Paul Taylor

Mental Health is typically positioned as a lack of mental illness, but this old
medical model lacks aspiration. A stimulating blend of neuroscience, physiology
and psychology, this talk will cover 7 key daily practices that will move you up the
mental fitness continuum, including techniques used by Special Forces soldiers
and elite athletes. These rituals are guaranteed to increase your energy and
resilience to stress, as well as help you to feel, perform and sleep better.

UNLOCK THE DNA OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMS

Paul decodes and distils wisdom learned from working closely with senior executive teams in large organisations such as Medibank, Goodman Fielder, Iselect, SAP and CISCO, as well as local governments.

This workshop is a unique blend of personal experiences and cutting-edge research into both team dynamics and social neuroscience.

Paul blends his insights from completing a Postgraduate Diploma in the Neuroscience of Leadership and the practical applications of high-performance teams.

Participants complete a pre-workshop questionnaire to identify which areas to focus on in the workshop and additional coaching is provided if required

Why would you aspire to be ‘resilient’ when human beings are capable of so much more?

In this thought-provoking talk, Paul will explore the human stress response and how developing high levels of Stress Fitness enables you to adapt positively to the inevitable challenges that life throws at you and ultimately emerge stronger and better, with a higher level of performance.

The talk will then go through a range of evidence-based rituals from neuroscience, psychology and physiology, that integrate and optimise the mind, body and brain to move you up the Stress Fitness Continuum.

In this session, Paul will use his unique combination of research and practical experience in stressful situations to explain both our stress response systems and the concepts of resilience and stress adaptation.

He will then present the ‘Big 4’ practical tools used by US Special Forces that will help us not only survive - but thrive - in the face of modern stressors, and move beyond resilience to being stress adapted, where we grow because of stress exposure.

As businesses transform and adapt it increases the stress and tiredness of
staff. When physiological, psychological, and emotional resources are
insufficient to meet demand, fatigue, impairment and burnout can result.

Forging ahead as an organisation without forging the resilience of your people
is futile.

Build rituals that allow your workforce to:

• thrive under pressure
• use stress to their advantage - move away from managing stress toward
‘mastering’ stress
• induce long-term productive adaptation
• improve performance.

This workshop is designed to enable employees to thrive under pressure in a
sustainable way. We explore the science of resilience and teach peak
performance tips from the military and elite athletes to provide participants
with new insights and daily practices that will move them beyond risk
mitigation to performance improvement.

OPTIMISE ADOPTION OF PEAK PERFORMANCE PRINCIPLES

Outcome-based blend of information and facilitated group and individual tasks
that is designed to optimise adoption of peak performance principles.

The program combines military research on leadership and resilience with
cutting-edge social neuroscience, physiology, and psychology.

There is also a strong emphasis on behaviour change, with a number of proven
tools used to foster self-determination and long-term success of the
participants. There are 5 complementary parts that comprise the Neuroscience
of Leadership and these are explored over 2 days:

• Know Thyself
• Optimise Energy and Decision-Making
• Thrive Under Pressure
• Engage/Influence Others
• Driving Change

A number of optional tests are available to assess mind, body and brain
performance, including BioAge testing and functional brain assessments.

Our obsession with happiness has fuelled a never-ending quest to achieve a state that is unrealistic, ill-defined, and prone to hijack by clever marketing campaigns to sell almost anything – and we’re now the most depressed we’ve ever been.

This talk looks at the history and recent scientific advancements in the study of happiness and human flourishing and combines it with important neurophysiology research. Participants will walk away with a greater understanding of the subject, as well as a number of clinically evaluated tools for helping us to attain the desirable state of human flourishing.

The concept of aging is a hot topic right now, but there is a lot of misleading information in the public domain about how to improve your longevity and health-span.

In this workshop Paul will separate fact from the fiction, explore the leading theories of ageing and uncover the most impactful evidence-based strategies to enhance both your lifespan and, more importantly, your health-span.