Ben had competed at the Barcelona and Atlanta Olympics but he never achieved the results he had strived for. He needed to change his mindset and this became as important as physical training. This new approach radically changed his journey to an Olympic Gold medal, enabling him to tackle many challenging situations successfully.
SPORT BIO
Ben became involved in rowing at school, and while studying Civil Engineering at Oxford Polytechnic; he came second in the World Under 23 Rowing Championships. A few months later, he was selected to compete in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics as the youngest member of the British Rowing Team. He has now been in the British Team ever since and has now competed in three World Championships and three Olympic Games.
At the Sydney Olympics in 2000, Ben’s team, the Men’s 8, won the Gold in the Blue Ribbon rowing event and became the first British team to do so since 1912. They were each awarded an MBE in the New Years Honours list of that year.
While training for competitions, Ben also gained valuable experience training Oxford University’s Women’s Rowing Clubs teams for six years.
SPECIALIST AREAS
Keynote speaker and performance coach Ben Hunt-Davis has spent the last 4 years working with a wide range of businesses.
In his keynote speech he tells the inspirational and exciting story of how, after a decade in the national team, he won an Olympic Gold Medal. His crew were the first British winners to do so since 1912.
After seven years competing in the national team Ben was still a long way from winning any World medals. He tells of how things had to change, there could be no excuses.He and the team set their ambitions and started looking for different ways to achieve them, defining absolutely everything that could make the boat go faster. They changed their mind-set, their approach and their training and as a result, their performance.
Ben's story of the journey to an Olympic Gold Medal bridges the reality gap between just listening to how others achieve their goals and doing it yourself. His experience as a business coach has allowed Ben a great deal of insight into the corporate world: knowing about how people think and what motivates them. This means that he can use his story to greatest effect, explaining not only how he changed his goals but how others can achieve theirs.
Ben's keynote can simply be told as a hugely exciting and inspirational story, or it can be tailored to bring out specific themes.
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