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Start the year with a performance routine, not a pep talk

Sales kickoffs, annual management meetings and year-start conferences

Kickoffs and annual meetings want energy that lasts longer than the coffee break. Dorka Nagy-Józsa is a certified sport mental coach whose company prepares Hungary's WorldSkills national team mentally for the world championship of vocational skills. Her keynotes bring that performance psychology to teams that need to stay motivated, and resilient, in a changing market.

30-75 min · live English · Hungarian 98.8% excellent or very good · AI Summit Europe 2026
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Dorka Nagy-Józsa speaking at Business Fest
What organisers need

Motivation that survives the first quarter

A pep talk feels great on the day and is gone by February. What lasts is a routine: how elite performers prepare, handle pressure, recover from a bad result and keep going when the plan stops working. Dorka knows this from the inside, from WorldSkills competitors with four days to prove a career to leaders with one board meeting to land a strategy.

The keynote is customised to the theme of the meeting, such as resilience, staying motivated in a changing global landscape, growth, or the year's strategy, and to the audience: sales teams, management, the whole organisation. It is research-based, funny, and ends with something people can actually do on Monday.

Which keynote fits

Three keynotes, customised to your event

How it works

Format, language and fee

Slot
30-75 minutes, opening the meeting or as the closing highlight.
Themes
Resilience, motivation, performance under pressure, change, AI; customised to your theme after a stakeholder call.
Format
Live, on stage, with Q&A. No webinars.
Language
English or Hungarian.
Included
Pre-event stakeholder call, a keynote customised to your theme and audience, audience Q&A and a post-talk summary deck.
Fee
From €3,000 plus travel and accommodation. How the fee works. Speaking in Hungary, in Hungarian, to a Hungarian audience? The fee above is for international events; ask for a quote at dorka@y2y.hu.
Tell Dorka about your event dorka@y2y.hu

Answer within 48 hours. Tell us the date, the city, the audience and the slot.

Track record

Where this has worked

Mental coach of the Hungarian national team at WorldSkills through Y2Y; international federation leadership role at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026. Corporate keynotes in the 2025-26 season for clients in FMCG, retail, pharma, energy, aviation and logistics.

Ratings, stages and references: Proof of Performance.

"She spent maybe 15 minutes methodically taking apart every culture transformation framework I've used for the last seven years. I was in the front row. It was uncomfortable in an extremely useful way. What I didn't expect was to leave with three actual, concrete things I could do on Monday."

Katarzyna Lis · VP People & Culture, Allegro (PL)
FAQ

Questions organisers ask

Is Dorka a motivational speaker?

Not in the pep-talk sense. The keynote is research-based and funny, and it leaves the room with a performance routine that still works after the event.

Can the keynote follow our meeting theme, such as resilience?

Yes. Every keynote is customised after a pre-event stakeholder call to the theme, the audience and the business situation.

What is the sport science connection?

Dorka is a certified sport mental coach, and her company Y2Y is responsible for the mental preparation of the Hungarian national team at WorldSkills, the world championship of vocational skills.

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