Human Performance Leadership Training: A Competitive Advantage

Human Performance Leadership Training: A Competitive Advantage

Develop leaders who communicate effectively, regulate stress, sustain performance, and lead well under pressure.

Human performance leadership is the ability to think clearly, sustain energy, communicate effectively, and perform consistently in demanding environments.

The Be Well to Lead Well cohort combines evidence-informed human performance principles with practical leadership development to help organizations build healthier, more resilient, and higher-performing leaders.

What Is Human Performance Leadership?

Human performance leadership is the ability to sustain clear thinking, effective communication, emotional regulation, energy, and decision-making under pressure.

While many leadership programs focus primarily on technical or operational skills, sustainable leadership performance depends on the human systems that drive behavior, resilience, communication, and recovery.

Today’s leaders are navigating increasing levels of stress, cognitive overload, burnout, disconnection, and constant performance demands. Over time, these pressures impact communication, engagement, adaptability, team culture, and long-term organizational performance.

Organizations that prioritize human performance leadership are better positioned to:

  • Develop resilient and adaptable leaders
  • Improve communication and emotional awareness
  • Reduce burnout and leadership fatigue
  • Strengthen engagement and retention
  • Support sustainable high performance over time

Our curriculum integrates evidence-informed leadership development, human performance principles, and applied behavioral strategies to help leaders perform consistently at work and at home.

Why Human Performance Leadership Matters

Today’s leaders are operating in environments defined by constant demands, cognitive overload, rapid decision-making, and sustained pressure. Over time, these conditions contribute to burnout, leadership fatigue, communication breakdown, disengagement, and reduced long-term performance.

Many organizations are recognizing that leadership effectiveness is no longer driven solely by technical expertise or operational execution. Sustainable performance also depends on a leader’s ability to regulate stress, communicate clearly, maintain energy, adapt under pressure, and recover effectively.

Organizations that invest in human performance leadership are better positioned to support leader resilience, stronger communication, healthier team dynamics, improved retention, and long-term organizational performance.

Flexible Leadership Development Formats

Organizations can implement human performance leadership training through immersive cohorts, modular leadership sessions, or fully integrated development initiatives.

Focused Kickstart

Focused Kickstart Leadership Training

Core Essentials

Core Essentials Leadership Training

Leadership Accelerator

Accelerator Leadership Training

Periodic Trainings (Modular)

Periodic Leadership Training

Human Performance Leadership Curriculum

Our curriculum combines applied leadership development with evidence-informed human performance principles. Sessions are designed to help leaders improve communication, stress regulation, resilience, recovery, emotional awareness, and sustainable performance in real-world leadership environments.

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Applied Leadership Development

Sessions focus on practical strategies leaders can immediately apply to communication, stress management, decision-making, resilience, and team dynamics in real-world leadership environments.

Cohort-Based Learning & Accountability

Leaders learn alongside peers through facilitated discussion, reflection, shared experience, and ongoing accountability that supports sustainable behavior change and long-term growth.

Sustainable Performance Integration

The curriculum helps leaders build systems for recovery, emotional regulation, energy management, and consistent performance under pressure — both at work and at home.

Kickoff Session: How and Why Self-Care Drives Organizational Performance

Organizational performance often hinges on a hidden link: the connection between personal well-being and professional excellence. Leaders frequently neglect their physical and mental health, diminishing performance, communication effectiveness, productivity, and happiness — which directly impacts the people they lead. Knowing where to start, and who to trust, is one of the biggest barriers leaders face when trying to implement sustainable well-being behaviors into already demanding lives. This kickoff session helps leaders understand how stress, energy, resilience, recovery, and health behaviors directly influence leadership performance, organizational culture, and long-term growth.

Training Outcomes

  • Develop a clear road map to make health and well-being a competitive advantage.
  • Identify the blind spots limiting leadership energy, resilience, and effectiveness.
  • Learn practical strategies to build health habits that remain consistent during both stable and chaotic seasons.
  • Understand how leader health, communication, and emotional energy impact team culture and performance.
  • Reduce burnout risk and create a more sustainable approach to leadership and organizational growth.
  • Model consistency, resilience, and well-being behaviors that positively influence teams and organizational culture.

