TIM DAVIES

The quality of your decision under pressure is not determined in the moment. It’s determined by your training before that moment arrived.

THE OPERATOR

Thirty years across the Parachute Regiment, 22 SAS, and operational security consulting in the Middle East and Africa. In each of those environments, the conditions were the same: incomplete information, compressed timelines, and consequences that couldn't be undone.

That experience is what I now bring to senior leadership teams.

Tim Davies during service with British Special Forces.

THE MOUNTAINEER

The Himalayas strip everything back. No plan survives the weather. No strategy survives the terrain. What’s left is the decision in front of you, made with whatever you have, before the window closes.

Tim Davies high altitude mountaineering in the Himalayas.

THE SPEAKER

Across every environment one thing stayed constant. Experience doesn’t protect you from pressure. Rank doesn’t either. The people who perform when it matters are the ones who’ve built a process they trust more than their instincts. That is what First Contact is built around.

Tim Davies, international speaker and former UK Special Forces.