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MEET ​DR. JP PAWLIW-FRY

Dr. J.P. Pawliw-Fry is a top emotional intelligence keynote speaker, leadership thought leader, peak performance expert, and co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Performing Under Pressure. His work with leaders from Fortune 500 companies, U.S. Marines, Olympic athletes, NBA, and NFL teams has provided him with considerable opportunities to test his science-based tools in environments of high pressure.
 
Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry is the perfect balance of inspiring and practical, results-focused and fun. He delivers powerful and actionable keynotes to drive meaningful outcomes for organizations worldwide.
 
As an emotional intelligence keynote speaker JP brings something different than the usual: he combines teaching experience at a world class business school (Kellogg), being an award-winning entrepreneur (Profit Magazine’s Fastest growing companies), authoring a New York Times Bestselling as well as working with Olympic, NFL teams, Navy Seals and a who’s who of Fortune 500’s to blend deep, real-world leadership experience with a powerful stage presence to help people and organizations thrive in the midst of change.
 
Every keynote is customized to have the biggest possible impact, combining engaging stories and practical techniques that push audiences to think differently as they face the challenge of change, disruption, innovation, the need to engage their teams, build a powerful culture and the pressure to achieve results.
 
JP’s organization surveys over 40,000 people a month and he uses that capability to bring cutting edge ideas to your program and also, at no added cost, to survey your audience prior to the program and present back results against benchmarks as a way to deliver personalized insight. People walk away remarking how they felt that JP was talking directly to them.
 
​He serves as advisor to numerous Fortune 100 companies, including long-term consulting arrangements with Johnson and Johnson, PWC, Goldman Sachs, HSBC as well as Olympic medal winning athletes. JP’s training includes Harvard Medical School’s Mind/Body Medical Institute. Every year, JP speaks with individuals and leaders on over five continents, helping them to improve their overall performance and understanding of emotional intelligence. He is an expert in performing wonderfully under pressure and is one of the world’s most highly sought-after keynote speakers on the topic.
 
JP co-authored the New York Times bestselling book, Performing Under Pressure: The Science Of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most, with noted psychologist Hendrie Weisinger. JP is also a performance coach to Olympic athletes and business leaders. He melds innovative research with powerful inspiration to create thought-provoking and moving keynote presentations.
 
​An expert in performing under pressure, he is one of the world’s most highly sought-after speakers on the topic. Formerly, JP taught executive education at Queen’s University Executive Development Center as well as the Kellogg Graduate School of Management (ranked number one, worldwide). He is now a contributing member of IHHP’s research team, a group that brings rigor to understanding what allows some leaders’, individuals or organizations to perform more effectively under pressure to drive meaningful results on how they can ‘be their best when it matters most’.
 
J.P. Pawliw-Fry is a contributing columnist for The Economic Times (the second highest circulation newspaper in the world). Dr. Pawliw-Fry’s high-content and enormously inspiring leadership presentations include a fascinating multimedia show and leave audiences with something different: strategies that they can implement the very next day to make a real difference.
 
​J.P. has coached or worked with senior leaders at a number of Fortune 100 companies. as well as Olympic and NBA coaches, US Army and Navy, the CIA to name a few.

SUGGESTED SPEAKING TOPICS​

THE CALM PERSON IN THE BOAT LEVERAGE THE POWER OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
  • This virtual program will teach your people brain-based strategies to manage fear and emotions so they can be a source of calm in your organization and help people be their best in the most trying situations.
  • They will learn how to influence & engage others who are at a distance and themselves feeling overwhelmed emotionally.

PERFORMING UNDER PRESSURE
  • To survive, your organization needs to be agile and see opportunities where others do not. This is especially true on the sales side of the business.• Your team will learn specific tools, based on key habits we have learned working with high performers in the NFL, NBA, Olympic teams, Navy seals, Goldman Sachs, Intel, among others to be adaptable, resilient, and opportunistic under the most intense pressure
  •  This virtual program is based on a 12,000-person study we did for our New York Times  bestselling book, Performing Under Pressure

LEAD IN LAST 8% SITUATIONS
  • Now is not the time to play safe. Tough decisions and conversations that may have been put off in the past are now critical to your success.
  • Avoiding difficult decisions, conversations, and situations, what we call Last 8% Situations, not only handicaps your organization’s ability to adapt and win but disengages your most important resource, your people.
  • In this powerful virtual program, your people will learn specific tools to engage in difficult conversations and decisions that lead to a high performing culture that drives innovation,  engagement, and success.

THE ART OF EMPATHY: USING THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
  • Employees are more likely to overachieve if they feel their managers are empathetic
  • Managers who show the characteristics of Heart and Edge will inspire employees to want to prove themselves as talented
  •  Exceptional leaders are able to manage their emotions very well and are able to be very direct and at the same time, non-judgmental

Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Emotional Intelligence Why do smart people fail?

Why do technically brilliant individuals have trouble managing others and collaborating on a team? What they lack is a critical level of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and the ability to manage their emotions and others when they are under pressure. In the EI program, you will learn the research and brain science of emotional intelligence, enabling you to lead teams more effectively and increase your own performance. You will become a student of human behavior: understanding what your brain does under pressure and how that affects your decision making and your impact on others. This program will teach you the brain science of Emotional Intelligence and strategies to manage your emotions so you can be at your best in your most difficult moments.

