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Eddie Davenport
Hollywood stuntman Eddie Davenport shares powerful lessons on overcoming hesitation, making decisions and taking action when the pressure is real.
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Why you should book Eddie Davenport for your next event
- Discover how 20+ years of Hollywood stunt experience can help leaders and teams overcome hesitation and make decisions under pressure.
- Experience captivating behind-the-scenes stories from blockbuster films, combined with practical tools for decisive action and resilience.
- Learn to navigate pressure, build awareness and turn preparation into action through Eddie's F.E.A.R. Protocol™ and Pressure Profile™.
Non-binding request for Eddie Davenport
Hollywood stuntman and award-winning performer inspiring decisive action, resilience and confidence under pressure.
What does it take to make a decision when hesitation could change everything? Eddie Davenport knows that feeling better than most. With over 20 years as a Hollywood stuntman, he has faced extraordinary risks on productions including Logan, Superman, Shazam! and The Suicide Squad. From crashing through glass to being hit by cars, his career has demanded preparation, courage and the ability to act under intense pressure.
Today, Eddie Davenport brings those lessons to audiences around the world. Through cinematic storytelling, unforgettable Hollywood experiences and practical frameworks, he helps leaders and teams overcome hesitation, navigate uncertainty and make decisions when the stakes are high. His keynotes turn extraordinary moments from the film set into insights audiences can apply to their own challenges.
Eddie Davenport – From Hollywood stunts to the keynote stage
For more than two decades, Eddie Davenport has built a career doing things most people would instinctively avoid. Falling from extraordinary heights, crashing through glass, being struck by cars and flying through the air have all been part of his work as a Hollywood stunt performer.
Ranked among the top 2% of Hollywood stunt performers, Eddie has doubled for leading actors including Hugh Jackman and Zachary Levi, as well as iconic characters such as Wolverine and Superman. His impressive career spans more than 140 television episodes and over 40 feature films, including Superman, Logan, Real Steel, Shazam!, Captain America, The Suicide Squad, Stranger Things and The Walking Dead.
His achievements include a Satellite Award for Stunt Performance on The Suicide Squad and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for stunt ensemble work on Logan and X-Men: First Class. His remarkable career and personal story have also been featured in Men's Health, Vanity Fair and Radio Times.
Yet some of Eddie's most valuable lessons came before the cameras started rolling.
Decisive action when the pressure is real
On a Hollywood film set, the seconds before someone calls "Action" can be the most demanding. The preparation is complete, the risks are understood and the entire production is waiting. At that moment, hesitation can have serious consequences for safety, careers and even lives.
Eddie Davenport spent 20 years experiencing these moments firsthand. He learned how preparation, awareness and commitment influence the decisions people make when the stakes are high.
Today, he translates those experiences into powerful lessons for business leaders, teams and organizations. His message speaks to a challenge many professionals recognize: knowing what needs to be done doesn't always mean taking action.
Through engaging storytelling and practical insights, Eddie helps audiences recognize the hesitation that holds them back, understand their responses to pressure and develop the confidence to move forward when decisions matter.
Decisive Under Pressure™ – Turn hesitation into action
In his keynote Decisive Under Pressure™, Eddie Davenport takes audiences behind the scenes of some of Hollywood's most demanding productions to explore what it really takes to perform when the pressure is on.
Combining cinematic storytelling with firsthand experiences and practical takeaways, he introduces his F.E.A.R. Protocol™ and Pressure Profile™. These frameworks help audiences recognize hesitation, understand how they respond to challenging situations and approach important decisions with greater awareness.
The keynote is particularly relevant for leaders and teams navigating uncertainty, demanding environments and situations where delayed decisions can have significant consequences.
Eddie makes the connection between Hollywood and everyday professional challenges clear, relatable and memorable. The result is an engaging experience that encourages audiences to turn preparation into decisive action.
Built For Impact™ – The choices that shape us
Every career and every life is shaped by defining moments. Some come through success, while others emerge from resistance, unexpected setbacks or difficult decisions.
In Built For Impact™, Eddie Davenport guides audiences through six defining chapters from his life and Hollywood career. Through personal experiences and compelling stories, he explores how resistance, setbacks, preparation, perspective and the choices we make influence who we become.
This keynote offers an opportunity to reflect on how we respond when circumstances challenge our expectations. Eddie shares lessons from a career built around physical demands, uncertainty and the constant need to adapt.
Audiences are encouraged to consider how their own experiences, decisions and perspectives can shape the impact they make in their work and lives.
Steady Under Pressure™ – The Immersive Breath Experience
Pressure affects more than the decisions we make. It also influences our awareness, presence and ability to regulate our internal responses.
With Steady Under Pressure™ – The Immersive Breath Experience, Eddie Davenport introduces a different approach to navigating demanding moments.
