Eddie Davenport

Motivational Keynote Speaker on Resilience, Peak Performance, Leadership & High-Stakes Decision Making

Expert on

  • Peak Performance
  • Motivational
  • Leadership
  • Resilience
  • Safety

Fee Range

$5,000–$10,000

Travels from

CA, US

Biography

For more than 20 years as a Hollywood stuntman, Eddie Davenport has made a living doing things most people would spend their lives avoiding. Falling from heights, crashing through glass, being hit by cars and launching through the air on some of the biggest productions in Hollywood.

As one of the top 2% of Hollywood stunt performers, Eddie has stunt doubled for lead actors including Hugh Jackman and Zachary Levi and iconic characters including Wolverine and Superman. He has performed in 140+ television episodes and 40+ feature films, among them Superman, Logan, Real Steel, Shazam!, Captain America, The Suicide Squad, Stranger Things, and The Walking Dead — and is a Satellite Award winner for Stunt Performance on The Suicide Squad. He is also a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award nominee for stunt ensemble, on Logan and X-Men: First Class. His work and story have been featured in Men’s Health, Vanity Fair, and Radio Times.

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. On a set, hesitation doesn’t just cost money; it can affect safety, careers and sometimes lives. For two decades, Eddie experienced those moments firsthand and learned what it takes to make decisions and act when the pressure is real.

Today, Eddie brings those experiences to the stage to help leaders and teams recognize hesitation, make decisions and move into action. His keynote, Decisive Under Pressure™, combines cinematic storytelling, behind-the-scenes Hollywood experiences and practical takeaways with his F.E.A.R. Protocol™ and Pressure Profile™. Built For Impact™ takes audiences through six defining chapters from Eddie’s life and career, exploring how resistance, setbacks, preparation, perspective and the choices we make along the way shape who we become. Steady Under Pressure™ — The Immersive Breath Experience uses breath as the vehicle for awareness, presence and internal regulation.

Eddie works with leaders, teams and organizations facing moments where decisions matter, hesitation has consequences and knowing what to do isn’t always enough.

DECISIVE UNDER PRESSURE™

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.

Key takeaways

  • 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.

BUILT FOR IMPACT™

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.

Key takeaways

  • 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.

STEADY UNDER PRESSURE™ — THE IMMERSIVE BREATH EXPERIENCE

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.

Key takeaways

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.