Pete Cohen

Encouraging new perspectives is what Pete Cohen does best. Looking at personal and professional development in a unique way, Pete has coached countless corporate clientele and sporting champions through leadership, teamwork, mindset and motivational progression. Perhaps most notably, Pete coached five-time World Snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan on mindset techniques prior his second Masters title.

Pete Cohen worked with the former fastest solo round-the-world sailor, Ellen McArthur and Olympic gold medallist Sally Gunnell, and has also coached the world's leading CEOs and executives. In the 1990s Pete became well-known as 'The Coach' on GMTV, where he was synonymous with revelations regarding self-belief, health and organisation. On the show, he helped viewers to form more sustainable and positive behavioural patterns and helped fight fear. One of his most memorable performances include helping a member of the public conquer his fear of flying live on GMTV.

Supporting a person's pursuit of peak performance stands at the heart of Pete Cohen's unique offerings. A true visionary, Pete continues to strive for the best for those around him, helping them to build better, stronger and healthier habits, as well as create behavioural patterns that help people to reach new heights.

Using innovative methods, Pete explains and activates techniques that are simple and especially actionable. His contributions include how to help individuals achieve more driven mindsets, stay on target and overcome any limitations they may face. In his early years, Pete always wanted to feature on stage, owing to the buzz he got from creating emotional connections with his audiences. Unfortunately, dyslexia put paid to that dream as learning lines became a difficult proposition for him. But performance remained a passion and psychology added the final string to Pete's bow.

Developing his workplace coaching to help transform client fortune's, Pete can support progress in terms of health, relationship building, business performance, wealth and behavioural patterns. Pete Cohen has authored bestselling books on 17 occasions, including Shut the Duck Up, Sort Your Life Out and Habit Busting. His books, like his talks focus on productivity, positivity and pushing personal boundaries. Among the most effective workplace coaches in the world, Pete has delivered keynote presentations, workshops and made media appearances for companies including Heineken, NPower, Barclaycard, ITV and Topshop. Pete Cohen is a motivational speaker in high demand across the corporate event sphere.

”Pete helped me win the World Championship for the second time. The man is a legend.” – Ronnie O’Sullivan

“The session was what we really needed to refocus and re-energize our team. Pete helped us address some of them issues that have been inhibiting our performance and provided us with strategies to realise our potential and increase our productivity.” – Royal Bank of Scotland

“Pete was a superb keynote speaker! He took a great deal of time prior to the conference undertaking his due diligence as to what we at New leaf required from him. After exploring one avenue, he did not mind in the slightest taking a full U-turn and developing a more appropriate theme for our business. The personal service form him was gratefully received. He was punctual and he stayed at the event for questions and photographs long after the scheduled time allocation as per contract. This too was greatly received. His highly motivational and informative speech got us all thinking about how we should behave and adapt to the business world. He was the centre piece to our day and he really delivered.” – New Leaf Group

“Pete was absolutely brilliant, he delivered a highly energised, thought provoking presentation. He was incredibly engaging and interacted well with the audience. I didn’t hear a bad word about him which is the highest accolade I can give him with our lot! We were also incredibly impressed with his follow up video clip. He was incredibly professional and an all round, good guy!” – Hazel, Diversified Communications UK

Resilience - Pete goes into detail what the real meaning of resilience and how to become more resilient within your everyday life, by using adversity to leap forward and meet challenges head-on. His well-known model of ‘duck talk’ and further effective tools will be shared to allow audiences members to question and change the rules.

Rethinking Wellness - Pete explains how to coach an organisation to wellness through using practised techniques that gradually benefits people over time. Encouraging wellness techniques into the workplace or everyday life, so that it becomes a habit, is Pete’s goal in order for people to really thrive.

Unlocking Potential - With extensive experience in the subject, Pete tackles the deeper questions of organisational culture and gives audiences inspirational guidance on how to overcome obstacles, face our fears and to thrive in the modern workplace.

Cultivating Leadership At Every Level - The pressures of leadership can be challenging, which is why Pete has devised a new plan for audiences to follow in order to become an inspiring, visionary and motivated leader that is on top of their game and keeps others on top of theirs too.