Paddy is a Cape Town-based leadership, high-performance coach, author, speaker, and professor. Since 2005, he has delivered over 350 keynote talks, run corporate workshops and coached business leaders and teams in over 50 cities across 5 continents. In international team sports, he has more than two decades experience as head coach, performance director, mental coach, and strategic leadership coach. He has been personal mental coach to over 200 professional, international and Olympic athletes from 13 different sports. Included are Olympic gold medallists’ and world champions in 5 different sports. Paddy was instrumental in leading the Indian national cricket team to win the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup for their first time in 28 years, and to become the World’s No. 1 Test Team for their first time. As Performance Director, he then helped lead the South African cricket team to become the first to simultaneously hold the World No. 1 ranking in all three formats of the game. He has coached in five cricket World Cups. At the recent Paris Olympics, he was mental coach to the Indian Men’s hockey team who won bronze as well as Gukesh Dommaraju, the youngestever chess World Champion. He has been head coach of five different professional T20 cricket teams in 13 tournaments across three of the world’s major leagues, the IPL, BBL and PSL.