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John Amaechi

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Inspirational Speaker & Expert in Performance

John Amaechi is a former British NBA Basketball player, psychologist, consultant and speaker on High Performance.

John played college basketball at Vanderbilt and Penn State, and professional basketball in the National Basketball Association. He has also played in France, Italy, Greece, and the United Kingdom. Since retiring from basketball, John has worked as a psychologist and consultant.

In 2007 became the first former NBA player to come out publicly and considered one of the world’s most high-profile gay athletes. His memoir “Man in the Middle” was a New York Times bestseller. John appears regularly as a pundit for CNN, MSNBC, CBC, and the BBC. He has also appeared on shows like BBC Breakfast, The Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, Oprah and many more.

John is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the British Psychological Society (BPS), the BPS Division of Occupational Psychology and the BPS Psychological Testing Centre.

He is a Senior Fellow at the Applied Centre for Emotional Literacy, Learning, and Research with the well-known academic Dr. Richard Majors.

SPEAKING TOPICS

Having formed his own Performance Company, John Amaechi is a regular speaker at Conferences and events across the world. Topics have included the impact of depression, interpersonal skills, leadership, team cohesion, emotional literacy and diversity and inclusion on individual and team performance.

His speaking topics include –
• The Everyday Jedi
• Authentic Leadership: Learning to Lead from your Core
• Business Ethics: Being a Full-Time Person of Principle
• A World of Competition: Using Sports to Teach Business
• More Chance of Being Hit by a Meteor: What to do When Your Dreams Defy Probability
• Organisational Harmony
• Consequential Conversations
• Sport for Development
• Achieving the Impossible Dream
• Inspiring Intrinsic Motivation: Creating and Sustaining the ‘Self-Starter’ Drive

WEBINARS

John Amaechi has developed two new virtual webinar session around Leading Through a Crisis.

The Connected Leadership Series – Comprising of 3 virtual masterclasses to develop and hone skills specifically for leading in the nascent environment. Each 60 minute interactive masterclass delivered by John combines awareness, learning and behaviour change techniques

The Big Question is an hour long thought leadership session for leaders during which John will provide solutions to some of the new and complex challenges created by Covid-19.

Topics

Diversity & Inclusion
Leadership
Winning Mindset/performance

Testimonials

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Matthew Fisher and I have worked together for many number of years. I have always found Matt to be honest, good natured and willing to work hard always carefully selecting the best appearances to suit my personality and lifestyle. The work Matthew has delivered for me over the years has varied from schools, colleges, attending film premiers, guest speaking  to name a few all of which I have lots of memories and thoroughly enjoyed.