Performing Under Pressure: Doing Your Best When it Matters

Most Nobody performs better under pressure. Regardless of the task, pressure ruthlessly diminishes our judgment, decision-making, attention, dexterity and performance in every professional and personal arena. In this program, you will be introduced to the concept of pressure management, offering the latest science on how your brain responds under pressure, and many empirically tested strategies to help you overcome the sabotaging effects of pressure. This program provides insight into how pressure impacts the cognitive part of your brain. Using this insight, you will learn proven strategies to enable you to perform your best when is matters most.

Performing Under Pressure: The Three Conversations of Leadership

People want to build strong relationships with their managers, teams, and peers: they want to bring their ideas and concerns to the table regardless of who is in the room. To achieve this, difficult conversations need to take place. Unfortunately, under the pressure to drive results, people often forget the importance of building trust; they avoid the conversation entirely or they ignore the Last 8% of the Conversation™. What is the Last 8% of the Conversation? At the end, when the pressure increases, many people avoid (sometimes unknowingly) the last and most important part of the conversation – the part that really needs to be said. This program will arm you with insights and communication strategies to have conversations that drive results and get to that last 8%, even in pressure filled moments.

The Brain Science of Performance: Managing Emotions In A Complex World

Avoiding the difficult costs us. When we avoid what is difficult – the challenging tasks, relationships or change that we all face, we become less effective and the business and our people suffer. Successful leaders are those who learn to push through the anxiety, the discomfort, in order to approach the difficult and do the right thing. In fact, our research shows leaders who ‘approach’ the difficult outperform those who ‘avoid’ by 21% (and not insignificantly, become happier)! If everyone on your team performed 21% higher, what impact would that have on your organization and your customers? If you’re a leader who’s struggling, take heart: you can learn how to approach, rather than avoid the difficult. Based on seven years of research at IHHP, the Power of Approach identifies five key traits that help leaders consistently perform at their best, under even the most demanding circumstances. This compelling keynote will reveal these traits, show how the ‘micro decisions of leadership’ silently sabotage or enable leaders, and provide new ways of thinking that will enhance your learning capacity, leading you to sustained performance and well-being.

Reputation Under Pressure

Is there a leader or team member who continually encounters resistance to their ideas, suggestions or actions because of their reputation? Do you have a reputation that opens doors, or closes them? Most leaders don’t understand that their reputation is an invisible force that shapes every decision, and effects how people listen and respond to their ideas. Like most people, you may be unaware of the role pressure plays in forging and reinforcing a reputation; the brain encodes information differently when we are under pressure meaning that what we do in pressure moments has an outsize influence on the reputations that forms in other people’s minds. This program will help you develop a reputation that allows you to have influence and drive change across your organization.

Leadership Reputation

“It can take 20 years to build a good reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about it that way, you will do things differently.”~ Warren Buffet A 2010 study by CLC showed that “senior leader reputation can drive employee commitment by as much as 41%.” A solid Leadership Reputation has an extraordinary effect on the amount of trust, credibility, respect, and ultimately on the influence one has with others, regardless of their title, role, or responsibility. This influence allows them to do more with less and to do it with more speed, efficiency and support. This is precisely what is required to ensure people follow their lead through periods of complexity, change and uncertainty that is increasingly becoming the reality of today. This is never more evident than when we consider a leader with a negative or low-standing reputation, such as being thought of as dictatorial, self-centric, controlling and overbearing, or untrustworthy. Instead of an asset, this negative reputation places a hidden “tax” on every transaction they engage in – every conversation, decision, suggestion, or request they make. The associated cost of this tax is that people will take more time and energy to assess and evaluate the situation and request before taking action, differently than if it came from a leader with a good reputation. In this new and thought-provoking keynote, the 4 Dimensions of Leadership Reputation are explored:
  • The Sphere of Influence and how it affects your external reputation while being driven by…
  • Your internal reputation. What’s your internal talk and what is making you approach or avoid difficult situations
  • Leading others with both heart and edge in order to drive the best results
  • And discovering the balancing act for all of the above in order to drive your leadership reputation

The Olympic Edge

Is your team up to the Olympic standards? Do they want to play at the highest levels in the world? Do they know the secret? Challenge your team to get to the next level of performance with a riveting keynote from someone who knows what it takes to win at the Olympics. Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry offers something truly different – knowledge of the secret that allows some individuals to get to the highest level of performance and the ability to deliver this message in a way that leaves audiences wanting more. He has coached athletes to Olympic glory and taught leadership executives at the number one ranked executive education programs in the world (Northwestern’s Kellog Graduate School of Management). In other words, he studies athletes and business people at the highest levels of success and delivers a message that incorporates the best of both worlds to help your team achieve your own Olympic victory. In this powerful keynote, your team will discover: •  The one thing that differentiates Olympic winning performance from the average •  How to adapt the mind-set that characterizes success at the highest levels •  How to manage the need for results and the pressure of time to perform at the highest levels more consistently •  How to build ‘team’, the most overlooked part of the equation •  How to create habits of excellence that your team can use the very next day, so that they can perform under pressure and win!