Ollie Thorn Keynote Speaker

• Developing a high-performance mindset

Ollie has worked across multiple high-performance environments from the Army, overcoming huge trauma, rebuilding to become a professional athlete and then transitioning to leading teams in a large FTSE business. He shares actionable insights learned and practiced to create a high-performance mindset and how to embed behaviours for success.

• Shaping mindsets for change

We live through a time of exponential change, the ability to adapt is key. It’s the way we respond to these changes that defines us, and this starts with our mindset. Connecting on a person level, Ollie shares actionable insights forged from a transformative injury, to rebuilding his life to become a high performing sportsman and leader in business. Ollie looks at the 5 steps to building an adaptable mindset which builds resilience and underlines the importance of taking responsibility to be equipped to manage change.

• Inclusive leadership

The best teams have a range of experiences and skillsets around the table, but most importantly they all feel a part of the team and able to share and contribute ideas. It’s often the difference between good and great teams. In this keynote , Ollie uses his experiences to show how to be an inclusive leader who leads positive culture change, connecting back to the psychology between performance and well being.

• Disability Inclusion

Disability isn’t a dirty word. It’s something that 24% of the working population has, but many businesses don’t know where to start when discussing disability inclusion. Ollie brings both his lived and professional experience, as someone living with a physical disability and neurodiversity. He explores three areas of disability… Firstly demystifying it allowing the audience to understand how to interact with disability on a daily basis. Secondly exploring the opportunity of giving disability a strategic focus. And lastly, the how through manageable tips and tricks.

• Living courageously and building resilience

An awe inspiring story, from the Army to athlete and leader, inspiring change and hope, forged from the repercussions of a near fatal motorbike accident that changed his life beyond imagination. Often, we don’t know what we are capable of until we are placed under the extremes. A raw demonstration of courage and resilience through Ollie’s story, he shares insights and lessons forged from a transformative injury, to becoming a high performing sportsman and leader. ​ Ollie ensures the audience have actionable insights into, resilience and courage, grit and how to work effectively as a team. ​ Ollie knows how quickly life can change. Alongside his professional experience and starting a family, he seizes every opportunity to experience life in different ways. Having a physical disability, he loves taking part in physical challenges to remind himself that the seemingly impossible is possible through consistent daily actions with a world first on the horizon.