ISAAC’S CORPORATE KEYNOTE SPEAKING SERVICES - Where Human Resilience Meets Sustainable Leadership
Isaac Kenyon delivers world-class keynotes and corporate experiences that help organisations reduce burnout, strengthen culture, and align people behind purpose, performance, and planet. His unique blend of scientific insight, elite endurance, and mental health expertise empowers teams to think clearer, collaborate better, and lead sustainably.
“Isaac creates world-first human-powered expeditions to inspire climate action and mental health awareness across the globe.”
Isaac Kenyon is a world-class corporate speaker who helps organisations build resilient people, sustainable cultures, and high-performing teams. Combining elite endurance achievements, scientific expertise, and lived experience of mental health recovery, he delivers powerful insights that drive measurable change.
As a sustainability leadership speaker, Isaac shows organisations how to balance people, performance, and planet. He helps leaders navigate ESG expectations, embed responsible decision-making, and build purpose-driven cultures that attract and retain top talent.
As a mental health and resilience speaker, Isaac brings rare honesty and lived experience. His journey through burnout and recovery gives leaders and teams practical, evidence-based tools to manage pressure, protect wellbeing, and sustain high performance in demanding environments.
As a team-building and high-performance speaker, Isaac draws on world-record endurance challenges and extreme expeditions to teach trust, collaboration, clarity, and communication under pressure. His stories connect directly to the realities of leadership, team dynamics, and performance in fast-moving organisations.
What sets Isaac apart is his ability to integrate all three disciplines (resilience, sustainability, and team performance) into one cohesive message. His sessions don’t just inspire; they create immediate emotional impact and long-lasting behavioural change.
If your organisation needs to reduce burnout, strengthen culture, improve performance, or align behind a purpose-driven ESG mission, Isaac delivers the insight, energy, and practical tools to make it happen.
Why does Isaac speak?
Isaac Kenyon speaks to help organisations build resilient, high-performing, and purpose-driven teams. Driven by a mission to improve human wellbeing and environmental responsibility, he translates world-record endurance challenges and eco-adventure leadership into practical lessons leaders can implement immediately.
His work empowers organisations to reduce burnout, strengthen culture, improve collaboration, and align people behind a shared mission. Every session is designed to create measurable impact, not just inspiration.
Who Isaac Works With
Isaac supports organisations that want an external expert to help them:
Embed resilience and wellbeing into their culture
Strengthen leadership alignment and communication
Improve trust, collaboration, and psychological safety
Drive engagement around key missions, strategies, or ESG commitments
Energise teams during periods of change, uncertainty, or high pressure
He uses powerful stories, proven frameworks, and evidence-based insights to reinforce leadership messages, build unity, and help teams adopt a shared language around resilience, sustainability, and mental health.
Isaac’s keynotes are especially effective for:
Financial Services • Insurance • Property & Real Estate • Banking • Media & Broadcasting • Digital Marketing • Health • Retail • Government Agencies • Intergovernmental Organisations
He is particularly skilled at connecting with Millennials and Gen Z, helping leaders bridge generational expectations around wellbeing, inclusion, purpose, and sustainability.
Why Organisations Choose Isaac
Fresh, next-generation leadership perspective
World-record team-building accomplishments under extreme pressure
Scientific expertise and sustainability leadership
Authentic lived experience with mental health and burnout
Ability to connect deeply with modern workforces
Immediate takeaways and long-term behavioural change
Videos of Isaac in action
Isaac’s Speaking Showreel
Watch a mental health-themed webinar Isaac delivered for client Webgains…
Watch Isaac’s Mental-health themed TED talk
Different roles Isaac can fulfil
KEYNOTE ROLES
Opening Keynote Speaker
Ignite energy, clarity, and purpose to set the tone for your entire event.
Closing Keynote Speaker
Leave audiences inspired with actionable commitments and powerful momentum for the future.
Conference Plenary Speaker
Deliver compelling, high-impact stories and insights for large, diverse conference audiences.
Motivational Keynote Speaker
Transform Isaac’s extreme adventures and mental health journey into practical, energising takeaways.
ESG & Sustainability Keynote Speaker
Ideal for organisations prioritising impact, responsible leadership, and climate-aligned culture.
Wellbeing & Mental Health Culture Speaker
Promote resilience, psychological safety, and sustainable human performance in the workplace.
Mental Health & Resilience (Lived-Experience) Speaker
Authentic, evidence-based sessions on burnout, recovery, eco-anxiety, and human resilience.
After-Dinner Keynote Speaker
Captivating, emotionally rich storytelling perfect for celebrations, gala dinners, and special events.
CORPORATE & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORMATS
Breakout Session Facilitator
Interactive small-group sessions on resilience, mental health, sustainability, adventure leadership, and team collaboration.
