Roberto Forzoni is a keynote speaker on teamwork and resilience, delivering evidence-based talks for corporate conferences and leadership events. As a keynote speaker on teamwork, resilience, and leadership under pressure, Roberto draws on 30 years of elite sport psychology to help organisations perform better and feel better.
Keynote Speaking
A keynote speaker on teamwork, resilience, and performing better under pressure.
Every keynote is tailored through a personal pre-event consultation. Roberto draws on thirty years of frontline experience with Olympic champions, Premier League football clubs, and global leadership audiences, delivered with warmth, humour, and a magician's sense of timing.
Inside Winning Teams
In today's fast-moving world, the teams that thrive are the ones that are connected, psychologically safe, and built for trust, performance, and well-being. In this engaging keynote on teamwork and resilience, Roberto draws on three decades of experience with Olympic athletes, Premier League football teams, and global organisations to share the principles behind elite-level teamwork.
How did West Ham transform a 23% point return into 78% in a single season? How did Team Murray propel Andy Murray to world number one? And how did Derek Chisora use team-building psychology to prepare for the World Heavyweight Championship? Roberto answers these questions through compelling stories and practical, evidence-based frameworks your team can use immediately.
- The laws of effective teamwork used by elite sports teams and high-performing companies
- How one Premier League team turned around a 23% points return into 78% in a single season
- What transformed Andy Murray from world-class talent into World No. 1, and why Team Murray was a game-changer
- Practical principles for building resilient, cohesive, and focused teams
- Strategies to improve both performance and psychological well-being
Ideal for: CEOs, senior leaders, HR and People teams, department heads, and teams navigating change, growth, or performance pressure.
The Winning Mind
Mindset is not a fixed trait you are born with. It is trainable, in the same way physical fitness is. In this keynote, Roberto draws on three decades of work with Olympic champions, Premier League footballers, and global leadership teams to show how focus, confidence, and motivation can be built deliberately, then held under the kind of pressure that makes most people shrink.
This is not a talk about positive thinking. It is about what the research actually shows works when the stakes are high: how elite performers manage their attention, reframe pressure, recover from setbacks, and keep choosing well when it matters most. Audiences leave with practical, evidence-based tools they can use the next morning, not slogans.
- Why mindset is a skill that can be trained, and how to train it
- How elite performers hold focus and confidence when the pressure is at its highest
- What the science says about reframing pressure as an advantage rather than a threat
- Practical tools for motivation, attention, and bouncing back from setbacks
- Why "just think positive" falls apart under pressure, and what to do instead
Ideal for: sales teams, individual performers, leaders operating under sustained pressure, and anyone looking for a genuine competitive edge in how they think and perform.
The Lucky Shirt: The Surprising Psychology of Superstition in Sport
Why does a world-class athlete put the right boot on first, eat the same meal before every match, or refuse to change a shirt during a winning run? Superstition in sport looks irrational, yet some of the most successful performers in the world rely on it. In this engaging and entertaining keynote, Roberto draws on three decades inside elite sport to explain what superstition is really doing, and why it persists at the very highest level.
The answer is about control. When the stakes are high and the outcome is uncertain, superstition restores a sense of agency. The crucial distinction, and the practical takeaway for any audience, is between fragile superstition, where the power sits outside the person, and robust routine, where the power sits firmly inside them. Roberto shows how to keep the confidence and lose the fragility, drawing on the evidence honestly, including where the research is more contested than the headlines suggest.
- Why superstition is so common among elite performers, and what it is actually doing
- Superstition as a control-restoration device for high-stakes, uncertain moments
- The key distinction between fragile superstition and robust routine
- How to build the confidence of a ritual without becoming dependent on it
- An honest look at what the science does and does not show about lucky charms
Ideal for: conference audiences and after-dinner events, teams operating under uncertainty and pressure, and anyone who wants a smart, surprising, and entertaining take on how the mind seeks control.
Every Event is Different
Tailored to your audience, objectives, and format.
Conference Keynote
45 to 60 minute high-impact talk for conferences, summits, and large-scale events. Includes pre-event consultation to tailor content to your theme and audience.
Interactive Workshop
Half-day or full-day sessions combining presentation with group exercises, discussion, and practical application. Ideal for leadership teams and away days.
Virtual Delivery
All keynotes and workshops available virtually with the same energy, interaction, and impact. Proven format for distributed and international teams.
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