Elevate your team’s potential through science-backed, engaging presentations on leadership, mindset and physical and psychological wellbeing.
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Andrew delivers compelling keynotes that blend performance psychology, elite sports insights, and corporate leadership strategies. Each session is designed to energise, enhance team dynamics and drive sustainable success.
Keynotes
Presentations that Energise, Motivate, and Empower Your Team
Andrew May is recognised as one of Australia’s leading keynote speakers in high-performance, leadership, and mindset.
With over two decades of experience working with top executives, elite athletes, and the military, Andrew delivers powerful, evidence-based keynotes that inspire transformation and drive real results. He blends performance psychology, elite sports insights, and corporate leadership strategies to equip your leaders and teams with tools to excel.
Keynote Topics:
Building High-Performing Teams: Strategies to boost energy, foster collaboration and drive results without burnout.
Mindset and Resilience: Techniques to maintain wellbeing in high-pressure and changing environments.
Leadership Transformation: Insights to evolve leadership practices for modern challenges.
Every presentation—live, virtual or hybrid—becomes an interactive, inspirational session with actionable takeaways. Leave feeling empowered, and ready to take control of your performance and success. Customise your keynote with our proprietary PQ Index diagnostic, ensuring relevance and impact for your specific audience.
Whether you’re leading through change, building culture, or trying to avoid burnout—Andrew’s keynotes give your team the mindset, energy and tools they need to thrive.
Andrew’s Most In-Demand Keynotes.
Leadership Impact and Teams Keynotes
The Ripple Effect
Building Leadership Capacity in the Age of AI
AI is accelerating the pace, volume and complexity of work. Leaders have access to more information, more tools and more potential output, but not necessarily more time, energy or clarity.
Most organisations invest heavily in leadership capability: skills, knowledge and frameworks. They often overlook the human platform that allows those capabilities to hold up under pressure.
Leadership Capacity is the physical, psychological, operational and relational capacity leaders need to think clearly, decide well and lead consistently through pressure and change.
In this engaging and science-backed keynote, Human Performance Scientist Andrew May draws on more than 25 years working across elite sport, business and the military to explore the four capacities leaders need:
- Physical capacity: The energy and regulation required to sustain performance.
- Psychological capacity: The Mental Agility and judgement required to adapt under pressure.
- Operational capacity: The rhythms, priorities and disciplines that protect attention and improve execution.
- Relational capacity: The presence and connection required to build trust, accountability and performance through others.
Using the Me, Be, We model, Andrew shows how a leader’s capacity shapes how they manage themselves, how they show up and the ripple effect they create across their teams.
Participants leave with practical tools they can apply immediately to improve energy, judgement, focus, connection and leadership impact.
This keynote is ideal for: senior executives, people leaders and leadership teams navigating AI, transformation, complexity and increasing performance demands.
Audience Takeaways:
- Understand the difference between Leadership Capability and Leadership Capacity, and why both matter
- Explore the four capacities that enable leaders to perform consistently under pressure.
- Protect energy, attention and decision quality as work accelerates.
- Build greater Mental Agility through uncertainty and change.
- Create trust, clarity and accountability across teams.
- Apply practical tools that improve leadership performance immediately.
Core Themes: Leadership Capacity, Judgement, Mental Agility, Energy, Operational effectiveness, Trust and leading through AI-accelerated change.
High Performing Teams
Build trust, cohesion and collective performance.
In today’s volatile and fast-moving workplaces, team success relies on more than just talent – it’s built on trust, clarity, and connection. Yet many leaders operate in reactive mode, solving problems as they arise instead of creating the conditions for teams to truly thrive.
Drawing on two decades of experience coaching elite teams across business, sport, and the military, Andrew May reveals the science and psychology behind sustainable team performance. This keynote unpacks the core dynamics that drive collective success and equips leaders with practical tools to build trust, embrace healthy conflict, and cultivate cultures of psychological safety and accountability.
