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Duncan is an engaging high-performance keynote speaker who delivers both high ROI and a memorable audience experience.
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Why you should book Duncan Stevens for your next event
- Duncan delivers practical frameworks leaders can use immediately to improve decision-making, accountability, and performance under pressure.
- Drawing on experience with world champions and global organisations, Duncan shares insights grounded in real-world execution.
- His highly interactive keynotes keep audiences engaged, challenged, and equipped with practical tools long after the event.
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High performance, leadership, and decision making under pressure
Duncan Stevens is a behavioural psychologist, keynote speaker and creator of the MAGIC Wheel of High Performance™. He helps leaders and teams understand the psychology behind high performance and turn that understanding into practical action. A former Royal Navy Officer, founder of the Influence Association and author of Everything You Need To Win and Effective Influence, Duncan combines research with experience from the podium to the boardroom. His keynotes feature practical tools and live demonstrations that bring human behaviour to life, helping audiences strengthen performance, influence, collaboration, commitment and their response to change.
The Psychology Behind High Performance
What makes people perform at their best? Why do some teams build commitment and momentum while others struggle to turn good intentions into action? And what happens to human behaviour when people face uncertainty, pressure or change?
Duncan Stevens is a behavioural psychologist and keynote speaker who translates the psychology of performance into practical ideas for the workplace. He helps leaders and teams understand the behaviours that influence how people perform, collaborate, make decisions and respond to change.
Rather than leaving audiences with theory alone, Duncan connects behavioural insight with situations people recognise from their own working lives. His interactive keynotes make complex ideas accessible, memorable and relevant.
With more than 1,000 keynotes delivered across 30+ countries to over 1.1 million people, Duncan brings extensive international speaking experience to every stage.
Grounded in Research. Shaped by Experience.
Duncan's perspective combines behavioural research with experience gained across demanding, high-performance environments. A former Royal Navy Officer, he has worked with world champions, Olympic and Paralympic gold medallists, as well as Fortune 500 organisations.
This breadth of experience gives him a distinctive perspective on what happens when expectations are high and results matter. He explores the decisions, interactions and behavioural patterns that can strengthen or undermine performance, helping audiences recognise where meaningful improvements can be made.
Duncan is also the founder of the Influence Association and author of Everything You Need To Win and Effective Influence. He is a recipient of the Zayed Award for Speaking, reflecting a career that has taken his work to audiences around the world.
Creator of the MAGIC Wheel of High Performance™
At the heart of Duncan's work is the MAGIC Wheel of High Performance™, his practical framework for understanding the behaviours that help people perform at their best.
The framework helps leaders and teams move beyond broad ambitions around performance and culture by identifying behaviours they can recognise and influence in everyday working life. It provides audiences with a clear way to examine how their actions affect performance, relationships and results.
By making the psychology of high performance easier to understand and apply, the MAGIC Wheel gives audiences a framework they can continue using long after the keynote ends.
Human Behaviour Brought to Life
One of the defining features of a Duncan Stevens keynote is his use of live demonstrations to reveal human behaviour in real time.
Instead of simply hearing about behavioural psychology, audiences see its principles unfold on stage. These interactive moments turn complex concepts into memorable experiences and help people recognise behavioural patterns in themselves and others.
A Duncan Stevens keynote can help audiences:
- Strengthen individual and team performance through greater behavioural awareness.
- Develop more effective approaches to influence and collaboration.
- Understand how people make decisions and respond under pressure or during change.
- Apply behavioural insight to everyday leadership and workplace challenges.
- Leave with actionable tools and takeaways they can use immediately.
Duncan combines insight, interaction and practical application to create keynotes that engage audiences while giving them something valuable to take back to work.
Book Duncan Stevens for Your Event
When you book Duncan Stevens for your event, the keynote is shaped around your organisation, audience and priorities.
Whether the challenge is strengthening performance, building commitment, improving collaboration or navigating change, Duncan brings a behavioural perspective that helps people understand what drives their actions and how small changes can create a meaningful impact.
