Running a business is demanding — time is scarce, challenges are constant, and often your own wellbeing comes last. But the truth is, looking after yourself is the best investment you can make for your business and your team.

Join us for an inspiring and practical one-hour session with Brent Pope — broadcaster, writer, and passionate mental health advocate. Brent will share his honest insights on resilience, balance, and self-care, along with simple, actionable strategies that owner-managers can use to recharge and refocus.

This is your hour: a chance to step back, reflect, and take away fresh perspective to support both you and your business.

Why Attend?

Learn how to build resilience as an owner-manager Gain practical tools to reduce stress and improve wellbeing Take one hour to invest in yourself — and your business future

About Brent Pope

One of Ireland’s best known and respected media personalities, Brent Pope is a popular, entertaining and highly accomplished business, motivational and after-dinner speaker, particularly in the area of well-being and wellness. 

In his candid and best-selling autobiography, Brent Pope: If You Really Knew Me (2013), Brent talks openly about his rugby career and personal life. Unusually in the world of rugby, he also speaks honestly and eloquently about mental health issues, having suffered anxiety attacks for many years. And in the last decade, his candour, warmth and wit when speaking publicly on these issues have won over audiences at corporate events of all sizes. People are struck in particular by his empathy, which is aimed at empowering everyone, but especially men, to share their struggles with a view to getting the help and support they need to thrive. 

A ruthless, tough player who “ran like a reverse hovercraft”, Pope’s aggressive, uncompromising style inspired the legendary players around him and the teams he coached, and he brings the same zeal and commitment to his speaking roles. 

Brent is possibly the only rugby player ever to write a series of non-rugby books (six to date) for children.  He has been one of RTÉ Television’s main rugby pundits since 1993 and has also appeared in numerous cross-over programmes including The Late Late Show. 

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce in economics, valuation and property management from Canterbury University in New Zealand, as well as postgraduate qualifications in Marketing, Public Relations (UCD) and Sports Management. Brent was previously employed as a professional rugby coach, a Marketing Manager for Brookfield MRI Clinic, and then as an award-winning European Marketing Manager for a leading Irish and international property development company. 

Today he runs his own successful clothing business, POPE, and is a dedicated charity worker and a proud ambassador to many leading Irish charities, especially those linked to youth and mental health issues. Brent was also the founder and curator of the ‘Outside In Art Gallery’.

Brent is a very popular speaker, especially as part of organisations’ Wellbeing and Wellness Programmes. Empathetic and candid, he is not afraid to share his own experiences suffering with anxiety to help others. 

Recent clients include Irish Life Health, Irish Distillers, and IBEC

Brent Pope’s latest book, Win: Proven Strategies for Success in Sport, Life and Mental Health, is out now.