Session: Anatomy of a Leadership Philosophy

Strong leadership starts with clarity.

Just as organizations operate from a mission, vision, and values, leaders must understand and clearly articulate their own leadership philosophy. Too often, leadership approaches become a disconnected mix of experience, pressure, and theory without intentional reflection on what actually drives decision-making and behavior.

This session helps leaders define their Purpose, Aspirations, Values, and Expectations (P.A.V.E.) so they can lead with greater consistency, alignment, confidence, and trust.

Training Outcomes

  • Gain clarity around personal leadership purpose and leadership approach.
  • Develop stronger self-awareness and communication effectiveness.
  • Learn how to articulate values, expectations, and vision in compelling language.
  • Improve storytelling and communication skills that increase team buy-in and trust.
  • Create stronger alignment between leadership behavior and organizational mission, vision, and values.
  • Build deeper team connection, cohesion, and retention.

Session: Effective Communication

Communication shapes culture.

When emotions run high, stakes increase, and opinions differ, leaders need practical communication skills that create clarity, trust, and forward momentum. This session teaches leaders how to regulate emotions in real time, structure difficult conversations effectively, and improve communication under pressure.

Participants will practice communication strategies that strengthen relationships, reduce misunderstanding, and improve organizational alignment.

Training Outcomes

  • Learn to separate emotions, assumptions, and interpretations from facts.
  • Improve emotional regulation during difficult conversations and high-pressure situations.
  • Build communication structures that create clarity, trust, and accountability.
  • Develop stronger listening and emotional intelligence skills.
  • Reduce gossip, resentment, and communication breakdowns within teams.
  • Create healthier relationships and more effective communication across the organization.

Session: Behavior Change

Sustainable leadership development requires sustainable behavior change.

This session helps leaders understand how behavior patterns, emotional intelligence, communication styles, and stress responses influence leadership effectiveness, decision-making, and long-term performance. Participants identify operational blind spots that impact energy, resilience, and follow-through under pressure while learning how to shift from outcome-driven goals toward behavior-based systems that create lasting change.

Leaders leave with practical implementation strategies, accountability structures, and behavior change frameworks designed to improve communication, strengthen team trust, enhance resilience, and sustain high performance long after the training ends.

Training Outcomes

  • Develop deeper self-awareness around leadership tendencies, behavior patterns, and stress responses.
  • Improve emotional intelligence, emotional regulation, and communication effectiveness.
  • Identify operational blind spots impacting performance, energy, and longevity.
  • Apply behavior change frameworks that improve consistency and follow-through under pressure.
  • Create stronger accountability systems, psychological safety, and team trust.
  • Build sustainable leadership habits that support long-term performance and resilience.

Session: Sleep & Performance

Sleep is one of the most overlooked leadership performance tools.

Leaders who consistently operate without adequate sleep experience reduced focus, emotional regulation, recovery, creativity, and decision-making capacity. This session helps leaders understand how sleep directly impacts leadership performance, stress resilience, communication, and long-term health.

Participants will learn practical strategies to improve recovery, optimize sleep quality, and strengthen both physical and mental performance.

Training Outcomes

  • Improve sleep quality, recovery, and daily energy levels.
  • Develop healthier morning and nighttime routines that support performance.
  • Understand how sleep impacts focus, mood, creativity, and stress management.
  • Improve physical and mental resilience under pressure.
  • Increase productivity, emotional regulation, and cognitive performance.
  • Create sustainable leadership habits that support long-term performance and longevity.

Session: Stress & Response

Stress is unavoidable. How leaders respond to stress is trainable.

Leaders who remain calm, present, and intentional under pressure create stability and confidence for the people around them. This session helps leaders shift from reactive leadership toward responsive leadership through mindfulness, stress regulation, emotional awareness, and nervous system regulation practices.

Participants will learn practical tools to improve focus, reduce overwhelm, and respond more effectively during high-pressure situations.

