Keynotes & Workshops

Inspire your
audience to
perform.

Dr. Tom Hanson delivers targeted talks that give your attendees the exact strategies and mindset needed to perform at their peak — customised to your organisation, your audience, and your goals.

Available formats
Keynote Address
45–90 min · Conferences & summits
Virtual Presentation
Any length · Global reach, zero travel
Interactive Workshop
Half or full day · Deep skill-building
Team Training Session
Custom length · Recurring programmes
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"Dr. Tom's combination of research-based tactics and real-world stories resonates powerfully with any audience."
40+
Years of Speaking
500+
Organisations Served
200K+
Books Sold
100%
Custom to Your Event

Trusted by leaders across sports & business

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Why Dr. Tom

Science-backed. Story-driven. Unforgettable.

With decades of experience coaching all-star athletes and Fortune 500 executives, Dr. Tom is masterful at making complex performance psychology instantly accessible, actionable, and memorable for any audience.

He doesn't deliver generic motivation. Through in-depth collaboration with your team, every presentation is customised to your organisation, your challenges, and your goals — so your audience walks away with strategies they can use immediately, not platitudes they'll forget by Monday.

Whether speaking to 20 executives in a boardroom or 2,000 attendees at a conference, Tom's energy, stories, and science-grounded insights create the kind of shift that lasts long after the event.

40+ Years of Elite Credibility
Championship MLB organisations, Fortune 500 boardrooms, and top university programmes. Your audience knows this is the real thing.
Customised to Your Event
Every talk is built around your organisation's specific challenges, culture, and goals through collaborative pre-event discovery.
Immediately Actionable
Attendees leave with concrete tools they can apply in their next meeting, competition, or conversation — not just inspiration that fades.
In-Person or Virtual
Tom delivers with equal impact through the screen. Virtual keynotes, hybrid events, and fully remote workshops are all available.
Signature Topics

Proven talks that move audiences.

Each keynote is a proven framework built from decades of real-world coaching — fully customisable to your industry, audience, and event theme.

Signature Talk
The Champion's Blueprint: Executing Under Pressure
The same mental framework Dr. Tom used with World Series champions — applied to any high-stakes environment. Audiences discover why most performance breakdowns are mental, and leave with a step-by-step system for executing flawlessly when it matters most.
Pre-performance routines that guarantee focus
Reframe adversity as competitive fuel
Build a pressure-proof identity
High-Demand Talk
Overcoming Self-Doubt for Sustained Excellence
Self-doubt is the silent career killer — in athletics, business, and life. Drawing on sport psychology research and Tom's somatic coaching techniques, this talk gives audiences a proven process for dismantling limiting beliefs and replacing them with championship-level confidence.
Identify & dissolve specific limiting beliefs
Install a sustainable confidence practice
Turn inner critics into inner coaches
Leadership & Teams
Achieving Goals Through Strategic Alignment
Based on Tom's bestselling book Who Will Do What by When?, this talk transforms how teams operate. Leaders discover the hidden reason most strategic plans fail — and leave with a commitment-based system that makes execution the cultural default rather than the exception.
The Commitment vs. Goal distinction
Cascade accountability through any org
Build trust-based execution culture
Culture & Leadership
Play Big: Mental Toughness for Peak Performance
Tom's signature Play Big philosophy — delivered as a keynote. Teams and organisations learn the Excel · Enjoy · Evolve framework, discover what's holding them back, and leave with a shared language and toolkit for performing at their highest level together.
The Excel · Enjoy · Evolve framework
Team-wide mental performance language
Unlock joy as a performance multiplier
Executive Audiences
The Competitive Executive: Win Bigger, Love the Journey
Built for driven leaders who've hit the ceiling of hustle-based performance. This keynote reveals why outer success alone never satisfies, and introduces the inner-game practices that high-performing executives use to achieve more — with more joy and less burnout.
Break the outer-success trap
Access untapped mental resources
Reignite your competitive fire
Custom Topic
Customised for Your Organisation & Event
No topic list is the full picture. Through collaborative pre-event discovery, Tom designs a completely bespoke presentation around your industry, culture, strategic priorities, and audience profile. Tell him what your attendees need — he'll build it.
Deep pre-event discovery call
Content built around your org's goals
Guaranteed relevance for your audience
Event Types

The right format for any event.

Conferences
High-energy keynotes that anchor an event and leave attendees buzzing — ideal as an opening or closing session.
Corporate Events
Annual meetings, leadership retreats, and all-hands sessions where you need a speaker who understands business performance from the inside.
Workshops
Half- or full-day interactive sessions where teams go deep on a specific challenge — with hands-on tools, not just theory.
Team Training
Recurring programmes that build mental performance skills over time — for athletic teams, sales teams, or leadership cohorts.
How It Works

Customisation is the whole point.

01
You reach out
Complete the booking form with your event details, goals, and audience profile. Tom's team responds within one business day to explore fit and availability.
02
Discovery call with Tom
Tom personally joins a call to understand your organisation, your audience's specific challenges, and the outcomes you need the talk to drive.
03
Custom content built
Tom designs a presentation tailored specifically to your organisation — with your language, your context, and your goals woven throughout.
04
Your audience transforms
Tom delivers an experience your attendees will remember — with actionable tools they implement immediately, and a mindset shift that lasts.
What Organisers Say

Audiences remember Dr. Tom.

"Dr. Tom was the standout speaker at our leadership summit. He didn't deliver a canned talk — he clearly knew our company and our challenges. Our leaders were still quoting him months later. We've already re-booked him for next year."
VP of People & Culture
Fortune 500 Technology Company
"I've hired a lot of speakers. Most are inspiring in the room and forgotten in a week. Tom is different — he gives people tools they actually use. Our sales team's close rate went up measurably the quarter after his workshop."
Chief Revenue Officer
Mid-Market Financial Services Firm
"Tom spoke to our entire athletic department — coaches and athletes together. He had the room in the palm of his hand within two minutes. The energy and the stories were incredible. But what our coaches valued most was the practical framework he left them with."
Athletic Director
Division I University
In-Person & Virtual

Dr. Tom delivers equally powerfully through the screen.

Geography is no barrier. Whether your team is in one room or spread across the globe, Dr. Tom brings the same energy, personalisation, and impact to virtual events that he delivers in person.

Virtual keynotes, live-streamed workshops, and hybrid events are all available — with the same pre-event customisation process and the same commitment to leaving your audience better than he found them.

Live virtual keynotes with full audience interaction
Breakout workshop sessions via Zoom or Teams
Hybrid events — live room + remote audience
Pre-recorded sessions with live Q&A available
Same deep customisation as in-person events
Global audiences, any time zone
Book Dr. Tom

Give your audience the speaker they deserve.

Through collaboration and customisation, Dr. Tom will design an experience that empowers your organisation to reach the next level and perform at its best. Your audience will walk away with strategies they use — not just inspiration they forget.

Tell us about your event and we'll be in touch within one business day to discuss availability, customisation, and next steps.

Personal discovery call with Dr. Tom before every engagement
Content fully customised to your organisation and goals
Available for in-person and virtual events worldwide
Response within one business day