Claire Bennett was a member of the Great Britain women’s foil fencing team and part of the World Class Performance Programme.
She represented Great Britain in European and World Championships since the age of 14. As captain of England Claire won individual Bronze and Team Gold at the 2010 and 2006 Commonwealth Fencing Games.
With 10 years’ experience as an accredited transformational leadership and performance coach, trainer and speaker; Claire is dedicated to supporting others to perform their best and achieve their goals, while having fun in the process. Claire delivers motivational talks and workshops in schools, universities and businesses to help unlock potential and achieve peak performance. She also works with elite orchestras to help them with their performance anxiety before they go on stage.
Claire has worked with young people in schools as an athlete mentor, speaker and facilitator for the past 15 years. She struggled with feelings of stress and anxiety throughout her fencing career. She didn’t enjoy the journey enough and put too much pressure on herself to obtain medal success. Claire has now learned from this experience and uses her world-class attitudes and behaviours that she has gained through elite level sport, to encourage young people to enjoy what they do, have fun with what they do, and perform their best.
Work hard, worry less and achieve more is Claire’s motto. She has experienced the highs and lows of elite level sport and she now shares her experience to help others to achieve their potential. From dealing with disappointment, to building confidence, resilience, managing stress and using motivation to help drive performance, Claire will leave a lasting, positive impact on your students.
Claire’s delivery style is fun, energetic, supportive and motivating. She has transformed the lives of many young people and she would love to come and visit your school!
Claire is also a Mum of two and in her spare time commentates on fencing for TNT Sports.
Knowing Claire from Durham University Fencing and her successes with Team GB, I invited her and her colleague to give resilience-training for tutors and students at the National Tutors Conference 2019. Claire’s story especially in elite sport and the life lessons she learnt were and are very inspiring. She left me and fellow tutors feeling motivated, more self-aware and confident to spur on our students to be the very best that they can be.
Inspirational Athletes connects schools & communities with elite athletes who inspire, motivate and engage young people through talks, workshops and sports sessions.
Address:
Stratford-Upon-Avon, CV37 1RD
Phone:
020 7993 2724
Inspirational Speakers has been providing high profile keynote speakers and entertainers for over 25 years.
