Six-time world champion and Olympian sharing proven strategies for resilience, focus, and sustained high performance.
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Top rated!5 of 5
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
Anna Hemmings brings the mindset of a world champion into the business arena. As a six-time world champion and two-time Olympian, she understands what it takes to perform when it matters most. Her keynotes combine powerful storytelling with practical tools that help leaders and teams build resilience, stay focused, and deliver consistent results. With experience overcoming career-threatening challenges, Anna shares strategies that turn pressure into progress and ambition into measurable performance.
Anna Hemmings is a six-time world champion, two-time Olympian, and the most successful female marathon kayaker in British history. Today, she is a sought-after keynote speaker known for transforming elite sporting experience into practical strategies for business performance. Organizations book Anna Hemmings for her ability to connect high-performance principles with real-world challenges, helping teams deliver results in demanding environments.
Her journey from global sporting success to the corporate stage is grounded in discipline, focus, and the ability to perform under pressure. Anna understands the realities of competition, uncertainty, and expectation and translates these into actionable tools that leaders and teams can apply immediately.
Anna’s story is defined by resilience. Early in her career, she faced doubts about her physical ability to succeed at the highest level. Later, she was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a condition that forced her away from the sport and put her entire career at risk.
What followed is a story that resonates across industries. Through determination, mental strength, and a clear performance strategy, Anna rebuilt her career and returned stronger—winning three more world titles and competing in a second Olympic Games.
This experience forms the foundation of her keynotes. She demonstrates how setbacks can become turning points and how individuals and teams can regain momentum, rebuild confidence, and achieve ambitious goals despite uncertainty.
When you book Anna Hemmings for your event, you gain insight into the mindset required for sustained success. Her approach focuses on three core areas:
Anna shares how world-class athletes prepare mentally, manage distractions, and stay motivated over time. These lessons translate directly into business, where performance often depends on the ability to adapt, stay engaged, and execute under pressure.
Her sessions are engaging, structured, and filled with practical techniques that can be implemented straight away.
Anna’s keynotes are designed to create lasting impact. She combines her personal experiences with science-backed strategies to give audiences clear methods for improving performance.
Participants learn how to:
Her delivery style is energetic and relatable, making complex ideas easy to understand and apply. Audiences leave with a clear sense of direction and tools that support both individual and team development.
Anna Hemmings is an ideal choice for organizations looking to strengthen performance, leadership, and resilience. Her keynotes are relevant across industries and resonate with leaders, teams, and high-potential talent alike.
She brings credibility from her sporting achievements and combines it with a deep understanding of business challenges. This balance makes her presentations both inspiring and highly practical.
Whether the goal is to improve team performance, navigate change, or build a stronger performance culture, Anna delivers insights that make a measurable difference.
At the core of Anna’s message is the belief that high performance is built through consistent habits, strong mindset, and the ability to adapt. She shows organizations how to create an environment where individuals take ownership, stay motivated, and work towards shared goals.
Her keynotes help unlock potential within teams, turning ambition into action and effort into results. With Anna Hemmings on stage, audiences gain more than inspiration, they gain a clear framework for achieving sustained success.
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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
5 of 5
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
5 of 5
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
5 of 5
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
5 of 5
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
5 of 5
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
5 of 5
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
5 of 5
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!!
Rhian Emnanuel Coutts Bank
Keynote by Anna Hemmings:
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.
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Keynote by Anna Hemmings:
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:
Keynote by Anna Hemmings:
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
Keynote by Anna Hemmings:
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:
The importance of clarity of direction and a unifying purpose
The power of authentic leadership and building strong relationships
How to engage and motivate teams by understanding what drives them
Thrive under pressure and make great decisions when it counts
Building confidence to navigate through uncertainty and change
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