About Neil
Neil Edge is a corporate mental performance speaker and ultra-endurance athlete dedicated to helping leadership teams thrive under pressure. Diagnosed with cancer in 2023, Neil’s journey demonstrates the power of resilience, mental toughness, and cognitive performance to overcome life’s toughest challenges. His powerful story inspires leaders to push beyond limits, embrace adversity, and achieve unparalleled results.
Key Topics
Optimising Your Mind for Success: Ultra-Endurance Meets Leadership
This keynote equips leaders with practical tools to elevate their mental performance by rethinking how they lead under pressure.
Drawing on lessons from ultra-endurance sport, and the discipline of rebuilding through illness, I share strategies to protect cognitive clarity, regulate internal state, and stay purposeful when the pace of life and work changes without your permission.
This is about learning to perform when the conditions aren’t perfect, sustaining energy without burnout, and building the mental architecture to lead with clarity, consistency, and control.
Adversity Unlocked: Leading Through Life's Toughest Challenges
This keynote gives leaders the mindset and tools to lead through adversity, not just prepare for it.
Drawing from my personal journey with cancer while continuing to coach and perform, I share practical strategies for staying composed, making decisions under pressure, and remaining visible when life gets hard behind the scenes.
Rather than offering generic resilience tips, this talk explores how to recognise strain early, lead with controlled vulnerability, and turn hard seasons into powerful turning points for growth and credibility.
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.
You’ll learn how to recognise rising strain early, stabilise under load, and build a mind that holds — even when everything around you doesn’t.
Event Formats
Neil delivers transformative sessions tailored to leadership teams, including dynamic keynotes, engaging fireside chats, and interactive workshops. Each session is designed to inspire action, enhance mental performance, and drive sustainable success:
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Dynamic Keynotes: Inspirational and actionable presentations for large audiences.
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Intimate Fireside Chats: Personal, conversational sessions designed to spark meaningful dialogue.
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Interactive Workshops: Hands-on experiences driving immediate application of mental performance strategies.
Location & Travel
Neil is based in the UK and available for both in-person and virtual engagements worldwide.
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"I work with Coach Neil and he’s been a valuable addition to my team, providing many tools to help sharpen my metal edge. Neil’s mental tools have not only improved my performance in racing but also helped me stay focused and resilient under pressure."
Gabrielle J. Suver - Professional Triathlete
