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Want to book Dean Leak for your next event?
Email dean.leak@getapeptalk.com, and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.
Please note: we can only assist with speaking requests. For anything else, we recommend reaching out to Dean Leak directly.
What topics does Dean Leak specialise in?
Dean Leak specialises in talking about human connection, effective communication, cultural excellence and more.
What is Dean Leak's speaking style like?
Dean delivers transformative workshops that resonate deeply, combining empathy with powerful insights. His engaging style fosters connection and inspires high performance, making each session impactful and memorable. AI summary based on real event feedback.
Does Dean Leak offer virtual speaking engagements?
Yes, Dean Leak offers virtual speaker bookings for webinars, online conferences, and remote or distributed team engagements.
Dean Leak challenges today’s popular calls for empowerment by revealing an often-overlooked truth: autonomy can’t flourish without a foundation of trust and clarity. Many teams suffer from innovation-stifling approval chains, endless meetings, and talented people reduced to permission-seekers. Dean explains how trust isn’t a reward for good performance; it’s what enables it. He guides leaders to build trust first, then provide clear direction, allowing autonomy to emerge naturally. By prioritising trust, leaders unlock genuine empowerment, where teams can perform at their peak.
Drawing on his extensive experience and research, Dean Leak introduces key methods to enhance personal and professional growth. He explores “emotional fitness” as the backbone of resilience, showing how a strong mental foundation boosts individual performance. Tackling imposter syndrome, Dean reframes self-doubt as a potential superpower, offering techniques to harness it for career advancement. This session equips attendees with insights into developing resilience, embracing self-belief, and cultivating a growth mindset in any setting.
Dean Leak shares his distinctive approach to building high-performance teams, cultivated through his work with Olympic teams, Fortune 100 companies, and government bodies. He demonstrates the impact of fostering a culture of performance enablement, where team members feel empowered to reach their potential. Dean highlights the art of “disagreeing well” with colleagues and leaders, showing how constructive conflict strengthens team dynamics and enables a supportive, healthy work environment that drives collective success.
Dean Leak offers an engaging exploration of high-performance culture and human-centred leadership, drawing from his experience with Olympic teams, Fortune 100 companies, and government bodies. Known for his empathetic approach and performance-driven insights, Dean covers foundational elements like trust, clarity, and emotional resilience, empowering teams to thrive in dynamic environments. With a flexible style, he adapts each talk to resonate with specific audiences, ensuring practical relevance and actionable strategies that support both individual and organisational growth.
Dean's unique approach to high-performance teams is encapsulated in his concept of Disagreeing Well. Dean believes that genuine teams are built not on blind agreement but on the courage to challenge ideas and disagree respectfully. Dean knows that true belonging arises from genuine disagreement, as teams that only agree are merely crowds. Attendees will learn how embracing discomfort and disagreement can foster growth and innovation, transforming workplace dynamics.
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