The Tempest Two: High Performance
Adventure speakers, resilience experts, and founders of The Tempest Two help organizations unlock potential, build resilience, and achieve high performance by stepping beyond comfort zones.
Quick Facts:
- Rowed 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean unaided
- Founders of Dose, a workplace wellbeing company
- Worked with global brands including Nike and IBM
- Experts in resilience, mindset, and high performance
- Formats:
- Keynote Speakers, Adventure Speakers, and Performance Experts
- Audiences:
- Corporate teams, leaders, and organizations seeking resilience, mindset development, and high-performance culture.
- Outcomes:
- Build resilience and embrace discomfort for growth
- Unlock individual and team potential
- Develop mindset and habits for sustained high performance
- Travels from: New York, NY
- **Fee range: $15,000 - $20,000
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Keynote Topics:
High Performance
High performance isn’t reserved for elite athletes or lifelong specialists. The Tempest Two have repeatedly proven that ordinary people can reach extraordinary levels. Whether in endurance sports, extreme expeditions, or fast-moving business ventures. Without decades of single-track training.
In this keynote, they unpack the mindset and habits that allow you to perform at a high level again and again, in any field. Audiences learn how to build transferable skills, unlock adaptable resilience, and create a repeatable process for peak performance that fits real life, not just one arena.
Leadership
True leadership isn’t about job titles or managing big teams—it’s about the example you set. In this keynote, James and Tommy share powerful stories of stepping into the unknown and making bold decisions when no playbook existed.
They show how leading with courage, integrity, and action can spark change and inspire others, whether you’re guiding a project, shaping culture, or simply showing up at your best every day. Audiences leave with a clear sense of how to lead from the front, by living the behaviours they want others to follow.
Adapting to Change
Change can feel disruptive, but it’s also where growth lives. In this energising talk, The Tempest Two show how to reframe uncertainty as opportunity, sharing lessons from bold adventures and business pivots alike.
Expect inspiring stories, practical frameworks, and a fresh perspective on how to stay agile when everything shifts. Teams walk away ready to navigate change with confidence and turn challenges into breakthroughs.
Talent Short Bio
The Tempest Two, Tom Caulfield and James Whittle, are globally recognized adventure speakers, entrepreneurs, and resilience experts known for redefining what ordinary individuals can achieve. Without elite athletic backgrounds, they set out in 2015 to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean—completely unaided and with no prior rowing experience. Fifty-four days later, they reached Barbados, proving that mindset and determination can overcome even the most daunting challenges.
This defining experience reshaped their perspective on human potential and became the foundation of their work. Since then, they have undertaken multiple global expeditions designed to push beyond perceived limits and demonstrate that growth happens outside the comfort zone.
Building on these experiences, they co-founded Dose, a workplace wellbeing and performance company that helps individuals and organizations unlock potential, build resilience, and sustain high performance. Their work has impacted leading global brands including Nike, IBM, Airbnb, and BNY Mellon.
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