Meet Dr. Floyd
Top High Performance Coach | Motivational Speaker | Mental Toughness Expert
Based in Toronto and serving clients across Canada and globally, Dr. Floyd Spence helps leaders and ambitious professionals unlock their greatness through mental toughness. With over 20 years of experience spanning leadership, personal development, and psychotherapy, he equips executives, entrepreneurs, athletes, and ambitious professionals to perform at their highest level under pressure.
Having overcome early setbacks and limiting beliefs, Dr. Floyd’s mission is clear: helping people unlock their greatness through mental toughness and create unstoppable results in life and work. He challenges leaders and ambitious professionals to think bigger, execute better, and rise above obstacles in any environment.
As a motivational keynote speaker, Dr. Floyd delivers powerful keynotes on mental toughness under pressure. As a high-performance coach and elite life coach, he helps leaders, entrepreneurs, and high achievers cultivate mental toughness, sharpen focus, and achieve unstoppable results in life, and work.
Founder of Spence Performance Group and creator of The Psychology of Unstoppable, Dr. Floyd blends science-backed strategies with real-world execution to help high achievers achieve sustained success without burnout.
Your mind is the battlefield. Your belief is the weapon. Your results are #Unstoppable.
A Leading Authority on Mental Toughness and Human Performance
DR. FLOYD'S JOURNEY
Dr. Floyd's resilience, courage, grit, and perseverance reflect his lived philosophy: #GreatnessIsDoable. As a coach, and motivational keynote speaker, he provides individuals and organizations with high-quality resources for personal and professional development on a locally and globally.
Drawing from his experiences overcoming poverty, academic struggles, numerous setbacks, Dr. Floyd connects deeply with anyone pursuing greatness. It doesn't matter who they are, where they are from, or what obstacles they face, his game-changing approach shifts mindset, dismantles limiting beliefs, build mental toughness, and creates sustained levels of success.
Dr. Floyd exemplifies mental toughness, grit, perseverance, and what it means to beat the odds. In high school, he repeated the tenth grade, was suspended three times, expelled once, and failed tenth-grade English twice. Yet, he overcame these challenges, proving that greatness is doable.
He created the Psychology of Unstoppable, a high-performance system designed to help individuals perform with sustained excellence without energy depletion. Built on the mental, technical, and physical dimensions of performance the system equips high achievers to operate with clarity, resilience and purpose under demand. His mission is to help individuals master their minds to live unstoppable lives. His passion is most evident when he's on stage challenging audiences to elevate how they think, execute and lead or in 1:1 coaching session helping clients unlock their next level of performance and fulfilment.
Dr. Floyd believes that the seed of greatness exists in everyone. Unlocking it starts with a shift in thinking and believing that your dream is valid, no matter your background.
QUALIFICATIONS AND RECOGNITION
Dr. Floyd holds three earned degrees and a Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching. He is a certified life coach, Certified John Maxwell Leadership Trainer, Certified DISC Practitioner, and Certified Mental Toughness Practitioner (MTQPlus). He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF), a registered psychotherapist, and holds a certificate in mindfulness.
He has been honoured with the Black Diamond Awards for resilience and commitment to community service and people empowerment, and recognized as one of the top high-performance coaches in the world.
“Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”
~ Paul Brandt.
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Dr. Floyd Spence is an international motivational speaker and top high-performance coach specializing in leadership, mindset, and behaviour change. For more than two decades, he has delivered research-backed presentations to corporations, professional associations, conventions, churches, and leadership conferences worldwide.
As a keynote speaker and coach, Dr. Floyd empowers audiences to master their minds, build elite habits, and unlock their potential to achieve #Unstoppable results. His talks are practical, engaging, and results-driven, designed to create lasting personal and professional change. He also coaches executives, entrepreneurs, athletes, and high-achieving professionals to elevate performance, sharpen execution and lead with purpose. Learn more at FloydSpence.com or follow him on Instagram @DrfloydSpence.
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Dr. Floyd Spence is an international motivational speaker, top high-performance coach, and author specializing in leadership, mindset, and behaviour change. He empowers individuals to master their minds, build elite habits, and achieve #Unstoppable results in life, career, and leadership. Learn more at FloydSpence.com or follow @DrfloydSpence.
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What People Are Saying:
Sam Lawal
Financial Educator & CEO-MD, World Financial Group
"Dr. Floyd Spence is spectacular. After our leadership retreat, the team continues to speak about how grateful they are for the opportunity to hear him speak about mental toughness. His talk was everything we hoped for and more – yes indeed many lives were changed. We will definitely bring him back as a speaker again. Thank you from the bottom of my heart."
Dr. Cherry-ann Joseph-Hislop
Principal at NYC Department of Education
“Dr. Floyd Spence is the consummate Professional in his field! His ability to motivate individuals and inspire excellence in organizations is beyond exceptional! My leadership skills grew exponentially after working with Floyd, not only am I more proficient, but I’m results driven and influential. I highly recommend him as a as a coach.”
Christa Mariash
School Marketing Manager, Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet
“Dr. Floyd was able to help me articulate feelings and navigate the emotions of work complications in a
dialogue which was open, honest and understanding. I would recommend Floyd to other senior managers and executives who want to improve positive communication in the work place.”