Training Outcomes

  • Develop tools to manage stress before it becomes chronic and damaging.
  • Improve emotional regulation and mindfulness under pressure.
  • Shift from reactive leadership toward calm, responsive leadership.
  • Strengthen focus, presence, and decision-making during difficult situations.
  • Create healthier communication and conflict-management patterns.
  • Build teams that model resilience, clarity, and emotional stability.

Session: Physical Longevity

Leadership longevity requires physical resilience.

Sedentary work, chronic stress, pain, and physical inactivity negatively impact focus, energy, creativity, emotional regulation, and long-term leadership capacity. This session teaches leaders how movement, strength, mobility, recovery, and physical health directly influence leadership performance and longevity.

Participants will learn practical movement and self-care strategies that improve resilience, reduce pain, and increase energy both at work and outside of work.

Training Outcomes

  • Improve physical and mental resilience with fewer sick days and less fatigue.
  • Reduce the impact of pain, sedentary work, and physical stress on leadership performance.
  • Develop practical movement and recovery habits that support longevity.
  • Increase energy, focus, and physical capacity for long-term leadership.
  • Create healthier workplace habits that improve creativity, calm, and productivity.
  • Build sustainable physical resilience for the long haul of leadership.

Session: Fuel & Focus

Nutrition directly impacts leadership performance..

What leaders consume affects energy, focus, mood, brain function, stress resilience, immune health, and long-term performance. Many leaders either underfuel, overconsume the wrong foods, or struggle to maintain sustainable nutrition habits during high-pressure work seasons.

This session helps leaders build practical, sustainable nutrition strategies that support focus, energy, emotional well-being, and peak performance without relying on restrictive approaches.

Training Outcomes

  • Improve energy, focus, and mental clarity throughout the day.
  • Develop sustainable nutrition habits that support leadership performance.
  • Reduce brain fog, mood instability, and energy crashes.
  • Learn how nutrition impacts emotional well-being, stress resilience, and productivity.
  • Build confidence in making food choices that support long-term health and performance.
  • Create a culture where health, energy, and performance become a competitive advantage.

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Meet the Human Performance Leadership Team

Dr. Theresa Larson (Lead Instructor)

DPT | CSCS | SFMA

Jon Macaskill

Retired Navy SEAL Commander

Dr. Marissa Rescott

DPT and Sleep Researcher

Dr. Travis Hearne

Transformational Leadership Expert

Dan Hurdle

Head of Human Performance and Leadership Development

Will Schneider

Co-Host of Men Talking Mindfulness, Yoga Instructor

Nikki Ledford

Health Coach, Nutrition Expert and Chef

Dr. Theresa Larson (Lead Instructor)

DPT | CSCS | SFMA

Dr. Theresa Larson (aka “Dr. T”) has become one of the wellness world’s most sought after experts on movement health. Dr. Larson earned her doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Saint Augustine in San Diego, CA. A former Marine Corps Engineer Officer and Combat Veteran, Dr. T also authored a memoir titled WARRIOR that details her own mental wellness journey.
Dr. T is determined to deliver movement and mindset health to as many people as possible with her team – including adaptive athletes, as she is an adaptive athlete herself.
A TEDx speaker, she is also a motivational speaker for companies, helping individuals and teams understand how to take back control over their own health. She has taught movement health to employees on 4 continents and is the creator of the popular online programs the Low Back Fix, Shoulder Fix, Knee Fix, and Functional Training for Adaptive Athletes.
You can find Dr. T in her San Diego neighborhood pushing a weighted sled around with her husband and 2 young boys.

Jon Macaskill

Retired Navy SEAL Commander

Jon Macaskill is a retired Navy SEAL Commander turned mindfulness and meditation teacher.
A graduate of the US Naval Academy, Jon has served in Iraq, Afghanistan, off the coast of Somalia, and in Panama. He formerly served as the Deputy Executive Director for Veteran’s PATH, a nonprofit organization that works to introduce meditation and mindfulness to veterans to bring them a sense of Peace, Acceptance, Transformation and Honor.
He also now brings mindfulness and meditation to high performing teams to aid in dealing with stress, anxiety and depression all while increasing focus, creativity, and productivity.
Jon’s wife, Beka, also served in the Navy and is now a civilian Orthopedic Physician Assistant. Together, they are the proud parents of two small children and recently after spending 6 months in an RV, have settled as a family in Colorado Springs.

