Penny Mallory

Motorsport and TV fans know her as the first and only woman to drive a World Rally Car. Penny knows how to compete and beat the odds, but she also knows top performance requires even 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.

As a leading authority in Mental Toughness, Penny has perfected the art of Psychologically-Powered Performance. Her interactive, challenging and transformational insight into how and why developing confidence, resilience, commitment and focus is critical in today’s business environment.

No secret sauce or overused buzzwords, her engagingly authentic but wildly entertaining keynotes and masterclasses are enjoyed by international audiences. From senior leadership to middle management, her experience working inside and alongside world class teams, including Formula One, enables her to inspire and influence meaningful change within organisations.

Penny’s expert understanding of how our thinking affects our behaviour is brought together in her Keynote ‘World Class Thinking, World Class Behaviour’.

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 favourites for many of the world’s most powerful and storied brands, including Coca-Cola, Grand Vision, Waitrose, Tesco, Telefonica, Klesch, Sony, Volkswagen, 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 competing in three marathons on three consecutive days to hell runners and triathlons; finding the courage to enter the boxing ring twice and the physical resolve to conquer 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.

The author of ‘World Class Thinking, World Class Behaviour’ and ‘Take Control of Your Life’, Penny is a descendent of George Mallory, widely believed to be the first man to conquer Mt. Everest. If you’re ready to change, determined to move forward, committed to unleashing your best and realising all that you dream,

Penny Mallory will partner in your success with coaching, keynotes and workshops igniting psychologically powered performance.

SPEAKING TOPICS 

Mental Toughness **

World Class Thinking – Word Class Behaviour

The Psychology of Success & Performance

Building & Leading a World Class Team

Behavioural and Culture Change

Creating High Performance Teams

Thriving In difficult times

Innovative Thinking

Communication

** Penny is accredited and licensed to use the AQR ‘Mental Toughness Questionnaire’ and ‘Mental Toughness for Leadership’ family of products, which enables her to put teams and individuals through questionnaires and produce reports that identify areas for developing their individual and team mental toughness. Penny is also a Mental Toughness Coach.

Why the Mentally Tough Thrive

45 Minute keynote

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 wellbeing 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 organisation. 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.

Who needs this keynote?

• Organisations whose people are under extreme pressure, facing daunting
  deadlines, who want to transform human performance.
• Companies looking to lower employee turnover, increase customer satisfaction,
  increase profitability
• Organisations whose people are not coping well with the stresses and pressures
  of life and work, and are passionate about ensuring their employees’ •
  People looking to increase their mental toughness to live a happier and more fulfilled life.
  What will the audience learn?
• 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.

Follow up activity

Organisations choose to follow up with Penny and her team to deliver personal and professional transformation to access, develop and sustain resilient performance and wellbeing through applied neuroscience-based diagnostic tools, neuro coaching and development interventions.

Follow up activities include:

Workshops, Mental Toughness assessments and feedback, Mental Toughness Team Challenge, Leadership Roundtables, Coaching for individuals and teams.

“Penny spoke with ease and great humour about her life and career at our event. She tailored her messaging to our needs and was able to provide her perspective on the themes central to the work. Further, she was a pleasure to collaborate with. I’d recommend her to anyone.”  Airbus University

“Penny was fantastic to work with, before, during, and after a corporate event and dinner. She provided an entertaining, open and honest view on what it takes to lift you performance to the highest level. Our staff were highly engaged and there was a good level of banter in the room. People were left to make their own links to their work and family life. Penny met our brief and I would not hesitate to recommend to others.” Applied Card Technologies

“Penny was excellent, a real professional, and was able to hold our audience’s attention is a very engaging and powerful way. They were thrilled with the investment AP chose to make and both Tim and I were thrilled with our choice with Penny. We did immediately feedback to Penny and our thoughts and reflections remain just as strong having slept on it.”  Air Products

“The content of Penny’s presentation was inspiring and emotive and linked into the key themes of our conference. It definitely met our objectives. The audience were completely engaged and some were clearly moved by Penny’s presentation. Outstanding.”  British Franchise Association

“Penny was awesome, so inspirational. A great storyteller, with fabulous wit and humour. She went down so well, people were absolutely buzzing afterwards. I would certainly recommend Penny to anyone else looking for inspiration on driving world class performance.”  Cox Automotive

“Penny attended our Sales and Marketing conference and wowed the audience. She provided inspiration as well as practical advice . She cleverly weaved together personal anecdotes with live feedback from the audience and made a real difference to our event. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Penny for any corporate event.”  CocaCola

‘Penny was excellent! A joy to work with. Her presentation was extremely motivational and was given excellent feedback by all the attendees. She is extremely professional and takes the time to get the script just right.”  Ocado

“Penny opened our annual partner’s conference last year and was brilliant; thought provoking and inspirational. Conference delegates were engaged from the start and the mood continued for the duration. She will be a hard act to follow this year.” Charter Group

“Penny is a world class speaker and the feedback from our guests was incredible. Her engaging and inspiring talk had clear takeaways that created real value for everyone there. A delight to work with and a must for any audience looking to make themselves better!” Harrington Starr  

