Speaking engagements · Bespoke workshops on request
I am available to speak about performance, leadership, movement and wellness through the perspective I have developed over more than three decades of working closely with people and their bodies.
A wider conversation
My work has placed me in close conversation with professional athletes, executives, people recovering from complex injuries and others trying to remain fully engaged in their lives.
Their circumstances differ, but many of the questions beneath them are the same: How do we respond to pressure? What allows us to adapt? How do we preserve our capacity? What helps us trust ourselves again?
Speaking allows me to bring those observations into a wider conversation. I do not offer impossible standards or simple answers to complicated human questions. I offer a way of looking that connects the body, the mind, the environment and the life a person wants to be able to live.
Themes I am available to explore
These themes can form the basis of a keynote, conversation, panel contribution or internal leadership session. The emphasis should reflect the audience rather than forcing every audience into the same presentation.
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Athletes and executives operate in different arenas, but both must perform under pressure, adapt when conditions change and recover from mistakes. This theme explores how manageable, controllable and progressive stress can help high performers practise attention, composure and clearer decisions under demand.
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Wellness is not an indulgence. Yet sustained health, vitality, time, confidence and physical agency may become increasingly difficult to preserve—and therefore increasingly prized. This theme asks what a good life means when we measure it by what we remain able to experience, not only by what we own.
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Movement is the only universal language. Before we explain ourselves in words, the body communicates how we organize, adapt, protect and hesitate. This theme examines movement as the basis of participation—and what it teaches us about confidence, adaptability and remaining fully present in our lives.
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Hospitality understands that service lives in anticipation, environment, attention and how an experience makes someone feel. Wellness hospitality applies that mindset to health and human performance, making wellness part of how people live, work and recover rather than a transaction or isolated appointment.
Ways to engage
I am available for four speaking formats. Each begins with the room, the purpose of the gathering and what should remain with people after it ends.
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A focused narrative built around one central idea and shaped for the audience, occasion and time available.
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A responsive format that allows an interviewer, moderator and audience to explore the ideas through dialogue.
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A movement, performance and wellness perspective contributed to a broader conversation with other voices in the room.
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A more intimate conversation for executives and leadership teams, particularly around pressure, recovery, decision-making and the Champion’s Mindset.
Bespoke workshops · Developed on request
I do not offer a fixed programme or catalogue of workshops. For organizations seeking deeper, participatory work, I am available to develop a bespoke workshop around a specific audience, challenge and intended outcome.
A Champion’s Mindset workshop, for example, could use movement and progressively managed physical challenges to help participants observe how they respond when demands rise. Other workshops may explore movement, human capacity or the design of more thoughtful wellness experiences.
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We begin with the people, the challenge and what the organization hopes participants will understand or approach differently.
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I develop the ideas and participatory elements around the audience, setting, abilities and appropriate boundaries.
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The experience should leave people with language, observations and practices they can carry back into their work and lives.
A workshop is developed with the organization and adapted to the abilities and boundaries of the participants. It is not an off-the-shelf fitness session or a keynote with exercises added to it.
What should remain
My aim is not simply to leave a room with more information. It is to give people a more useful way to see themselves, their work and the choices in front of them.
Begin with the room
Please include the organization or event, audience, proposed format, date, location and the central question you would like the engagement to address.
If you are considering a bespoke workshop, tell me what you would like participants to understand, practise or approach differently.
Begin with the audience and the idea you want to move through the room.
Discuss an engagement devon@devonmcgregor.com