Through interactive storytelling, live demonstrations and the MAGIC Wheel of High Performance™, audiences leave with a clearer understanding of the psychology behind high performance and practical ideas they can put into action.
Customer Reviews
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“Thank you for your excellent delivery on Monday. I really enjoyed it and all of the colleagues I have spoken to since had nothing but positive things to say. Thank you again and hopefully, our paths will cross again”.
Andrew Boycott, Manager of TrainingWhiterose Finance - Brokerplan
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“Thank you for attending our launch - I've had really great feedback from everyone and your content really hit the mark and was just the inspiration that everyone needed”.
Heidi Hastings, VP, Planning & DeploymentSodexo
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“I was blown away by Duncan's workshop on influence! Great tempo, lots of inspiring examples and super business oriented. Duncan kept me focused from the moment he started with eye-opening activity until the very end. One of the greatest sessions I attended”.
Wojtek Puchacz, Learning & Development SpecialistNorthern Europe (Accor)
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“Duncan presented at my company's strategy meeting at the end of September. It was a really great session and helped me realign and gain new insights into supporting and influencing my team, colleagues, and customers. I would highly recommend Duncan and hopefully, work with him again in the future”.
Russell Smith, National Sales ManagerIndustry at Avantor
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“Everyone had nothing but positive feedback about your presentation. It was thoroughly engaging and really hit the mark. Hopefully, there will be lots of opportunities in the future to work together. Thank you so much for your insights and the mentalism was unbelievable! Look forward to working with you again!"
David Mullen, VPGlobal Life Science Sales at Elsevier
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“ We were very satisfied with the engagement. and the process of creating the speech was extremely collaborative. The speech was fascinating and the interactive elements were really engaging. We gained lots of positive feedback from the audience. In 3 words -Engaging. Fun. Informative. Thank you!!”
Christina Zhuang Head of CommunicationsAsia Pacific at Ramboll
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“I can't say enough about how easy it was to work alongside Duncan from the planning to the execution of this event. He was the consummate professional and really provided such a fun, engaging way to get his points across about the power of influence and collaboration. If you are considering a keynote speech on influence or collaboration then I would highly recommend Duncan to you. We got rave reviews from all of the attendees and certainly, I will use him again in the future!”
Tonya Winders CEO & PresidentAllergy Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics
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“Duncan is incredible at helping you know both how to act and what to say to increase your influence. I was a delegate at one of his seminars and was blown away by his in-depth knowledge of influence and how I could immediately implement this into my own business to gain more clients and referrals.On top of that, Duncan's passion for people, sales, influence and persuasion really shine through whenever he speaks, making him the perfect person to inspire and motivate your team”.
Shaun Mears, OwnerRaising The Bar Training & Performance Inc
Rated 5.00/5 based on 8 customer reviews
Keynotes
Keynote by Duncan Stevens:
The Performance Gap
Turning High Potential Into Consistent High Performance
Capable people don’t always deliver what they’re capable of. Built around Duncan’s MAGIC Wheel of High Performance™, this keynote explores the behaviours that turn ambition into consistent action. Leaders and teams learn how to take ownership, sharpen focus and build the habits that sustain results.
Keynote by Duncan Stevens:
Beyond Buy-In
Turning Compliance Into Commitment
Getting people to agree is only the beginning. Drawing on Duncan’s Effective Influence Model, this keynote explores the difference between people doing what they are asked and people choosing to take ownership. Leaders and teams learn how to build trust, influence across departments and boundaries without relying on authority, and strengthen collaboration.
Keynote by Duncan Stevens:
The Human Side of Change
Overcoming Resistance and Building the Confidence to Act
Understanding the need for change doesn’t automatically make it easy to embrace. Built around Duncan’s 4 Human Barriers to Change™, this keynote explores why people struggle to move forward and how leaders and teams can respond. Audiences gain practical tools to navigate uncertainty, strengthen adaptability and take constructive action.
The session can be tailored to the human challenges of organisational change, new ways of working and AI adoption.
High Performance, Influence and Collaboration Keynote Speaker Duncan Stevens
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Influence and Collaboration Keynote Speaker - Duncan Stevens
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