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.

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.

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.

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.