Danny Crates

Paralympic gold medalist & speaker on high-performance culture and mindset

Speaker fees:

In-person: £3k-£5k
Virtual: £1k-£3k

Topics:

Adversity & resilience
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Leadership & peak performance
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Paralympics
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Award host and after dinner speaker

Danny Crates is one of the UK’s most decorated Paralympians.

A gold medal winning Paralympian, World & European champion, world record holder, London 2012 ambassador in which he played a pivotal role in bringing the games to the UK and was Great Britain’s flag bearer at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic opening ceremony.

Since retiring from international athletics Danny has gained international acclaim as a renowned business speaker and is the recipient of numerous speaking accolades, he was recognised as one of the top 5 motivational speakers worldwide. Danny brings over 25yrs experience delivering keynotes around the globe and his presentations are assured to leave audiences motivated, inspired, and equipped for success.

After losing his right arm in a horrific accident at just 21 years old, Danny was determined to overcome that huge hurdle in his life, focus on the future and regain his positive mental attitude. Danny’s resilience, drive and determination saw him back on the rugby field within 6 months and shortly after into Paralympic sport, quickly dominating – famously winning gold in the men’s 800 metres at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games, a year which also saw him set a new world record. It was the highlight of a glittering international career that saw Danny win every major title in the sport, including the World Championships, European Championships and Paralympic World Cup. 20yrs on and Danny still holds the British 800m record.

Drawing on his personal experiences and the insights gained from participating in elite sports and collaborating with businesses globally, Danny specialises in understanding the building blocks needed to create a high-performance culture and mindset within organisations.

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Every individual possesses the capacity to excel in their chosen field; what’s needed is simply unlocking the code. In this presentation, Danny will delve into the traits of high-performance individuals and teams and demonstrate how you can integrate them into your daily life.

In this impactful keynote, Danny shares his personal journey to success, highlighting the qualities exhibited by elite athletes. He will illustrate qualities such as drive, goal orientation, resilience, and a winning mindset are not exclusive to sports stars but are strengths accessible to all. Danny will show how these qualities can be utilised to deliver your success.

During this Keynote Danny will explore the characteristics of high-performing teams and share the steps needed to take your team from good to great. Danny will show the importance of creating a culture of high performance and how to create it and maintain it for long-term success.

Through his unique journey danny will demonstrate that resilience and adaptability to change are an essential key to success. Danny will share the steps that have enabled him to overcome huge obstacles in his life and how to turn these into a recipe for success.

1404 Performance is a longer session, running for a half/full day. This combines a keynote presentation with facilitated sessions.

These high impact sessions combine a powerful keynote presentation with a knowledge and understanding interactive session of how to create high-performance teams, culture and mindset within your business and the individuals.

These sessions are designed to motivate, inspire and equip your team to deliver results and be more efficient and productive as well as building a stronger bond between them.

What people say

The content and messaging was extremely relevant to the sales team in the room and an excellent mixture of sentiment and humor, and everyone learnt a lot around motivating themselves, breaking down big goals into easy to manage milestones.

Johnson & Johnson

Danny worked with us at several of our events providing motivational speaking and an insight into the mind of a Paralympian.  With Danny’s passion, enthusiasm and great stories it is difficult for an audience not to be captivated

Coca Cola

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