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Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry

Top Booked Keynote Speaker on Leadership and High Performing Teams, NY Times Best Selling Author, Host of Last 8% Morning Podcast, Co-Founder of IHHP

Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry is a respected and award-winning visionary when it comes to building high-performing teams and cultures, and co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Performing Under Pressure. His work with leaders from Fortune 100 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 Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $30,001 - $40,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English, French

  • Travels From

    Canada USA

  • Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $30,001 - $40,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English, French

  • Travels From

    Canada USA

Suggested Keynote Speaker Programs

Build a High-Performance, Last 8% Culture

You need to move fast, adapt to a changing environment, and deliver performance, yet your team is moving too slow when it comes to making tough decisions and are avoiding the more challenging conversations that drive results. What is at the heart of high performance is ...

You need to move fast, adapt to a changing environment, and deliver performance, yet your team is moving too slow when it comes to making tough decisions and are avoiding the more challenging conversations that drive results.

What is at the heart of high performance is culture. Unfortunately, most leaders misunderstand culture; they believe culture exists across the organization; it doesn’t. It exists primarily on teams. Second, they see culture as something that should be owned by the CEO and CHRO, believing it is their job to build the culture across the organization; it isn’t. Most CEO’s and CHRO’s get so overwhelmed when they think of tackling culture, that they avoid it and allow culture to be built haphazardly, which means that good people leave, and goals are not met.

In this powerful virtual or live keynote, your team will learn the results from our study of 7,500 leaders that puts your managers and people leaders at the center of building your culture. Your people will learn specific tools to own the culture on their team in the critical moments, the Last 8%, that creates culture. The Last 8% are those tougher conversations and decisions that many people struggle with and avoid. When leaders feel agency and have skills to lean into the difficult, they build a high-performance culture that becomes a powerful force in your organization.

In this powerful program, your team will learn:

  • What the two pillars of a high performing culture are: High Connection (psychological safety) and High Courage (ability to do hard things skillfully)
  • How to build the culture on their team with our proprietary approach of Model & Own
  • Specific tools to connect and coach their people to be their best in Last 8% Situations
  • How to influence & engage others who are at a distance and create the conditions to keep the best
    and brightest

“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


Pre-program Assessment

JP’s research organization surveys over 40,000 people a month and can leverage their proprietary research capability to assess all participants in your keynote prior to the program. This 4-5 minute assessment provides the following benefits:

  • JP will use the data to customize the program for your unique needs.
  • By taking the assessment, it prepares the learner’s brain to think about their impact and behavior ahead of time.
  • JP will tailor/customize the keynote with key results from the survey to address what matters most to the participants
  • Post program, JP will share any information we didn’t see fit for a wider audience but believe will help you move forward with building culture and lead your teams more effectively

 

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Performing Under Pressure

Your people are facing the biggest challenge of their careers, yet most continue to rely on their IQ and technical skills to manage through it all. It’s not enough. To survive, your organization ...

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

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

In this powerful program, your team members will learn:

  • Specific tools learned from working with high performers under pressure 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 can think, perform and lead effectively under pressure
  • The single most important daily habit that increases focus and decreases burnout
  • Strategies to help their teams perform in the face of the pressure they face

This program is based on a 12,000-person study conducted for our New York Times best-selling book, Performing Under Pressure, which is available in 65 countries.

This session can be delivered for sales people and sales teams, focusing on helping them  harness emotional intelligence to deal with pressure, build stronger relationships with their clients, collaborate internally and deal with the setbacks and uncertainty that sales people must overcome to be successful.

“Best presentation I have ever attended. Different than the usual: interactive and engaging, yet highly substantive. Huge success.” – Morgan Stanley


Pre-program Assessment

JP’s research organization surveys over 40,000 people a month and can leverage their proprietary research capability to assess all participants in your keynote prior to the program. This 4-5 minute assessment provides the following benefits:

  • JP will use the data to customize the program for your unique needs.
  • By taking the assessment, it prepares the learner’s brain to think about their impact and behavior ahead of time.
  • JP will tailor/customize the keynote with key results from the survey to address what matters most to the participants
  • Post program, JP will share any information we didn’t see fit for a wider audience but believe will help you move forward with building culture and lead your teams more effectively

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Having High Impact Last 8% Conversations

Our research has found that most people are relatively effective at getting to 92% of what they want to say in a feedback conversation. But when they get to the ...

