Elise Downing
Inspire resilience with Elise Downing, the first woman to run 5,000 miles self-supported around Britain. Your team will learn to achieve the extraordinary.
Why you should book Elise Downing for your next event
- Elise is the first woman to complete a 5,000-mile self-supported run around Britain, proving resilience and grit can achieve the impossible.
- As the bestselling author of Coasting, named one of The Times Best Sports Books, Elise’s relatable journey inspires audiences to dream big and take action.
- Elise combines her unmatched endurance achievements with leadership training expertise, offering teams a unique and powerful perspective on success.
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Achieve High Performance Through Big Dreams
Transform your team's mindset with Elise Downing’s powerful and relatable storytelling. As the first woman to run 5,000 miles self-supported around Britain, Elise shares humorous and inspiring lessons on resilience, growth, and high performance. Combining her extraordinary adventures with global leadership training expertise, she equips audiences with practical strategies to embrace challenges, achieve goals, and unlock their full potential.
Keynote Speaker Elise Downing delivers inspiring and relatable talks that empower organizations to build resilience, embrace a growth mindset, and achieve high performance. Known for her humorous, down-to-earth storytelling, Elise engages audiences with lessons drawn from her remarkable endurance adventures and her expertise in delivering leadership training to businesses worldwide. By blending her experiences with actionable strategies, Elise equips teams with practical tools to overcome challenges, unlock their potential, and achieve exceptional results.
Elise is celebrated as the first woman to run 5,000 miles self-supported around the coast of Britain. Over the course of ten months, she ran up to 40 miles a day, carrying her gear and relying on the generosity of strangers. Despite starting with little experience, she succeeded through grit, adaptability, and perseverance—qualities she translates into powerful lessons for organizations. Her bestselling book, Coasting, was named one of The Times Best Sports Books, offering relatable insights into daring to dream big and taking the first steps toward achieving ambitious goals.
When you book Elise Downing for your event, you’re investing in a keynote that entertains, motivates, and delivers lasting impact. Elise’s ability to connect with audiences through humor and authenticity ensures your team will walk away inspired and equipped with practical strategies for growth, adaptability, and success.
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Keynotes
Keynote by Elise Downing: Growth Mindset & Dreaming Big
Whether it’s running an ultramarathon or striving towards an ambitious business goal, the first step is daring to believe that it might be possible. There are thousands of better runners than Elise out there - the only reason she managed to be the first woman to run around the coast of Britain is because she dreamed big enough to begin.
Using real-life examples, Elise will share practical tips for developing a growth mindset and believing in your own potential. After all, in the words of Capital Sensible, “if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?”
Using real-life examples, Elise will share practical tips for developing a growth mindset and believing in your own potential. After all, in the words of Capital Sensible, “if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?”
Keynote by Elise Downing: Resilience & Perseverance in Challenging Situations
There’s one key ingredient present in every successful completion of a goal: not giving up before the finish line. This is even more pertinent when working towards long-term targets.
With examples ranging from sticking with it through extreme running challenges (from multi-month adventures to gruelling mountain races) to sitting still long enough to write the 80,000 words required for a bestselling book, Elise’s stories will inspire the audience to persevere through their on challenges (even when they really want quit) and illustrate the rewards that can be reaped when you do.
With examples ranging from sticking with it through extreme running challenges (from multi-month adventures to gruelling mountain races) to sitting still long enough to write the 80,000 words required for a bestselling book, Elise’s stories will inspire the audience to persevere through their on challenges (even when they really want quit) and illustrate the rewards that can be reaped when you do.
Keynote by Elise Downing: Embracing Self-doubt for High Performance
We often talk about ‘conquering’ our fears and overcoming our doubts. But if we’re always waiting to be a better version of ourselves (more confident, fewer nerves, less afraid) before starting something, most of the time it will never end up happening.
By sharing her own experiences with humour and vulnerability, Elise will demonstrate how we can do amazing things despite our doubts, even using them to enhance performance.
By sharing her own experiences with humour and vulnerability, Elise will demonstrate how we can do amazing things despite our doubts, even using them to enhance performance.
