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Dean Leak is a mindset coach, consultant, and leader within the British high-performance sports system, with over a decade of experience leading teams to deliver sustainable systems and programmes to support world-leading athletes.
A sports enthusiast and fascinated by all things psychology and understanding what drives us as a species, Dean Leak has developed a skill for mentoring people in order to reach their full potential.
Since moving into senior leadership roles, his experience has seen him launch creative recruitment strategies, create business plans to governments, and implement complex talent pathways.
A creative, action-orientated, big-picture thinker, Dean Leak cares deeply about the people he works with, and is passionate about helping them create the best environment possible for them to succeed, both personally and professionally.
With his engaging style and unique experiences, Dean is a highly sought-after consultant, speaker and coach for organisations worldwide.
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Dean Leak’s impressive roster of athletes include Olympic and Paralympic athletes from sports including canoeing, shooting, and taekwondo.
He has since used this experience to coach and lead senior teams to deliver successful programmes and finding their performance edge.
Dean Leak’s key speaking topics include leadership, team culture, human-centered leadership, building healthy, high-performing teams, disagreeing well, and emotional fitness.
DEAN LEAK – SPEAKING TOPICS
– Team Culture: Dean is an empathetic performance disruptor who wants to help create a culture of performance enablement for individuals and wider teams to reach their full potential.
– Human Centred Leadership: Dean focusses on human connection, effective communication, and cultural excellence which can lead to significant change to individuals and at system level.
– Imposter Syndrome: Dean educates people into believing that imposter syndrome is your superpower and not your weakness.
– Empathy: Dean talks about how to use empathy as a positive weapon to establish trust and influence.
– Building a Healthy, High-Performing Team: With experience working with Olympic teams, Governments, C-Suite executive leaders, and Fortune 100 companies, Dean has experience building healthy, high-performing teams.
– Emotional Fitness: Dean talks about what it takes to be emotionally resilient and the impacts the mind can have on performance levels.
– Growth and Development: Dean provides a selection of teaching methods to help enhance growth and development.
– Disagreeing Well: How to maximise your team’s performance – Learn about the benefits of having a team that challenges one another’s ideas and how to do this constructively.
– Olympic High Performance – Over the course of his career, Dean has worked with Olympic Champions such as Jade Jones (Gold medallist Taekwondo Champion) and Joe Clarke MBE (British Slalom Canoeist). Learn actionable insights!
– Disagreeing Well – Dean’s unique approach to high-performance teams is captured in his concept ‘Disagreeing Well’.
According to Dean, real teams are not formed through blind agreement, but through the courage to challenge ideas and the ability to disagree respectfully and thoughtfully.
He believes that “Where we truly disagree, we truly belong.” Teams that only agree are merely crowds in disguise.
Dean’s insights on creating a culture where discomfort and disagreement are embraced as opportunities for growth and innovation can transform any workplace dynamic.
Through empathy, curiosity, and emotional fitness, teams can truly perform at their best.
As well as speaking, Dean offers a range of other services, including:
– High-Performance Culture Advisory: Identifying cultural problems, overcoming and turning them into a golden opportunity.
– Leadership Development: Dean has worked with everyone from Olympic athletes to the British Government, learning what makes an inspirational leader.
– Learning Workshops: The Connected Team ©, The Connected Leader ©, and the Building Emotional Fitness workshops are an immersive experience aimed to transform the dynamics of your team.
Clients: Barclays, BBC, British Athletics, British Canoeing, British Government, British Shooting, England Netball, GB Taekwondo, KPMG, L’Oréal, PwC, WeWork, WME.
Dean Leak & Imposter syndrome:
How to turn feelings of imposter syndrome into your advantage and career success
(and learn how ordinary people have achieved extraordinary success and happiness, even though they still experience imposter syndrome).
Who is Dean Leak’s Imposter Syndrome guide for?
If you experience thoughts like:
“If I give my opinion in this meeting, they’ll find out I’m not smart enough”
“I need to work harder to prove my worth”
“I wonder what people thought about my pitch today. Was it good enough?”
“When is someone going to realise that I’ve blagged my way into this job!?”
“If I make a mistake, I’m going to get fired”
“If I don’t get this perfect, they’ll think I’m lazy and incompetent”
…then Dean Leak is the guy for you!
According to research, 84% of people experience imposter syndrome. Yet, most people are unaware they experience it. The lack of awareness leads to consequences such as:
- – health problems such as anxiety and stress
- – missed career opportunities and pay rises
- – wasted time and energy on over-planning, perfecting tasks and procrastination
- – unhealthy habits
…and not reaching your full potential! - – But we have a problem. Most advice out there tells us to ‘kill your imposter syndrome’, ‘conquer your imposter’, ‘fake it until
- – you make it’ and ‘how to stop your negative thinking’.
With Dean Leak you will Discover:
- – How to break free from the negative cycle of procrastination, perfectionism and over-planning.
- – Why imposter syndrome is proven to be a good thing and something to be appreciated.
- – How you can reframe imposter syndrome as a super-strength and an ally for career success.
- – Research-led, evidence-based strategies that will coach you how to respond to unhelpful feelings and thoughts that hold you back.
- – 20 stories from highly successful people who experience imposter syndrome, and have learnt to thrive with it.
- – The science behind why you feel like an imposter and why you are not to blame for how you feel.
- – How your humble confidence can be used to power up your relationship, influence and career opportunities.
Call +44 1753 439 289 or email Great Sports Speakers now to book mindset coach and leader Dean Leak for your next live event or corporate video.
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Leadership Speaker🔹Mindset Coach🔹Expert in High-Performance Sports🔹Business Leadership Culture & Learning🔹Sport🔹Olympics🔹Paralympics
