Performance Under Pressure
Pressure doesn’t create problems.
It reveals them.
Talks, workshops and coaching for business owners, leaders and sales teams.
My work draws on 25 years as an entrepreneur and sales leader, my formal coaching training, and my adventures as a BASE jumper.
FOR SALES TEAMS
Your pipeline is full. At quarter end the revenue still isn’t there.
Your people work hard. That’s not the problem.
Deals sit in the same stage for months. The forecast doesn’t hold and nobody says out loud what everyone suspects. A large part of it will go nowhere.
You’ve tried. More activity, tighter reporting, a new CRM. The deals still don’t close.
The problem starts much earlier. Whether the customer has a problem at all, and how big it is, often never gets asked. The customer politely says: send me a proposal. And the work begins.
Your people are busy. Productive they are not.
Sometimes it’s the other way round. The problem is real, the customer knows it, and still nothing happens. Four in ten B2B deals are lost not to a competitor, but because nobody decides.
That’s where I come in. The nerve to ask the hard question. And the ability to take away the fear that’s holding your customer back.
Keynotes — Inspiring, provocative, and based on years of experience as a BASE jumper and business leader. These keynotes move people to take action. I deliver stories that start on the cliff edge and land in the boardroom. I turn extreme experience into lessons your team will still be talking about months later. Find out more about my Keynotes.
Workshops — I deliver workshops for sales teams that change behavior and produce lasting results. Every session targets the one thing holding your team back. Find out more about my Workshops.
FOR LEADERS AND BUSINESS OWNERS
The place runs. But only while you’re there.
Your team waits for you instead of acting. Every decision that matters, and all the pressure that comes with it, sits with you. It’s been a long time since you had a real holiday.
You’ve tried. Delegated, defined processes, given clear instructions. Two weeks later everyone is back at your desk.
The problem is somewhere you’ve never looked.
“I have to decide this myself.”
For over 20 years I ran my own companies. At some point I realised I was the bottleneck. When I let go, I had more time, less pressure, and a team that delivered better results than under my supervision.
Coaching — I offer personal one-on-one coaching for executives, founders, and salespeople. Together, we remove the mindset blockages that are capping your performance.
Find out more about Sales Performance Coaching.
Find out more about Executive Coaching
Consulting — I work with companies to uncover what’s holding them back — the patterns leadership has become blind to because they’re standing inside them. Together, we shape a plan to remove the bottlenecks, and follow through until it’s done. Find out more about Consulting.
My work is delivered through HEADSTRONG — my framework for clarity, decision-making, and execution under pressure. No theory for theory’s sake. Only what holds up when it matters.
Lessons From The Edge
What BASE Jumping Taught Me About Business & Performing Under Pressure
In BASE jumping, there are no second chances. You either prepared properly and commit or you are in serious trouble.
Business won’t kill you but the underlying dynamics are surprisingly similar.
After 25+ years standing on real edges and building companies from scratch, I wrote the book I wish someone had handed me when I started.
Lessons From the Edge distills 50 lessons on decision-making, fear, execution, and leadership under pressure — drawn from real BASE jumping stories on antennas and cliffs, and from the boardrooms where the same patterns show up again.
It’s a field guide for people who carry responsibility and live with the consequences of their calls.