DR. JP Pawliw-Fry

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Thought Leader, Leadership, Performance and Change Expert

Expert on

  • Leadership
  • Performance Improvement
  • Motivation
  • Peak Performance
  • Emotional Intelligence

Fee Range

$20,000–$30,000

Travels from

IL, US

Biography

Organizations face big challenges: whether it is an accelerated rate of change, the threat of disruption, ambitious targets or aggressive competition. They can only overcome these challenges with exceptional and authentic leadership.

For over twenty years, JP’s curiosity and passion for helping people manage their emotions has driven his research-based approach (his organization surveys over 38,000 people a month) in developing science-based skills and tools required to build a culture of exceptional leadership. His work with leaders from Fortune 500 companies such as Goldman Sachs, Intel, Coco-Cola and Johnson & Johnson, as well as the US Marines, Olympic athletes and NBA and NFL teams has provided him with considerable opportunities to test his science-based tools in environments of high pressure. He knows what works when leaders face their most significant challenges.

As a provocative and highly captivating speaker and thought leader, JP brings engaging stories and a lot of fun to every keynote. He challenges groups to think differently about human behavior, leadership and how to manage the pressure that is overtaking so many organizations and individuals today. JP provides real tools to help teams leverage the power of vulnerability and empathy, teaching the science of emotional intelligence to embrace pressure and manage the disruption and challenge they are facing.

JP is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When it Matters Most, published in 65 countries with multiple translations. When he is not traveling the globe, JP can be found reading, out dancing, or cherishing time with family. It is no coincidence that he loves working with professional and Olympic athletes as he is himself an avid and enthusiastic athlete. JP loves to participate in a variety of sports including running, volleyball, hockey, and swimming and considers himself a ‘professional’ rugby fan.

Speaker Videos

THE CALM PERSON IN THE BOAT: LEVERAGING THE POWER OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TO WIN

With emergence from COVID-19, your people are facing increased uncertainty, change, and anxiety. Unfortunately, panic can push the best managers into a command and control approach that doesn’t always help. It doesn’t have to be this way.

In this powerful virtual or live experience, your people will learn how to:

  • Tune into the challenges their people are facing.
  • Lead with empathy and strength
  • Use brain-based strategies to manage fear and emotions so they can be resilient, a source of calm in your organization and help people be their best in the most trying situations.
  • Influence & engage others who are at a distance and themselves feeling overwhelmed emotionally.

HOW TO PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE

Your people are facing the most intense challenge of their careers, yet most continue to rely on their IQ and technical skills to manage through. It’s not enough.

To survive, your organization needs to be agile and see opportunities where others do not. Your team needs to learn how to work effectively with others who are, themselves, under pressure themselves.

In this powerful program, your team will learn:

  • Specific tools learned from working with high performers in the NFL, NBA, Olympic teams, Navy seals, Goldman Sachs, Intel, among others to be more adaptable, resilient, collaborative and opportunistic.
  • How to manage their brain so they think, perform and lead under pressure.
  • The single most important daily habit that increases focus and decreases burnout
  • This virtual program is based on a 12,000-person study we did for our New York Times  bestselling book, Performing Under Pressure

WHY AVOIDING DIFFICULT (LAST 8%) SITUATIONS YOU FACE IS SABOTAGING YOUR BEST PERFORMANCE

Most people struggle to have the impact they want to have because they lack the tools to confront the more difficult conversations they face. Avoiding difficult conversations, decisions, and tasks, what we call Last 8% Situations, not only handicaps an organization’s ability to adapt and win but disengages their most important resource, their people.

Now is not the time to play safe. As you face a new post-pandemic normal, tough decisions and conversations will have to be made about how you work (and where) in order to realize your organization’s success.

In this powerful virtual program, your people will learn specific tools to:

  • Engage in the difficult conversations and decisions that lead to a high performing culture that drives innovation, engagement, and success.
  • Create an environment of high psychological safety so people are not afraid to offer new and different ideas, the key to innovation.
  • Work better, together, in a virtual environment where people struggle to stay focused through long days on Zoom.

THE ART OF EMPATHY: USING THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Today’s work environment requires more, not less, empathy. Not only because people are struggling today but because research is clear that employees are more likely to overachieve if they feel their managers are empathetic.

In this powerful virtual program, your people will learn:

  • What the single greatest cause of a lack of empathy at work is.
  • Why building both Heart and Edge: the ability to care and tune-in but also the ability to hold people accountable is so important to get discretionary effort and build a great culture.
  • How to inspire their people to do great work.
  • Create an environment of high psychological safety so people are not afraid to offer new and different ideas, the key to innovation.
  • Work better, together, in a virtual or hybrid environment so people can deliver results.