Neil Edge
Resilience Speaker
Neil Edge is a mental performance speaker and ultra-endurance athlete who helps leaders prevent burnout and lead through personal adversity. Drawing on his experience living with cancer and coaching professional triathletes, he translates resilience and cognitive performance science into clear, practical tools that help leadership teams sustain clarity, composure, and long-term performance.
Biography
Neil Edge is a mental performance speaker who helps leadership teams prevent burnout, lead through personal adversity, and improve cognitive performance in high-pressure environments. His approach blends lived experience, scientific insight, and elite coaching practice, showing that resilience is not reactive, but a trainable mental skill that underpins sustained success.
Standing 6’9”, Neil brings a commanding yet calm presence to every stage. His talks are grounded in real-world psychology, lived adversity, and elite athletic discipline. As an ultra-endurance athlete and mental performance coach to professional triathletes, he has spent years studying how the mind functions under extreme fatigue and prolonged cognitive load. That insight now shapes how he helps executives think, decide, and perform more effectively when the pressure never stops.
In 2023, Neil was diagnosed with cancer, a challenge that tested every tool he had developed for athletes and leaders. Across seven months of chemotherapy, he applied the same psychological frameworks he teaches today: compartmentalisation, cognitive reframing, and nervous system control. His recovery was not just physical; it became a powerful demonstration of how mental performance strategies help individuals maintain stability, clarity, and belief in the face of uncertainty.
That lived experience brings a depth and authenticity few speakers can match. Neil does not speak about motivation or mindset in vague terms; he shows audiences how to build internal systems that make composure repeatable. His philosophy is simple: resilience is not about bouncing back; it is about being prepared before challenges arise.
Speaking
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Campaigns
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Broadcast
Tom is an experienced on-air performer, for radio, TV or corporate work.
Topics
Neil speaks on mental resilience, burnout prevention, and high-performance leadership, drawing on neuroscience, endurance psychology, and behavioural strategy. His keynotes focus on sustaining cognitive energy under pressure, navigating adversity with clarity, and applying elite performance principles to leadership environments. Across his work, Neil shows leaders how to build repeatable mental processes that support adaptability, decision-making, and consistent performance without burnout.
Maximising Mental Resilience:
How Leaders Prevent Burnout
This keynote goes beyond stress management, it’s about building the mental systems that stop burnout before it begins. Drawing from neuroscience, endurance sport, and my experience coaching high-performing leaders, I share practical tools to strengthen cognitive resilience, regulate internal pressure, and protect decision-making capacity before it breaks down.
Adversity Unlocked:
Leading Through Life's Toughest Personal Challenges
Neil equips leaders with practical tools to lead effectively through personal adversity, not just prepare for it. Drawing on lived experience, it explores how to stay composed under pressure, make clear decisions, and lead with controlled vulnerability when challenges are happening behind the scenes. The session shows how difficult periods can be transformed into moments of credibility, growth, and stronger leadership.
Example Videos
What do you get when you book Neil to speak?
Neil is an experienced speaker with an audience of his own who is happy to work with you to help you promote your event.
This can include:
Pre-event video
Co-operation in pre-event PR and media interviews
Contributed articles for event blogs or programmes
Promotion on social media
