Penny Mallory
Mental Toughness Coach
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
Biography
Penny Mallory is a motivational speaker and leading authority on Mental Toughness, helping individuals and organisations perform at their best under pressure. She equips audiences with the mindset and psychological tools needed to manage stress, overcome challenges, and thrive in demanding environments.
Penny’s story is extraordinary. A teenage runaway who spent three years homeless on the streets of London, she defied overwhelming odds to transform her life. Through relentless determination and self-belief, she went on to become a Champion Rally Driver and made history as the first, and still the only, woman to compete in a World Rally Car for Ford in the World Rally Championship. Along the way, she has also become a TV presenter, boxer, mountaineer, marathon runner, and endurance adventurer, continually proving that perceived limits can be broken.
Penny attributes her success to Mental Toughness, a personality trait she believes everyone can develop. Drawing on her experiences in elite sport, extreme challenge, and life adversity, she shares a clear and practical Mental Toughness formula that builds confidence, resilience, focus, commitment, and determination. Her work helps people manage heavy workloads, relentless deadlines, pressure, and change, while staying motivated and in control.
Known for her engaging, authentic, and highly entertaining delivery, Penny has perfected what she calls Psychologically Powered Performance. Free from buzzwords and gimmicks, her keynotes are grounded in real-world experience and proven principles that championship teams and top organisations rely on to achieve consistent high performance.
Penny’s keynotes are acclaimed internationally and trusted by some of the world’s most recognised brands, including Microsoft, Google Cloud, Santander, Coca-Cola, NatWest, Waitrose, Tesco, Sony, CitiBank, Jaguar, Procter & Gamble, Airbus, and many more. She is a TEDx speaker and the 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 a speaker who will ignite enthusiasm, inspire action, and leave audiences believing they can, because they truly can, Penny Mallory delivers lasting impact.
Speaking
Writing
Broadcast
Topics
Penny’s keynote talks centre on developing Mental Toughness to perform at your best under pressure. She focuses on building confidence, resilience, focus, determination, and commitment, helping people manage stress, heavy workloads, and relentless deadlines while maintaining high performance. Drawing on elite sport and lived adversity, Penny shows how to overcome setbacks, strengthen self-belief, adopt a world-class mindset, and take control of challenges to achieve sustained personal and professional success.
Example Videos
Publications
Penny Mallory’s publications, Take Control of Your Life and World Class Thinking, World Class Behaviour, focus on taking control of your life through mindset, belief, and deliberate action. Drawing on her own journey from adversity to elite performance, she shows readers how to build confidence, remove self-limiting beliefs, develop a winning mindset, and apply practical strategies to turn ambition into achievement.
What do you get when you book Penny to speak?
Penny is an experienced speaker with an audience of her 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
Feedback
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