Dr. J.P. Pawliw-Fry

Dr. J.P. Pawliw-Fry is a thought leader on the subjects of leadership, performance and managing change. He is a performance coach to Olympic athletes and business leaders. He melds state-of-the-art research with powerful inspiration to create thought-provoking and moving keynote presentations. An expert in emotional intelligence, he is one of the world's most highly sought-after speakers on the topic.

Dr. Pawliw-Fry has trained at Harvard Medical School's Mind Body Medical Institute and the Stress Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He delivers high performance programs to Fortune 500 companies, the world's top business schools, Olympic and professional athletes as well as educators, sales professionals, business and government leaders throughout North America.

Using cutting-edge research and personal stories from the world of sports and business, Dr. Pawliw-Fry teaches his audiences the principles of emotional intelligence and high performance, and inspires them to take their careers, businesses and personal lives to the next level. ADDITIONAL LINKS www.ihhp.com

• A. The Power of Approach: Doing What’s Difficult to Drive Performance and Leadership

  “If you don’t deal with the underperformers in the room, you will lose the room!”
  
  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.
  
  In The Power of Approach, participants will learn:
  
  

  • the brain science of performance under pressure – how approaching what is difficult makes them more adaptable and flexible to a changing world;

  • techniques to hold people accountable in a way that boosts employee performance;

  • the traps that can cause leaders to diminish the engagement and effort of those around them;

  • exercises that bring clarity to the most important tasks, relationships and change they need to focus on over the next 90 days.

  
  
  

• B. All Change is Personal: WHY MOST CHANGE EFFORTS FAIL - AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT

  In any economy, and especially in an economic downturn, leaders and managers face the unenviable task of trying to get their organizations to change. It is not easy. In fact, it is near impossible. Two of three change efforts fail. They do not fail because leaders do not follow the script or the game plan; they fail because organizations and leaders do not understand that all change is personal.
  
  Based on original research, you will learn:
  
  

  • Why change is critical to your organization's ability to adapt, innovate and remain viable, especially in a difficult economy
  • Why the best thought out plan for change is doomed from the start
  • Why the brain is at the center of 'why change is personal' and stops people from taking the necessary risk to change when confronted with uncertainty and adversity
  • Specific tools that will help you make change happen more effectively the very next day

  
  
  This keynote is helpful for any level of leader and non-leader alike who is going through the challenge of change. Your team will learn deep insight into how to make change more successful and leave energized and inspired!

• C. THE OLYMPIC EDGE: The One Thing You Need to Know to Get to the Next Level of Performance!

  Is your team up to Olympic standards? Do they want to play at the highest levels in the world? Do they know the secret?
  
  In this Olympic year, 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. J.P. Pawliw-Fry offers something truly different - knowledge of what 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 both coached athletes to Olympic glory and taught leadership to executives at the number one ranked executive education program in the world (Northwestern's Kellogg 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 Olympian victory.
  
  In this powerful keynote, your team will discover:

  • The one thing that differentiates Olympic winning performance from the average
  • How to adopt 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 higher levels more consistently.
  • How to build 'team', the most overlooked part of the success 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!

  
  Audiences:

  • Leaders who are managing in an environment of high tension with a need for results
  • Sales people who are driving growth with a desire to achieve more than they ever have

• D. THE BRAIN SCIENCE OF PERFORMANCE - MANAGING EMOTIONS IN A COMPLEX WORLD

  The current environment of complexity and uncertainty is exacting a great toll on many individuals – not just leaders. It is affecting performance, creativity and the critical connections between team members and it is even causing problems at home. It doesn't have to be this way!
  
  While there are certainly unique challenges being faced today, there is also robust research that points a way forward. Data are clear that some individuals respond differently to stress and turbulence and this different way of responding has consequences – for themselves, their brains, their team, their organization and for their family.
  
  In this program, which is targeted at non-leaders and leaders alike, participants will learn tools to manage their emotions more effectively in the midst of uncertainty and turbulence. They will learn how, under the pressure of change or difficult to manage relationships, they are at risk to fall into 'default behaviors', causing them to have impact that they don't intend. Among the many consequences are that they lose connection to key individuals or customers, allow conflicts to fester on a team - causing good people to shut down, become disengaged or leave - and impact their own ability to sustain best performance.

• E. REDEFINING LEADERSHIP: What Highly Effective Leaders Do

  Many factors have been attributed to great leadership. In this riveting keynote, you'll discover the secrets of the best!
  
  Senior executives will learn key strategies to move their teams to the next level and how to select and retain the best and brightest.
  
  EQuip your organization with an edge. Discover why Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the single greatest driver not only of effective leadership, but of performance at all levels of an organization. It is Personal Leadership throughout the organization that will allow you to outperform the competition.