Using breath as the central vehicle, this immersive experience explores awareness, presence and internal regulation. Rather than focusing solely on external challenges, Eddie invites participants to pay attention to what happens within themselves when pressure increases.
The experience offers a distinctive opportunity for leaders and teams to explore the relationship between internal awareness and their responses to challenging situations.
Book Eddie Davenport for your next event
Eddie Davenport brings an unusual combination of Hollywood credibility, extraordinary personal experiences and practical lessons to the keynote stage.
His presentations connect the intensity of major film productions with the real challenges facing leaders, teams and organizations. Whether discussing decisive action, the choices that shape our lives or the importance of staying present under pressure, Eddie delivers stories that capture attention and ideas that audiences can take with them.
Book Eddie Davenport for your next conference, leadership event or team gathering and give your audience a fresh perspective on hesitation, preparation and the decisions that matter most.
Keynotes
Keynote by Eddie Davenport:
DECISIVE UNDER PRESSURE™
Under pressure, your brain changes before your behavior does. The most costly leadership failures aren’t caused by not knowing what to do — they’re caused by the gap between knowing and doing. Eddie spent more than 20 years inside one of the world’s most pressure-concentrated environments for human decision-making. This keynote is the system he built from it.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Why capable people hesitate — Hesitation isn’t a lack of ability or experience. It’s a predictable human response to pressure, and once a team can name it they can interrupt it before it costs them the moment.
- A protocol they can run under pressure — The F.E.A.R. Protocol™ — Focus, Evaluate, Act, Review. Simple and repeatable, for pressure, uncertainty, or any moment hesitation threatens to slow a decision down.
- Their own pressure profile — A live audience diagnostic. Every person identifies their decision-making archetype under pressure — Analyzer, Initiator, Forecaster or Operator — and leaves with language the organization can use Monday morning.
WHY IT LANDS
Most leadership content addresses what to decide. This one addresses the moment of commitment — and it comes from a career where hesitation affected safety, careers and sometimes lives, not a quarterly number.
WHO IT’S FOR
Executive leadership, leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, government, and high-performance teams.
Keynote by Eddie Davenport:
BUILT FOR IMPACT™
Drawing on more than 20 years as a Hollywood stuntman, Eddie takes audiences through a life of literal and figurative impact — from an overweight, bullied kid who once saw no future for himself, to performing on some of the biggest film and television productions in the world.
Through cinematic storytelling, humor, vulnerability and behind-the-scenes Hollywood experiences, the journey unfolds one chapter at a time, each revealing a different lesson about what challenges teach us and what setbacks create.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Resistance builds you — The challenges you’d never choose may be the very experiences developing the strength you’ll need for what comes next.
- The setback can be the setup — What feels like it’s taking you backward may be positioning you for an opportunity you can’t see yet.
- Our experiences shape who we are — Every success, failure, risk, rejection and unexpected turn becomes part of us, and shapes what we’re capable of.
- The experience doesn’t define you — what you take from it does — Every difficult moment leaves a choice in what we carry forward. A shift in perspective can reveal what we couldn’t see while we were in it.
WHY IT LANDS
Six chapters — Three Stories Up, The Move to L.A., The Hit That Changed Everything, Hugh Jackman, When the Script Disappears, and Superman — give a room a narrative arc rather than a list of takeaways, which is why it works as an opener or a closer.
WHO IT’S FOR
Conference openings and closings, association events, all-hands and team kickoffs, retreats and off-sites, safety conferences, healthcare, first-responder, military and veteran, and education audiences.
Keynote by Eddie Davenport:
STEADY UNDER PRESSURE™ — THE IMMERSIVE BREATH EXPERIENCE
A facilitated immersive breath experience designed to help leaders and teams quiet the noise, strengthen presence, and experience what becomes possible when they regain command of their internal state. Participants are guided through progressive rounds of conscious connected breathing — The Walk, two Jogs, The Sprint, and Stillness — and practice remaining present while discomfort, resistance or emotion is happening. That is where the experience connects to performance under pressure: steadiness isn’t learned by being told to stay calm.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Increased mental clarity and focus
- reduced stress and tension
- greater emotional awareness
- a stronger mind-body connection
- a renewed sense of calm and presence
- greater trust in their own capacity.
PLACEMENT
Delivered in person or live virtually, as an experiential add-on to the Decisive Under Pressure™ keynote or as a standalone session for leadership retreats, offsites, conferences and workshops. Works especially well as an afternoon, breakout, post-break or next-morning session.
PARTICIPATION NOTE
Physically active and always voluntary — participants decide how deeply they engage and remain behind the wheel of their own experience from beginning to end. Certain conditions (five months or more pregnant, antipsychotic medications, recent surgery, seizures or epilepsy) require medical clearance or a modified experience. Facilitated through the Sacred Flow Breathwork Method™; not affiliated with or presented as Holotropic Breathwork®. A full Host & Participation Note with complete health guidelines and room requirements is provided to every host in advance.
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