Dr. Greg Wells

The Science & Art of Peak Performance

How Leaders can Maintain Health & Performance in a World of Uncertainty and Burnout.

Sleeplessness, stress and burnout are significant challenges that high performers must overcome for themselves and exponential leaders need to navigate for their teams.

This challenge is compounded by the requirement that businesses must grow, and goals must be achieved. Leaders are being asked to deliver better outcomes, higher results and more impact.

We need a roadmap to help us shift from surviving to thriving. Drawing from the latest research into human physiology, Dr. Greg Wells provides audiences with a scientific but accessible path to sustainable healthy high performance.

In this session Dr. Greg outlines the Body-Mind-Life Framework that helps you enhance your physiology, optimize your psychology and elevate you personally and professionally.

He will show you simple but powerful practices to elevate your energy, shift from tension to flow, and craft high performance in the face of challenge, uncertainty and rapid change. Simply, Dr. Greg shows ‘A’ Players how to amplify their abilities while avoiding fatigue and burnout.

Audiences will learn:

• How elite performers enter ‘The Zone’ and stay there despite overwhelming pressure.
• Why stress can be a powerful spark for positive mental and physical growth.
• When to use your breath for physical calm, mental clarity and enhanced energy.
• How to calm down and focus in stressful situations to enable creativity & innovation.
• The power community and the importance of building your dream team & braintrust

This keynote or workshop is based on Dr. Wells’ best-selling book Powerhouse: Protect Your Energy, Optimize Your Health and Supercharge Your Performance.

The Ripple Effect

Sleep, Eat, Move & Think to Elevate your Health & Perform Better.

To get healthy and perform better we need to overcome 4 grand challenges that are affecting our world: lack of sleep, poor nutrition, not getting enough exercise and mental health struggles.

Although these issues are daunting, the science is clear. We can all sleep soundly, eat smarter, move more and think clearly.

This helps us live and work smarter, not harder – even in challenging times.

In this presentation, Dr. Greg Wells translates complex science into clear actionable tactics that you can use to get healthier, improve your wellbeing and perform better – at work and in your life.

Audiences will learn  how to decompress from busy days to fall asleep and stay asleep. Dr. Greg will show you how nutrition can help us recover from stress and fuel our brain. You’ll learn how movement sparks learning and creativity and how to focus your attention to overcome digital distraction.

Most importantly, Dr. Wells will show you how seemingly small daily decisions and 1% wins can create The Ripple Effect that enhances your overall wellness and ability to perform to your true potential.

Audiences will learn:

• How 1% wins in habits, routines and rituals lead to exponential results.
• A key practice to help you to fall asleep and stay asleep.
• The foods that improve brain function and heal us from the negative effect of stress.
• How movement improves learning, problem solving and makes you happier.
• Why controlling attention is the most important determinant of success in challenging situations.

This keynote or workshop is based on Dr. Wells’ global best-selling book The Ripple Effect.

Rest, Refocus, Recharge

Why Slowing Down Helps Us To Speed Up.

With so much uncertainty in our world added to pressures to achieve goals and objectives, traditional thinking is that we simply have to do more, more often, and it has to be done faster.

Unfortunately the physiology of our brain and body clearly shows that this leads to overwhelm and burnout. Organizations that use this approach see skyrocketing rates of mental health problems, absenteeism, and languishing teams.

However, elite performers in sports, academics and business have adopted a different approach. They have discovered that calming the mind and body unlock abilities that are blocked by stress and pressure.

Based on his ground-breaking book, Rest Refocus Recharge, Dr. Wells will explain how our brains and bodies are designed to operate in cycles of work and rest, and how we can harness the power of both to improve our health, well-being, and performance.

In this session, you will discover how you can leverage “beta” brainwave state where you can focus and execute, while shifting into “alpha” brainwave states to facilitate strategizing and learning to help potential clients see a new path forward. Innovators can enter “theta” brainwave states to be more creative and to solve problems. Ultimately high performers can also develop their ability to enter the zone for peak performance via “gamma” states.

You’ll learn how to identify the five different brain states, each with a distinct function, and how to intentionally spark these states to achieve your potential.

Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and physiology, Dr. Wells will provide a step-by- step guide to optimizing your mental and physical health through strategic rest and recovery for you and your team.

Audiences will learn:

• Your brain wasn’t designed to be in constant ‘go mode’.
• Constant work undermines your ability to perform at a high level.
• Calming the mind unlocks learning and strategic thinking.
• Innovation and problem solving only happens when we slow down – a lot.
• Shifting between brain performance states elevates mental health.

This keynote or workshop is based on Dr. Wells’ best-selling book Rest, Refocus Recharge.

STEM 2.0: Sleep, Think, Eat & Move for Better Learning

Leverage sleep, nutrition, movement and mindset to amplify well-being in schools.

Educators know that healthy students learn better and perform better. Research has backed this up, and has demonstrated that by making small improvements in the physical and mental health, students, teachers and academic leaders can significantly improve achievement, health and ultimately on human potential.

