You’re in for a Maelstrom of Challenges: Fear, uncertainty, and doubt plague the North American workforce as a result of the WFH pandemic hangover and volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous geopolitical and socioeconomic circumstances – all contributing to worker distress, disengagement, disorder, negative emotions, negative work experiences, unprecedented sick days, absenteeism, silent quitting, low morale, and a growing mental health epidemic (Gallup, 2024).

You Must Deliver Growth & Profit Through it All: The coming marketscape is poised to create much bigger winners and losers than ever before. By all accounts we can expect a continuation of what we saw through the pandemic – “the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer”.  You and your business will be asked to grow, innovate, deliver margin, and profit amidst all of this – the labor shortages, AI disruption, economic downtown, runaway inflation, a recession, supply chain issues, trade wars, worker disengagement, a continuation of the great resignation, more disorder, disaster, and disease. 

The Only Way Out is Through…Your People: The answer must be found in your greatest asset and greatest expense to date: your people. Your employees need to be poised to do more with less, take on more and win, and thrive through adversity. Operational tools, closer management, new tech, schedule flexibility, new workspaces, one-on-ones, listening sessions, boxes of cookies, and mailed care packages only go so far, and don’t tackle the challenge head-on (low worker engagement, low mental wellness, fixed and fragile mindsets) – they merely bandaid some explicit symptoms (e.g. loneliness, worry, sadness, anger, negative work experiences, Gallup 2024).

Mindset Makes the (Hu)Man: Workers won’t take endless hits and strive to succeed because they’re told to do it; they’ll strive when they are trained to do it. Specifically, trained in how to use their brains better and differently to foster an antifragile mindset – one that grows, develops, and flourishes through challenge, shocks, strife, and adversity.

This keynote explains the workday from your brain’s perspective. From your internal physiological and neurochemical schedule to the activities that create ideal worker performance and unlock an antifragile mindset required.