Penny Mallory helps people to develop their Mental Toughness, so they can better manage stress, pressure and the challenges life chucks at us
Penny Mallory is a motivational speaker, specialising in Mental Toughness, High Performance, and Mindset Transformation. As a teenage homeless runaway, Penny turned her life around to become a Rally Driving Champion , TV presenter, boxer, mountaineer and marathon runner, Penny’s extraordinary journey, from homelessness to competing in World Championship motorsport, has inspired audiences across every industry and sector. She puts it all down toher mental Toughness
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As a leading authority on Mental Toughness, Penny helps people to manage the stress, pressure, heavy
workloads and relentless deadlines they face.
Drawing from her extraordinary experiences, Penny now shares her Mental Toughness formula to help
organisations and individuals to cultivate confidence, resilience, commitment, determination, and
focus.
Mental Toughness is a personality trait, that can everyone can develop. With Mental Toughness you
have increased resilience, confidence, focus, determination and commitment. This enables you to
manage stress and pressure, take challenges in your stride, and quickly bounce back from setbacks.
In today’s ever more competitive environment where only the best will do, Penny Mallory has perfected
the art of Psychologically Powered Performance to bring out the very best in people. No secret sauce
or overused buzzwords, for championship teams (including F1) to top organisations, from individuals
and workshops to International audiences, her engagingly authentic but wildly entertaining vision of
optimised performance and positive change sets her apart.
Penny defied the odds by achieving her childhood ambition of becoming a Champion Rally Driver. She
surpassed that dream by becoming the first woman to compete in a World Rally Car for Ford in the
prestigious World Rally Championship. Remarkably, she remains the only woman to accomplish this.
Her journey is even more remarkable given her tumultuous past as a teenage runaway, enduring 3
years of homelessness in London. Penny attributes her success to her Mental Toughness.
As a child she saw alcoholism and mental illness destroy her family. Fleeing home at 14, homeless and
fending for herself on the London streets, her life couldn’t have been more dangerous or bleak, yet an
inner strength and self-belief enabled her to take control of her future. She made the ‘impossible’
possible, and has since dedicated her life to helping others do the same.
It is these experiences that have made her keynotes acclaimed international favourites for many of the
world’s most powerful and storied brands, including Microsoft, Google Cloud, Santander, Coca-Cola, Nat
West, Waitrose, Tesco, Telefonica, RoadChef, Sony, CitiBank, HPI, Jaguar, Proctor & Gamble, Airbus and
many more.
Her life is a continuing series of doing what conventional thinking says she simply can’t – from Rally
Driving at the highest level, competing in multiple marathons, enter the boxing ring twice, conquering
two of the world’s highest mountains…and now she is preparing to row the Atlantic Ocean. Little
wonder that her interactive keynotes inspire taking action, and to believe you can - because you can.
Penny is a TEDX speaker, author of ‘365 Ways to Develop Mental Toughness’, ’World Class Thinking,
World Class Behaviour’ and ‘Take Control of Your Life’.
If you’re looking for an entertaining speaker that will ignite enthusiasm, inspire change, deepen
commitment and determination, you may have just found the right speaker for your event.
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