Wellbeing & High Performance Keynotes
Science-backed tools and microhabits to optimise wellbeing, elevate performance, build resilience and prevent burnout.
Make Wellbeing Your Performance Edge
Jess delivers dynamic keynotes that fuse wellbeing science and elite sport insights with real-world application. Each session equips leaders and teams to optimise energy, build resilience and achieve sustainable success.
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Wellbeing and High Performance Keynotes
Wellbeing is the foundation on which performance and leadership capacity are built.
The Wellbeing Secret: Mastering Sustainable Performance
Lead with energy, clarity and resilience
Work today demands more than ever. The pace is relentless, expectations constant, and the cost is often our wellbeing. Energy, clarity and capacity are eroded, leaving people running on empty. Sustainable success is not about doing more. It is about sustaining the marathon mentally, physically and emotionally.
In this dynamic keynote, Jess Spendlove draws on 15 years of experience with corporate teams, elite athletes and the military. Her science backed system combines lived experience with deep expertise in human performance and wellbeing. She delivers practical tools, mindset shifts and daily behaviours that promote wellness, build resilience and enable people to achieve peak performance, not at the expense of wellbeing, but because of it.
Audience Takeaways
The three key pillars of the sustainable success system
- How to charge up daily with micro habits that create and sustain energy
- Why recovery is the key to protecting wellbeing and preventing burnout, and simple daily practices that make it achievable
- How to build capacity and stamina to juggle the demands of modern work and life sustainably
Audience
Leaders, emerging leaders and individuals operating in dynamic-fast paced environments or facing high levels of stress or burnout.
Note: The term “wellbeing” in the keynote title can be adapted to suit key roles or audiences such as executives, women, founders etc
Format Available
- Keynote
- 1-day workshop
- 6-month coaching program (individual or SLT) comprehensive coaching exploring energy and stress management, physical and mental wellbeing, and human performance to help maximise leadership capacity
Core Themes: Physical and mental wellbeing, peak performance, energy, resilience
The Energy Equation
How to create, sustain and protect 2025’s most finite resource
While AI is quickly optimising tasks and accelerating output, there is one competitive edge it cannot replicate: human energy. The most finite and valuable resource in today’s workplace, energy is under pressure as people run on empty, stress rises and focus fractures.
In this keynote, Jess Spendlove draws on 15 years of experience with elite athletes, special forces and corporate teams to share science backed tools and microhabits that help people create, optimise and sustain energy. The result? Healthier, happier, higher performing people at work and in life.
Audience Takeaways
- The five behaviours that create energy
- How to sustain energy levels using science-backed tools and behaviours.
- Clarity on the core drivers of cognitive, physical and emotional energy.
- Walk away with clarity on one practical micro habit to implement immediately.
Delivery Formats
- Keynote
- Half-day workshop
- 3 month team or organisation program (reclaim your energy)
This Session Is For
Suitable for individuals at all levels of an organisation, from emerging leaders to executives, and for any team operating in fast-paced or high-stakes environments.
Core themes: Physical and mental wellbeing, peak performance, energy
High Performance Wellbeing
The missing capability that’s limiting organisational capacity and accelerating burnout
How do elite athletes and special forces consistently perform at their best, and what’s missing in most workplaces? The answer is proactive recovery.
Wellbeing is the foundation of performance and resilience, and recovery is the most overlooked yet powerful lever. It is more than rest, it is where the body and mind adapt, recharge and grow stronger. In this interactive keynote, Jessica Spendlove brings 15 years of experience from elite sport and high stakes environments to deliver a practical, evidence-based approach that is both engaging and actionable. Audiences walk away with science backed strategies and simple habits to protect energy, build resilience and perform at their best in work and in life.
Key Takeaways
- Why recovery is the missing link in most corporate wellbeing strategies.
- Understand how to improve recovery for sustainable performance.
- Be able to integrate daily, weekly and seasonal recovery strategies to reduce burnout and improve consistency.
Delivery Formats
- Keynote – virtual or in person
Target Audience
Suitable for individuals at all levels of an organisation, from emerging leaders to executives, and for any team operating in fast-paced or high-stakes environments.
Core themes: Physical and mental wellbeing, peak performance, resilience,
Fuelling High Performance
What corporate athletes can learn from elite athletes
Elite athletes and high-performing professionals have more in common than most people realise and it starts with how they fuel. For more than 15 years, Jess has worked with Olympic athletes, premiership-winning teams, special forces operators and executives, helping them unlock nutrition as a critical performance advantage. Nutrition is one of the only behaviours you repeat every day, giving it enormous power to shape mood, focus, recovery and resilience.
In this dynamic keynote, Jess bridges the gap between the boardroom and the playing field, sharing science-backed strategies Australia’s top athletes use to perform at their best. She shows leaders and teams how to apply them in ways that are simple, enjoyable and sustainable to optimise wellbeing, sharpen focus and improve performance.
Takeaways
- Understand how daily nutrition choices shape wellbeing, focus and performance.
- Learn three simple frameworks that make fuelling clear, practical and sustainable.
- Apply five proven nutrition principles to strengthen recovery, sharpen focus and sustain success.
- Discover the bidirectional link between nutrition and sleep — and how to eat better to sleep better.
Delivery Formats
- Keynote
- 2 hour workshop
This Session Is For
Suitable for individuals at all levels of an organisation, from emerging leaders to executives, and for any team operating in fast-paced or high-stakes environments.
Core themes: Physical and mental wellbeing, peak performance
About Jess
Jess Spendlove is a leading voice on wellbeing and high performance. With more than 15 years’ experience working with executives, elite athletes, special forces and high-growth founders, she delivers science-backed strategies that help leaders and teams achieve and sustain peak performance.
Her keynotes are dynamic, practical and high-impact. Known for making the complex simple, Jess equips audiences with microhabits that optimise energy, build resilience and prevent burnout. Drawing on her experience across corporate leadership, elite sport and the military, she shows how embedding wellbeing as a performance advantage drives measurable results for individuals, teams and organisations.
Whether in person or virtual, Jess delivers engaging and transformational experiences that leave audiences inspired and ready to take action.
“She captivated the audience and left a lasting impact…the perfect speaker for the day.”
“We had lots of excellent feedback from staff.”
“Professional, engaging and evidence-based. Jess was adaptable, impactful and a pleasure to work with.”
“Jessica’s ability to connect with people, share impactful insights, and spark important conversations is what makes her stand out”
“She would make any organisation. better.”