However, we are faced with tremendous health challenges that affect people of all ages. 20% of our population accessed the medical system last year because of a mental health related issue. 70% of the diseases in the developed world are caused by stress. 58% of our population are overweight or obese. The World Health Organization identified physical inactivity as one of the most important global health challenges. These health issues are particularly relevant in schools and present challenges for faculty, staff and students alike.

In this powerful keynote presentation or workshop, Dr. Greg Wells will show participants simple,scientific strategies that help people to sleep soundly, eat smarter, move more and think clearly to dramatically improve health and enhance learning. Drawing his scientific research and work with elite athletes, Dr. Wells identifies how students, teachers and leaders can perform to their potential while concurrently improving health and wellbeing.

Students, faculty, staff and administrators will learn:

• How 1% wins in habits, routines and rituals lead to exponential results.
• Why sleep is critical for learning and mental health
• The foods that improve brain function and facilitate the creation of memories.
• How movement improves learning, problem solving and elevates mood.
• Why controlling attention is the most important determinant of success in challenging situations.

Formats:
1. Keynote Presentation: The presentation can be delivered in a 45 minute + Q&A format. The presentation is customized for the level of the students (grades 4-6, 7-9 or 10-12) and for faculty and parents. For the parent presentation a longer Q&A is usually required.
2. Faculty workshop: This session can be delivered as a half day workshop for school leadership, faculty and staff. During the 1/2 day we work through each of the sleep, nutrition, physical activity and think components to help people craft a world-class life for themselves and to create action plans for how to incorporate the principles into the academic setting.

This session is based on Dr. Wells’ global best-selling book The Ripple Effect.

The Science of Sleeping Soundly

Practice sleeping better to craft health and high performance.

Dr. Greg Wells presents a clear path towards exponential health and performance in this keynote based on his international best-selling book, The Ripple Effect. Discover how sleeping soundly more consistently can have an exponential impact on your overall health and performance.

Sleep serves as a cornerstone for brain health, and healing, repairing, and regenerative functions kick into high gear during our resting hours. Quality sleep can improve cognition, learning creativity and innovation making sleep a core practice for all who want to improve wellbeing and sustainable performance.

Drawing from his extensive background as a scientist and physiologist, Dr. Wells will guide you through the science of exponential sleep as it relates to health and performance, offering actionable insights and tactics you can use to optimize your wellbeing.

Dr. Wells will present the 7 keys to sleeping soundly, which are practices that can be installed in everyone’s daily routines and rituals to elevate the ability to rest and recharge via consistently sound sleep.

Audiences will learn:

• The physiology of how the brain heals repairs and regenerates when we sleep.
• The 2 specific aspects of sleep that reduce mortality and extend lifespan.
• How much sleep we really need and when the brain is most likely to sleep deeply and soundly.
• What types of naps work and what type makes you feel worse and how to program these into your day and week if needed.
• The key practices that you can install in your routines to improve your sleep quality and your recovery and regeneration.
• The one habit that is the most damaging to your sleep.
• What metrics to track when using a wearable device that tracks sleep.
• The 7 keys to sleeping soundly.

This presentation or workshop is based on Dr. Wells’ global best-selling book The Ripple Effect.

Your Brain on Artificial Intelligence

How leaders can leverage neuroscience to use AI strategically.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be both exciting and terrifying. Write newsletters in seconds, analyze large data sets quickly, even develop a marketing strategy in minutes. You can even teach ChatGPT you own information so it can answer inquiries for you.

We are entering a new phase in the human-computer interaction. And while generative AI is incredible, often the content that it produces is generic and in many cases completely wrong. It is also very hard to figure out what AI can do for us and what it can’t (and shouldn’t do).

It is critical that we, as high performers looking to make a positive impact on the world, use AI to create, write, advise and edit quickly and accurately. Its also important that we what humans can do better than AI, and what AI can do better than us.

In this session Dr. Wells will explain the five fundamental brain states that enable us to perform mental skills like concentration, strategizing, learning, planning and creating and which states we can use AI to enhance our skills and abilities.

You will learn how to align your technology with the neuroscience of how your brain works. You’ll understand what tasks you can partner with AI to complete and what you can do best without technology.

In this session, you will discover how you can integrate AI to enhance your “beta” brainwave states where you focus and execute, while leveraging your human “alpha” brainwave states to facilitate strategizing a new path forward. Innovators can enter “theta” brainwave states to be more creative and to solve problems with AI as a brainstorming tool. However, ultimately high performers enter the zone for peak performance via “gamma” states – and this remains the domain of the AI-free human mind.

Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and physiology, Dr. Wells will provide a step-by- step guide to identify the five different brain states, each with a distinct function, and how to intentionally spark these states to achieve your potential with AI as your co-pilot and partner.

Audiences will learn:

• How to partner with AI to improve your ability to do focused execution work quickly and accurately.
• When to blend AI with your human mental skills to strategize, plan deconstruct and learn.
• Why to use AI as your brainstorming copilot, and when to let your human creativity flourish on its own.
• How technology disrupts our ability to sleep, rest, recovery and recharge.
• Why elite performance flow states where we enter ‘the zone’ and reach our true potential remain the domain of humans.