Jeremy Woodall
Independent Consultant Coach and Trainer • Develop The Coach Within DTCW.CO.UK
United Kingdom •
$1,501 - $5,000
About
Most wellbeing speakers tell your people what they already know. Jeremy tells them something they've never had a name for — and gives them the tools to do something about it.
Speaking Topics
Signature Programs (2)
What's weighing your people down at work probably has little to do with work. This talk starts there Your people are high-functioning. That doesn't mean they're performing to their potential. Beneath the performance — the meetings attended, the targets hit, the professional composure maintained — most people are carrying a load they've never had a name for. Not stress in the abstract. Something more specific: the weight of old experiences never fully processed, beliefs formed under pressure that no longer serve, habitual patterns of thought that quietly drain energy and narrow the space for genuine resilience. Jeremy Woodall calls this S.H.I.T. — Self-Held Invisible Toxins. And in this keynote, he makes the invisible visible. With characteristic honesty and a lightness of touch, Jeremy takes audiences through what S.H.I.T. actually is, how it accumulates, and — crucially — why conventional resilience training rarely touches it. Using the cork analogy at the heart of his framework, he demonstrates how the invisible hand of accumulated experience pushes people beneath their natural level of functioning, and what it takes to let go. This is not a talk about pushing through. It's about putting down. Participants leave with three things: a language for what they've been carrying, an understanding of how attention and inner experience connect, and practical tools drawn from thirty years across Royal Marines service, UN humanitarian operations, and frontline therapeutic practice. Available as a standalone keynote (45–60 minutes), keynote with workshop (half day), or full-day programme for leadership teams. Bespoke delivery available for specific industries and contexts. Suitable for conferences, away days, leadership events, and organisational wellbeing programmes.
Key Takeaways
- Keynote (45–60 minutes) — 3 takeaways • A framework for understanding the invisible load — participants leave with a clear, named concept for what has been draining their energy, clarity, and performance beneath the surface of a functional working life • A practical tool for recognising where their attention goes under pressure — and why most workplace stress has little to do with what is actually happening in the present moment • An immediate, body-based technique for returning to baseline — something they can use that afternoon, not just remember from a talk
- Keynote + Workshop (Half Day) — 3 takeaways • Everything from the keynote, deepened through structured practice — participants move from intellectual understanding to embodied experience, working directly with their own patterns rather than observing them from a distance • A personal S.H.I.T. inventory — a simple, honest map of what they are carrying, where it came from, and what it is costing them in energy, focus, and relationships • A personalised resilience toolkit — three to five specific techniques drawn from somatic, cognitive, and attention-based approaches, selected and practiced during the session so they leave knowing which tools work for them
- Full Day Workshop — 5 takeaways • A complete understanding of the three systems of personal resilience — body, mind, and emotion — and how S.H.I.T. accumulates in each, expressed as practical self-knowledge rather than theory • A personal S.H.I.T. inventory with depth — not just what they are carrying but how long they have carried it, what function it originally served, and what it would mean to genuinely set it down • Competency in at least three evidence-informed techniques across somatic regulation, attention training, and emotional processing — practiced in the room until they feel natural rather than effortful • A clear understanding of the difference between pushing through and genuine resilience — and the beginnings of a personal approach to pressure that doesn’t require borrowing from tomorrow to get through today • A written Personal Resilience Framework to take away — a one-page reference document they build during the day, specific to their own patterns, priorities, and working life
Audience
Leadership Groups, Executives, Team leaders
Format
Duration
45-60 minutes Keynote: 3-4 hours Keynote + Workshop: 6-7hrs Full day Training Workshop
Delivery
The Inside Out Warrior is a programme and methodology for people who have operated at the edge — military personnel, veterans, humanitarian workers, and those supporting traumatised and displaced communities. It addresses what decompression programmes rarely reach: the inner landscape left behind after years in high-pressure, high-consequence environments. Built on four stages — presence and attention, mastering attention, self-recognition and acceptance, conscious redirection — this is not therapy. It is a structured, self-directed methodology for reclaiming inner agency, processing what has been carried, and rebuilding the capacity to function with clarity and purpose. Jeremy Woodall brings thirty years of lived experience in these environments — from Royal Marines operations to UN emergency response to frontline therapeutic work. He knows this terrain because he has lived and studied it.
Key Takeaways
- Keynote (45–60 minutes) — 3 takeaways • A new way of understanding where stress actually lives — not in circumstances or workload, but in the gap between present moment reality and where the mind habitually goes instead, and why that distinction changes everything • An honest introduction to the inner landscape — participants leave with language and a framework for the emotional and psychological weight that accumulates in high-pressure roles, and permission to take it seriously • A first step they can take immediately — a simple, concrete practice for returning attention to the present moment, drawn from thirty years of working with people carrying extraordinary invisible loads
- Keynote + Workshop (Half Day) — 3 takeaways • Everything from the keynote, moved into direct personal experience — participants work with their own inner landscape rather than observing the concept from a distance, identifying specific patterns and beginning to understand where they come from • Practical competency in the Here and There distinction — the ability to notice in real time when attention has moved from present moment reality into past or future, and the skill to redirect it without force or self-criticism • A personalised map of their attention under pressure — where it goes, what triggers the move, and two or three specific techniques for working with this that suit their particular way of experiencing stress
- Full Day Workshop — 5 takeaways • A working understanding of all four stages of the Inside Out Warrior methodology — presence and attention, mastering attention, self-recognition and acceptance, conscious redirection — not as concepts but as lived experience, practiced progressively through the day • The ability to distinguish between influence and control — one of the most practically useful shifts available to anyone in a high-pressure role, and one that immediately reduces the energy cost of trying to manage what cannot be managed • Competency in somatic attention training — the ability to use the body as an anchor for present moment awareness, particularly under conditions of stress, conflict, or emotional intensity • A clear and honest self-recognition map — patterns seen without defence, understood without shame, and framed as information rather than indictment, alongside the beginnings of genuine self-responsibility for what comes next • A personal Inside Out Warrior framework to take away — a written, one-page document capturing their specific patterns, their chosen redirection, and the practices that work for them, built during the day and theirs to keep
Audience
Military & Humanitarian
Duration
45-60 minutes Keynote: 3-4 hours Keynote + Workshop: 6-7hrs Full day Training Workshop
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