Webinar - Lessons in Transformation from the World of High Performance - NEW
*Exclusive to Henley Partnership members*
This session is about how the highest-performing people successfully face change – and how you can too.

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Date | 20 May 2025 |
Time | 10:00-12:00 (Timezone: Europe/London) |
Price | *Exclusive to Henley Partnership members *Up to 50 places* |
Venue | Online |
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How do I book?
This event is exclusive to members of The Henley Partnership.
To book please contact your HR or Learning and Development team at your organisation.
Unsure who to contact? Please do not hesitate to contact us at thp@henley.ac.uk
Description
This session is about how the highest-performing people successfully face change – and how you can too. Drawing on interviews with record-setting athletes, Olympic coaches and leading business founders, Damian Hughes introduces five simple steps that take you from where you are to where you want to be. He introduces cutting-edge research that explains why these surprisingly simple tools are so effective and the best ways to apply them. These five simple steps are:
- Dream: imagining the life you want
- Leap: daring to go after it
- Fight: how to reframe the inevitable setbacks that occur
- Climb: how to create momentum
- Arrival: what happens next
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the session, you will:
- understand change management techniques
- have applied goal-setting strategies
- understand about the development of resilience and how to overcome setbacks
- know how to build and sustain momentum
Who is this for
This session is for leaders and managers who are leading (or are going to be leading) change within an organisation context. It’s for anyone who is in transition, professionally or personally.
Professor Damian Hughes

Damian Hughes is a bestselling author who combines his practical and academic background within sport, organisational development and change psychology, to help organisations and teams to create a high-performing culture.
He is the author of eight best-selling business books, including Liquid Thinking, Liquid Leadership (2009), How to Change Absolutely Anything (2012), How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson (2014) and The Five STEPS to a Winning Mindset (2016).
His other books, High Performance: Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best (2021), and How to Change Your Life (2023), are Sunday Times number-one best sellers. His work has been translated into twelve languages.
Damian’s Peerless (2007) is a biography of boxing great, Sugar Ray Robinson, and he co-authored a critically acclaimed biography of boxing legend, Thomas Hearns. In 2013, his book Marvelous: The Marvin Hagler Story became the UK’s best-selling sports biography.
Damian was appointed as a visiting Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Change at Manchester Metropolitan University in September 2010.
He is the co-host of The High Performance Podcast, an acclaimed series of interviews with elite performers from business, sport and the arts, exploring the psychology behind sustained high performance. The podcast has over 250 million downloads.
He has served as a member of the coaching team for England Rugby League, England Roses, Scotland Rugby Union and a wide range of international and national sporting teams.
He is also the founder of The School Coat Charity, which addresses the challenges of children living in poverty, by providing coats for those most in need.
*Up to 50 places per member organisation. 'Up to' indicates the maximum number per member organisation. All places are subject to availability at the time of booking.
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