Chris Hoy
Six-Time Gold Medal-winning Track Cyclist
Steve Peters
Professor Steve Peters
Consultant Psychiatrist
As the resident psychiatrist at GB cycling, Steve was described as a genius by Dave Brailsford. Working in several sports, he has an unparalleled reputation for giving people an edge ? as well as the confidence to overcome defeat. As in his book The Chimp Paradox, Steve shows how to deal with fear and ?become the person you want to be'. He explains how to visualise and break each challenge into small stages, focusing on the process rather than the outcome.
Speaking Topics
- Peak Performance
- Psychology & Neuroscience
- Wellbeing
JLA Agent - Charlotte De FigueiredoWhen Hoy, Wiggins and Pendleton all put their success down to one psychiatrist's mind management techniques, it doesn't take a great leap to see that corporate audiences want to hear what they too can learn about their fears from Steve Peters. He's known as a game changer. The question is, can you keep your inner chimp in its cage and perform under pressure???
Biography
Steve Peters is a consultant psychiatrist and bestselling author and has worked closely with many of the UK’s most prominent athletes, including Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton. In addition to his extraordinary success with British cycling, he has worked on twelve other Olympic disciplines as well as with Premier League and English national rugby and football teams.
Steve began as a maths teacher, before switching to medicine, originally working on patients’ physical health, and then specialising in severe and dangerous personality disorders. His focus is now on how the mind can enable us to reach optimum performance in all walks of life. Working with sportspeople at the top of their game, he gives them the confidence to come back from defeat and out-perform the opposition whilst controlling negative aspects of their psyche.
Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton and Bradley Wiggins have all attributed their success to Steve. He has been described as a “Genius” by Team GB cycling coach Dave Brailsford. Away from the track and the pitch, he has assisted the police and the NSPCC, he continues his academic role as the Undergraduate Dean of Sheffield Medical School, and has also worked with groups as diverse as maximum security prisoners and the fire brigade.
In speeches as in his book The Chimp Paradox, Steve explains his method to help us understand and control our ‘inner chimp’ - the irrational, impulsive, seemingly impossible part of our mind that often holds us back. Examining motivation, confidence and communication, he shows that competition is as much in the mind as it is in the field or on the track - or in the office. He believes that whatever your job or role, you need to focus on the person before anything else.
“He was brilliant. We could not have asked for a better”
Met & exceeded our objectives.
The audience reaction – they were hanging on his every word – the talk of our conference.
Outstanding.
He was brilliant. We could not have asked for a better opening speaker to motivate delegates.
He definitely inspired and motivated them as there was an extremely positive response. Comments include:
• Well presented and very interesting. I think this was a great choice for kicking off the conference and I will be purchasing Dr Peters book!
• The speaker was very enjoyable and spoke well on an interesting topic – perfect start for the conference
• This was absolutely brilliant and a great start to the conference
• probably the best speech I have been to in my 9 or 10 visits to the Conference
• I was really looking forward to this speaker. At a time when more and more staff are struggling with stress it seemed opportune. It is good to know we have more than 1 brain & I need to negotiate with my ‘chimp’.
• An excellent, engaging session which kicked the conference off with a bang!
• Probably the best speaker I have ever heard in any capacity or event, so much so I am now reading his book.
• Very good session, kept my attention throughout. Will be buying his book now.
• I thought he was brilliant and engaging and I bought his book after the talk.
• marvelous, inspiring – would think sales of his book have increased somewhat following the presentation.
• This was a very interesting address, giving an insight on self control, objectiveness and how to get the best from yourself for yourself.
• Very inspiring and humorous speaker, a great way to start the conference
• Lots of energy, charismatic speaker
• Superb speaker and a very thought provoking subject. I could have sat through a day of talks from Dr Peters. I went straight out and ordered his book 'The Chimp Paradox'! I only wish he could me with my cycling!
• Very interesting and nice to have something outside of Housing for an opener
• Excellent choice of speaker – it set a great tone for the rest of the conference
• Left me wanting to know more!
• Dr Peters was humorous, inspiring and gave many reasons to think further on the subject discussed.
• Excellent. Highly recommend
I thought Steve was excellent, really really good. Lovely guy, would definitely use again.
A thought-provoking talk on challenging accepted ways of looking at the world. A lively break from an intense day on industry content. The great hall was full & audience were very engaged. There were lots of questions at the time & also afterwards during drinks. The books flew off the table!
There was a great sense of admiration for the work he had done and the graphic way in which he explained it. The feedback we have received from our clients has been extremely positive.
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