Carl Maes — High Performance Coach & Speaker
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Champions aren't born. They're built. So are winning teams.

Keynotes for boards, leadership offsites, sales kick-offs and performance summits, where I translate three decades of coaching world-class players into decisions your team can make on Monday morning.

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Keynote topics

Four talks. All grounded in the real thing.

Coaching a #1: what pressure really does to performance

  • The physiology and psychology of top-level pressure
  • How to design environments that absorb, not amplify, stress
  • The three conversations every leader owes their people
45–60 minIn person / Virtual

The parent, the player, the boardroom

  • Managing talent, ego and expectation at the same table
  • Why the loudest stakeholder is rarely the most important
  • A framework for decisions when everyone has an opinion
45–60 minIn person / Virtual

Marginal gains, major wins

  • What champions actually change (and what they don't)
  • How to make 1% real, daily, weekly, and in the crunch
  • The audit I run on every player and every team I inherit
45 minIn person

From academy to organisation

  • Building a performance culture that outlives its founder
  • The three roles you must hire before anyone else
  • How to protect craft when the business scales
60 min + workshopIn person
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