Through compelling stories from his work with the Wallabies, Australian Defence Force, and top-performing organisations, Andrew demonstrates what separates good teams from great ones – and how to sustain performance under pressure.
This keynote is perfect for: Leaders and teams seeking to build trust, cohesion, and shared purpose, or organisations undergoing transformation, rapid growth, or cultural renewal.
Audience Takeaways:
- Discover the five dynamics of high-performing teams: psychological safety, dependability, structure and clarity, meaning, and impact.
- Learn science-based strategies to strengthen trust and psychological safety, the cornerstone of sustained performance.
- Explore the neuroscience of change and how to prepare teams to be “ready for change.”
- Understand how to embrace healthy conflict and channel it for innovation and growth.
- Build a coaching culture, embedding performance conversations into daily interactions across the organisation.
Core Themes: High Performing Teams, Coaching, Resilience, Change, Growth, Courage, Relationships, Trust, Psychological Safety, Leadership
Mindset and Resilience Keynotes
Inside Job
Build mental skills to thrive under pressure.
Achieve meaningful, sustainable high performance with an inside-out approach. Inside Job reveals how to train your brain like a muscle. Drawing from neuroscience and performance psychology, Andrew teaches practical tools to help individuals stay calm, focused, and confident in high-stress situations.
This keynote is perfect for: individuals and teams operating in fast-paced, high-stakes environments who need tools to stay mentally sharp and emotionally balanced.
Audience Takeaways:
Train focus, emotional regulation, and decision-making under pressure
Reduce negative self-talk and improve inner dialogue
Master simple mental transitions between key performance moments
Understand the brain’s bias for fear and how to overcome FOPO (Fear of Other People’s Opinions).
Core Themes: Resilience, Mental Training, Cognitive Skills, Neuroscience.
SHIFT: The Neuroscience of Change
Transform disruption into growth.
AI is accelerating the pace of change inside organisations. New tools, new processes and new expectations are arriving before people have had time to adjust to the last wave.
SHIFT unpacks the neuroscience of behaviour change and performance psychology to help leaders and teams understand how the brain responds to uncertainty, build the Mental Skills and Performance Habits required to adapt, and continue performing as the environment around them changes.
Rather than waiting for certainty to return, Andrew shows audiences how to respond more effectively to disruption, navigate setbacks and build greater adaptability in a world where change is constant.
This keynote is perfect for: organisations navigating AI and technology disruption, business transformation, leadership or structural change, rapid growth, or sustained periods of uncertainty.
Audience Takeaways:
- Understand how the brain responds to change and uncertainty
- Build Mental Skills that strengthen adaptability, focus and performance
- Develop simple, repeatable Performance Habits for navigating uncertainty
- Respond more effectively to setbacks and maintain momentum through change
- Help create a culture that adapts rather than waits for certainty
Core Themes: Neuroscience, Behaviour Change, Leadership, Cognitive Skills, Transformation.
MatchFit
Boost energy, wellbeing and performance—physically and mentally.
In today’s fast-paced environment, sustainable performance starts with being MatchFit. This keynote provides a practical roadmap to optimise physical and psychological wellbeing, increase resilience, and extend peak performance across your workforce. Andrew shares six transformative levers—Move, Fuel, Recharge, Think, Connect, and Play—to help you thrive both personally and professionally.
This keynote is perfect for: organisations looking to boost performance, productivity, and sustainable energy across all levels.
Audience Takeaways:
- Strategies to increase energy, lower stress, and improve mental clarity
- How to stay biologically younger and thrive at work and in life
- Build daily habits that enhance productivity and prevent burnout
- Apply neuroscience to manage change and improve decision-making.
Core Themes: Physical & Psychological Wellbeing, Human Performance, Longevity, Energy, Productivity.
High Performance Reset
Sustain high performance without the collateral damage.
Unlock the secrets of world-class performers in sport and business. Learn the rituals, routines, and recovery strategies required to build resilience and sustain peak output in high-pressure environments.
