John Shackleton

With a background in Sports Coaching and Sports Psychology, John is a renowned expert on performance, showing international business audiences techniques to improve the most powerful muscle in the body - the brain.

With more than 20 years experience as a professional speaker John was voted 2004 Inspirational Speaker of the Year and 2007 Speaker of the Year by the National Speakers Association of New Zealand. He was recently awarded his CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) by NSA Australia, the highest qualification available to professional speakers, given to only the top 5% of speakers world wide.

John Shackleton is passionate about lifting people’s performance and helping them to raise their game. His exhilarating master classes put sales teams, managers and business owners through their mental paces to help them achieve best performances in their business and personal life.

In his presentations he draws on his own business and sporting successes and failures, talking to sales people, managers and business owners about applying the sports psychology techniques he’s used himself to improve their performance and achieve greater results.

Over the last 20 years John has spoken to pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, banks, finance houses and real estate companies.  He has spoken in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe.

 His unique background and experience has made him a powerful motivational speaker with a story borne out of life experience not trite text book theory. His humorous but hard hitting style will have his audiences laughing and crying but more importantly they will find themselves making big changes to their thinking processes and taking greater levels of personal responsibility then ever before in their life.