Neil Edge

Neil Edge is a Leadership Resilience and Mental Performance Speaker who works with senior leadership teams across the UK and Europe. His work focuses on helping leaders prevent burnout, improve cognitive performance, and build the psychological stability required to operate in high-demand roles. Neil brings a distinctive combination of lived experience, scientific grounding, and high-performance coaching shaped by years of training ultra-endurance athletes and guiding professionals through periods of intense organisational pressure.

Alongside his speaking work, Neil coaches professional triathletes where the demands of long-duration pressure, decision-making under fatigue, and cognitive control directly mirror the challenges faced by modern leaders. This hands-on experience allows him to translate lessons from elite sport into practical tools leaders can apply in real time, especially when workloads rise, resources contract, and clarity becomes harder to sustain.

Neil’s perspective is further shaped by his ongoing experience with cancer. Continuing to work, speak, and coach while navigating treatment has strengthened his understanding of what it truly means to lead through adversity. Rather than framing resilience as motivational, Neil presents it as a measurable and trainable capacity rooted in neuroscience, psychology, and performance science. Leaders appreciate his ability to speak openly yet professionally about adversity, helping them understand how to maintain steadiness and cognitive effectiveness when personal or organisational challenges escalate.

His keynotes are known for being clear, evidence-based, and highly applicable. Neil equips leaders with practical techniques to recognise early signs of cognitive overload, manage their internal state during periods of change, and build consistency without sacrificing wellbeing. He regularly speaks at leadership offsites, sales kick-off events, and corporate development days where high-pressure environments demand both resilience and sustainable performance.

Neil’s approach centres on one belief: leaders cannot perform at their best when their cognitive system is overwhelmed. By combining science, lived experience, and high-performance coaching, he gives leadership teams a framework to strengthen resilience, protect long-term output, and lead effectively, even when the demands are high.