I help people find the conviction to back what they know, what they sell, and who they are.

Working with sales leaders, executives, and the teams around them.

Conviction

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Keynote Speaking Topics

Have you noticed the pattern?

Capable people who feel invisible. Teams that seem aligned but stay quiet when it matters. Pitches that sound confident but don't land. Leaders who are outstanding at what they do but aren't cutting through in the market the way they should.

Most of the time, it has nothing to do with capability. It's about what isn't yet fully accessible.

The substance, the knowledge, the genuine value that's already there. When that's surfaced and framed into something we can stand behind, articulate, present, and own, the performance stops. And what replaces it is conviction. Not manufactured confidence. The real kind that other people feel the moment you walk in the room.

That's what I work on. In practice, that means workshops that shift how teams show up together, keynotes that name what a room has been circling, and sessions that help leaders and sales teams get sharp on the story they're selling and the conviction to sell it.

This isn't soft work. When people show up with genuine conviction, it changes how decisions get made, how teams hold together under pressure, and how effectively organisations compete.

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A strategy led approach, not another workbook

When you work with me, you get me. Not a framework I've licensed, not someone I've trained up under my brand. Twenty-five years of pattern recognition, commercial instinct, and lived experience, in the room, in service of what you actually need.

I love a good framework, I'm a strategist, of course I do. But they're tools I use, not products I sell. The difference is that I work on what's actually holding things back, not what looks good on paper.

The shift sticks because it's owned by the people doing the work, not handed to them as another process to follow. We're not building something from scratch; we're removing what's in the way of what's already there.

If this resonates, let's talk.

How the work shows up.

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Workshops & Offsites.

This is where connection resets and behaviour shifts happen. I work with teams that look aligned but aren't realising their full potential, and leaders who want to close the gap between their potential and how the team experiences them. The result is faster decisions, stronger alignment, and a team that holds together as everything around them changes.

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Influence Building Programs.

Most people try to change others to get what they want. The leaders who actually move people work on themselves first. This is about developing the kind of presence that earns attention, shifts thinking and builds the trust that makes influence possible. Not through tactics or technique, but through how you show up, what you stand for and the conviction you bring to every room you walk into.

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Keynote Speaking.

The room sees the pattern they're living and names the gap in real time, so everyone walks away with clarity on what to do next. It’s human behaviour married with why we do what we do, delivered with a sprinkle of humour and lived experience. Highly engaging, deceptively simple, immediately actionable change.

I work with people who are outstanding at what they do and ready to close the gap to their full potential.

Who should work with Fishy?

01.

Teams ready to unlock the people behind the titles


When you are formidable on paper but fragmented in the room, the expertise is there, but the connection is missing.

02.

Teams where uncertainty is shifting behaviour


When hesitation results from second-guessing every move, and the "wait and see" mindset stalls momentum.

03.

Commercial leaders losing winnable deals


You are tired of great thinking failing to get traction, and enthusiastic prospects who turn into ghosts.

04.

Leaders who need visibility without theatrics


You refuse to play the superficial personal brand game and want to be known for who you are and what you stand for.

The gaps we close together.

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Presence that Converts

  • The offer is strong, but the narrative and the delivery aren't doing it justice. I work with sales teams and commercial leaders to strip back what's been over-engineered and replace it with clarity and conviction that increase your value, reduce indecision, and make you easier to buy.

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Presence that Connects

  • For leadership teams and teams where there is no shortage of capability, but something in the dynamic is holding back potential. We identify what lives in the gap, name what hasn't been named, and build the behaviours, individually and collectively, that unlock what the team is actually capable of.

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Presence that Positions

  • For trusted experts and leaders who have earned their credibility but haven't yet mastered translating what they know into influence. We work on how you show up, what you say and the conviction you bring, so the right people feel it without you having to sell it.

When we solve for where the pattern has become the handbrake on what's possible, everything else starts to move. Together, we identify where that shift can make the biggest impact:

Partnerships.

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The pattern.

The people I work with remind me of myself. They've achieved plenty, but somewhere along the way, achievement became the shield instead of the substance. I see the pattern because I lived it and still do. I help you stop performing and start living into who you actually are.

Media Coverage

Fishy is a regular podcast guest, and feature writer and contributor to these leading publications

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  • “David’s facilitation, agile approach to leadership meetings …“executive scrum mastering” is probably the best way I can describe it… has been a breath of fresh air bringing much needed structure and output to the group.”

  • “You have brought us structure, discipline & clarity of thought. You have mentored our thinking and behaviour. I strongly believe our strength is in our trust and teamwork, which you have been instrumental in crafting. Thanks to your dedication, we see the transformation and power of our functioning team. We would not have reached this milestone without you.”

  • “Fishy conducted this masterclass seamlessly keeping everyone engaged the whole day. The way the learnings were integrated into the running of the day demonstrates the power of the tools. Each member in the room walked away feeling like they’d learnt something valuable, with a lot of discussions continuing post the workshop.”

  • “David was an excellent communicator who was great at educating the group in a safe and fun environment. He provided clear tools that will immediately provide benefits to myself and my team’s work. I really enjoyed the workshop and look forward to sharing my new learnings. “

  • “David is one the best trainers and facilitators I have had the pleasure of working with. He brings clarity to the subject matter and has a way of creatively and clearly articulating and breaking down complex matters that could otherwise, and often do, overwhelm. His firm approach, combined with humour and empathy, keeps participants engaged, challenged and on track. “

  • “The Presentation Masterclass with David Fish was one of the most impactful training sessions I have ever had the opportunity to undertake. Fishy’s objective to train us on how to be Clear, Concise and Compelling was demonstrated by his presentation style, which was all 3 of these elements. I'm looking forward to putting what I learned into practice and sharing this with my team.

    Fishy created an honest, open, and safe space to critically evaluate our work and inspired me to the up the ante!”

  • “Truly the most memorable conference days yet.. a fantastic day and one we will all cherish for many years to come”

  • “Thank you for your interesting and informative keynote presentation today, definitely gave me lots to think about and highlighted things I can do differently! Really enjoyed the session. “

  • “David Fish is such an amazing storyteller and communicator. He made everything he explained seem so simple and easily understandable. I’ve already had great success applying his theories and processes.”

  • “It was a privilege to spend the day with Fishy and have him take us through this project. He made something quite complex so easy to understand through a super fun, interactive and knowledgeable session.”

  • “The feedback from the team was overwhelmingly positive and we all agreed that this is genuinely one the best training sessions we have completed as a group. It was perfectly tailored to not only our business outcomes but our personal workings as a team. We got tangible and actionable next steps that we will continue to touch base on and work through. Working towards a goal for the entire two days gave the team direction and purpose and being able to walk away with a really clear goal is so beneficial.”

At the end of the day, people won’t remember the pitch, the post, or the nice shirt.

They remember how it felt to be in the room with us and the stories and moments they can relate to.

We have a choice right now: to work harder to compete with the noise to stand out, be noticed and liked, or to be known for who we are and what we bring because of who we are.

I say let’s own that.