• F. PLAYING BIG: What Great Leaders do to Sustain Performance in Uncertain Times

  Most organizations, as they are currently managed, are unsustainable. While there are a myriad of contributing external factors, the principle reason is internal: most leaders play the wrong game. They focus on outcome, what happens to them and getting things done. They play small. Not only does this sabotage short term results but it impacts an organizations two key sustainability factors: retaining best and brightest talent and winning at customer loyalty. In this powerful presentation, you will learn what drives sustainable performance and how you can get your team to perform at their best in the moment and consistently at a high level over the long term.
  
  You will learn:

  • The principle reason well-intentioned leaders play small – and how that drives away their best performers and diminishes 'loyalty behavior' of their best customers
  • The three pillars of Playing Big™
  • Case studies of great leaders and athletes who Played Big in the face of difficult circumstances to win
  • How to lead others to Play Big™ to drive sustainable performance

• G. YOU CAN'T STOP THE WAVES BUT YOU CAN LEARN TO SURF! Tools to Thrive in Turbulent Times

  Why do some organizations and individuals falter during times of uncertainty while others thrive in chaos and find ways to adapt?
  
  Is it our IQ or technical skills that gets us through those times - or our ability to keep it together and manage ourselves intelligently?
  
  Discover how EQ differentiates high performers from others in turbulent times. Your team will walk away with tools to outperform the competition during uncertainty.

• H. THE MOTIVATION MYTH: High Performance Sales is Not Driven by Motivation But by Managing Setbacks Effectively

  All sales people are not created equally! If 20% of your sales force brings in 80% of the business, what then differentiates the high-performers from the average?
  
  In this fascinating keynote, Dr. Pawliw-Fry draws from cutting-edge research and his work with Olympic medallists, professional athletes and high performing sales teams around the globe. Discover the definitive edge that will drive sales performance - and the business.

• I. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: The Powerful Lever of High Performance

  Organizations around the world are looking for an edge – how to get to the next level of performance. After researching and working with organizations on four continents– including the NHL. NBA, and US Navy - Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry and his team of researchers have identified the one thing that matters more than any other for organizations interested in sustained performance - retention of talented people. In this powerful keynote, you will learn why your best and brightest leave and why they stay – at the heart is the intelligent management of emotions.

• J. KEEPING IT TOGETHER - STRESS AND SUSTAINABILITY IN 2010

  Research is clear that some people handle stress better than others and are more resilient in the face of change and uncertainty. What is clear is that this more resilient group was not born with special traits or abilities – they acquired them. In this powerful new keynote, your team will learn how to acquire the critical tools of dealing with stress and uncertainty so that they can sustain performance and increase happiness, even in these difficult times.
  
  Through this engaging keynote, JP will introduce your team to:
  
  

  • The key attributes and mindset that characterize highly resilient people.
  • The three traps that can sabotage their best intention, causing them to lose focus and confidence.
  • The two tools that will help them be the 'calm person in the boat', taking charge of what they can control and letting go of what they cannot.
  • How to be a more positive force in the organization, 'lifting' others around them as opposed to bring them down.

• K. EQ COACHING FOR KIDS: Raising Emotionally Intelligent Children

  Are your kids thriving? Are they socially aware? Are they contributing?
  
  There are few things in life we care about more than seeing our children develop into confident, empathetic, optimistic and contributing members of society.
  
  Unfortunately, many of today's young people have not been taught the skills necessary to handle themselves in the media saturated ‘me’ culture, high parental expectation, ‘facebook friends’ world they find themselves in. So what can we do help our young people find their way and be their best?
  
  EQ Coaching for Kids is a program that helps parents, teachers, and coach’s work with children to build emotional and social intelligence and bring forth those lifelong skills that will enrich their lives and the lives of those around them. The next generation has the potential to be all that we expect and more, it's up to each one of us to help unleash that potential.
  
  In this program, participants learn:
  
  · To be their best in their ‘most difficult moments’ so that they can be good models for their children
  · The traps parents can fall into that can get in the way of their being effective influencers of children (such as the ‘wanting to be liked’ trap, common to many parents)
  · How the brain develops in children and teens and how that can drive specific behavior in their children, leading parents to confuse the impact of a child’s behavior for their actual intention
  · The keys to coaching kids to be more emotionally resilient
  · How to help kids break out of an ‘entitlement’ mindset and into a ‘contribution and appreciation’ mindset
  · How to bring more gratitude in their family lives on a daily basis

• L. GETTING TO THE TOP AND LIVING TO ENJOY IT!

• M. THE POWER OF PURPOSE: Finding Your Unique Ability

• N. MANAGING EMOTIONS: The Key to Building High Performance Teams

• “Best keynote presentation I have been to in years! Very different than the usual: extremely interesting and powerful – yet highly entertaining. It is not often I hear someone who can really 'put it together'.”
  Ernst & Young
• “Dr. Pawliw-Fry is impassioned and enthusiastic.”
  Kellogg Graduate School of Management
• “J.P. is an inspirational presenter and he infuses passion into his material... He can take complex ideas and simplify them, giving the members of the audience real solutions they can easily implement.”
  LANSA Inc.

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