Benjamin Hamlett
Keynote SpeakerPerformance Coach
ABOUT BENJAMIN HAMLETT
An ongoing exploration
of human potential.
Benjamin’s work is driven by a question: how do people connect with who they are and give fuller expression to what they are capable of?
His perspective brings the inner and outer parts of performance together: the beliefs that shape a person’s choices, the capacity to act on them, and the life those actions create.
Ambition matters. So does knowing what it is for.
Benjamin at work across sport, leadership and organisations.
Football took Benjamin across three continents. He trained to get stronger, move better and deliver when the game was on the line.
He was drawn to the biggest moments. Preparing for them led him to explore how physical training, psychology and breathing influenced what he could express on the field.
Serious knee, ankle and brain injuries interrupted that pursuit. The first forced Benjamin to question who he was when he could no longer do the thing that had defined him.
Alongside rehabilitation, he worked with a psychologist and practised mindfulness and breathing, learning to meet pain and uncertainty differently. He returned to competition and went on to play professionally in Portugal.
Later injuries ended his playing career. Building a business and raising a young family brought new demands. His drive to keep pushing eventually led to burnout.
Changing how he organised his days, recovered between demands and switched off at home helped him regain energy and connection with his wife and children. His business continued to grow.
Years of study in psychology, physiology and breathing helped Benjamin make sense of his experiences. More than a decade of coaching athletes, leaders and teams has continued to test and deepen that understanding.
He connects the science with what people recognise in themselves, then helps them develop the health, self-awareness and capacity to perform with confidence and live with purpose.
Benjamin studies human performance as a coach, an athlete and a practitioner.
He holds a Bachelor of Psychological Science and has trained in strength and conditioning, biomechanics and breathing physiology. His work draws on years spent developing physical capacity and preparing people to perform.
Alongside that physical practice, he has explored attention, equanimity and self-awareness through Vipassana meditation and silent retreats. He continues to test what he teaches in his own training and daily life.
HOLOS gives this work its structure, developing capacity around a person’s identity, values and direction.
Explore the HOLOS systemIdeas become useful when people can feel the difference
and apply it to a real challenge.
Who are you?
What do you want?
What is in the way?
Through conversation and assessment, Benjamin explores the beliefs and expectations shaping a person’s choices, and the physical and mental foundations supporting them.
He questions assumptions, guides practical training and helps people test a different response. The work becomes part of how they prepare, make decisions and live, with progress understood through both measurement and personal experience.
An executive is expected to provide clarity while making decisions without all the answers. A founder struggles to switch off from a growing business, with little energy left for life outside it. An athlete or coach knows the ability is there, yet sees tension, hesitation or overthinking get in the way when the result is on the line.
Benjamin shapes the work around those demands. Through practical training and reflection, people learn to recognise their responses and develop the capacity to think clearly, act with confidence and recover. The work is connected to the decisions, conversations and competitive moments they actually face.
Leadership and performance under pressure
Performance breathing workshops
Chapter retreat work
Benjamin wants people to realise more of their potential and live from a clearer connection to who they are.
That means pursuing excellence with purpose, and developing the health, freedom and presence to find fulfilment in the life they are creating.
Through the way people lead and work with others, that development can reach a whole team or organisation.
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Coaching shaped around your goals, performance and life.
For athletes, founders and leadersPerformance, leadership and wellbeing work shaped around your people.
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