Changing Perspectives To See New Possibilities and Cultivate A Mindset For Success
Duncan Stevens is a behavioural psychologist, international keynote speaker and bestselling author who helps leaders, teams and organisations turn human potential into sustained high performance.
For 15 years, he has worked with leaders from some of the world's most recognised organisations, alongside Olympic gold medallists, world champions and elite performers. He has delivered more than 1,000 keynotes across 30+ countries to over 1.1 million people, with clients including Microsoft, Shell, Deloitte, Coca-Cola, KPMG and Cartier.
Duncan is the creator of the MAGIC Wheel of High Performance™, a five-pillar framework built around 23 principles of high-performance psychology, and the author of two bestselling books, Everything You Need To Win and Effective Influence. He is also a recipient of the Zayed Award for Speaking and a former Officer in the British Royal Navy.
His keynotes combine behavioural psychology, practical frameworks, memorable stories and live demonstrations, helping audiences experience the psychology rather than simply hear about it. Every session is tailored to the organisation and designed to leave people with ideas they can use immediately.
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High Performance Leadership
Every organisation has leaders who are capable of more than they consistently deliver. This keynote explores the human gap between potential and performance, using the MAGIC Wheel of High Performance™ and the 8 Pillars of High Performance Culture™ to help leaders strengthen mindset, decision making, ownership and the conditions they create for others. It is interactive, practical and built to help leaders think clearly under pressure, influence effectively and lead with greater confidence when it matters most.
High Performance Leadership
High Performing Teams
Talent alone does not predict team performance. Behaviour does. This keynote helps teams understand the habits that separate a collection of capable individuals from a genuinely high-performing unit. Drawing on the MAGIC Wheel of High Performance™ and the 8 Pillars of High Performance Culture™, Duncan explores how teams communicate under pressure, create role clarity, hold each other to standards, share information proactively and build the trust needed to execute consistently when conditions are difficult or changing.
High Performing Teams
High Performance Culture
Culture is not the perks an organisation offers. It is how people feel when they get up to come to work on a Monday morning. This keynote introduces Duncan's 8 Pillars of High Performance Culture™, the conditions that help people make progress, feel appropriately challenged, take ownership, feel recognised, connect with worthwhile purpose, co-create, care and enjoy the people they work with. It gives leaders and teams a practical shared language for creating an environment where high performance becomes the natural response.
High Performance Culture
Keeping Pace With Change
It is often not change itself that catches organisations out, but the pace of change and the human response to it. This keynote helps people understand the four human barriers that can turn uncertainty into resistance, then gives them practical ways to interpret change more constructively, communicate with greater clarity and focus on what they can influence. The aim is to help leaders and teams reduce friction, increase buy-in and maintain performance while systems, expectations or priorities are shifting.
Keeping Pace With Change
Beyond Collaboration
It is no longer organisation versus organisation. It is network versus network. Beyond Collaboration™ moves the conversation beyond simply working well together and asks how organisations can deliberately build stronger internal relationships, external partnerships and client networks. Duncan explores curiosity, empathy, courage and co-creation, helping audiences move from cooperation to genuine collaboration and from transactional relationships to partnerships that multiply intelligence, creativity and performance.
Beyond Collaboration
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Duncan Stevens | Global Authority on Influence and Persuasion & High Performance Leadership
Duncan cam e to our event in Budapest and his speech was incredibly motivational and inspirational and the mentalism piece was simply mind-blowing! ... keep reading Accor
I attended an event for Duncan and it was magnificent! He is very engaging and his influence techniques are out of this world. I would definitely recommend him as a speaker.
Thank you so much for this – you set the conference off to a flying start !! The team have given me extremely positive feedback on your session, thanks again.
I highly recommend Duncan if you are looking for an excellent keynote speaker and workshop delivery. The keynote was truly inspiring, offering practical, real-life strategies that we can immediately apply to our day-to-day work, we left the session wanting more! Thank you for delivering such an impactful and memorable experience!
Duncan's energy is infectious. He had a group of senior sales leaders at our Leadership Kickoff at times laughing, at times awe-struck, and certainly many heads nodding at the sage advice for how to lead in times of ambiguity. Highly recommend Duncan as an engaging and thought provoking speaker.
