Achieve Your Strategic Goal
Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? support ambitious business leaders to achieve clarity, alignment and the mindset change needed to drive lasting performance transformation. We do this by helping organisations turn strategic goals into collective ambition, prioritised action and sustained results.
Our Performance Programmes
Our tailored solutions are designed to create clarity, alignment and capability across your organisation – so performance improves sustainably, not temporarily. Each programme combines practical tools, workshops, facilitation and coaching to embed lasting change. Our unique blend of expertise from high performance sport and business is distilled into each of our programmes, to help executive teams get clear on what they’re trying to achieve as a business and support them in achieving it. We help them get clear on what matters most and execute their strategy with focus, alignment and accountability.
Who we are
Will It Make the Boat Go Faster? is a people performance and leadership consultancy that turns strategic ambition into business success. Established in 2012, we bring together deep expertise from elite sport, organisational psychology and senior leadership development to help organisations perform at their best when it matters most.
Our consultants bring experience from the highest levels of sport and business. They each have 10–45 years working alongside executive teams and leaders in complex, fast-moving organisations. Grounded in Olympic-winning principles, we partner with senior teams to turn strategic ambition into aligned action.
That means getting crystal-clear on what matters most, building commitment to shared goals and embedding the behaviours that sustain performance at every level. Whether we’re working with your executive team, leadership population or functional teams, our role is the same: to galvanise your people to move together, faster, with a culture and operating rhythm that keeps progress and results real long after our partnership ends.
Client stories
Trusted by 100s of organisations across sectors to deliver leadership development and performance transformation, our work creates clarity, commitment and momentum when it matters most.
Trusted by
Working with the Will It Make the Boat Go Faster team has been nothing short of exceptional. Their energy, wisdom, and deep expertise in high performance have been truly inspiring.
Sage
Let me just say that the partnership with 'Will it?' has been the most satisfying of any I've had with an external business. That's due to the care, attention and focus that they put into the preparation, as well as the unmatched delivery.
Utility Warehouse
We can say with absolute confidence that we are delivering our best ever performance and with that our best ever results. I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that the work that we’ve done with Will It? has had a direct impact on our organisational success.
FSCS
The impact on our business from working with the ‘Will it’ team has been transformational. As a leadership team, we have arrived at a series of goals that we are all fully committed to, and which now serve as the North Star of our business. I cannot recommend the ‘Will it’ team enough.
Glasswall
We recently had our best month ever from a sales perspective. It’s no coincidence to me that setting our vision and ‘Crazy Goal’ was crucial in this success. The process our team went through in partnering with ‘Will It?’ has enabled everyone to navigate the change, buy into the goal and understand their role in achieving it
Graf
The Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? team have a unique ability to listen and provide something meaningful and bespoke. Tailoring and adapting the programme has been really valuable to our leadership team.
GKN Aerospace
Will It? has the most amazing ability to understand a company’s strategy… they just jump in and grasp it!
ARM
Working with Will It Make The Boat Go Faster has been a catalyst for change. They didn’t just help us set a goal, they helped us believe in it, live it and use it to drive meaningful progress. We’re excited about the future and we’re moving forward together, faster and more focused than ever.
Armstrong Watson
Keynote Speaking
Alongside our consultancy and programmatic work, we have a number of world class keynote speakers who will captivate your audience and inspire action for the journey ahead.
Drawing on their unique experiences, each speaker is expert at tailoring their message to the objectives of your conference, workshop or event. By taking the time to understand your audience and what success looks like for you, they deliver content that is relevant, engaging and designed to create real impact for everyone in the room.
Ben Hunt Davis
Olympic gold medallist, co-founder & author
Ben tells the story of the last 24 months leading up to the Sydney Olympics and how the Great Britain Men’s Eights changed as a crew from being a regularly 7th placed boat to a winning one.
Harriet Beveridge
HEAD OF PROGRAMMES & CO-AUTHOR OF ‘WILL IT MAKE THE BOAT GO FASTER?’
Harriet tells the story of ‘Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?’ from the point of view of a sceptic who has been won over through hard evidence. This keynote is rooted in practical application and real-world stories.
Dr Cath Bishop
WORLD CHAMPION, OLYMPIC SILVER MEDALLIST & INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMAT
Drawing on her unique combination of experiences, Cath understands the resilience and leadership required to achieve high performance in challenging circumstances.
Steve Ingham
AUTHOR & ELITE SPORTS PHYSIOLOGIST TO OVER 200 OLYMPIC OR WORLD MEDALISTS
Steve tells the stories of some of the most well-known British Olympic champions, and puts into perspective the extraordinary performance strategies and plans required to achieve outstanding Olympic results.
Kate Richardson-Walsh
OBE, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL WINNING CAPTAIN & MOST CAPPED FEMALE HOCKEY PLAYER IN UK HISTORY
An inspirational & motivational story in pursuit of a Crazy goal, the achievements and self-evident team spirit of the GB Women’s hockey team in Rio captured the hearts and minds of the nation.