Patrick Sweeney

What Are His Conferences Like?

Patrick Sweeney’s talks are inspiring and transformative, combining his personal experience with cutting-edge neuroscience research on fear. With a dynamic and engaging style, Patrick guides his audience to turn fear into a driver of success. His talks cover how the brain’s automatic fear responses can be a competitive advantage and how leaders can create cultures of courage within their organizations.
Patrick not only motivates but also provides practical, neuroscience-based techniques that attendees can immediately apply in their personal and professional lives. His focus on breaking barriers and exceeding limits has resonated across a wide range of industries, from tech startups to elite sports.

Selection of Conferences

The Surprising Power of Fear

In this award-winning talk, Patrick Sweeney reveals how fear neuroscience can be used to achieve peak performance. Named the best keynote of 2017 by Google’s European Headquarters, this talk shows how the brain’s automatic reactions to fear can be transformed into power and success.

Start-Up Me: Running Your Life and Career Like an Entrepreneur

Patrick shares the five key principles that anyone can adopt to live and work like an entrepreneur. In this talk, he explores how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to create a successful life and career, drawing on his experience as a startup founder and angel investor.

Breaking the Rules in Life and Business

What rules are holding you back? In this talk, Patrick teaches how to identify the rules that are limiting you and how to break them to achieve your full potential. Drawing on his business experience, he shares how three of his companies dominated their fields by breaking established norms.

Creating a Culture of Courage

In this keynote, Patrick explores how fear holds people and organizations back, and how a culture of courage can transform performance. Through neuroscience-based techniques, Patrick shows how to unlock employees’ potential and change corporate culture for unprecedented success.