Dean Leak
DEAN LEAK – HIGH PERFORMANCE SPEAKER
Dean Leak is a high performance culture and leadership coach and inspirational speaker with an exceptional track record of success.
Over the course of his career, Dean has worked with Olympic Champions such as Jade Jones and Joe Clarke, coached fortune 100 executives and transformed the performance for 100’s of iconic brands such as L’Oreal, IBM, Microsoft, WeWork, the British Government and The BBC, helping them build healthy, high performing results.
His focuses on human connection, effective communication, and cultural excellence has led to significant transformational changes to both individual and system levels. Dean is an empathetic performance disruptor who believes in creating a culture of performance enablement, empowering individuals and teams their full potential.
Dean Leak is an expert in building trusted relationships and influence, having been trained by the UK’s leading neuroscientist and psychiatrist Professor Steve Peters (author of The ChimpParadox), mentored by the foremost leaders in UK special forces, hostage negotiation, and communication specialists, and graduated from UK sports prestigious leadership program.
With 15 years at the forefront of Olympic high-performance success, Dean offers behind-the-scenes insights into building truly high-performing team cultures that create lasting legacy. Furthermore, Dean lead UK-wide talent searches for Great Britain’s future Olympic champions, creating performance environments that built a pipeline of multiple World and Olympic medallists. He has worked with numerous Olympic champions on resilience and mental preparedness, now applying those strategies with executive leaders, senior government officials, and leadership teams to deliver championship performances.
Dean offers clients a broad and unique insight into bringing out the best in people’s potential. His talks are more than just speeches; they are experiential learning events filled with inspiring stories, practical exercises, and action-packed strategies that audiences can use to build a gold medal-winning mindset.
SPEAKING TOPICS
– Team Culture – Dean is an empathetic performance disruptor who believes in creating a culture of performance enablement, empowering individuals and teams their full potential.
– Human centred leadership – His focuses on human connection, effective communication, and cultural excellence has led to significant transformational changes to both individual and system levels
– Imposter Syndrome – Imposter syndrome is your superpower. Dean educates us in turning doubt, into career success.
– Empathy – Using empathy as a secret weapon to establish trust and influence.
– Building a healthy, high performing team – He has worked with Olympic sports teams, fortune 100 companies, the British Government and C-Suite executive leaders, helping them build healthy, high performing results.
– Emotional fitness – We hear from Dean regarding what it takes to be emotional resilient and the impacts a ‘fit’ mind has on performance.
– Growth and development – Dean offers an array of different teachings and methods to enhance growth and development. He does this from learnt experiences and academic research.
– Disagreeing Well –Understand how disagreeing well with colleagues/boss’s can lead to a higher functioning team dynamic
I have attended many team workshops in my 20+ years…and with my hand on my heart I have never found any of them as powerful and effective as the session you delivered yesterday.
— British Government
Dean provided a session that was eye-opening, thought-provoking and I would definitely recommend Dean for the novel and inclusive way he brought everyone in the room into the process
— Lords Cricket
Dean was fantastic. He was exceptional at creating a space where you could be more open and vulnerable. The most useful training I’ve ever attended
— Civil Service