Chris Gregory

Chris Gregory is an international athlete and speaker whose career spanned 10+ years in the highest levels of elite sport.

A former Team GB and Team England beach volleyball player, he has represented his country on the World Tour, competed at the Commonwealth Games, and built a reputation for exceptional longevity in a physically demanding discipline. His journey through injury, reinvention, and high-pressure performance sits at the heart of his work with audiences today.

Over more than a decade in elite sport, Chris has developed a practical understanding of resilience – not as a slogan, but as a process shaped by setbacks, recovery, and sustained progress under uncertainty. His keynote on resilience draws directly from navigating team dynamics, selection pressures, self-funding his pursuits, and the psychological demands of competing against the world’s best. He translates these lessons into tools that leaders and teams can apply in fast-moving corporate environments, particularly around adaptability, sustained consistency, and building personal capacity in times of personal and professional challenge.

Chris also speaks on mindset, with a focus on growth mindset as a catalyst for long-term performance and wellbeing. His work explores how belief systems shape behaviour, how to create environments where learning outperforms perfectionism, and how individuals can reframe challenge as a pathway to stronger results. He brings together applied sports psychology, practical habit change, and the lived reality of training for peak performance over many years.

Alongside his athletic career, Chris has collaborated with corporate partners, national governing bodies, performance coaches, and leadership teams. These experiences have given him insight into how high-performance strategies transfer beyond sport—into decision-making, communication, and the pursuit of sustainable success in work and life.

Chris’s speaking style is open, engaging, and grounded in real experience. His mission is to help people build the resilience and mindset required to perform at their best for longer, navigate pressure with clarity, and create a healthier, more fulfilling trajectory in their careers and personal lives through impactful, layered, practical high performance practices