Jules brings the biology of being human into the conversations organisations are already having about performance, leadership, behaviour and change. Complex ideas become language people can understand, remember and talk about afterwards.
Energetic, conversational and highly relatable. Jules takes complex ideas about human biology, behaviour and performance and makes them understandable without stripping away the intelligence behind them. Rather than asking audiences to absorb another set of instructions about how they should think or behave, she helps them understand why human beings sometimes do what they do in the first place.
People see themselves in the stories, recognise their own patterns, and leave with language they keep using long after the event.
A different way to think about high performance.
High performance can look very different from the inside than it does from the outside. Someone can be delivering, achieving, leading and succeeding while using increasing amounts of their available Human Capacity to maintain that level of performance. When the results are still coming, the cost of producing them can be remarkably difficult to see.
To regenerate is to renew, to restore what has been used and create the capacity to go again. Applied to performance, it invites us to pay attention to how capacity is being used, what replenishes it, and how regeneration can become part of the way we perform.
The demands placed on Human Capacity accumulate through pressure, challenge, greater responsibility, growth, opportunity, ambition and success. Understanding those demands changes the conversation about sustainable performance, by bringing the human being producing the performance firmly into the equation.
“If performance uses capacity, what are we doing to regenerate the capacity we’re using? And how do I keep performing at a high level and still have enough of myself left to live?”
When enough is never enough.
Ambition can build businesses, create extraordinary careers, solve difficult problems and take us towards experiences we genuinely want. But have you ever stopped to wonder what is driving your drive?
Why does one achievement feel deeply satisfying while another seems to move the finishing line? Why can recognition feel brilliant and still leave us looking for the next piece of it? Why can “I’ll be happy when…” quietly become another when, and another when?
Sometimes our drive has more than one job. What we pursue can be connected to purpose, enjoyment, challenge and ambition, alongside deeply human needs for security, recognition, significance, belonging and worth. Over time, success can come to mean far more to us than the achievement itself.
“What are you asking success to give you?”
When knowing what to do doesn’t mean we do it.
We can know what we want, understand what needs to change and even know exactly what we need to do next, yet still find ourselves repeating familiar behaviours, avoiding the action, or doing something completely different.
We know we need to have the conversation, make the decision, set the boundary, take the opportunity or finally do the thing we have been telling ourselves we are going to do. So what is happening in the gap between knowing and doing?
This keynote takes audiences into the Human Operating System and explores the influences shaping what we actually do. Conscious thought sits within a much bigger collection of influences, including our biology, previous experiences, beliefs, expectations, emotions and familiar responses. Understanding those influences makes behaviour that previously felt confusing considerably easier to make sense of.
“Perhaps our behaviour makes more sense than we realise.”
The central idea and teaching stay the same. Everything around them is built for the room you are putting Jules in. If a topic here is close but not quite right, that is usually the start of a good conversation rather than the end of one.
Workshops go deeper with a group, and Life Labs™ reach everyone. The topic connects the work, the format decides how deeply we explore it.