Lunch & Learn Speaker
Accessible, engaging sessions tailored for employee development and wellbeing initiatives.
Workshop / Masterclass Facilitator
Deep-dive experiential learning on resilience, sustainable performance, and leadership development.
Executive Retreat Speaker
Transformational sessions for senior teams focused on clarity, cohesion, and purpose-driven performance.
Leadership Development Coach
Structured coaching programmes grounded in resilience, wellbeing, and sustainable leadership practices.
Corporate Wellbeing Speaker
Sessions supporting HR, People & Culture, and wellbeing programmes.
Culture Transformation Speaker
Guiding organisations toward purpose-aligned, high-performance, and collaborative cultures.
SPECIALIST SPEAKING ROLES
Panel Speaker / Expert Panellist
Mental health, sustainability, ESG, climate, exploration, resilience, and team performance.
Fireside Chat Guest
Informal, highly engaging conversations ideal for leadership events, podcasts, or conference stages.
Virtual Keynote / Webinar Speaker
High-impact digital delivery suitable for global or hybrid audiences.
Fundraising Gala Speaker
Purpose-driven storytelling designed for charity, NGO, and impact-focused events.
Adventure & Exploration Speaker
Record-breaking eco-adventure storytelling with lessons on teamwork, grit, and sustainable performance.
B Corp & Impact Business Speaker
Speaking on mission-led business, sustainability culture, B Corp journeys, and climate innovation.
Speaker bureau companies Isaac is listed with
Isaac’s Top 5 Most Popular Signature Talks
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"Organisations are facing unprecedented pressure from burnout and stress. Isaac shares his lived experience as a mental health survivor and world-record adventurer to teach leaders and teams how to maintain peak performance sustainably, transforming stress into engagement and productivity."
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"In a world where leadership must deliver both results and purpose, Isaac demonstrates how to inspire teams, drive high performance, and integrate sustainability into strategy, leaving leaders equipped to make measurable impact on people and planet."
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"How do you perform at your best when stakes are life-or-death? Isaac translates lessons from ocean rows, mountains, and Ironman triathlons into actionable strategies for focus, resilience, and high performance in the corporate context."
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"High-performing teams are under pressure to adapt and innovate. Isaac shows how lessons from extreme expeditions can strengthen collaboration, trust, and resilience, creating teams that thrive in times of change.”
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"Modern workplaces face unprecedented mental, environmental, and cultural challenges. Isaac shows how reconnecting with nature and purpose can unlock human potential, enhancing wellbeing, innovation, and sustainable organisational performance."
Some of Isaac’s other talk topics
The Synergy Code: Uniting Teams for Excellence through Common Goals, Conflict Mastery, Strategic Thinking, Appreciation, Communication, Trust, and Connection - One of Isaac’s key talk topics is finding a team's common goal and why it improves teamwork as well as conflict management, thinking three steps ahead, the art of appreciation, communication, trust & creating connections to create a high-performing team.
Purpose understanding your true values and setting goals that are directed with a clear vision of those values
Nature's Healing Path: Unlocking Mental Well-being in the Workplace through Outdoor Exploration and Supportive Signposting - Includes sharing Isaac’s personal story of managing and thriving despite living with mental health issues. Using his experience as a trustee for MIND
Rising Strong: Power of Resilience in the Face of Adversity - This topic covers the art of resilience through facing adversity and surmounting challenges as well as techniques to deal with this.
How to start? Preparation - Failure to prepare, then prepare to fail, 5 fundamentals preparing and how to get them right.
Adapting to change (good and bad) through sharing life experiences through adventure and business. Leadership in times of difficulty
Unleashing Sustainability Leadership: Harnessing the Power of Eco-Adventure to Inspire Transformative Change
Scaling Sustainability: Inspiring Sustainable Business and Climate Solutions through Eco-Storytelling and Stakeholder Engagement
Relationship building to empower the wider team and stakeholders and making use of these relationships and maintaining a positive working culture from it.
Turning a dream into a reality and striving for a just cause, with a guided process to tackle any big audacious goal. Overcoming the fear of failure and “What Ifs”
A Selection of Isaac’s Previous Audiences
Isaac's talks have received positive feedback from prestigious entities such as the respected MARS Corporation, Channel 4, Hiscox Insurance, Bentley Drivers Club, and Vectos Group. Each presentation is a learning experience, as Isaac humbly embarks on a journey of transformation alongside each attentive audience, aiming to leave a lasting impression of knowledge and inspiration.
Take the 1st step for positive change for your team and get in touch with Isaac!
Isaac is going to give you a High five like this at the end of one of talks! This is teammate Cameron Parker high-fiving him after completing 40 days of rowing the Atlantic Ocean with Team Atlantic Discovery.
Image by: Penny Bird