

Anna was a fantastic motivational speaker. I was looking for someone that had an inspirational story that would resonate with a corporate company for our summer conference. I needed it to be engaging, uplifting and give the team a new perspective on the challenges ahead - Anna smashed these objectives. My team haven't stopped referencing her talk and often quote some of her key messages in meetings, this is exactly the impact i was hoping for. Working with Anna was easy, she is so helpful and took time to arrange briefing calls with me to ensure she had a real grasp on our business, our objectives and challenges. She even asked for any company terminology she could incorporate to personalise it which I think was a really great touch. I would recommend Anna for anyone looking for a relatable, inspiring and flexible motivational speaker!

Jemma Daltrey Nestle Health Science

It was one of the best motivational talks translating high performance in sports into the business world that I’ve heard. We are all going away with many wonderful insights and take-aways.

Emma Whitaker Hitachi ABB Power Grids

Keynotes

Keynote by Anna Hemmings:

Getting the Competitive Edge with the Winning Mindset

Anna’s mission is to provide clients with the key skills and mindset required to succeed at the highest level. In this inspiring speech she reveals the thinking, methodology and techniques she used to become a world champion 6 times and how those strategies can be applied directly to the business world.

Anna will explore:

Developing a winning mindset
Strategies for sustaining high performance and constant and never-ending improvement
The power of extraordinary goals and aiming high
Implementing the Performance Cycle for enhanced performance and better, more consistent results
Key Non-negotiable attitudes and behaviors that champions adopt

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Resilience: Success in the Face of Adversity

Helping leaders and teams to build resilience in order to sustain high performance and deliver results in the face of pressure and adversity. Having had her own struggles and overcome adversity, performed under pressure in challenging environments and worked with resilient leaders Anna knows how to equip people with the tools to boost resilience. Anna presents highly effective and practical techniques, which are brought to life through her inspiring personal anecdotes.

Anna will explore:

How to develop a resilient mindset
Strategies to overcome setback and thrive in adversity
Performing under pressure
Going from destructive to supportive thinking
Managing perspective and focus of attention

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Building World Class Teams

Anna didn’t compete in a traditional team sport but she didn’t reach the highest level on her own, she was part of a professional set up and team work and collaboration was fundamental to her success. Anna won one of her 6 world titles in the doubles giving her first-hand experience of what it takes to build a cohesive, motivated and high performing team.

Anna’s simple, practical and powerful tools are a fusion of the science of performance together with pioneering principles from the world of elite sport for the development of high performance corporate teams.

Anna will explore:

What is a high performance culture and how to develop it
Why trust is at the foundation of a high performing team and how to build it
The importance of being aligned and focusing on collective results
Embracing accountability for enhanced performance and higher standards
The power of healthy conflict and constructive challenge for optimal solutions and better decisions

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Keynote by Anna Hemmings:

The Resilient Leaders Toolkit:

The businesses who survive and thrive through periods of adversity and rapid change are the ones who have resilient leaders who drive them forward. Resilient leaders are more effective under pressure, have the ability to think clearly and strategically in the face of challenge and create opportunities for growth. Using her journey as an Olympian, Anna will explore the Resilient Leaders Elements model to reveal the behaviours and strategies that leaders need to be resilient and have impact.

Anna will explore: