Tanni Grey-Thompson

Biography:

11 Paralympic Gold Medals, 6 times winner of London Wheelchair Marathon.

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson is Britain’s greatest Paralympic athlete. She competed in five Paralympic Games, winning 11 Gold Medals, and is acknowledged as one of the most gifted and courageous sportswomen of her generation. In addition to her outstanding Paralympic achievements, between 1992 and 2002 she won the London Wheelchair Marathon a total of six times.

Now retired, Tanni still plays an active role in the administration of sport. Amongst other positions she is a consultant to the 2012 Organising Committee, a Laureus Sport for Good Foundation Trustee, non-executive director of UK Athletics, on the board of Transport for London and is an International Inspiration Ambassador for UNICEF. In 2005 she was made ‘Dame’ Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE for her services to sport, while in 2010 she was elevated to the House of Lords as a “people’s peer”. With specialist interest in sport, disability, health and youth development she sits on the crossbenches, bringing a wealth of experience and authority to the House.

Tanni understands the parallels between sport and business, and has invaluable lessons from her sporting background that can be transferred to the boardroom. A very strong communicator, she is brilliant at motivating and inspiring an audience, be it a small gathering of CEOs or a large room of employees.

In everything that Tanni does her lively personality and down to earth humour shines through. Whether entertaining guests with behind the scenes stories from the Olympics or providing colourful anecdotes of her many meetings with world leaders, she gives real insight into what it is like to represent and win gold for your country. 

Tanni speaks about dedication, achievement and fun. 

TESTIMONIALS

“A truly inspiration and excellent key note presentation at the Towards World Class HR in the North West Conference. Thank you for your valuable contribution.” NHS North West Conference

“Dame Tanni’s presentation was outstanding. She delivered a talk that met the aims of the conference. The audience were completely engaged and hung on every word. The feedback was positive. They felt Tanni was an inspiration and felt that her comments about sport were easily transferable to education.” Jewish Schools Conference

“She was simply excellent” Johnson’s Paint, motivational speech

“Tanni presented to a room of some 200 Sainsbury’s colleagues. All our colleagues found her stories of her sports career both fascinating and inspiring. Her desire to succeed was obvious and certainly something to think about! Tanni took questions from the audience. Her natural, relaxed style made colleagues feel able to ask many questions across a raft of topics, not least her role on Transport for London.” CEO, Justin King, Sainsbury’s