Dr. Marissa Rescott

DPT, Ph.D

Marissa is a licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy AND has her doctorate in Sleep Science. Native to Upstate New York State, she grew up in the great outdoor playground of the Finger Lakes and went on to complete her undergraduate degree at St. Lawrence University where she studied neuroscience and first developed an appreciation for how the body and mind respond to pain and other stressors.
As a former collegiate runner, CrossFit coach, and lifetime adventurer, Marissa is passionate about empowering every person she comes across to move freely and live fearlessly.

Dr. Travis Hearne

EdD

My name is Dr. Travis Hearne. I am the Founder and CEO of the Titanium Consulting Group (TCG), international best-selling author, globally sought after keynote speaker and facilitator, Marine Corps combat veteran, former intelligence officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency, cybersecurity industry expert, speaker, father, husband, and son. My passion in life is to bring my military, academic and professional experience to other leaders so we can walk through this leadership battlefield together. I’ve spoken to thousands of leaders around the globe, consulted with Fortune 500 companies, and helped executives and senior leaders change their professional and personal lives.

Dan Hurdle

Dan is a Health & Wellbeing Coach for leaders, leveraging 25 years as a corporate executive, including as CEO of three separate organizations and 7 years as an executive for Starbucks. Building on his experience in culture and organizational development, as well as employee motivation and engagement, he specializes in assisting leaders in improving communication and in developing integrated health and wellbeing systems to manage chronic high-level stress that are vital for leader lifespan and health span aspirations. Dan attended the United States Naval Academy and was named a Marshall Scholar, allowing him to complete graduate studies at Cambridge University in the UK. After his studies, Dan spent 8 years as a nuclear submariner. He transitioned from the Navy to McKinsey Consulting prior to his executive career. A resident of Durango, CO he is an avid mountain bike racer and skier.

Will Schneider

Will is an incredibly welcoming and encouraging presenter and teacher. A trained yoga instructor who has developed an expertise in mindfulness, breathwork, burnout and compassion, Will is the go-to presenter for developing self-mastery.

Will strips away all the fancy words and esoteric language to help employees embody these practices in a meaningful and sustainable way. His approach has made him one of the most sought-after teachers in all of New York City an beyond.

He is also the co-host of the popular Men Talking Mindfulness podcast.

Nikki Ledford

MS

Nikki Ledford is a chef, nutrition consultant, and natural foods expert based in Southern California. She believes that physical health and natural movement can be best supported by a diet consisting of real, whole foods.

Nikki’s own nutrition journey was borne out of a lifelong struggle with allergies, intolerances, insecurities, and frustrations. When Nikki began to experiment with her diet — nutrition quality, food source, preparation method, etc. — she began to experience noticeable changes in her body.

She holds a Masters in Integrative Wellness and is a Certified Health and Wellness Coach. In her career, Nikki has helped a wide range of people — from cancer patients to elite-level athletes — achieve health goals and improve overall performance through better nutrition. In addition to serving a number of private clients, Nikki delivers nutrition and behavior change workshops.

Organizational Impact

Human performance leadership training supports more resilient leaders, healthier team dynamics, stronger communication, and more sustainable long-term organizational performance.

Leader Resilience

Leaders develop practical strategies for stress regulation, recovery, emotional awareness, and sustainable performance under pressure.

Communication & Team Dynamics

Training emphasizes communication, emotional regulation, accountability, and psychological safety to improve collaboration and team effectiveness.

Retention & Engagement

Organizations that invest in sustainable leadership development are better positioned to improve engagement, connection, motivation, and long-term retention indicators.

Measurable Organizational Outcomes

Programs can include evidence-informed assessments and organizational reporting related to burnout risk, stress regulation, leadership confidence, emotional regulation, engagement, and participant experience.

Build More Resilient, High-Performing Leaders

Build More Resilient, High-Performing Leaders

Let’s build a leadership development experience designed for sustainable performance, communication, resilience, and long-term organizational impact.

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