Danny Crates Speaker Biography
Paralympic Icon, Motivational Speaker, and Executive Coach
Paralympic icon and former world record holder Danny Crates is widely considered one of the greatest British disability athletes of all time.
Overcoming Obstacles
After losing his right arm in a horrific accident in 1994 at just 21 years old, Danny was determined to overcome this huge hurdle in his life, focusing on the future and regaining his positive attitude. With utter determination, Danny found his way back onto the rugby field within 6 months and shortly after into Paralympic sport, quickly dominating and famously winning gold in the men’s 800 metres T46 final at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games, a year which also saw him set a new world record. It was the highlight of a 12-year glittering 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,
Motivation
Danny continues to build on his reputation as a leading speaker in the world of business and sport, delivering keynote presentations around the world. His presentations leave audience’s motivated and inspired to achieve their goals and targets, both personally and within business.
Success
A master storyteller – Danny’s 19-year corporate speaker experience shines through. He is dynamic and presents with warmth and humour, quickly captivating his audience. His presentation is built around his “5 Key Elements to Success” which resonates with every department within a business or team and guarantees excellent returns for his clients’ way beyond presentation day.
Business
Danny tailors his presentation for his audience and transfers his Paralympic success into results for them, whether it be overcoming hurdles, incremental gain, aspiration, understanding and delivering high-performance, change management, optimising personal performance, goal setting, teamwork or building exceptional results from failure.
Media
Alongside his speaking, Danny is a regular presenter on TV, from factual programming to sports presentation.
Book
Danny is also a published author of his motivational autobiography Danny Boy which was voted best sports book in the Evening standard.
Celebrity MasterChef
Danny participated in Celebrity MasterChef in 2015. He is patron of several charities and loves to challenge himself through sporting fundraising events.
Danny Crates Speaking Topics
The Power of Possible: The Five Key Elements of Success
Danny expands on one of the five key elements that he believes are essential to the success of any individual or organization: understanding the motives behind your goals. “Having a goal isn’t enough. It’s no good saying I want to be retired or have my own business or be CEO or number 1 in the world. You have to understand the reasoning behind it,” Danny affirms. He illustrates this, explaining how a fellow competitor from the Ivory Coast motivated him to be the fastest sprinter in the world. “Whenever you used to stand along with him on the start line, all the other athletes would look at each other and say, ‘Well, who gets silver today then?’ I wanted to be that athlete. I wanted to be the athlete that my rivals both feared and respected in equal measure.
The Power to Perform
Every individual possesses the capacity to excel in their chosen field; what's needed is simply unlocking the code. In this presentation, Danny will delve into the traits of high-performance individuals and teams and demonstrate how you can integrate them into your daily life.
Unleash Your Inner Athlete
In this impactful keynote, Danny shares his personal journey to success, highlighting the qualities exhibited by elite athletes. He will illustrate qualities such as drive, goal orientation, resilience, and a winning mindset are not exclusive to sports stars but are strengths accessible to all. Danny will show how these qualities can be utilized to deliver your success.
Creating Your High-Performance Team
During this Keynote Danny will explore the characteristics of high-performing teams and share the steps needed to take your team from good to great. Danny will show the importance of creating a culture of high performance and how to create it and maintain it for long-term success.
No Hurdle is Impossible to Overcome
Through his unique journey danny will demonstrate that resilience and adaptability to change are an essential key to success. Danny will share the steps that have enabled him to overcome huge obstacles in his life and how to turn these into a recipe for success.
1404 Performance
1404 Performance is a longer session, running for a half/full day. This combines a keynote presentation with facilitated sessions. These high impact sessions combine a powerful keynote presentation with a knowledge and understanding interactive session of how to create high-performance teams, culture and mindset within your business and the individuals. These sessions are designed to motivate, inspire and equip your team to deliver results and be more efficient and productive as well as building a stronger bond between them.
Danny Crates Books
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Danny Crates Speaker Testimonials
Working with Danny at our inaugural Company Conference and Awards Dinner was an absolute delight. From the initial enquiry through to the delivery on the day Danny was 100% aligned to what we were wanting to achieve from his guest speaker session. Through Danny’s own challenges and experiences it helped to embed our theme around leadership, team work and resilience which resonated well with our attendees. Danny took on the role of compere for our Awards Dinner which really helped to elevate the event to one of celebration that all were able to enjoy. Thank you Danny for being an integral part of our inaugural event.
- Fiona Radford, Head of sales and marketing | Care Concern Group
Danny was our Master of Ceremonies for the Thurrock Civic Awards. He was brilliant. Our awards finalists are very humble people and Danny made every one of them feel very special. As the organiser it took just one phone call with Danny to be totally confident that he was going to be perfect for our event. Professional throughout, very amiable and with the ability to make everyone relax, knowing that he was going to do everything he could to make the evening go smoothly. His after dinner speech was inspirational, full of humour and with lots of local references too. Nothing was too much trouble. I cannot recommend Danny highly enough.
- Sarah Welton, Strategy Manager | Strategy, Communications & Customer Services
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!
- Mark R.J. McMillan, Director of Marketing | Wright Medical
