James Laughlin stands at the forefront of High Performance Leadership and Personal Mastery, earning global recognition as a pioneering strategist in the field. As a highly sought-after international keynote speaker, James captivates and inspires diverse audiences with his compelling insights and transformative messages. His extensive experience spans working with elite performers and leading organizations, including professional athletes, influential CEOs, and multinational corporations, empowering them to lead with unwavering conviction and achieve remarkable success.
James' unique approach is grounded in his proprietary frameworks and models, meticulously designed to equip individuals with the essential tools for achieving personal mastery. His profound impact extends to a wide array of high achievers, from PGA tour professionals to executives of billion-dollar enterprises, guiding them to unlock their full potential and excel in their respective fields.
Beyond his strategic expertise, James' extraordinary journey as a musician, marked by seven world championship titles, showcases his exceptional ability to foster talent and cultivate winning mindsets. His remarkable feat of leading an underdog team to world championship glory has become a testament to his leadership prowess and strategic acumen.
In his pivotal role as the mental skills coach for Canterbury Rugby-one of the southern hemisphere's most esteemed professional sports teams-James applies his understanding of resilience and peak performance to enhance the team's competitive edge.
Further amplifying his influence, James hosts the #1 ranked Lead on Purpose podcast on Apple Podcasts, where he engages with a global audience by interviewing Prime Ministers, Fortune 500 CEOs, and industry giants. Through this platform, James shares invaluable leadership insights and strategies, reinforcing his status as a luminary in the realms of leadership and personal mastery.
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The Leaders Edge - Vision Precedes Victory
Tough times call for great leaders. These last few years have presented a huge amount of uncertainty for companies and teams across the globe. Everything rises and falls on leadership, and there's one key ingredient that great leaders embrace to guide themselves and their teams through turbulent times.The Leaders Edge - Vision Precedes Victory
The leadership greats like Mandela, Sir Edmund Hillary, Mother Theresa and Margaret Thatcher all understood that without a vision, people perish.
This keynote is delivered in the form of heartfelt stories designed to connect and inspire the listener to heighten their awareness and take action to lead with monomaniacal vision. Each participant will be provided with the High Performance Vision Model™ that they can implement in their teams and organisations.
High Performance Habits
Where health ends, high performance begins. Believe it or not, this mantra is embraced by many 'high performing' individuals and teams. When we look at the anxiety pandemic, the stress-related sickness and the rapidly increasing suicide rates it's about time that we re-shape what high performance truly means.High Performance Habits
This keynote will take the participants on a journey into high performance including the highs and lows and they will walk away with an understanding of the neuroscience behind habit installation. They will also complete at R.E.M.S.™ report in real time which will give them the information they need to improve their habits in life and work.
Motivation: from Mediocre to Meteoric
Over the last few years, so many people have left long-standing careers in what is being called the Great Resignation. But let's be clear, great team members don't leave great teams. Great teams require great leaders who understand human-needs psychology. When you learn to help your people meet their humans needs, you will experience engagement, passion, trust and motivation.Motivation: from Mediocre to Meteoric
This keynote will delve into what the six core human needs are, how we meet them and how you can help others meet their needs. When you meet two or more of these needs you rewire your neuro bio-chemistry making the action, behaviour or task automated and habitual.
Each participant will go on a journey of story telling along with accessing a high performance framework that will equip them with the tools to inspire massive levels of sustainable desire.
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I invited James to speak at the Local Government New Zealand gathering of Mayors, Councillors, and Chief Executives from across the South Island. James mixed his remarkable personal achievem ... keep reading Local Government New Zealand
James delivered a powerful and engaging session with our NZ team last week. The feedback from our team was great and I had so many personal takeaways and reminders on a range of fronts. I left inspired and energized and now look forward to putting the learnings into place. James put a lot of care and attention to ensure he hit the brief and he is a real professional. Thanks James, you're a great guy to match the amazing content!
James recently spoke at our annual Livestock Conference. He was an engaging, energetic speaker who bought some really great insights for our team.
James came and spoke to our people as part of our commitment to employee wellbeing at Rabobank New Zealand. We’ve had some outstanding and dynamic speakers over the years, but none like James. The feedback we have received on his talk has been consistently great and he was very well received, with many of our people stating he was the best speaker we have engaged to date. The webinar James delivered was full of insights and practical tips our people could take away and apply in their lives straight away to achieve improved wellbeing. James is an engaging, natural speaker that connects well with his audience, to help them make necessary changes in their lives. Hire him, you will not be disappointed!
Our experience with James was really positive. He met in person with senior members of our team to ensure his content fit with our theme and resonated with our audience. James took the time to learn about our business by watching and reading background material we provided him with, even learning our values and tying his content back to these. Our audience took a lot away from his session and we saw evidence of this in a workshop session later in the day, where breakout groups were directly quoting his terms and referencing his theories and ideas in their presentations. We feel like we got a great return on our investment in James' session and we felt that he was engaged and interested in our people and what we do as a business.
When we were looking for a Keynote Speaker, we wanted a speaker who could engage with our network on multiple levels while delivering key messages. James absolutely fulfilled what we were looking for and more. James was an absolute highlight at our conference.
Absolutely a privilege to have James Laughlin speak at our company's conference. The team was all buzzing afterward. We highly recommend James.
James was fantastic! He was professional and the quality of his session with our team exceeded our expectations. His dynamic and often-humorous style together with his ability to share real-life leadership examples, was inspiring. Several team members mentioned that James was the "best speaker we have ever had". We look forward to working with James again, highly recommend!
Exceptional presenter who eloquently weaved lessons of best practice with real life stories that kept the audience captivated for the whole session. One of the best speakers we have ever had and immediately received requests to have James back to share more of his humble wisdom with our leadership team. Bravo!
