Dr. James Hewitt

Most leadership advice ignores a brutal paradox: the very demands of leadership often impair the capabilities needed to lead well—clarity, resilience, decision-making, and focus. In this keynote, Dr. James Hewitt reveals how today’s high-performing leaders can escape the trap of chronic overload, reclaim their cognitive edge, and lead with strategic clarity and sustainable energy.

Drawing from neuroscience, elite sport, and his own experiments with global organizations, James equips leaders with tools to lead smarter under pressure without burning out themselves or their teams.

This keynote is perfect for leaders and teams:

• Facing mounting complexity, faster decision cycles, and team exhaustion.
• Trying to be visionary but overwhelmed by day-to-day urgency.
• Advocating wellbeing but struggling to recover themselves.

Audience Outcomes:

• Learn how to stay mentally sharp, emotionally balanced, and strategically focused, even under relentless demands.
• Apply a performance rhythm framework to lead with more clarity, creativity, and energy.
• Discover how to lead high-performing teams without compromising personal or organizational wellbeing.

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Despite billions invested in corporate wellbeing, engagement and burnout are moving in the wrong direction. Why? Because most initiatives treat wellbeing as an individual responsibility—when it’s actually a systems issue.

In this provocative and practical keynote, Dr. James Hewitt shows how forward-thinking leaders are redesigning their workplaces as regenerative environments: places that actively improve human capacity instead of depleting it. He shares lessons from Formula 1, finance, and fast-growth companies to help audiences transform wellbeing from a perk into a business-critical lever for growth.

This keynote is perfect for leaders and teams:

• Struggling to balance business outcomes with human sustainability.
• Looking for measurable impact beyond mental health apps and mindfulness webinars.
• Ready to turn the workplace from a stressor into a source of energy, focus, and innovation.

Audience Outcomes:

• Learn a new model for organizational performance based on regenerative design principles.
• Discover the workplace systems that impair or enhance human focus, recovery, and creativity.
• Identify high-leverage opportunities to build capacity and drive better results through wellbeing.

See an overview video of this keynote on James’ media gallery.

The average employee switches tasks every 47 seconds. Teams are overwhelmed by meetings, messages, and interruptions, and it’s destroying their ability to focus, produce, and recover. In this high-impact keynote, Dr. James Hewitt reveals the neuroscience behind distraction and overload and how organizations can redesign attention to unlock high-quality, high-efficiency performance.

This isn’t about time management. It’s about cognitive architecture, energy rhythms, and building a team culture that protects deep work and accelerates recovery.

This keynote is perfect for leaders and teams:

• Battling constant digital distraction, email overload, and time scarcity.
• Experiencing burnout from blurred boundaries and always-on expectations.
• Looking for practical tools to do more meaningful work, with less stress.

Audience Outcomes:

• Understand how modern work patterns are rewiring the brain and how to take back control.
• Discover the “Cognitive Gears”™ framework to structure time, energy, and attention more strategically.
• Learn how to create performance rhythms that boost output and protect well-being.

See an overview video of this keynote in James’ media gallery.

AI is no longer a future concern; it’s here, reshaping how we work. While many worry about being replaced, most people are simply overwhelmed by digital debt, repetitive tasks, and unclear expectations. In this keynote, Dr. James Hewitt offers a clear-eyed roadmap to build AI-employee alliances that enhance wellbeing, performance, and innovation.

This talk goes beyond AI hype or fear. Drawing from his work inside organizations integrating AI with human performance strategy, James shows how leaders can use tech to amplify the best of being human, not automate it away.

This keynote is perfect for leaders and teams:

• Navigating digital transformation and struggling to keep the human side of work intact.
• Exploring how AI can reduce workload and unlock creativity—not increase stress.
• Looking for frameworks to help employees adapt, contribute, and thrive in an AI-augmented future.

Audience Outcomes:

• Discover how to create a performance culture that integrates AI without dehumanizing work.
• Learn practical strategies to reduce digital overload and elevate high-value, human-centric contributions.
• Shift mindset from replacement to augmentation, preparing teams to stay resilient, relevant, and creative.

See an overview video of this keynote in James’ media gallery.