“We had Penny as the guest speaker at our conference this year and we found her very personable with a fascinating story to tell. It was engaging, entertaining and thought provoking. The session was interactive and an excellent insight into elite performance. Her dedication and endless energy were proven afterwards when she drove from North Wales back to London that same night to be ready for a meeting the following day! A thoroughly enjoyable speaker”  Headteachers Association

“Penny’s content was completely on theme and she delivered our objectives perfectly. She was very well received by the audience and her content was interesting to the audience. Many commented they would have liked to hear more of her and that 30 mins was not enough!   BAE Systems

“Penny was absolutely fantastic. Her story and message were strong in content and impact and many have said that she gave them a great deal of food for thought. An inspirational and brilliant speaker”  Kalzip for the 16th Annual Teamkal Conference

‘We’re building a new Hotels team here at Aprirose, and we needed a half-year energy & momentum boost. We made the perfect choice – Penny was amazing! Every member of our team was super-engaged for the entire session, and Penny’s own story is nothing short of inspirational”  Aprirose Real Estate Investment

‘Penny was fantastically entertaining and her story was so inspiring. She had the audience engaged from the very start and her story resonated with them very well. Penny’s name was appeared numerous times in the comments section titled “Best part of the event”  Action for Children

“Penny covered some fascinating topics in her speeches and received a great reaction from our guests.  Due to unexpected day at sea, she was able to give an additional Lecture, delivered with thanks and well attended.  Penny is an excellent speaker, we would be pleased to welcome her back to speak on board again soon.”  Cunard

“We wanted something motivational and inspiring yet entertaining and humorous and Penny’s story certainly met all our requirements.  Our mainly male dominated audience largely enjoyed Penny’s speech and were surprised and inspired by the challenges she has overcome.”  Knights Brown

“Penny’s life story was interesting and inspiring; her presentation was professional and entertaining and she tailored it well to our audience.  Penny’s slides complimented the presentation well and she kindly spent time after the event chatting to some of our guests, which was a real bonus.”  Action Medical Research

“Penny's presentation at the Reed New Deal launch, was a huge success with all our candidates. We greatly appreciated the way that you pitched your talk at just the right point, encouraging people to get out there and make it happen for themselves.”

“Penny was awesome, so inspirational. A great storyteller, with fabulous wit and humour. She went down so well, people were absolutely buzzing afterwards. I would certainly recommend Penny to anyone else looking for inspiration on driving world class performance.” Group HR Director, Human Resources, Cox Automotive

“Penny has presence and credibility on camera that few presenters can enjoy so naturally, with an enviable ability to deliver complex and technical issues in a straightforward and easy to understand way. She is a joy to work with – full of creative ideas, great fun to have around and entirely professional. Her ability to deliver her pieces to camera in one take is legendary. I should know, we filmed 67 episodes together!”

“I was fortunate to book Penny to speak at one of the business to business events which we organise. If you take away the glitz of the international rally driving and the TV presenting you are left with a story which is … informative, uplifting, motivational and fascinating. Add back the rally driving and TV presenting, and you have a great presentation from a great speaker. If you get the chance to hear Penny speak or book her for one of your events…grab it.”

“I have heard only high praise from all our members for your speech at our Annual Dinner – it struck chords with many in the room, in particular your drive to achieve your goals. We felt that you judged the audience extremely well and held them spell-bound.”

“Penny was a very inspirational speaker, hitting just the right chord with our audience.”

“We have a wide range of audiences and they are quite discerning but Penny always delivers exactly the right mix of humour and inspirational material. She is one of a rare group of public speakers who really connects with the audience and delivers something very special.”

“Penny was wonderfully entertaining, informative and struck entirely the right tone with BlackBerry's audience – brilliant stuff!”

“Penny had the students on the edge of their seats, they were spellbound. She was amazing and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her.”

“I would like to pass on my thanks for the course over the last 2 days. I found it to be the most enjoyable course I have ever attended, and whilst the content contributed to that, most of it was down to the way you delivered it and your overall enthusiasm for the subject matter and the course attendees.”

“Penny's presentation is hugely inspiring and entertaining”

“Listening to and appreciating many motivational speakers is part of my job. I heard Penny Mallory speaking with and engaging year 8 learners recently; it was a large event hosted at Charlton Athletic as part of raising aspirations for learners in Bexley. She was outstanding- one of the best three I have ever heard.”

“.. the 350 young people were stimulated and engaged by your presentation. For them to be able to hear how you were able to challenge yourself o achieve your dreams was eye-opening …It was especially good for them to hear a positive message from an adult who can relate to the younger generation so easily. They will, we hope, be inspired to see that they too can follow in your footsteps, be it in rallying, boxing or other aspects of life. Your professionalism, sense of humour and unflustered sense of purpose shone through during the day. We would thoroughly recommend you to anyone seeking to raise the aspirations of teenagers.”
Pete Le Bas, London Borough of Bexley

“Penny was our After Dinner Speaker at our annual Gala Dinner and she was brilliant, we had fantastic feedback and were thrilled with her talk- she was a great speaker but just as important, she was great fun to have at our dinner.”

“As a conference organiser I see hundreds of Keynote Speakers every year. Penny is one of the best! ”

Penny's Showreel 2020 – https://youtu.be/nf7cHlsUKVk