Trevor Hendy AM

World Champion Ironman, Performance Coach, Leadership & High Performance Keynote Speaker

Trevor helps individuals and organisations uncover what’s holding them back and unlock their full potential. Drawing on lessons from elite sport and life beyond competition, he inspires audiences to pursue purpose, resolve conflict and create a wave of lasting success.

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Trevor Hendy is an Australian former Ironman surf lifesaving champion, renowned for his remarkable achievements in the sport during the late 1980s and 1990s. He dominated the Ironman circuit, winning multiple national and international titles, and is celebrated for his athletic prowess and resilience.

Following his illustrious sports career, Hendy transitioned into a new role as a life coach, where he leverages his experiences and insights gained from competitive sports to help others achieve personal growth and fulfillment. His coaching approach emphasizes mental clarity, self-awareness, and empowerment, guiding clients to unlock their true potential and live authentically.

Today, Trevor Hendy is highly regarded for his contributions to both sports and personal development, making a positive impact on many lives through his coaching work.

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Leadership & Workshops

A new way to look at Leadership

Are you ready to elevate your business, your team, and yourself to a more evolved level of success—one where collaboration, unity, and shared achievement take precedence over winning at all costs? Let’s redefine what success looks like, creating an environment where everyone thrives on every level.

Trevor Hendy’s leadership workshops offer a fresh perspective for businesses and teams looking to unlock their true potential. We, as humans, have IMMENSE capacity to grow, create, and succeed, yet so often this is obscured by negative thoughts, limiting beliefs, unproductive patterns, and ingrained behaviors. Some of these barriers originate in our own minds, while others are like the unseen impurities in a fishbowl—subtle yet pervasive forces in our environment that cloud clarity and stifle progress.

Trevor’s workshops are an invitation to uncover these hidden influences, challenge old paradigms, and embrace transformative viewpoints. Through his engaging and tailored approach, you’ll explore the power of authentic leadership, foster collaboration, and create a culture where innovation and resilience thrive. Trevor’s philosophy has always been “Winning on all levels”, rather than Winning at all costs.

Are you ready to see the bigger picture? To take a closer look at the unseen forces holding you back and empower yourself and your team with clarity and purpose? As Trevor likes to say: *“Bring it into now and never underestimate the power of who you are!”* Let’s explore together and unlock what’s possible—for your people, your business, and your future.

Corporate Mentoring

Taking your Team to the next level

Looking to unite your team, resolve challenges, and inspire growth?

Trevor’s expert programs bring individuals together around a shared purpose, collaboration, clarity, and success through dynamic activities and tailored solutions.

Trevor has a unique ability to bring individuals together and unite them around a shared purpose, fostering collaboration, understanding, and growth. With his intuitive approach and skillful facilitation, Trevor creates an environment where challenges can be resolved, potential can be realized, and teams can thrive.

His programs are thoughtfully designed to address the specific needs of organisations, ensuring outcomes that are not only impactful but also enduring. Whether your focus is on strengthening team cohesion, resolving conflicts, or planning for the future, Trevor’s expertise and engaging style will inspire transformation and alignment.

Offerings include – Team Building – to enhance trust and synergy, – Conflict Resolution-, to foster understanding and harmony, and – Succession Planning – to ensure a seamless leadership transition. Trevor also incorporates dynamic and engaging activities like structured corporate games, including the innovative Element X, which combines strategy, teamwork, and fun to reinforce key principles in a memorable way.

With Trevor’s guidance, your team will leave with renewed energy, clearer communication, and a stronger sense of unity and purpose. Whether it’s tackling complex challenges or simply bringing a team closer together, Trevor’s programs are an investment in your people and in your organisation’s success.

Personal Coaching

Are you ready to let go of what’s been holding you back?

Trevor offers a wide range of personalised one-on-one sessions designed to support individuals in creating meaningful and lasting positive changes in their lives. With a deep passion for helping people unlock their potential, Trevor approaches each session with care, dedication, and a focus on fostering a shift in awareness.

These sessions are tailored to meet each individual’s unique needs and goals, whether it’s breaking through a long-standing fear, rediscovering joy and vitality through fun and active engagement, or delving deeper to uncover and address the barriers that may be holding you back. Trevor’s method combines genuine personal connection with insightful conversations, creating a safe and supportive space for growth and exploration. It might be to finally break through a fear, step out and have some fun whilst getting active or dig a little deeper and find out what is holding you back.

Whether you’re seeking clarity, inspiration, or simply the courage to take that next step, Trevor’s one-on-one sessions are an opportunity to ignite transformation, embrace new possibilities, and take charge of your personal journey with confidence and purpose.

Trevor Hendy was a guest speaker at my monthly Business Excellence Breakfasts held in Tweed and Gold Coast several months ago. The presenters are the best in Australia and many are of international status. The impact Trevor made on the large audience of 100 leading business people was incredibly powerful … He held their attention from his opening words with his inspirational stories that made a real connection with the audience. No other speaker over the years has made this brilliant an impact to this mix of businessman. He has a speaking style that relates well to any group and makes a real connection with his audience. Trevor is a real champion who has the gift of being able to transfer his methodology of success to an audience that will leave with the motivation to strive for success and overcome any hurdles. Business Excellence Events
I had the pleasure of hearing Trevor Hendy speak to an audience of mostly women, about his mission in life now to empower people to learn from their mistakes and walk through their difficulties to discover who they really are. This was Australia’s legend of sport; the greatest Ironman in the world; the pride of Australian Surf Lifesaving – standing before us showing a soft side, an endearing vulnerability that won our hearts as he revealed that despite all the fame and glory in his life, it didn’t make him happy. Let me tell you, Trevor won many hearts at this seminar. He exudes love and passion for what he’s doing – empowering people to maximize their human potential. Whilst his story covers love and values, it started with awareness: that his life was no longer fulfilling; something was missing – and he tuned in, truly inspirational. Di Gorry, Author
We engaged Trevor to run a motivational session for us in the early stages of some training for our retention team. Trevor truly delivered to brief and then some. He was energetic, enthusiastic, focused and present. He engaged with the entire audience and made the content relevant and meaningful. The participants were all overwhelmed with his honestly, humbleness, great sense of humour and motivating stories. Indeed I found myself questioning my own practices and checking in with my own guiding principles as a result. His topic was relevant and Trevor was really able to make the content relevant to the audience – tapping into the brief he was given, but also adding commentary that made it his own. We all engaged with Trevor and were enthralled with his ability to make us want to do and be better. Trevor was generous with his time, gave the team the upmost respect by preparing and meeting them in their world. I enjoyed every minute of the session and found myself wanting to listen for longer. AUSTAR Entertainment Pty Limited
I have the pleasure of managing a team of sales professionals from diverse backgrounds and geographies. Our team members consist of both male & female, from the CBD of cities, to little country towns and from all different walks of life. Annually I bring the team together to provide business updates, essential training and networking opportunities … Trevor’s presentation was engaging, motivational and entertaining ... In delivering the story of his journey to becoming the Australian Ironman Champion his message to the team was clear, if you are willing to commit to the hard work and make the sacrifices necessary, then you can really achieve anything you put your mind too … The passion, honesty and openness of his presentation ensured his message and moral to the story was clearly articulated. Trevor was very generous with his time, staying post the formalities and speaking personally with those looking for the opportunity. Commonwealth Bank, Regional Business and Private Banking