Transform Your Team with Powerful Keynotes

Inspire action, spark change, and equip your audience with practical tools to drive performance and thrive under pressure.

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Give your audience more than inspiration.

Personalized Insights

We’ll survey your audience and present your results alongside industry benchmarks as a way to deliver customized insight at no added cost.

Customized Keynotes

From board meetings to team retreats and company-wide gatherings, our speakers are equipped to address and inspire your entire organization.

Long-Lasting Change

JP and Bill don’t just create an entertaining presentation; they are focused on delivering content and tools that are still making an impact years later.

Globally recognized keynote speakers and experts in leadership, emotional intelligence, and high-performance cultures.
Featured speakers for Fortune 500 companies, elite sports teams, and top government agencies.

Keynotes grounded in neuroscience, behavioral research, and organizational psychology.
Practical strategies that go beyond theory to create real impact.

Engaging, real-world stories combined with strategies teams can use immediately.
Practical frameworks to help leaders and teams navigate high-pressure situations and build a high-performing culture.

Transform how your organization communicates, collaborates, and performs under pressure.
Equip leaders with the mindset and skills to drive long-term success and achieve results.

Meet Our Speakers

Our co-founder, Dr. JP Pawliw and his Partner, Bill Benjamin, are globally recognized experts in Emotional Intelligence, leadership, organizational culture, and performing under pressure.

Together, they’ve delivered keynotes to some of the world’s most respected organizations, equipping leaders to thrive in high-stakes environments, drive performance and achieve results.

Keynote Topics Tailored to Your Audience

Explore our signature keynote topics, designed to address the challenges your organization is facing. Each keynote is customized to meet the needs of your audience.

1. The Secret to Building a High-Performance Culture

Learn specific tools to own and model the culture on their team in the critical moments, what we call Last 8% moments, that create culture.

Uncover how to influence & engage others who are at a distance and create the conditions to keep the best and brightest
Understand the two pillars, Connection & Courage, as the foundation of a high-performing culture

2. Performing Under Pressure

Inspire your team to perform at their best when it matters most.

Teach your leaders and teams how to remain focused and composed under pressure.
Equip them with practical strategies to manage emotions and maintain productivity.

3. High Impact Last 8% Conversations

Foster trust, collaboration, and resilience across your organization.

Help your leaders connect authentically with their teams.
Teach strategies for navigating difficult conversations and resolving conflict.

4. Mastering Change: How to Lead and Thrive in Uncertain Times

Learn how to lead with speed, courage, and clarity, especially when uncertainty tempts your team to play it safe.

Discover the hidden gap between intention and action that slows down execution, and how to close it.
Learn practical tools to take smart risks, have tough conversations, and lead courageously in high-stakes moments.

What Our Clients Say

“I’ve personally seen team members leverage the EQ strategies in high pressure situations and always set the better example as a result. They are enabled to not to get triggered by people, challenging them to stay calm and come up with innovative solutions more collaboratively.”

“Our CEO and his executive team saw a very clear path between learning the Last 8% skills and driving a high-care and high-accountability culture, key tenets of our Tenneco Way. Once they started working on modelling the culture themselves, it’s raised the bar for rest of the organization to also implement new behaviors through the Sprint process. We are seeing a huge positive impact from the Last 8% Culture system rollout.”

“We’ve seen significant benefits of investing in developing these people skills. The employee populations who experience these programs tend to have higher retention rates, increased performance and even higher promotion rates. A number of program participants have said that the training not only made them a better leader at work but also a better partner/ spouse/parent/friend etc. – more equipped to navigate the world we live in.”

“Our employee retention is significant due to our Last 8% Culture. We’ve gone from a 17.5% turnover rate to an 11% turnover rate in the past year and a half, something like that translates into real dollars. When we talk about that turnover rate and going from a ratio of losing 250 people a year to a third of that or half of that, that can be real money, close to $10 million bucks actually if you really look at it.”

“The IHHP team always have insightful and programs and sessions. We were able to connect them directly to our own behaviors. We really liked the way they had us practice the strategies rather than just telling us about them so we could internalize the behavior. That way, we’ll actually remember it!”

“Since the roll out of their Science of Emotional Intelligence training we have seen a positive impact on our business, including retention, better collaboration and improved engagement. We’ve seen relationships improve. Leaders have become more self-aware of how they impact people and are able to better connect and coach their teams. We also heard many stories of people applying the strategies in their personal lives – that’s when you know people are really engaged in learning!”

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Let’s discuss how our keynotes can help your leaders and teams do hard things to accelerate your strategy and achieve results.

Learn More About Our Keynote Speakers

How Can IHHP's Keynote Speakers Help Your Business?

The Institute for Health and Human Potential (IHHP) provides world-class keynote speakers who specialize in the science of emotional intelligence, resilience, and performance under pressure. Our speakers are experts at delivering engaging, research-backed content that inspires audiences to develop critical skills for navigating change, improving decision-making, and fostering a high-performance culture.

They translate complex neuroscience into, actionable takeaways your team can apply immediately to drive better business results and personal well-being.

Ready to Transform Your Culture? Explore Our Keynote Areas

Leadership Keynote Speakers

Focusing on Emotionally Intelligent Leadership, our speakers teach leaders how to leverage self-awareness and empathy to manage high-stakes conversations and build resilient, high-trust teams. They provide practical tools for maintaining composure under pressure and driving decisive action, developing effective, humane leaders for the future.

Business Keynote Speakers

These presentations directly link emotional intelligence to measurable business outcomes like enhanced innovation, improved sales, and effective change management. Using data-driven insights, speakers guide teams to improve workplace collaboration, decision-making, and focus, ultimately driving better bottom-line results for the organization.

Motivational Keynote Speakers

Moving beyond surface-level hype, our speakers deliver motivation grounded in behavioral science. They inspire audiences to access their intrinsic drive, build profound personal resilience, and manage the stress response. These powerful talks re-energize teams, boost engagement, and equip individuals to overcome obstacles and achieve their most ambitious professional goals.

Conference Keynote Speakers

Designed as high-impact highlights for any event, our conference speakers seamlessly blend compelling stories with cutting-edge neuroscience and performance research. They deliver memorable, tailored presentations that provide both an intellectual and emotional spark. Attendees leave with strengthened skills and a unified, energized perspective ready for immediate application.

Inspirational Keynote Speakers

Our inspirational speakers share powerful research on the human capacity for change and peak performance. They demonstrate how mastering emotions and stress is key to overcoming professional and personal adversity. Audiences feel empowered and equipped with a clear roadmap to build mental toughness and find deeper meaning and purpose in their daily work.

Workplace Keynote Speakers

These sessions zero in on improving day-to-day effectiveness and team dynamics. Topics cover science-backed strategies for managing workplace stress, enhancing communication, and fostering a robust culture of psychological safety and continuous learning. Employees gain simple, actionable techniques to immediately improve focus, reduce burnout, and increase productivity.