My keynotes are topical messages delivered to engage, entertain, inform, and (maybe even) shake up the high-performance status quo.
My topics come from from decades spent behind the scenes helping elite athletes, coaches, and teams as well as from my work in defence, medicine, and the corporate sector.
In this space, I learned so much about high performance…as well as many cautionary tales about how things can go wrong, times when performance was not sustainable, and leadership/coaching practices that, while well-intentioned, missed the mark or worse, actually undermined performance.
My keynotes combine stories and ideas from those experiences with insights gleaned from contemporary neuroscience and Buddhist and evolutionary psychology to suggest new ways of thinking for our times. Audiences are entertained, informed…and stretched.
It has never been more true that what used to get us to good won’t take us to great. Let’s start thinking differently about high performance, and my “call to action” keynotes can be a great way to jump-start that journey.
60-90 min keynote
This keynote unpacks the notion that how we relate to ourselves (with compassion or contempt) is the counter-intuitive key to high-performance resilience. It’s counter-intuitive due to our cultural conditioning that tells us that we should put others first, or that if we are nice to ourselves, we will get soft and lose our edge.
Participants learn about the power of relationship (context), the science of compassion and self-compassion (content), and practical applications (practice) to enhance their own relationship with themselves to better thrive (and lead others more compassionately) through uncertainty and adversity.
60 min keynote
This interactive keynote unpacks the more-complicated-than-expected relationship between our grit (the hard efforts we generate in the spirit of getting things done) and our resilience (that agile mindset that helps us keep cruising despite setbacks or failure).
Prior to the keynote, participants will have the opportunity to take my grit-resilience diagnostic to see where they each “fit” on the continuum…and learn about some mental strategies to better manage themselves in times of stress and change. Participants self-score and use their results to gain insights and tools they can use based on their scores to rebalance their grit and resilience for more sustainable performance.