Our research has found that most people are relatively effective at getting to 92% of what they want to say in a feedback conversation. But when they get to the Last 8% of what they really want to say–the hardest part of the feedback they want to give–the part of the conversation that has consequences for the other person, they sense the potential emotional impact this feedback might have, and they back off, avoiding giving the feedback that’s needed.

This creates significant challenges for the other person: not only do they not know how or where they stand, which increases their anxiety, but they are also not given a chance to improve. Worse, they feel less psychologically safe and emotionally connected, which diminishes their performance. 

The goal of this program is to give your people the insight and tools to manage their emotions to get to the Last 8% of what they want to say in any feedback conversation. The good news is that there is a burgeoning science of how to give and receive feedback that anyone can learn. It starts by becoming a ‘student of human behavior’, understanding the brain under pressure, and learning the concrete skills needed to give feedback in a way where the other person can hear it. 

In this powerful program, your people will learn: 

  • What The Last 8% is and why it provides the biggest opportunity to learn, grow and boost their performance. 
  • How the brain reacts under pressure and why that is at the heart of why people avoid giving Last 8% feedback. 
  • Self-awareness: what their habitual way of reacting to receiving feedback is and why that matters as a signal to the other person that they are open to receiving this important feedback.
  • How to start a Last 8% feedback conversation: most people do not know where to start, which causes anxiety. Along with trying to be perfect, this stops them from beginning this important conversation.
  • What the key components are to building an environment of high psychological safety, and why it matters to innovation.

JP, your presentation was excellent, but the message was even more powerful. Thank you, it is something I will take personally to implement in all aspects of my life.” – IBM


Pre-program Assessment

JP’s research organization surveys over 40,000 people a month and can leverage their proprietary research capability to assess all participants in your keynote prior to the program. This 4-5 minute assessment provides the following benefits:

  • JP will use the data to customize the program for your unique needs.
  • By taking the assessment, it prepares the learner’s brain to think about their impact and behavior ahead of time.
  • JP will tailor/customize the keynote with key results from the survey to address what matters most to the participants
  • Post program, JP will share any information we didn’t see fit for a wider audience but believe will help you move forward with building culture and lead your teams more effectively

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The Art of Empathy: Building Emotional Intelligence In Your Leaders

The cost of replacing an individual employee ranges from one-half to two times the employee’s annual salary. That means, a 100-person organization that provides an average salary of $50,000 will have turnover and replacement costs of ...

The cost of replacing an individual employee ranges from one-half to two times the employee’s annual salary. That means, a 100-person organization that provides an average salary of $50,000 will have turnover and replacement costs of approximately $800,000 to $2.6 million per year.

The worst part? 52% of people who leave say their manager or organization could have done something to prevent them from leaving their job. In fact, they said that in the three months before leaving, nobody asked them how they felt about their job, or about their future. What is evident is a lack of empathy in their leaders. It doesn’t have to be this way.

In this powerful virtual or live program, your managers and leaders will learn:

  • What the single greatest cause of a lack of empathy is (something they have control over)
  • How to grow their skills of Emotional Intelligence so they can tune into the challenges their people are facing before it causes them to leave
  • What empathy is and how to build it to empower your innovative and effective people who keep your teams connected and performing at a high level
  • How to use brain-science-based strategies to manage their emotions so they can be resilient and a source of calm in your organization
  • How to manage through disruptive change 

“Outstanding! We need more of this in all of the Army Training Programs. The parts on Emotional Intelligence and leadership were excellent and of great value to me.” – U.S. Army


Pre-program Assessment

JP’s research organization surveys over 40,000 people a month and can leverage their proprietary research capability to assess all participants in your keynote prior to the program. This 4-5 minute assessment provides the following benefits:

  • JP will use the data to customize the program for your unique needs.
  • By taking the assessment, it prepares the learner’s brain to think about their impact and behavior ahead of time.
  • JP will tailor/customize the keynote with key results from the survey to address what matters most to the participants
  • Post program, JP will share any information we didn’t see fit for a wider audience but believe will help you move forward with building culture and lead your teams more effectively

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About Keynote Speaker Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry

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.

Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry is a respected and award-winning visionary when it comes to building high-performing teams and cultures. Organizations such as United Healthcare, Blue Cross and even Harvard have consulted JP and his firm when it comes to building high-performing teams.

He 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 and named as one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Business Books of the Year.

JP’s works with a who’s who of Fortune 100 companies such as Goldman Sachs, Google, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Salesforce, PepsiCo, and Federal Reserve Bank as well as the US Marines, Olympic athletes and NBA and NFL teams which has provided him with considerable opportunities to test his science-based tools in environments of high pressure.

The focus of his work is bringing a research-based approach (his organization surveys over 40,000 people a month) to understand human performance. He and his team are renowned for naming the gap between what people want to do and what they actually do as The Last 8%. These are the conversations and decisions that don’t happen or that take too long to happen because they are perceived to be too risky. They are at the heart of why some organizations and leaders succeed while others fail.

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.

Testimonials

“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 and Young

 

“I do not say this lightly – the most powerful keynote I have ever heard. JP was charged with setting the tone for the rest of the week.  He clearly over-delivered!”

Pfizer

 

“JP has  great passion and enthusiasm about the material.   Genuinely cares to help our business. Great mix of film clips and presentation slides.”

Mosaic

 

“We truly appreciate the time and effort that went into your presentation and, particularly your willingness to share your knowledge and invaluable experience with our members. This group always looks forward to the insights our speakers provide on how to position their companies for growth and improved customer service. The responses from attendees have been extremely positive. All the hard work and preparation you put into personalizing your presentation for our group really paid off.”

ED Limited Partnership

 

“JP is excellent!!! He is very engaging & this work is completely aligned with our cultural transformation

work. JP further reinforced our learning and provided some “science” to it as well!!

Farm Credit

 

“I have never been to a more powerful live cast keynote! Dr. Pawliw-Fry was able to hold the attention of our audience with his stories and insights the whole time.  We literally had no one drop off the entire time. Amazing!”

NY Presbyterian Hospital

 

“Thank you for your incredible presentation at Tony Robbins – Business Mastery, it really hit my heart. Your content is so much needed in the business world. You are an amazing speaker with an amazing mission.”

Kurt F.

Senior Leader at Robbins Research International

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Feb 16, 2023

What People Get Wrong About Culture with Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry

With workplace trends shifting from the Great Resignation to Quiet Quitting, and more people contemplating leaving their jobs, what will...

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Jan 31, 2020

6 Essential Emotional Intelligence Facts (You Probably Didn't Know)

The phrase Emotional Intelligence (EI or EQ) gets thrown around a lot, but could you tell your friend what it...

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Jan 31, 2020

Get Motivated: J.P. Pawliw-Fry

“You can lose. You can get close and lose. But you don’t want to leave with regret, thinking I played...

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Sep 16, 2019

The Myth of Performing Well Under Pressure

No one does their best work under pressure. Not that top athlete whose name just popped into your head or...

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Nov 28, 2016

Why You Should Embrace the Pressure Moments this Holiday Season

The pressure, and often times, the stress of the holiday season isn’t something that always makes us feel ‘physically’ good....

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Aug 24, 2016

Performing Under Pressure… Not just for Olympic Athletes

We’ve just witnessed that Olympic athletes are under an immense amount of pressure to perform.  Every little factor and step...

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May 11, 2016

Stress vs Pressure: Why It Matters When You have Too Much To Do

Written by Emotional Intelligence Experts, JP Pawliw-Fry and Bill Benjamin In a 12,000 person study conducted for the New York...

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Mar 17, 2015

Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry Webinar

Are you interested in bringing an emotional intelligence expert, or sales speaker like J.P. Pawliw-Fry or Bill Benjamin to your...

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