Brendan helps corporate leaders and their teams become stronger by adopting more high-performance teamwork & collaboration behaviours.

He shares the tools and strategies he knows from experience develop a strong collaborative culture that embraces change, provides psychological safety in uncertainty and develops brilliant, resilient people.

Brendan skippered a racing yacht in the ultimate long-distance challenge. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race – A 40,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe, contested by amateur crews in identical  vessels.

Although Brendan was the youngest and least experienced skipper in the race, he and his team won it in convincing fashion. They didn’t win because he was the best sailor or strategist, but because he created a resilient, high-ownership culture, with a compelling vision, strong values and a continuous-improvement mindset.

After completing the Clipper Race, Brendan has become an authority on Teamwork and Leadership, authoring Team Spirit – The collected lessons and best practices from his team’s Clipper Race experience.

Published by Bloomsbury, Team Spirit has sold over 35,000 copies worldwide and was shortlisted for the prestigious Mountbatten book award.

Retired from professional yacht skippering, Brendan is an EMCC Certified Executive Coach Practitioner, specialising in coaching 10-25 person project teams on improving their daily collaborative practices, having more productive conversations and embedding a culture of collective ownership.

He works internationally with high performing teams who want to climb the collaborative maturity ladder and deliver impactful results within their organisation.

As well as this, he is working towards a PhD in Organisational Psychology.