Derek Daly competed as a professional race car driver for 17 years before becoming a television motor sports personality and businessman. Derek raced in Formula One, Indy Car and World Sports Cars.

Derek went from being a laborer in the iron ore mines of Australia in 1973 to winning the Irish Formula Ford Championship in 1975. After living in a school bus for a year in 1976, he won the British Formula Three Championship in 1977, catapulting him into the Formula One World Championship. Derek's Formula One career spanned 49 Grand Prix starts, and in 1980, he was ranked 10th in the World Championship. Three years later, Derek made his first of six starts at the Indianapolis 500.

In 1984, Derek survived one of the worst on-track crashes ever witnessed at the Michigan International Speedway. He spent three years in therapy, and in 1990, Derek won the prestigious Sebring 12 hour endurance. Just for good measure, he won it again in 1991 before retiring from competition in 1992.

In 1985, Derek started a ten-year association as a motor sport color analyst on ESPN. USA Today highlighted Derek as "the best new face on sports television." A poll sponsored by and featured in IndyCar Racing magazine voted Derek "the most popular motor sports television announcer." Derek has worked for NBC Sports, CBS Sports, Fox, ESPN and Speed Channel.

In 1993, Derek received the Joules Goux Award from Moet & Chandon champagne for his outstanding contributions to motor sports television. He was also nominated in the same year for an Ace Award by ESPN. In December 2000, Derek received the prestigious Hall of Fame Award from "Motor Sport Ireland" for his leadership of Irish motor sport.

Partnering with BMW North America in 1996, Derek opened the most advanced driver training / racing school in the USA - Derek Daly Performance Driving Academy. Derek's performance driving academy, located at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, has been voted "the best driving school in America" by MOTOR TREND and AUTOMOBILE magazines. Sylvester Stallone chose Derek's program for his own race driving preparation for the film, "Driven." Other professionals to attend the academy's driving programs include Robin Yount, Pete Sampras, Aerosmith, John Oates and Vin Diesel.

In 2002, Derek founded MotorVation, a unique provider of consulting and learning solutions. His belief was that the pace of doing business would only get faster in the future and that the ideal model for the speed of doing business in the future was motor sports. Hence, the creation of a company that overlaid the motor sports model over the business model to produce energized learning and enabling environments.

In 2007, Derek launched a new race track design partnership with Paxton Waters, a nationally known race track facility architect and planner. Under the banner, Derek Daly Design (DDD), Derek will specialize in bringing back some of the character of the great race tracks of the world that has been lost over the past two decades.

In 2008, MBI Publishing released Derek's first book, Race to Win, How to Become a Complete Champion. Derek was honored to have Mario Andretti pen the forward. Although the book was written in the context of a motor sports champion, Mario says, "Derek's book teaches lessons it took guys like me years to learn. Quite honestly, I believe the advice in this book resonates far beyond the racing industry."

Derek Daly was one of the primary fundraisers for the Indianapolis chapter of the Irish Children's Fund. Many famous names such as Arie Luyendyk, Eddie Cheever and Al Unser Jr. supported Derek's efforts to bring children from war-torn Belfast to Indianapolis every summer. The goal of the Irish Children's Fund is to build a long-term program that will promote harmony and friendship without political or religious borders.

• The Art of the Wheel: Winning through Faster Teamwork - Derek walks the audience through his High Performance Team "model," using sports analogies in a way seldom seen before. Corporate operations who understand that the speed of doing business will continue to get faster in the next decade will gain the most value from understanding his Speed and Flawless execution "model." He shows what happens when teams of people are truly aligned and efficient. At the Indy 500, there are so many variables to be covered to beat the competition at the highest levels, that unless the collective strengths of a team of people work in harmony together, no matter how good your driver (or leader) is, sustained success is impossible. The same principles apply to the "Corporate 500" business race that we are in every day. He uses powerful real life motor sports analogies from the world of Formula One, the Indy 500 and NASCAR.
  
  
• Difficulty is Your Gift: Thriving in a High Performance Environment - If your thoughts create your emotions, which in turn creates your behavior, what might it be like to understand how great High Performing teams think and operate? Derek describes what the true high performance environment of winning the Indy 500 is like. He walks people through real life sports analogies to help them discover how a true high performance team works in the "corporate 500 race" that we are in every day. If you consider difficulty to be your gift, you are ready to thrive in a high performance environment.
  
  
• Remove the Speed Bumps to Success: How Fast Can You Get Fast - Derek asks the question, "Has the speed of doing business increased in the past 10 years?" Yes. What might happen in the next decade? It's probably going to get faster, prompting the question, "How Fast can you Get Fast?" Derek walks people down the path of discovery, revealing why speed will be the competitive tool of the successful corporations of the future. Speed has two key elements - having the right people in the right places doing the right things...but more importantly, speed of operations will be about removing the speed bumps that slow you down. Derek uses powerful real life motor sports analogies from the world of Formula One, the Indy 500 and NASCAR and shows how to get to Victory Circle.
  
  
• Turning Sweat into Champagne: A Champion's Attitude When Embracing Change - The competition on the "corporate race track" is so fierce and change happens so quickly, that unless your team understands why embracing change is so vital, they will be continue to sweat through the details without tasting the champagne of victory. Derek walks people through real life sports analogies to help them discover what the Attitude of a Champion is and shows that "a better you will make a better us." Using powerful, real-life motor sports analogies from the world of Formula One, the Indy 500 and NASCAR, Derek shows you the "model" for the high performing teams of the future.