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About Dr. Peter Jensen - Speaker on Leadership and High Performance Coaching:

Dr. Peter Jensen is a dynamic speaker with a PhD. in Sport Psychology. An authority on leadership, he is a renowned innovator - bringing coaching and personal high performance to corporations worldwide. Peter combines fundamental leadership concepts with new ideas and ongoing insights from Olympic coaches and corporate leaders. He distills diverse approaches and brings practical clarity to effective leadership skills by sharing their tangible application in the business world.

Peter has attended six Olympic Games as a member of the Canadian Olympic team and has helped numerous athletes achieve high performance levels under intense pressure including, most recently, the gold-medal winning Women's Hockey team. With the world of Olympic level sport as a laboratory, he has developed a deep understanding of what it takes to be a successful leader of high performers.

Peter is a top-rated instructor in seven programs at the Queen's School of Business including the MBA for Science and Technology program that, in 2004, was ranked by Business Week as the number one MBA outside the United States. He also helped design the Queen's Executive Leadership Program. He is a founding director of Performance Coaching Inc., one of Canada's leading corporate training firms. Fortune 500 companies in eight countries have benefited from Peter's programs.

Peter's two books The Inside Edge and Igniting the Third Factor contain the many lessons and skills Peter has learned from his extensive work with elite performers. His work has been featured on ABC, CBS, CBC, CTV and in a wide array of print media in North America and Europe. Peter's clients include BP, Nexen, Syncrude, Labatt, Hydro One, CCMD, RCMP, GE Capital, Maclean's and Royal Bank.

As a speaker, Peter has the power to invigorate audiences through his compelling use of humour, personal experiences and concrete, actionable content. And, as a 'developer of people' his strength is in creating environments where people learn and grow. Peter's wealth of personal experiences in both the corporate and sports arenas allow him to communicate high-level concepts in an extremely accessible way through anecdotes, metaphors and true stories. Peter's audiences enthusiastically declare that he is insightful, relevant, and highly entertaining!

What Dr. Peter Jensen Talks About:

Coaching for High Performance
Learning coaching skills is the best way to dramatically increase the commitment level, and performance, of your employees and team members. This keynote starts your powerful coaching journey. Combining first-hand examples from both the sport and corporate worlds with an innovative coaching framework, Coaching for High Performance provides a provocative taste and exploration of the possibilities of coaching. Audience members will become intrigued and stimulated by the potential impact of coaching in both their business and personal lives.

Igniting the Third Factor
It’s a question that challenges new managers and seasoned executives alike, echoes through coaches’ heads as they watch a gifted athlete underachieve, and keeps parents up at night. It’s a question that you need to be able to answer to move your work team to high performance and enable your children to achieve self-reliance and success.

It’s also a question Peter Jensen has spent a lifetime investigating. In Igniting the Third Factor, Peter synthesizes his life’s work into the five core practices exceptional leaders use to ignite the Third Factor – whether it’s in the locker room before a gold medal Olympic hockey game or at a routine performance review. Peter works through an easy-to-understand model, providing a clear view of what separates ‘igniters’ from ‘extinguishers’ and exploring a wealth of strategies you can put to use immediately in your world. It’s a speech that only Peter could give – delivered the way only he can.

The inside Edge
The Inside Edge is about achieving personal high performance. It will teach you the versatile skill set used by high achievers, in sports and in the boardroom, to generate exceptional results on a daily basis in high-pressure situations. You will learn how to apply that knowledge in your personal and professional life to achieve success. The keynote is based on Dr. Peter Jensen’s wealth of experience with elite Olympic athletes and senior corporate executives.

The Role of Self
Throughout history, our most admired heroes and heroines have made key decisions and collected and redirected themselves in a calm, focused manner in the middle of their most heated moments. They were not controlled by what they were experiencing internally. Even under pressure, they could observe and direct their actions. They were ‘awake’.

In The Role of the Self, Peter explores the two functions of the self: Managing the moment and determining life direction. Using an orchestra as a metaphor to frame the discussion, he looks at the self as the conductor who controls and regulates the ‘instruments’ (our mind, body and feelings) in order to play the music the composer intended.