Biography
Penny Mallory is a leading Authority on Mental Toughness. Mental Toughness is a personality trait, that can everyone can develop. With Mental Toughness you have increased resilience, confidence, focus, determination and commitment. This enables you to manage stress and pressure, take challenges in your stride, and quickly bounce back from setbacks. Are your people facing extreme stress and pressure, insane targets and ambitious deadlines? Motorsport and TV fans know Penny as the first and only woman to drive a World Rally Car. She knows how to compete and beat the odds, but she also knows top performance requires much more than sacrifice and maximum commitment. It also takes heart, insight and the courage to keep going and the refusal to quit. She gets it, because she’s lived it. In today’s ever more competitive environment where only the best will do, Penny Mallory has perfected the art of Psychologically Powered Performance to bring out the very best in us. No secret sauce or overused buzzwords, for championship teams (including F1) to top organizations, from individuals and workshops to International audiences, her engagingly authentic but wildly entertaining vision of optimized performance and positive change sets her apart. Penny’s expert understanding of how our thinking affects our behavior is brought together in her Keynote ‘The one thing that will change everything : Mental Toughness’ Penny makes it real, accessible, and inspires life-changing and sustainable results. These aren’t hollow marketing words, her life attests to their human truth. As a child she saw alcoholism and mental illness destroy her family. Fleeing home at 14, homeless and fending for herself on the London streets, her life couldn’t have been more dangerous or bleak, yet an inner strength and self-belief enabled her to take control of her future. She made impossible possible and has since dedicated her life to helping others do the same. It is these experiences that have made her keynotes acclaimed international favorites for many of the world’s most powerful and storied brands, including Microsoft, Google Cloud, Santander, Coca-Cola, Nat West, Waitrose, Tesco, Telefonica, RoadChef, Sony, CitiBank, HPI, Jaguar, Proctor & Gamble, Airbus and many more. Her life is a continuing series of doing what conventional thinking says she simply can’t – from Rally Driving at the highest level, competing in multiple marathons, enter the boxing ring twice, conquering two of the world’s highest mountains. Little wonder that her interactive keynotes inspire taking action, and to believe you can because you can. With Penny in your corner, you can and will. Penny is a TEDX speaker, author of ‘365 Ways to Develop Mental Toughness’, ’World Class Thinking, World Class Behaviour’ and ‘Take Control of Your Life’.
Speech Topics
World Class Thinking
A powerful thought-provoking, entertaining and interactive keynote designed to compel delegates to think about how they can immediately adopt a ‘winning mindset’ and improve performance in every aspect of their lives.
Resilience and Results
Resilience is our ability to adapt and bounce back when things don’t go as we had planned or hoped. Resilient people don’t wallow or dwell on failure; they acknowledge the situation, learn lessons from mistakes and move forward. They are mentally tough and they thrive in this world. In this thought provoking keynote, Penny shares her insight into how we can all start to develop our resilience today (increase our bounce-back-ability) and start to see significant improvements in our results, personally and professionally.
Creating Confidence
Is it time to turn the ambition that dwells in your head, into a real genuine achievement? What would it take to do that, and where would you start? Penny Mallory and her team have worked inside and alongside world-class teams (including F1) within industry and business for decades. Having competed herself at World Championship level, Penny knows, firsthand the mindset required to take ambition through to achievement.
Ambition to Achievement
Is it time to turn the ambition that dwells in your head, into a real genuine achievement? What would it take to do that, and where would you start? Penny Mallory and her team have worked inside and alongside world-class teams (including F1) within industry and business for decades. Having competed herself at World Championship level, Penny knows, firsthand the mindset required to take ambition through to achievement.
Why the Mentally Tough Thrive
Your Mental Toughness is your ability to manage and deal with the stress, pressure, change and setbacks of life. If you can manage these things well, you’ll be more relaxed and likely to be more successful. Developing resilience, focus, confidence and determination will transform performance, and means people are better able to manage the stresses and strains, heavy loads, crazy deadlines and sudden setbacks we all inevitably face. The well-being and mental health of you and your people is vital; absence, attrition and accidents cost UK business over £20m every year. Penny Mallory delivers an entertaining, interactive, challenging and transformational insight into how and why you can’t afford to ignore the Mental Toughness of your people and your organization. She will tell her own story of how she built her Mental Toughness, she’ll show how we can all build our Mental Toughness and will challenge the delegates to complete tasks that will immediately develop their confidence, focus, determination, and resilience.
AI NEEDS Mental Toughness: Artificial intelligence and the Tough Human Touch
45-60 Minute keynote Your Mental Toughness is your ability to persevere, maintain focus and determination in the face of challenges, setbacks, and disruption. While AI doesn't possess emotions or consciousness in the way humans do, both AI and Mentally Tough people are masters of adaptability. Just as AI algorithms can adjust to new data and scenarios, Mentally Tough individuals can roll with the punches and adapt to whatever life throws at them. Mental Toughness plays a crucial role in working with AI, by fostering resilience, adaptability, pressure handling, dealing with uncertainty and persistence, all of which are essential for success in today’s dynamic and challenging landscape. Developing resilience, focus, confidence and determination will transform performance so people are better able to manage the stress, pressure, heavy work loads, ambitious deadlines and relentless setbacks we all inevitably face. Penny Mallory delivers an entertaining, interactive, challenging and transformational insight into how and why you can’t afford to ignore the importance of developing Mental Toughness when dealing with AI. She will tell her own story of how she built her Mental Toughness, Penny will show how we can all develop our Mental Toughness and will challenge the delegates to complete tasks that will immediately transform their mindset, attitude and approach. Who needs this keynote? • Organisations who have ambitious AI projects underway, with people under extreme pressure to deliver • Organisations whose people may not be coping well with the stress and pressure of life and work, and are passionate about ensuring their employees’ wellbeing. • People looking to increase their Mental Toughness to live a more relaxed, happier and more fulfilled life. What will the audience learn? • They will discover the importance of developing Mental Toughness when under pressure, to deliver an ambitious AI project. They will be challenged to consider how they approach the human and artificial aspects of robustness, adaptability and reliability. • They will reconnect with their vision, passion and purpose of life. • They will learn how to increase optimism, confidence, resilience, character, grit and approach to life • They will be given tasks to immediately increase their mental toughness • They will discover how to transform personal and business performance by improving wellbeing for themselves and others.
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