More About Dean Leak

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’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.

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 British Speakers now to book mindset coach and leader Dean Leak for your next live event or corporate video.

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