This keynote is perfect for: leadership teams and high performers at risk of burnout, cultivating high-trust, psychologically safe environments or seeking to reset focus and recharge for sustained output.
Audience Takeaways:
Define what high performance truly means in modern workplaces
Embed micro-recoveries to reduce burnout and sharpen focus
Cultivate a high-trust, psychologically safe culture
Equip your team with essential mental skills and energy strategies.
Core Themes: High Performing Teams, Resilience, Growth, Leadership, Trust.
PQ Index
A performance diagnostic that measures energy, resilience and wellbeing before your keynote begins.
PQ Index is our proprietary assessment tool that captures your team’s Physical and Psychological dimensions of Leadership Capacity across four interconnected domains, helping tailor every keynote or corporate program for maximum relevance and impact. Backed by neuroscience and data, it turns insight into measurable improvement.
Unlock Sustainable High Performance in Your Organisation
Explore Performance Intelligence Corporate Programs
Looking to do more than inspire? Our corporate programs turn insight into action — embedding the science of performance, wellbeing, and leadership into how your people show up every day.
Designed for senior leaders, people managers, and high-performing teams, our programs are:
- Evidence-based and diagnostic-driven
- Tailored to your organisational goals
- Built to shift mindset, energy, and behaviour
- Delivered through keynotes, workshops, coaching, and ongoing support
We don’t just deliver training. We change the way your teams think, lead, and perform — sustainably.
About Andrew May
Andrew is one of the world’s leading experts in human performance, mindset and leadership.
He is the founder of Performance Intelligence, a specialist advisory, working across elite sport, business, the military and performing arts to unlock potential and build sustainable high performance.
Andrew is the Mental Skills and Leadership Coach for the Manly Sea Eagles (NRL), the Wallabies (Rugby Union), and World Champion Boxer Tim Tszyu. He’s also a trusted advisor to CEOs, senior leaders, and high-performing teams navigating pressure, change and growth.
A renowned keynote speaker, Andrew combines science, story and the power of data to deliver highly personalised keynotes. His proprietary PQ Index diagnostic allows him to tailor content to the unique needs of each audience.
Andrew is the host of the Performance Intelligence Podcast, where he interviews some of the world’s leading thinkers, athletes and business minds. He’s a best-selling author, a familiar face on TV, and known for his dynamic style, practical insights, and contagious energy.
Frequently Asked Questions
What topics does Andrew May speak on?
Andrew May delivers keynotes across five core areas: human performance and energy management, mental skills and performing under pressure, leadership capacity and coaching culture, sustainable performance and operating rhythm, and productivity and the science of working smarter. Each keynote is tailored to the specific audience, industry, and business context using data from the PQ Index diagnostic.
How do you book Andrew May as a keynote speaker?
Andrew May is available for conference keynotes, corporate events, and leadership forums across Australia and internationally. To enquire about availability and customise a keynote for your event, contact Performance Intelligence via the enquiry form at performanceintelligence.com/contact-us/.
What makes Andrew May’s keynotes different from standard leadership talks?
Andrew’s keynotes are grounded in behavioural science and personalised using audience diagnostic data from the PQ Index. Rather than generic inspiration, each keynote delivers practical frameworks leaders can implement immediately. Andrew often uses the PQ Index to measure the audience’s performance capacity before and after events, giving organisations measurable data rather than anecdotal feedback.
Does Andrew May speak internationally?
Yes. Andrew May is available for keynotes across Australia and internationally. He has spoken at events in the United States, Asia-Pacific, and the United Kingdom, working with multinational organisations on leadership, performance, and team culture.
Can Andrew May deliver a virtual or hybrid keynote?
Yes, Andrew delivers keynotes in person, virtually, and in hybrid formats. Virtual and hybrid formats are tailored to maintain engagement and include the same personalisation and diagnostic elements as in-person presentations. Contact Performance Intelligence to discuss your event format.