During his 12-year international athletics career, and 20 years working with businesses around the world, Danny found that sport, like life is never a simple journey, resilience is often the key to success and an individual is only as good as the team behind them.
In his presentation Danny uses a combination of personal experience and lessons learnt, he will show you that it is not just the destination that makes us champions, it’s the journey that makes us true champions. He speaks of the commitment needed to be a winner, how to set goals, and how to achieve them. All built around Danny's 5 key elements to success and his powerful and unique story from being pulled from the wreckage of a car aged 21 to standing on the podium in Athens 2004. Danny’s presentations are guaranteed to leave his audience both motivated and equipped to become high achievers.
After losing his right arm in a horrific accident at just 21 years old, Danny was determined to overcome that huge hurdle in his life, focus on the future and regain his positive attitude. Danny’s drive and determination saw him back on the rugby field within 6 months and shortly after into Paralympic sport, quickly dominating – famously winning gold in the men’s 800 metres at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games, a year which also saw him set a new world record. It was the highlight of a glittering international career that saw Danny win every major title in the sport, including the World Championships, European Championships and Paralympic World Cup.
Since retiring from international athletics, Danny continues to build on his reputation as a leading motivational/inspirational speaker in the world of business and sport delivering keynote presentations around the world that leave his audience motivated and inspired to achieve their goals and targets both personally and within business.
Danny tailors his presentation for his audience and transfers his Paralympic success into achievable and measurable results for them, whether it be overcoming hurdles, change management, optimising personal performance and excellence, goal setting, incremental gain, teamwork or building exceptional results from failure. His presentations resonate with every department within a business or team.
Alongside his speaking Danny is a Personal Performance coach, facilitating individuals and teams to unlock their true potential. He is also a regular on TV, presenting on large sporting events such as the Paralympics and World Darts Championships as well factual programmes for the BBC including three consecutive series of BBC Food: Truth or Scare. Danny was also a contestant on Celebrity MasterChef reaching the quarter finals. He is also a published author and owner of a highly successful performance businesses called 1404 Performance.
Danny is available for in-person or virtual keynote presentations, awards hosting, post-dinner speaking engagements, corporate films, TV presenting, personal performance and development coaching, and as a product ambassador.
‘Our yearly kick of meeting is a highlight on the calendar to motivate the commercial teams for the year ahead. However, with the challenge of Covid 19, structural changes and a virtual setting we were challenged with our normal delivery mechanism. We enlisted the help of Danny (for the second time in 7 years) to deliver an online motivational talk with a softer Q&A vodcast interaction. His personal stories and energy allowed the audience to connect with him in these difficult times. His messages of managing yourself during adversity and setting targets to maintain focus resonated through the organisation. As always Danny was a pleasure to work with and the reason we brought him back in to the team and I don’t rule out a third sales meeting!’
‘Our yearly kick of meeting is a highlight on the calendar to motivate the commercial teams for the year ahead. However, with the challenge of Covid 19, structural changes and a virtual setting we wer...