REWIRED FOR PRESSURE

How NeuroAdaptive Leaders Turn Disruption into Clarity and Action

AI is rewriting the rules of work—analyzing faster, predicting better, and automating more than ever. But it can’t do the most human work: inspire trust, sense emotions, or build a culture where people thrive. That’s the leader’s job and edge.

In today’s age of disruption, yesterday’s playbook is obsolete. The leaders who succeed will rewire how they think, decide, and connect, upgrading their internal operating system to evolve faster than change.

NeuroAdaptive Leadership isn’t a toolkit; it’s a new operating system, rooted in neuroscience, that helps leaders adapt, rewire, and grow stronger under pressure. This presentation gives leaders the mindset and skillset to navigate complexity without burning out or backing off.

Audience Members Walk Away with…

• Build brain adaptivity faster and turn disruption into opportunity.
• Manage emotional volatility during high-stakes moments.
• Rewire unproductive thought patterns and behavior
• Lead with clarity and calm in uncertain, AI-accelerated workplaces.
• Foster psychological safety and trust to unlock team performance.
• Embed adaptivity into your culture so the whole organization thrives.

LEADING AI-DRIVEN CHANGE

AI isn’t just changing your tools, it’s changing how your people think, feel, and lead. This keynote helps leaders navigate the real challenges of AI-driven change: the mental fatigue of constant reinvention, the fear and uncertainty AI stirs up on teams, and the leadership skills required to guide people through disruption instead of just announcing it.

Dr. Jason Jones combines neuroscience, performance psychology, and real leadership experience to show audiences what’s actually happening in the brain during rapid technological change and what to do about it. This isn’t a keynote about AI tools. It’s a keynote about the human side of AI adoption: how leaders keep their teams thinking clearly, feeling secure, and performing well when the ground keeps shifting under them.

What Audience Members Walk Away With:

• A clear understanding of why AI-driven change feels so disorienting to the brain and why that reaction is normal
• Practical tools to help their teams move from fear and resistance to curiosity and confidence
• A framework (ADAPT) they can use immediately to lead themselves and others through ongoing disruption
• Language and strategies for addressing AI-related anxiety on their teams without dismissing it
• A renewed sense of leadership confidence heading into a period of nonstop change

EVOLVE & THRIVE

Building a Mindset to Win in Any Situation

Effective leadership is more than driving results and accountability. The best leaders create experiences for their employees that unleash the best in them to adapt, evolve, and thri the midst of change, uncertainty, and ambiguity.

Our current work environment is changing faster than ever before and requires every person to have a continually evolving mindset and skillset to navigate the rapid rate of disruption. In this session, Dr. Jones inspires audience members to evolve their thinking and language and then challenges each participant to choose to thrive by applying intentional daily behaviors.

Jason shares with the audience how to reflect and reframe thinking and language that hinders their confidence and motivation. Then teaches how to replace sabotaging self-talk with language that creates performance breakthroughs. All of this while inspiring each person to take action to thrive each day by leveraging personal strengths and collaborating with their colleagues to achieve and win at a higher level.

What Audience Members Walk Away With:

• Insight into how our brain helps and hinders us during change and disruption.
• Insights to manage burnout and build resilience.
• Enhance your thinking ability.
• Build a positive mindset.
• Prime behavior and performance with your language.
• A set of “Power Words” that will prime others for positivity and high performance.
• Learn how to boost personal motivation and create optimized neurochemistry for greater joy and success.

ACTIVATE!

Unleash the Brainpower and Potential of the People You Lead

It’s an unfortunate truth. Most leaders don’t know how to bring out the best in their people. Managers and leaders too often default to threats and rewards that lead to decreased motivation, disengagement, and underperformance. Activators, on the other hand, are leaders who understand how to unleash the best in their people using practical applications of behavior and brain science. They activate the brains of their people by lighting them up through intentional interactions and experiences, resulting in greater focus, energy, engagement, and self-directed work.

This keynote is based on Dr. Jones’s best-selling book, Activator: Using Brain Science to Boost Motivation, Deepen Engagement, and Supercharge Performance. Utilizing three neuroscience principles that can be applied to the workplace, Jason shares three daily leadership practices that are rooted in science and can be implemented immediately to make a measurable impact on employee motivation and engagement, while building a high-performance culture where people want to do their best.

What Audience Members Walk Away With:

• Insight into what really motivates and engages people at work.
• The three daily leadership practices every leader can use to activate the full brain.
• Discover how to prime behavior and high performance by using Activation Words.
• Six neuroscience-based strategies to activate the brain, boost energy, enhance emotional intelligence, and facilitate high-performance.
• Tools to provide constructive feedback and guide team members through change to ensure faster adaptation and growth.
• Understand how the brain communicates beyond verbal and body language.
• Learn how to gain people’s trust even when they disagree with you.