Eddie Davenport: Hollywood Stuntman
Eddie Davenport is a Satellite Award–winning Hollywood stuntman turned keynote speaker who helps leaders and teams move through hesitation and perform under pressure.
Quick Facts:
- More than 20 years as a Hollywood stunt performer
- Credits across more than 140 television episodes and 40 feature films
- Stunt double for Hugh Jackman and Zachary Levi
- Satellite Award winner for stunt performance on The Suicide Squad
- Formats:
- Keynote speaker; immersive breath experience
- Audiences:
- Leadership teams, sales teams and organizations navigating consequential decisions, change or high-pressure work.
- Outcomes:
- Recognize when hesitation is delaying a necessary decision.
- Use Eddie’s practical frameworks to move from preparation to action.
- Build greater awareness and steadiness when pressure rises.
- Travels from: Los Angeles, CA
- **US Fee range: $10,000 - $15,000
Talent Services
Keynote Topics:
DECISIVE UNDER PRESSURE™
Signature keynote · the F.E.A.R. Protocol™ and Pressure Profile™ · 45–60 minutes
Under pressure, your brain changes before your behavior does. The most costly leadership failures aren’t caused by not knowing what to do — they’re caused by the gap between knowing and doing. Eddie spent more than 20 years inside one of the world’s most pressure-concentrated environments for human decision-making. This keynote is the system he built from it.
WHAT THE ROOM LEAVES WITH
- Why capable people hesitate — Hesitation isn’t a lack of ability or experience. It’s a predictable human response to pressure, and once a team can name it they can interrupt it before it costs them the moment.
- A protocol they can run under pressure — The F.E.A.R. Protocol™ — Focus, Evaluate, Act, Review. Simple and repeatable, for pressure, uncertainty, or any moment hesitation threatens to slow a decision down.
- Their own pressure profile — A live audience diagnostic. Every person identifies their decision-making archetype under pressure — Analyzer, Initiator, Forecaster or Operator — and leaves with language the organization can use Monday morning.
WHY IT LANDS
Most leadership content addresses what to decide. This one addresses the moment of commitment — and it comes from a career where hesitation affected safety, careers and sometimes lives, not a quarterly number.
WHO IT IS FOR
Executive leadership, leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, government, and high-performance teams.
BUILT FOR IMPACT™
Story-driven keynote · six chapters, six lessons
Drawing on more than 20 years as a Hollywood stuntman, Eddie takes audiences through a life of literal and figurative impact — from an overweight, bullied kid who once saw no future for himself, to performing on some of the biggest film and television productions in the world. Through cinematic storytelling, humor, vulnerability and behind-the-scenes Hollywood experiences, the journey unfolds one chapter at a time, each revealing a different lesson about what challenges teach us and what setbacks create.
WHAT THE ROOM LEAVES WITH
- Resistance builds you — The challenges you’d never choose may be the very experiences developing the strength you’ll need for what comes next.
- The setback can be the setup — What feels like it’s taking you backward may be positioning you for an opportunity you can’t see yet.
- Our experiences shape who we are — Every success, failure, risk, rejection and unexpected turn becomes part of us, and shapes what we’re capable of.
- The experience doesn’t define you — what you take from it does — Every difficult moment leaves a choice in what we carry forward. A shift in perspective can reveal what we couldn’t see while we were in it.
WHY IT LANDS
Six chapters — Three Stories Up, The Move to L.A., The Hit That Changed Everything, Hugh Jackman, When the Script Disappears, and Superman — give a room a narrative arc rather than a list of takeaways, which is why it works as an opener or a closer.
WHO IT IS FOR
Conference openings and closings, association events, all-hands and team kickoffs, retreats and off-sites, safety conferences, healthcare, first-responder, military and veteran, and education audiences.
STEADY UNDER PRESSURE™ — THE IMMERSIVE BREATH EXPERIENCE
Experiential session · 60 minutes condensed, 75 minutes full (recommended)
A facilitated immersive breath experience designed to help leaders and teams quiet the noise, strengthen presence, and experience what becomes possible when they regain command of their internal state. Participants are guided through progressive rounds of conscious connected breathing — The Walk, two Jogs, The Sprint, and Stillness — and practice remaining present while discomfort, resistance or emotion is happening. That is where the experience connects to performance under pressure: steadiness isn’t learned by being told to stay calm.
WHAT PEOPLE TAKE AWAY
Increased mental clarity and focus · reduced stress and tension · greater emotional awareness · a stronger mind-body connection · a renewed sense of calm and presence · greater trust in their own capacity.
PLACEMENT
Delivered in person or live virtually, as an experiential add-on to the Decisive Under Pressure™ keynote or as a standalone session for leadership retreats, offsites, conferences and workshops. Works especially well as an afternoon, breakout, post-break or next-morning session.
PARTICIPATION NOTE
Physically active and always voluntary — participants decide how deeply they engage and remain behind the wheel of their own experience from beginning to end. Certain conditions (five months or more pregnant, antipsychotic medications, recent surgery, seizures or epilepsy) require medical clearance or a modified experience. Facilitated through the Sacred Flow Breathwork Method™; not affiliated with or presented as Holotropic Breathwork®. A full Host & Participation Note with complete health guidelines and room requirements is provided to every host in advance.
Talent Short Bio
For more than 20 years as a Hollywood stuntman, Eddie Davenport has performed on some of the biggest productions in film and television, stunt doubling for lead actors including Hugh Jackman and Zachary Levi, and the iconic characters Wolverine and Superman. His career spans 140+ television episodes and 40+ feature films. He is a Satellite Award winner for Stunt Performance on The Suicide Squad and a two-time SAG Award nominee for stunt ensemble.
But executing the stunt wasn’t the only difficult part. There was also the moment right before the call of “Action” — when preparation ends and you either commit or you don’t. Today, Eddie brings what he learned in those moments to the stage, helping leaders and teams recognize hesitation, make decisions and act under pressure.
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